Tobey riddle biography of abraham
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Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Although he had a lifelong interest in philosophy, Einstein had a limited background in the subject, mainly Kant and Plato. He had even less knowledge of theology. Yet I am impressed by his intuitive understanding of the subject and its relevance to his scientific work. Quips about God and dice aside, his scientific ethos can be associated with a theology as nuanced as the quote used as the title of Païs biography: “Subtle is the Lord; but malicious He is not.”
Einstein made only a few explicit comments about religion. Perhaps his most informative was the statement: “A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.” The phrase ‘superpersonal objects’ is important - not supernatural, or spiritual, or divine, one notices. And Païs reports him as say
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Tobey riddle biography of abraham lincoln
His eloquent support of democracy and insistence that the Union was worth saving embody the ideals of self-government that all nations strive to achieve. Inhe issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves across the Confederacy.
He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth inat age 56, as the country was slowly beginning to reunify following the war. Thomas was a strong and determined pioneer who found a moderate level of prosperity and was well respected in the community.
Tobey riddle biography of abraham lincoln
When Lincoln was 9 years old, his year-old mother died of tremetol, more commonly known as milk sickness, on October 5, The event was devastating to the young boy, who grew more alienated from his father and quietly resented the hard work placed on him at an early age.
She was a strong and affectionate woman with whom Lincoln quickly bonded. It was while growing into manhood that Lincoln received his formal education—an
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Modoc War
1872–73 conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the U.S. Army
The Modoc War, or the Modoc Campaign (also known as the Lava Beds War), was an armed conflict between the Native AmericanModoc people and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon from 1872 to 1873.[3]Eadweard Muybridge photographed the early part of the US Army's campaign.
Kintpuash, also known as Captain Jack, led 52 warriors in a band of more than 150 Modoc people who left the Klamath Reservation. Occupying defensive positions throughout the lava beds south of kom (finska) Lake (in present-day Lava Beds National Monument), those few warriors resisted for months the more numerous United States Army forces sent against them, which were reinforced with artillery. In April 1873 at a peace commission meeting, Captain Jack and others killed General Edward Canby and Rev. Eleazer Thomas, and wounded two others, mistakenly believing this would encourage the A