The maiden of Orleans
During the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France (1337- 1453), she led the French army to resist the British invasion, supported the coronation of Charles VII, and contributed to the victory of France. Eventually arrested, she was sentenced to the stake by the Inquisition on charges of heresy and witch.
1932, 65-year-old Madame Curie returned to China to attend the opening ceremony of Warsaw Radium Institute.
Madame Curie has been away from the motherland since her youth and went to study in France. But she never forgot her motherland. When she was a child, her motherland Poland was occupied by Russia, and she hated the invaders. When the couple separated a new element from the mineral, she named it polonium. This is because polonium and Poland have the same root.
honest
Comparison among Washington, Nixon and Clinton
Washington cut down his father's cherry tree with a small axe. When his father saw his beloved tree cut down, he was very angry and threatened to teach the tree cutter a lesson. Washington admitted his mistake in front of his angry father. Father was very moved and said that Washington's honesty is much more precious than all cherry trees. It was also President Nixon who was forced to resign because he lied in Watergate. Clinton was also impeached for lying in a disgraceful scandal. One was loved for his honesty, and the other two left a stain on political history for lying.
be committed to
Ms. nightingale devoted her life to nursing with the noblest dedication and struggled for it all her life. The British consider her to be the pride of Britain. 1867, in Waterloo Square, London, the Crimean Monument was built, and the bronze statue of Florence Nightingale was cast, next to the bronze statue of Sidious Hebert.
Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States and became a learned person, a famous writer and educator who was proficient in English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled all over the United States and the world to raise money for schools for the blind and devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won the praise of people all over the world and won many government awards.
Cherish time
"Waste, the biggest waste is wasting time." Edison often said to his assistant. "Life is short, so we should try to do more with less time."
One day, Edison was working in the laboratory. He handed his assistant a pear-shaped empty glass bulb without a lampholder and said, "Measure the capacity of the bulb." He bowed his head to work again.
After a long time, he asked, "What's the capacity?" He didn't hear the answer, but turned to see the assistant measuring the circumference and inclination of the light bulb with a soft ruler, holding the measured figures and bending over the table to calculate them. Because the light bulb is pear-shaped, it is not the conventional status quo. Therefore, it is very difficult to calculate the circumference and inclination of the light bulb. He said, "Time, time, why does it take so much time?" Edison came over, picked up the empty light bulb, filled it with water, handed it to his assistant, and said, "Pour the water into the measuring cup and tell me its capacity at once."
The assistant read out the numbers at once.
Edison said, "How easy it is to measure. It is both accurate and time-saving. Why didn't you think of that? " ? Still counting. Isn't that a waste of time? "
The assistant's face turned red.
Edison murmured, "Life is too short, too short. Save time and do more! " "
Voltaire, a French thinker, once wrote an abstruse mystery: "What is the longest and shortest, fastest and slowest, most divisible and widest, least valued and most regrettable thing in the world?" Without it, nothing can be done; It makes all small things disappear and all great things endless. "What is this? There are many different opinions, which are unpredictable.
A wise man named Chadiger guessed right. He said: "the longest is time, because it is endless forever;" The shortest is time, because it makes many people's plans too late to complete; Time is the slowest for those who wait; For those who are having fun, time is the fastest; It can be infinitely expanded or infinitely divided; No one paid attention at that time, and later everyone expressed regret; Without time, nothing can be done; Time can erase all the people and things that are not worthy of commemoration from people's hearts, and time can make all the extraordinary people and things go down in history forever?
What exactly is time? Time means different things to different people. For the living, time is life; For people engaged in economic work, time is money; For scholars, time is capital; For boring people, time is a debt; For students, especially middle school students, time is wealth, capital, fate and priceless.
diligent
Franklin's kite experiment
Born in poverty, 10 years old dropped out of school and went home to work. /kloc-since the age of 0/2, I have been an apprentice and helper in a printing factory. However, he is studious. In addition to mastering printing technology, he also widely read literature, history and philosophy, taught himself mathematics and four foreign languages, and devoted himself to practicing writing. He often goes to the library of the printing house to read all kinds of books after a day's work. Sometimes, he didn't go home until his anxious mother came to the factory to look for him. All these laid a solid foundation for his achievements in many aspects in his life. In order to gain a foothold in the society at that time, he went through many twists and turns and founded his own business-printing house. Thanks to his efforts, reputation and management, he not only stood firm in the fierce competition in the printing industry. Balzac, a great French writer of critical realism, expanded his business to several neighboring states and the West Indies. In his writing career of more than 20 years, he wrote 9 1 immortal works. In these works, he created more than 2,400 different types of characters, leaving precious artistic treasures for future generations. People can't help asking, how did Balzac create so many world famous works in such a short time?
Balzac has a creative schedule: working from midnight to noon the next day, that is, sitting in a chair for twelve hours, concentrating on revising manuscripts and writing. Then, read all kinds of newspapers and magazines from noon to four o'clock in the afternoon, eat at five o'clock, go to bed at half past five, and get up at midnight to continue working. A French biographer said: "Balzac's ink bottle needs to be refilled every three days, and it takes ten pens."
Become a leader in North American printing and publishing industry.
Failure succeeded.
Edison failed to invent the electric light 1000 times. Nobel 1 1 year invented explosives.
willpower
Stallone came to Hollywood, looking for stars, directors and producers, looking for anyone who might make him an actor, pleading everywhere: "Give me a chance and I will succeed!" " But all he got was repeated rejections. "Nothing is impossible in the world! I must succeed! " Stallone is still crazy. Two years later, he has been rejected 1000 times. When his money ran out, he worked in Hollywood and did some heavy odd jobs to support himself.
uphold the truth
Bruno publicized Copernicus' revolutionary theory and developed Copernicus' theory in the infinity of the universe and the eternity of motion. He reiterated the argument that the earth is only one of many planets, and further pointed out that the sun surrounded by the earth and other planets is only one of countless stars. It is not the center of the universe. The universe has no center and is infinite. Later, Bruno was trapped by the inquisition, tortured and imprisoned for 8 years. 1600 February 17, Bruno was burned alive by the church in Rome.
Galileo was the first scientist to introduce experiments into mechanics, wrote a paper on gravity, revealed the essence of gravity and center of gravity for the first time, and gave accurate mathematical expressions, so he became famous at one fell swoop. At the same time, he questioned many viewpoints of Aristotle.
economic
Danish fairy tale master Andersen, born in a poor family and struggling in poverty, is said to have his own shadow in The Little Match Girl.
Nobel, who was not insatiable for money and property, gave generously to others and gave great help to the development of science. However, he lived a simple life and spent his life in hardships. He never even asked anyone to paint a portrait. The only portrait left at present was painted after his death. After his death, according to his last wish, the mausoleum was built very simply. He once said: "The belly of the living is more worthy of my concern than the monument to the dead."
do one's duty
Tolstoy's thought is full of contradictions, which is a reflection of complex contradictions in Russian society and a vivid portrayal of a noble intellectual with a sense of justice who is awake and confused, struggling and hesitant, shouting and frustrated when seeking a new life. Tolstoy's works, even if they contain reactionary and utopian things, are still the pride of the world's progressive mankind, and he is recognized as a literary master all over the world. Lev tolstoy was called "the mirror of Russian revolution" by Lenin
German Chancellor Brandt knelt down and dared to admit his mistake.