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    compare to Francis Drake. Throughout Francis lifetime, he was a great explore and Spanish conqueror. Francis Drake was an Elizabethan sailor and navigator. Francis Drake was born in, Devonshire, England. He was born sometime in the year of 1540. Frances, father was a farmer, but was raised by his cousins the Hawkins family. The Hawkins family was merchants and privateers, also known as pirates. Francis stared sailing at the young age of 18 with his cousins as pirates. One of Francis fist voyages

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    methods. However, all of these mathematicians were influenced by the mathematician, Francis Bacon. Bacon was influential in many aspects during the English Renaissance. He was an author, philosopher, scientist, mathematician, and served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Francis Bacon had a successful life, not only in the progress he made in science and math, but also other achievements he made. Francis Bacon was born in London, England on January 22, 1561. He was born into a high

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    Saint Francis, widely known as Saint Francis of Assisi, is one of the world’s most beloved and well-known saints. He’s the patron of animals, merchants, and ecology. Saint Francis was born in Assisi, Italy in 1181 to very wealthy parents. Pietro Bernardone, the father of St. Francis, a very wealthy merchant returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given birth to a son. The last thing Pietro wanted was a son that was a man of God, he wanted a man of businessman as a son, a great merchant

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    St Francis has grown from the son of a silk merchant into one of the most influential patron saints in history. Following the scripture “So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul—” ( Deuteronomy 11: 13) St Francis has dedicated his life to God and has led an intimate life to carry out the teachings of Jesus Christ. St Francis was born in 1181 or in the latter year to Pietro di Bernardone

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    Francis Drake was born in Crowndale ,England to Edmund Drake in the first half of the 16th century . His father was a priest. These are the only fact that all the scholars have agreed. When doing my research for Francis Drake, there have been many constructions of Francis Drake life to convey Francis Drake as a great Pirate, Admiral, and Hero; Benson conveys Francis Drake as a the hero with no connections, a lower class upbringing in contrast to Corbett who conveys a Drake as the ideal gentleman

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    Francis Bacon is widely regarded as the “Father of Modern Science” due to his contributions in science and discovery of the Scientific Method. Sir Francis Bacon was born to Nicholas and Anne Cooke Bacon on January 22, 1561, in London, England (“Bacon, Francis (1561-1626).” The New Book of Popular 1). He had no siblings, and his father Nicholas Bacon died at a young age (“Bacon, Francis (1561-1626).” The New Book of Knowledge 2). He was looking for work to help his mother, and without a father, it

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    Sir Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake is known for England's defeat of the Spanish Armada. He was a sea dog and he sailed around the world. Drake was actually the first one to sail around the world since Magellan died in his journey. Drake was a "sea dog" during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first. And as everyone knows this is a good time to be a sea dog because the queen highly supported them. She gave him money and ships to raid the Spanish shipping. Drake was the most feared sea dog

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    Sir Francis Drake war hero, privateer or pirate? To answer this question we first must learn the definition of piracy, then we need to find out who and what constituted a pirates, we look at the difference between a pirate, buccaneer, corsairs and a privateer, then we need to look into event that would make Drake a war hero and the event that labeled him a coward. Piracy is defined by dictionary.com as the practice of a pirate: robbery or illegal violence at sea. (Dictionary.com 2014). In Piracy:

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    The Good Soldier Author Biography and literary/ historical time period Ford Madox Ford was born on December 17, 1873 at Lawn villas in England, he was the first born of his family, his father’s name is Francis Hueffer and his mother’s name is Catherine Hueffer. After Ford Madox’s birth, his Parents decided to change their last names for Christianity, in which they changed their last names to Ford, when ford started growing up his first dream job was to be a composer but later went after a literary

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    more than one way to skin a cat, there is more than one way to celebrate war. Calling the Cannibals barbaric without recognizing the barbaric way the European navigators operated is hypocrisy. While Montaigne criticized the way Europeans behave, Francis Bacon was critical of the way Europeans thought. His utopia New Atlantis is a utopia called Bensalem. Bacon’s Utopia is based on Christianity and indirectly suggests changing the way of thinking to include religious thought. The same principles

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