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Hace 20 horas · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- Assassination (gunshot wounds)
- Indian National Congress (1920–1934)
Hace 3 días · (1869) The Idiot (1870) The Eternal Husband (1872) Demons (also titled: The Possessed, The Devils) (1875) The Adolescent (1880) The Brothers Karamazov; Short stories (1846) "Mr. Prokharchin" (1847) "Novel in Nine Letters" (1848) "Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed" (merger of "Another Man's Wife" and "A Jealous Husband")
- 1844–1880
- Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute
- 4, including Lyubov Dostoevskaya
Hace 1 día · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
- What did Gandhi try to accomplish with his activism?Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- What were Gandhi’s religious beliefs?Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- What other social movements did Gandhi’s activism inspire?Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- What was Gandhi’s personal life like?Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- What were contemporary opinions of Gandhi?As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
Hace 3 días · The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant began on March 4, 1869, when Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated as the 18th president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1877. The Reconstruction era took place during Grant's two terms of office. The Ku Klux Klan caused widespread violence throughout the South against African Americans.
Hace 4 días · Suez Canal, sea-level waterway running north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and Red seas. It separates the African continent from Asia, and it provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
- What is the Suez Canal?The Suez Canal is a human-made waterway that cuts north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to...
- Why is the Suez Canal important?The Suez Canal is important because it is the shortest maritime route from Europe to Asia. Prior to its construction, ships headed toward Asia had...
- How has the Suez Canal changed throughout history?Various forms of what is today the Suez Canal existed in Egypt between 1850 BCE and 775 CE, although primarily to facilitate trade between the Nile...
- How was the Suez Canal’s construction paid for?The Suez Canal was financed by the Suez Canal Company, a joint-stock company headquartered in Paris. At the time of its founding, France had 52 per...
- What is the international status of the Suez Canal?The Suez Canal’s international status has a murky history. Per the 1888 Convention of Constantinople, the canal is open to ships of all nations in...
- How many ships use the Suez Canal?In 2018 there were 18,174 transits of the Suez Canal, according to the Suez Canal Authority. That number rose to 18,880 in 2019, or about 51.5 per...
4 de abr. de 2024 · John Augustus Roebling (born June 12, 1806, Mühlhausen, Prussia [now in Germany]—died July 22, 1869, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American civil engineer, a pioneer in the design of suspension bridges.
10 de abr. de 2024 · The National Labor Union (NLU), founded in 1866, was the first national labor federation in the United States. It was dissolved in 1872. The regional Order of the Knights of St. Crispin was founded in the northeast in 1867 and claimed 50,000 members by 1870, by far the largest union in the country.
