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Abraham Lincoln
... In 1830, Abraham left India and moved on to Illinois. Lincoln tried
various occupations and served briefly in the Black Hawk War.
Lincoln lost in 1832 as an Illinois legislator. Two years later he
made it as a Whig. As a Whig, he supported the Second Bank of the United
States (The Illinois State Bank).
Abraham later married on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They
were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had
four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926.
Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived
from 1 ...
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Marco Polo
... Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a favorable time in world history, when the height of Venice’s influence harmonized with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia. Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all the way from China to Russia and the Levant. The Mongol crowds also threatened other parts of Europe, particularly Poland and Hungary, inspiring fears everywhere by their ruthless advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes. Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders ventured, i ...
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Rosa Parks
... law, blacks had to sit in the back of the bus, and give up their seats to whites when they came on the bus. When she was asked to give up her seat, she refused. Immediately, the driver stopped the bus and called two policemen. Mrs. Parks was arrested and taken to jail.
Edgar Daniel Nixon, head of the NAACP in Montgomery, posted a $100 bond to get her released. Although Mrs. Parks was not the first black person to get arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus, Mr. Nixon decided that she wouldn't be the last. He called a meeting of black leaders to see what action they should take.
By the end of th ...
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Johann Sabastian Bach
... 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 teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age o ...
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Mccarthy
... Until that time, the nation had a sense of security. Now all peace of mind was lost, and America wanted these people that were on ’s so called “Blacklist” (Fried, 65). So began a long-term search by Congress to seek these individuals. One group that was extensively looked at was Hollywood. By Joseph abusing his powers, he not only destroyed many people’s lives, but he also wronged the American public.
To begin with, the type of person that Joe was must be considered. was a hard-line Republican who played along strict party lines. By all considerations, he was an extremist or a reactio ...
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Pierre Trudeau
... between Trudeau's thoughts and his actions. For instance, Trudeau has always been uncomfortable with excessive state intervention in the economy. For this reason he has consistently opposed the imposition of price and income controls. But this did not stop him from deciding, in 1975, that a lack of responsibility on the part of business and labour necessitated the introduction of a controls system. Trudeau has spoken of the need for a shift of emphasis in Canadian society from consumption to conservation. And yet, he allowed energy-conservation measures in Canada to fall far behind those of the United States ...
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Nathan McCall
... his book Makes
Me Wanna Holler. He said he has been “gauging the social pulse of the
nation beyond what I read in the newspapers and what I see in the TV news.
"Yeah, I'm obsessed with race because White America is obsessed with race,”
he said. “Blacks are routinely treated with disdain and regarded with
suspicion...wherever we go in this country we are hated.” He said this is
the reason why Black men commit so many crimes against each other--they
internalize the hatred that others in society have for them. They end up
hating themselves.
"I learned to hate myself by the time I was 12 years old," he said. ...
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Stephen Vincent Benet
... and the settlement of western U.S. frontier life (Magill 1: 174).
Stephen Vincent Benet took all these factors into mind during his life as a
twentieth century writer/poet. Keeping the times, the life, and the literature
of Stephen Vincent Benet a major part of his influence and achievements, he
helped push America towards a united cultural victory.
Stephen Vincent Benet was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James
Walker Benet, a career military officer, and Francis Neill Rose Benet on the
twenty-second of July 1898 (Roache 102: 11, 13). He described himself as a
positive-thinking and modest man, who is thin, att ...
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
... wearing decorations hanging on chains, which was unusual
for his time. For two years Liszt was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.
In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of the
rock band Nirvana.
Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington.
He was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he
was eight years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was
hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that
Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a
mixture of champagne and tra ...
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Columbus
... Bartolome, he was a noted to be a mapmaker. After a couple of years 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. also made a voyage to Iceland in 1477.
In 1479 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, returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 got a plan to sail west from the Canary Islands to the Indies (now East Indies) and the island kingdom of Cipangu (mo ...
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