.... the Iliad, was an epic battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Aristotle, made him an amazing strategist. This later helped him immensely when faced with insurmountable odds. Aristotle also showed him that leaders must have compassion and understanding. Alexander applied this with his troops. He used the theme, might tempered by mercy, to win over his troops morale and lead them into victory. Early on in his life, Alexander made a life long bond. It was with a horse named Bucephalus. They rode into every battle Alexander ever faced together. Alexanders applications of knowledge on the .....

.... a long siege of Tyre, then Phoenicia and then he marched into Egypt,were he was accepted as pharaoh. From there he visited the famous Libyan oracle or amon. The oracle certainly haled him as amon's son and probably promised him that he would become a god. He then organized Egypt and founded the city of Alexandria, next he crossed the Easter Desert and the Tigris an Euphrates Rivers. Then, in the autumn of 331 B.C. he defeated Darius' grand army at Guagamela(near modern day Iraq). Darius then fled to the mountain residence of Ecbatana,while Alexander occupied Babylon, the imperial capital of Susa, and Persepolis. Henceforth Alexand .....

.... effected a reconciliation with Allan, who secured him an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. After only a few months at the academy Poe was dismissed for neglect of duty, and his foster father disowned him permanently. Poe's third book, Poems, appeared in 1831, and the following year he moved to Baltimore, where he lived with his aunt and her 11-year-old daughter, Virginia Clemm. The following year his tale “A MS. Found in a Bottle” won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. From 1835 to 1837 Poe was an editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. In 1836 he married his young cousin. Throughout the next deca .....

.... from Phillips, and by 1956 Presley was a best-selling recording artist and television star. His hip gyrations, which some viewers thought too suggestive, earned him the nickname Elvis the Pelvis. 'Love Me Tender', his first film, was released that same year. Drafted into the Army in 1958, Presley went through regular training and then served as a truck driver in West Germany until his discharge in 1960. Resuming his career under Parker's supervision, he worked up a touring act, based in Las Vegas, Nev., and attracted an ever-expanding public. He bought Graceland, his lavish Memphis mansion, using it as a retreat from the en .....

.... child by the town elders. Musashi used his strength and demeanor in his first real duel with a known samurai when he was thirteen years of age. He fought against Arima Kigei from the Shinto Ryu school of Military Arts. Unarmed, Musashi threw the samurai to the ground and beat him savagely with a stick until Arima died vomiting his own blood. Musashi’s next duel came when he was age sixteen. He fought Tadashima Akiyama. Tadashima was challenging anyone who would accept his challenge to a duel. Musashi accepted and killed Tadashima with just one swing of his sword. During this time period Japan was in a bl .....

.... democratic nations were a threat and that the democratic nations felt the same about them. As a result the fascists signed a treaty known as the Triple Alliance. This treaty was pushed by Hitler and wouldn’t have happened without him. With Hitler’s help Fascism united world wide. Hitler’s government was considered a fascist regime. Hitler’s government was actually much more than that. It was essential to Hitler for himself and his beliefs to have total authority. He eliminated anyone or any group who stood in his way. He singled out the Jewish people and blamed all of Germany’s previous hardships on them. He b .....

.... When the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department dubbed Kait's death a random shooting, ignoring evidence to the contrary, Duncan began her own investigation. Her search for the answers took her into the underworld of Vietnamese gangs and led her to seek the help of the nation's top psychic detectives, who, along with a courageous newspaper reporter, provided information that proved to her that Kait's death was far fromaccidental. Written to motivate informants, the book was featured on such shows as Good Morning America, Larry King Live and Unsolved Mysteries. "Tips have come in, but we still need concrete evidence," says Dunc .....

.... Shelley died there. Mary never really recovered from their deaths. However, Percy empowered Mary to live as she most desired. In 1822 Percy drowned in a boating accident, leaving Mary penniless. For her remaining years she worked as a professional writer to support her father and son. She died in 1851 of a brain tumor. combined the ethical concerns of her parents with the Romantic sensibilities of Percy Shelley’s poetic inclinations. Her father’s concern for the underprivileged influenced her description of the poverty-stricken De Lacey family. Mary’s choice of a Gothic novel made her unique in her fa .....

.... They were both controlling. Miriam dominated Betty, and Betty resented it a great deal. In her early years, Betty tried to measure herself to her mother and would always fall short. It took her a few years to realize that the perfect image of motherhood, along with beauty, talent, and strength, was only a façade, and something she never wanted to be. From there, she told herself that she would be more than a wife and mother. Betty was eight years old when the depression hit. The Goldstein's were never poor, but all the little luxuries had to be done away with. Harry and Miriam would often argue in the middle of the night .....

.... Henry grew up he was assigned chores to do around the farm just like all his brothers and sisters. Henry came to the conclusion that he didn't like farm life while he was still a young boy. He was more interested in mechanical things. He was always pulling things apart to see how they worked. In 1879 Henry walked six miles to the Michigan Car Company and took a job. Although it was only for a short time, he now knew what he wanted to do. The following year he took another job where he was exposed to and began working with an internal-combustion engine. In 1882 he was hired by Westinghouse to service steam engines and contin .....