... books, (Wister xxv). Clemens grew up in a strong lower class family. His father was a good, but unsuccessful lawyer. His mother was a proper church-going southern woman, who was kind and compassionate to others, (Anderson 5). Both of his parents would inspire Clemens¹s writings. Significantly so when his father died, around when he was 12. It was then that Clemens decided to leave his small river town and his ailing scholastic career, and head of by himself. Clemens soon become a printer's apprentice. Interesting enough, it was working around the printing press that helped push Clemens into publishing h ...

... century to serve three consecutive terms. In 1990, controversy over Thatcher's tax policy and her reluctance to commit Great Britain to full economic integration with Europe inspired a strong challenge to her leadership. Ms. Thatcher was ousted from leadership, and resigned in November 1990 and was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by her protégée, John Major: who, consequently, only served one short term. Margaret Hilda Roberts was born October 13, 1925 to Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influenc ...

... to the outbreak of World War II he progressed steadily from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff (October, 1938), to chief of staff the following year. In 1944, Marshall was promoted to General of the Army. He spent a year in China in 1945-46 as President Truman's representative, attempting to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the nationalists and the communists. As Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949, he developed an economic program, the Marshall Plan, to help bring relief to war torn nations in Europe. The plan stipulated that the United States ...

... discovery, which enabled Edison to invent a “pressure relay� using carbon rather than magnets, which was the usual way to vary and balance electrical currents. In February of 1877 Edison began experiments designed to produce a pressure relay that would amplify and improve the audibility of the telephone, a device that Edison and others had studied but which Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent, in 1876. By the end of 1877 Edison had developed the carbon-button transmitter that is still used today in telephone speakers and microphones. Many of Thomas Edison’s inventions including the carbon transmitte ...

... his most famous, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers�, and it appeared in Brownie’s Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications(Jackson,1).� “One of Hughes’ finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain�. It spoke of Black writers and poets, “who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration�, where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet. Hughes argued, “no great poet has ever been afraid of ...

... pro football the push it needed to make it the game it is today. More words were written about The Wheaton Ice Man than any other football player in the same category, for Grange belonged to that fabulous era of sports heroes that included Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bill Tilden, and so many more. In those days sports writers held nothing back and reams of colorful copy were turned out about the heroes of the day. In later years sports writing took on a more businesslike attitude as the reading public developed a healthy cynicism in regard to some of its heroes. Undoubtedly the game that sprang into the nation’s ...

... and plays by Sophocles or Aeschylus. However, one fateful day while walking the son to school, a vicious dog leapt out of an alleyway and bit into the boy's neck. Argus beat off the dog but it was to no avail. The attack left a gap in the boy's neck which would not heal. The boy died several days later. Furious that such horrors could happen to his son, Gnaeus blamed Argus for not stopping the attack sooner. Instead of death Argus was to live out his days as a gladiator, a barbarous warrior, killing others for entertainment or being killed himself. Though many of the gladiators were considered celebrities, the lives ...

... $500) , and the least successful was the Model K (priced at $2500). It was obvious from the Model N that the key to the companies success lay in inexpensive cars for a mass market. The answer that Ford and the American consumer were looking for was the Model T. The Model T, a small, sturdy four-cylinder car with an attractive design and a top speed of 45 mph, hit the market in 1908. It’s success came from it’s attractive price, at $850, and more than 10,000 were sold in the first year alone. It was easy to operate, maintain, handle on rough roads, and immediately became a success. Along with success ...

... turned her focus to British history, and became recognized for her talent as a biographer. She was awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize for best biography in 1964 for Victoria R.I. Longford claimed the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award twice with Wellington,1969, and The Royal House of Windsor, Winston Churchill in 1974. It is with this same thoroughness and true human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II. Though surveys have revealed that at any one time between 15 and 30% of the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority u ...

... with a Kingston lawyer at the age of fifteen, and by the time he was nineteen he had his own legal practice, he was a good businessman. He first got into politics in 1843 when he was a city alderman in Kingston, Ontario. He was elected to be the conservative person for Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. All through the 1860's, he worked in support of the Confederation, he made up an agreement called the British North American Act which was an agreement to united the five provinces in the Maritimes. After this he was appointed Prime Minister of Canada and then won the federal election ...