Atatürk had great contempt for all religion, and tried to extinguish it. He claimed that his only standard was the good of Turkey.
Daily Archive: March 12, 2011
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Mar 12
March 12: Gabriele D’Annunzio
He always expressed a profound contempt for the Roman Catholic Church, which returned the affection by putting all D’Annunzio’s work on the Index of Prohibited Books.
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Mar 12
March 12: Simon Newcomb
Newcomb rejected the idea of immortality and made no secret of his Freethinking views. President William Howard Taft attended his funeral.
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