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Clement Richard Attlee
... housing destroyed by the war. After the Conservative Party won the 1951 elections, Attlee again became opposition leader in Parliament. He resigned in 1955.
The British government began to think about Newfoundland 's future in 1942. The Commission of Government would have to be terminated when the war ended, but what should replace it? British officials, like their Canadian counterparts, thought Newfoundland should join Canada. But this could only be done by consent. So what did Newfoundlanders want?
The Dominions Secretary, Clement Attlee, visited Newfoundland in 1942, and he was followed the next year by a "goodw ...
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Lee Iacocca
... school Lee came down
with rheumatic fever. He had a harsh bout with the disease because there was no
modern medicine to aid in the recovery. In 1941 during the World War he was
very excited about joining the military. Ironically, the illness that had almost
killed him, saved him from going to war. Most of his classmates that joined the
service had been killed over-seas and abroad. For college Lee chose Lehigh
University for its engineering program, although he wanted to go to Purdue, he
did not get a scholarship. Lehigh University was one of the sights that Ford
Motor Company used to recruit new employees. ...
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Mozart
... Salzburg, but also around the globe. The Enlightenment was not, to be sure, a democratic movement. In France, the absolutism of the Sun King, Louis XIV, continued under Louis XV and XVI. But in Austria, Empress Maria Theresa introduced a greater measure of tolerance and freedom among her subjects, laying a foundation for the democratic revolutions that followed. Wolfgang’s father Leopold came from a family of Augsburg bookbinders. He received a solid Jesuit education, more intellectual than evangelical after a year at the Benedictine University in nearby Salzburg; Leopold stopped attending classes to pursue a ...
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Yukon Jack: The Life Of Jack London
... that he was a boy without a boyhood” (Marshall 749). In “To Build A Fire,” a man is on a journey through the Yukon. He takes this journey alone, and therefore must face all challenges alone. This is much like the childhood of Jack London. London had to accept all challenges and obstacles in his childhood alone, because his family was not there to support him. Both Jack London and the man in “To Build A Fire” are in control of their own destiny. As it turns out for the man in “To Build A Fire,” he faces his death because of his solitude.
London may be implying ...
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Herman Melville
... to 1831. After his father died Melville was forced to drop out.
In 1832 he started work as a clerk at the New York State Bank in Albany. After that he moved to Pittsfield Massachusetts to work on his Uncle Thomas’s farm. Upon quitting his job in 1835 he attended the Albany Classic School and worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at his brother’s fur company. After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New York to become a sailor.
Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. ...
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Pablo Picasso
... Skull, Fruit, Pitcher, many hardships befell Picasso. During the winter of 1938, Picasso was bedridden with a severe attack of sciatica. Two other tragic events happened to Picasso during the month of January 1939. On January 13, Picasso's mother died. On the 26th, Franco's army completed its victory over the Spanish republic and set up its fascist regime. These two events had a profound effect on Picasso. He thereafter openly expressed his negative feelings towards Franco's regime and used his paintings, especially his great mural Guernica to "clearly express [his] abhorrence of the military caste which", he ...
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Columbus 2
... were there he an established Genoese population, including Bartolome, he was a noted to be a mapmaker. After a couple of years Columbus sailed with the Portuguese through the Mediterranen and the Atlantic as far south as La Mina (Present day Elmaina , Ghana) and as far north as England. Columbus also made a voyage to Iceland in 1477.
In 1479 Columbus married the Portuguese noblewomen Dona Felipa e Perestrello e Moriz and established land in Porto Santo were his son Diego was born in 1480. When his wife died somewhere between 1481 to 1485, Columbus returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 Columbus got a plan to sail we ...
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Mohandas Gandhi
... Indian campaign for
home rule. He worked to reconcile all classes and religious sects. Gandhi
meant not only technical self-government but also self-reliance. After World
War I, in which he played an active part in recruiting campaigns, he launched
his movement of passive resistance to Great Britain. When the Britain
government failed to make amends, Gandhi established an organized campaign of
noncooperation. Through India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who
refused to rise even when beaten by the police. He declared he would go to jail
even die before obeying anti-Asian Law. Gandhi was arrested, ...
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Aristotle
... his mentor and became a teacher in a school on the coast of Asia
minor. Aristotle was the professor of young prince Alexander, who went on to
become the ruler Alexander the Great.
Aristotle was the first known person to make major advances in the
fields of logic, physical works( such as physics, meteorologists, ect.) ,
psychological works, and natural history( modern day biology). His most
famous studies are in the field of philosophical works. His studies play an
important role in the early history of chemistry. Aristotle was the first
person to propose the idea of atoms matter and other grand ideas.
A ...
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Donatello
... how he started his career but probably learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working for the cathedral of Florence about 1400. Some time between 1404 and 1407 he became a member of the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti who was a sculptor in bronze. 's earliest work was a marble statue of David. The "David" was originally made for the cathedral but was moved in 1416 to the Palazzo Vecchio, a city hall where it long stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. From the sixteenth century on, the gigantic “David” of Michelangelo, which served the same purpose, eclipsed it. More of 's early works which were sti ...
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