William Shakespeare
.... the Stratford Grammar School 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 fi .....
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The Life Of John F. Kennedy
.... that Sirhan had been hired by the mob to kill Kennedy(This relates to the theory in J.F.K.’s assassination that the mob had hired Lee Harvey Oswald). At the time of Sirhan’s arrest, he had $400 on him which made it seem as if he might have been hired. It was later learned that the money was from a $1,100 settlement that he had won a few months earlier.
Several people thought that a woman in a polka dotted dress was involved with Sirhan. She had been seen with Sirhan earlier in the evening and one .....
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Diana, Princess Of Wales
.... charities during her lifetime. “No one could bring attention to an issue like she could,” says Landmine Survivors Network head Ken Rutherford, 35. As a result of her deep compassion towards those in need, the public is now more aware and supportive of the causes she faithfully supported.
During her often turbulent 17 years in the world’s spotlight, Diana’s honest and sincere sympathy for those in need remained constant. She traveled thousands of miles a year in support of her causes, even to danger .....
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Walt Disney
.... became one of the entertainment industry's most prominent and influential figures. "Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody." Replied Disney when a little boy asked him about his job. "I guess that is what I do."
At the age of sixteen, Disney left school and briefly started studying at art schools in Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. By that time he really knew what he wanted to do af .....
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Socrates
.... did not tell the youth to copy him and he is not responsible for their actions. The charges against Socrates were merely excuses by his enemies to murder him in a legal way. Socrates made his enemies by going on a search to find someone wiser than he was. Socrates went on this search because the Oracle at Delphi said he was the wisest man there was but Socrates believed that to be false (5). This lead to a futile search for a person who did have wisdom so Socrates could prove the oracle wrong. Socrates .....
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John Trumbull
.... “Battle of Bunker Hill”, “The Surrender of General Burgoyne”, and “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia”. In addition, John was commissioned to execute monumental replicas of some of his Revolutionary War scenes for the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington D.C. These glorious paintings are but a small part of John Trumbull’s contribution to American Society. John has added to our society as an architect, a painter, a writer, and most importantly as a man who wished to share his talen .....
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John Keats
.... After the marriage the father’s job seemed to have improved and he was being well paid.
Soon after John other children followed: George in 1797, Thomas Jr. in 1799, Edward in 1891 (who died in infancy), and the only daughter Frances in 1803. Not a lot is known about the early years if their family life. One thing was clear though; they had a very loving relationship with each other. You could tell because of his strong devotion for his brothers and sister, and also his deep love for his mother. .....
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Jacqueline Kennedy
.... Gable. They both shared the same dark flowing hair, wide-spaced delicate eyes, and blunt nose. The father and daughter also shared the same large, square face.
Even when Jacqueline was a child, she graced the presence of others with her natural social skill. At her second birthday party, Jacqueline played hostess and offered to share her toys and pony rides with all her little guests. At the age of two, she also participated in a dog show in Easthampton with her Scotty dog named Hootchie. Througho .....
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Sister Helen Prejean
.... rate is ninth highest in the nation…I am meeting seventeen-year-old girls who have had one sometimes two children. Without a chance for college… [they are] vulnerable to the first young man who looks at them (7-8).
As she talks about this she seems surprised that things like this actually occur. She then meets Patrick Sonnier, a death row inmate. Through him she is once again thrown into a world that she is unfamiliar with but she quickly learns all about the legal system and all of its inequiti .....
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Sinclair Lewis
.... also worked as a janitor at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall (utopian community) and he also took a shot as free-lance work in New York for a while. After working on some temporary jobs, he graduated Yale in 1908. After he got his degree, he worked for publishing houses and various magazines in Iowa, Carmel, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York City. During his time in Greenville Village, he associated with some radicals like John Reed and Floyd Dell, and he became, for a while, member of the socialis .....
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The Life Of My Grandfather
.... way that he was taught. "Ninety-nine percent of the younger generation played this game", my grandfather said. It is hard to explain, but it involves a pocketknife with two blades and a "peg-shaped" object. Kids would stick the blades out to form an "L" and would fling the knife to the ground. Depending on which way the knife stuck in the ground, players would receive more or less points. The winner would drive the peg into the ground with the pocketknife either once with their eyes open, or twice wit .....
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The Life Of Jackie Robinson
.... he competed in the long jump. His final jump was twenty five feet and six inches. Not only did he win the meet, but he also set a new record. (Stealing Home)
After his impressive performance that day, several major universities offered him scholarships for his last two years of athletic eligibility.
Jackie chose the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to finish his last two years. Basically because UCLA was the college that was closest to home.
He had a repeat performance and became t .....
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Archimedes
.... naked shouting "Eureka!"(I have found it). He was then able to deduce that the crown the king was sold was in fact not gold. It was also said that Archimedes single-handedly defended the city of Syracuse during a Roman siege by constructing huge lenses to focus the Sun's light on Roman ships and huge cranes to turn them upside down. When the Romans finally broke the siege, Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier after snapping at him "Don't disturb my circles", a reference to a geometric figure h .....
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The Life Of Elizabeth Blackwell
.... doctor. After two years of hard studying, she beat the odd and received her medical degree in front of 20,000 people.
Although Elizabeth was a fully trained physician, no one would hire her because they did not take her seriously. She then decided to open her own hospital. Elizabeth had to buy a house as her office because no one would rent space to her. This house later became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. It wasn’t long before Elizabeth started seeing many patients because the Soc .....
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The Life Of Stalin
.... In his personal life, he withdrew almost completely, living either in his Kremlin apartment or in his new country house at Kuntsovo, constantly surrounded by officers and bodyguards until his death. Frantic to catch up with the West in 1928, Stalin and his men launched a set of policies known as the "five-year plans," designed to turn backward Russia into an industrial and military world power, which he accomplished in only one decade. Though this was a great success, the peasants paid dearly, most with t .....
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