Most historians regard Harding as the worst President in the nation's history. In the end, it was not his corrupt friends, but rather, Harding's own lack of vision that was most responsible for the tarnished legacy.
John Locke's ideas<span> are once again found in an American document. His </span>ideas<span> of the people getting to choose their leaders or the power lies with the people is ever present in the </span>US<span>. Montesquieu's </span>ideas<span> were also used in the </span>US constitution<span>. Montesquieu believed in the separation of power with checks and balances.</span>
Isabella d'Este was a Renaissance figure who was a valued advisor to her husband, the ruler of Mantua, and took charge of the court after he retired.
Georgia,
British artist Thomas Addison Richards painted River Plantation (1855-60) from sketches made in Georgia during his travels through the South in the 1840s. Oil on canvas (20 1/4" x 30").
River Plantation
uniquely situated among southern states on the eve of the Civil War (1861-65), played a vital part in the formation of the Confederacy. A geographic lynchpin that linked Atlantic seaboard and Deep South states, the "Empire State" was the second-largest state in area east of the Mississippi River (Virginia was larger until West Virginia broke away in 1861), and the second-largest Deep South state (only Texas was larger). In population, slave and free, Georgia was the largest in the Deep South. Both geographically and demographically, Georgia encompassed as much diversity as any other Confederate state, and these factors had an important impact on how the state experienced the war years and what it contributed to the Southern war effort.
Oliver Cromwell was born on April 25 1599 in a place called Huntingdon. He died in the year 1658 as Lord Protector and his life, motives, actions and ambitions have been the subject of a scholar investigation. Cromwell is very important as one of the key figures in one of the most problematic times in the British history.
