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Johann Sebastian Bach
... another relation, the organist at Eisenach's most important church, instructed the young boy on the organ. In 1695 his parents died and he was only 10 years old. He went to go stay with his older brother, Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph was a professional organist, and continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage.
A master of several instruments while still in his ...
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Manuel Noriega
... would ultimately give him his start to gaining contacts, friends, and most importantly American connections.
To understand Noriega’s rise to power first you must understand the environment in which he did so. After World War II a communist movement began to slowly spread throughout the world. This went against America’s belief in democracy and created a riff between the Soviet Union and The United States creating the Cold War.
What importance does this have to Noriega and Panama? On January 1, 1959 Fidel Castro led a successful coup against the government in Cuba which at the time was controlled by Fu ...
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Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke
... Quakers)
in Philadelphia in their early twenties. Their time there strengthened their
independent thinking skills. The sisters were unhappy with the Society of
Friends, due to the strict regulations they lived under. Soon afterward both
sisters moved to North Carolina to join the Anti-Slavery movement.
In 1835 Angelina wrote a letter of support to Abolitionist leader
William Lloyd Garrison who published it in his newspaper The Liberator. The
following year, 1836, she composed a thirty page pamphlet entitled An Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade
their inf ...
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Ray Charles Robinson
... is still the piano.
When Charles was 15, his mother died from food poisoning. He decided to
become a musician soon afterwards and he set out on his own. He played with
various band throughout Florida until he was seventeen. He then wanted to
get as far away as possible from Tampa and also stay in the United States,
so he bought a bus ticket to Seattle and left. Eventually Charles dropped
his surname.
There he entered a contest and was given a job at a nearby Elks club.
After a numerous amount of months, a record producer noticed him and
Charles had his first album: "Confession Blues." Afterward Charles went on
t ...
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Malcolm X
... teachers. After leaving school, in the eighth grade, he lived with a relative in Boston, Mass. He shined shoes, worked in a restaurant and on a railroad kitchen crew. In 1942 he moved to a section in New York called Harlem. Where he lived as a hustler, cheating people to make money for himself. He also sold drugs and became a drug addict himself. A rival drug dealer named "West Indian Archie" ran him out of New York. And he ended up back in Boston. Where he started a burglary ring, which consisted of friend named Shorty, a pretty boy type of fellow named Rudy, a woman that Malcolm dealt with named Sophia ...
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Richard Wright
... bill that she owed them. This was all new to Richard as far as first hand experience, because prior to this he had only heard stories of white brutality. As if seeing this ruthless crime against the woman was not enough for him, the real wake up call came to him in relation to the same job.
was going back to town delivering packages riding the store bicycle, but the tire of the bike was punctured. So he continued walking beside the bike until he was approached by a car full of white men. One of the men asked him about the problem and supposedly being helpful, told him to hold on to the car for a ride. So Rich ...
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Thomas Paine
... They
talked all night about it. Aitkin taught Paine everything he would need to
know about the job. Atkin gave Paine food, a shaving, clean clothes and
cleaned up his act. Paine, who had been a heavy drinker had stopped
drinking for a while, too.
The Battle at Lexington and Concorde soon came about and nobody was
too happy about it. The next day after they heard this news, a huge mob
assembled outside of the state house. Thomas Paine was one of the speakers
trying to calm down all of the eight-thousand people that were in front of
the building.
Paine soon went to a ball to represent the Pennsy ...
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George Patton
... tales of his Civil War adventures. With this steady diet of combat regalia, Georgie was convinced that the profession of arms was his calling.
GENERAL PATTON`S PERSONAL SIDE ARMS. THE IVORY HANDLED REVOLVERS BECAME HIS TRADEMARK DURING WW2. TOP SMITH & WESSON .357 MAGNUM. BOTTOM COLT .45 MODEL 1873.
Young George didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights fixed on becoming a combat general. He had one major obstacle to overcome, however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographi ...
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Peter The Great 3
... went up for 6 years between the widow and ex-wife of Alexis, until Feodor died of natural causes in 1682 (4:89). It was then that a truce was made that Peter and his half-brother Ivan (also son of Maria), who was also slightly retarded, would be joint czars (4:89). He spent most of his young childhood life in the Kremlin, which he grew to hate, due to the dusky rooms, the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev ...
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Moll Flanders 2
... I was between 17 and 18 years old, and here I had all the advantages for my education that could be imgin'd the lady had masters home to the house to teach her daughters to dance, and to speak French, and to write, and others to teach them musick; and as I was always with them, I learned as fast as they; and tho' the masters were not appointed to teach me, yet I learn'd by imitaion and enquiry, all that they learn't by instruction and direction.". Here she learns many different skills that could help her through out her life span but not once does she use these skills to make a good living.
In this wealthy house ...
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