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John Brown
... used by the military. , accompanied by a handful of abolitionists intruded on this governmental land with hopes of steeling the arms. The weapons were then going to be used in the attempted freeing of slaves.
It is true that Brown’s actions lasted only a short number of hours, involved only a few other kinsmen, and freed no slaves. However, are his actions wholly unjust and are they actions of a man with little or no sanity. The Northern Chronicle offers you another point of view.
Think of the horrid deeds being performed in the slave states of the south. Men, women, and children being beaten and worked to de ...
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Prince William
... description, his "likes and dislikes," and his personality will be discussed. His childhood schools will be mentioned and a description of Eton College will be included. The public can often obtain as much information on a famous person's life as they want and because of this abundance of information, 's life will be detailed along with his influences in his life like Princess Diana, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, and Alexandria "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke. "History-to-History" will include another member of the royal family born in 1066 named William I "the Conqueror," who was as famous during his ruling ...
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King Tut
... The boy king married Akhenaton’s third daughter to strengthen his claim to the throne and took the name Tutankhaton meaning "gracious of life is Aton." After less than three years of residence at Akhetaton he changed his name to Tutankhamen. Because Tut was only nine or ten when he became pharaoh the direction of the state was devolved onto an older official named Ay. ( He succeeded Tut when he died.)
When Tut was alive, however the Egyptians had a flair for playing games and telling stories. All Egyptians enjoyed contests and stories, but the wealthy pursued those pastimes with an e ...
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Sam Walton
... at the short end of the stick. Perhaps his difficult childhood gave him something to strive towards later on in his life. Walton learned several things from others as well. For instance, he learned to economize from his job at J.C. Penney. And while he was developing his first general store, Walton saw what the competition was doing wrong, and did the complete opposite, such as selling more quantity in order to make a bigger profit in the long run. It can probably be stated that would not have been as successful if his devoted wife had not been there along his side. Always there for him, Mrs. Walton was able to ke ...
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Presdent James Abram Garfield
... Cleveland, and settled down to farm. Around their small clearings the woods stretched almost unbroken for miles. Three years later Abram became ill, after fighting a forest fire with his neighbors, and died. His widow was left with four children--James, the youngest, not quite two; Thomas, ten years old; Mehitabel (Hitty), seven; and Mary, four. Mrs. Garfield courageously decided to run the farm and keep her family together. Thomas and Uncle Amos helped Mrs. Garfield with the farm work. She herself also sewed for the neighbors, and her girls learned to card wool and weave cloth. James early showed a love for books ...
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Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
... permanent investigators subcommittee. He resigned in 1956
because he didn't agree with all of Senator McCarthy's ideas and methods.
He then in 1957 was elected to be chief council for the Senate Rackets'
committee. During that time he exposed mofia figureheads such as Jimmy
Hoffa and Dave Beck. He seemed to be obsessed with dismantling the Mofia.
Under his brother's administration, he continued his attack on the Mofia.
Robert Kennedy had no sympathy for the mob, nor did he care that he was
being criticized by the media for his “harsh measures” such as his
extensive use of wiretaps .
In 1964 he resi ...
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Stonewall Jackson
... Lieutenant to Major. In 1851, he left the military to join
the staff of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington to teach. He
stayed there until 1861. Jackson married a woman named Elinor Junkin in
1853, but she died the next year. He then married Mary Anna Morrison in
1857.
His notoriety became known when he was a General at the Battle of Bull Run.
Jackson’s men formed such a strong line that another southern general said,
“There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!”.
That is where he earned the name Stonewall. He was an amazing general. In
the Shenandoah Valley in 186 ...
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John F. Kennedy 2
... in a class of 112. In the summer of 1935 he studied at the London School of Economics. He then went to Princeton University to study. During Christmas break his freshman year he had an attack of jaundice and was forced to leave. Through much determination he enrolled at Harvard in 1936, where his fater went to college. He played football and graduated in 1940.
Soon after he graduated he wrote his first book, "Why England Slept." It received good reviews.
In March of 1941, Kennedy volunteered for the army, he was rejected shortly after for a back injury he obtained playing football at Harvard. He took classes ...
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Donato Di Niccolò Di Betto Bardi
... 1407 he worked in the
workshop of the Gothic sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, who had won the
competition to create some bronze doors for the cathedral baptistery.
Donatello created two marble statues in a new style for the church
of Or San Michele in about 1415. In these statues, 'St. Mark' and 'St.
George', for the first time since Roman classicism, the human body was
shown as a functioning figure with a human personality--in sharp contrast
with medieval art. Donatello's well-known statue 'Zuccone' ("pumpkin"
because of its bald head) of 1425 for the campanile, or bell tower, of the
cathedral is a further developmen ...
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Igor Stravinsky
... up with music and loved it dearly, his parents did not want him to pursue a musical career. His background was musical. His parents viewed his efforts as a musician as childish, but on the other hand indulged him in it with the piano and the operas and the ballets. In 1902 he was sent to St. Petersburg University to study criminal law and legal philosophy to honor his parents’ wishes. While he was there, he still concentrated on his music and especially his composing. In the summer of 1902 he was introduced to the Russian composer, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky was extremely impressed with Stravinsky’ ...
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