Biography Of William Shakespeare
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the Globe, on the Thames at Bankside, was to be London's chief theatre, and the
home of Shakespeare's work. Many of his greatest plays were written during
these ten years, and were acted there. Both Queen Elizabeth, and after her
James I, showed the company many favors.
In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the Globe was destroyed by
fire. But the Lord Chamberlain's men, by now called the King's Men, had four
years earlier leased a second, smaller playhouse, the Blackfriars. This w .....
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William Shakespeare's Life
.... apparently arrived in London about 1588 and by 1592 had
attained success as a playwright. The publication of Venus and Adonis, The Rape
of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in the
Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on the 38
plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on.
Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked by a number of
financially advantageous arrangements that permitted him to share in the profits
of his acting c .....
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Life Of William Shakespeare
.... into the stage. The next level was the main stage, where the actors
did most of their performing. Above this was the balcony level, which could be
used to represent anything from a city wall to a mountain. The next level
contained pulleys which could raise or lower anything from above. The top level
was used for creating sounds of rain or thunder, or dropping important objects
from the sky.
William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at age 18. In two years, they had
three children, a daughter named S .....
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"Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
.... began the year after he was married.
He became constable of Stratford, in charge of keeping the town safe. From 1561
to 1565, he was Chamberlain, responsible for the oversight and maintenance of
Corporation of Stratford property. In 1564, his name appeared on the list of
Capital Burgesses. He was likely a member for a number of years, just without
his name on the list. Capital Burgesses were the main English parliament
representatives for towns or boroughs. Later on, he was bailiff of the town,
and h .....
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Shakespeare: Biography
.... with other boys of his social class. Students went to school
year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict
disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably
fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to
put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large fairs during
the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford also had fields
and woods surrounding it giving William .....
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Abraham Lincoln: Biography
.... constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independance? It is not our
frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our army and our navy . . . Our
defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all
lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of
despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage
and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during .....
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Alexander The Great
.... then again took of to Thebes, which had
revolted. He took the city by storm and razed it, sparing only the temples of
the gods and the house of the Greed lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving
inhabiŽ tants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in
crushing the revolt of TheŽ bes brought the other Greek states into instant
submission.
Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by
crossing the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) with an army of 35,000 Macedonian and .....
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Amerigo Vespucci
.... know as Lorenzo the Magnificant.
When Amerigo was older, but still a young man, his father Antastagio
Vespucci sent him to the Monestary of San Marco to study with his uncle Giorgio.
In his new school, Amerigo along with the other European boys learned Latin,
math, grammar, history, Italian and Greek Literature, geography and astronomy.
Amerigo learned to love astronomy, because he was fascinated about all of the
shapes the stars made, that his uncle called constellations. Amerigo thought
about travelin .....
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
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Anyway; a few years later when I became a shambala monk. (many degrees
above a standard monk.) I ran away to America and joined circus Vargus as the
head clown. When the Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, and decided too let me move back home. Living at home was worse
than I had hoped. I decided to venture, as I called it; on a long and hopefully
successful quest to find an answer to one of mans most pondered questions. "If
a cow l .....
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Charles M. Manson
.... favored is uncle
because he gave him money for the movies and took him on frequent fishing trips.
Only when his uncle became ill did his unfit mother come and reclaim her
unwanted son and moved to Indianapolis.
When Mrs. Manson reclaimed her son she promised that she would take care
of him and provide for his every need. Unfortunately, all these promises were
soon shattered by liquor and men. She frequently neglected Charles by telling
him she would be back in an hour and then not show up for the rest .....
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Charles Darwin And Herbert Spencer
.... to Christ's College in Cambridge in order to become a clergyman.
During this time he befriended a man of science, John Steven Henslow. It was
Henslow who recommended him for the unpaid position of naturalist on the H.M.S.
Beagle.
Darwin set sail on December 27, 1831 to study the Pacific coast of South
America and the Pacific Islands. His other duty was to set up navigation
stations in the area. He also studied the geology and biology of these areas.
Upon his return in 1839, Darwin married .....
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Ernesto Guevara
.... Fidel Castro, and his brother Raul. In
Fidel Castro, he saw a great Marxist leader that he was seeking. Guevara joined
Castro followers at a farm where they were training for guerrilla war tactics.
The tactics were those first used by Mao Tse-Tung. At this time, Ernesto
Guevara first was nick named "Che", which is Italian for pal.
The group invaded Cuba, where Che was commander of the revolutionary
army. From then on, he was known as the most aggressive, clever and successful
guerrilla officer. He a .....
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Deng Xiaoping
.... devoted his entire life to helping his country, China.
Before the Communist began to revolt, the Nationalists were doing a poor
job of running the country and did not keep their promise for land reform. Deng
Xiaoping believed that a Communist government would do a better job of running
the country. During the Nationalist- Communist Civil War, Deng greatly
influenced the outcome in favor of the Communists by using effective military
strategy. Deng Xiaoping was appointed Politcommissar of the 129th Div .....
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Dr Jack Kevorkian: Disrupting The Universe
.... Assisted suicides are
still illegal in every state, but he has gotten off on technicalities or some
other issue.
All of the people he assisted in suicides either were terminally ill or
they wanted to be killed due to other serious medical problems. There have been
reports of a person beating her son in tennis one week before she killed herself
with the help of Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine, but she was terminally
ill and Dr. Kevorkian would not help kill people unless their life was in
dang .....
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Shannon Lucid
.... she said,
"the Baptists wouldn't let women preach, so I had to become an astronaut to get
closer to God than my father." By this time America already had a space program.
She could not believe that of the first seven Mercury astronauts, none were
females. This is just one more instance she complained of discrimination of
women in traditionally male held occupations. She experienced the same thing
when she tried unsuccessfully to become a commercial pilot. So from 66-'68 she
worked at Kerr-Mcgee Corp. a .....
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