Abraham Lincoln
.... president. Right after he was elected, he went straight to the Civil War. The Civil War started on July 4, 1861. No American president had ever faced such a crisis. Lincoln had to find for himself the necessary powers to preserve, protect, and defend. In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was a bill to set most of the slaves free. Two years after that, President Lincoln helped win the Civil War against the Confederacy.
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Napoleon And Unrest In Europe
.... The first failure of the Troppau protocol was Greek Independence from the Ottoman Empire. This sparked two series of revolts. In Eastern and Central Europe the focus was nationalism. In Western Europe the focus was growing industrialization calling for lower class political participation. These revolutions threatened European unity.
In Italy Nationalism grew. Many movements and secret societies formed, including “risorgimento”, “Carbonari”, and the “Young Italy” movement. Many states we4re force .....
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Walt Disney
.... and tried to get a job as an artist. Walt had many jobs but couldn’t keep one for very long. There was very few artistic jobs available then and the ones that where available, the employers found something wrong with Walt. Then Walt started his own business. His brother Roy went in on it to, so they called the business Disney Brothers. Later it changed to Walt Disney Productions.
His first animated character was Oswald the Bunny. He prided himself on this creation. But when he found out that t .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
.... and very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery .....
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The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
.... role made Tupac a household name and showed the world that music may not be Tupac's #1 attribute.
In the midst of a role in the movie "Above the Rim" and a Platnum album "Me against the world," Tupac's rising career was snagged. He was brought up on sexual assault charges by a woman he met at a nightclub. Hours before Tupac would be found guilty, Tupac was robbed at gun point by men whose intent and purpose is still uncertain. Tupac was eventually released at over $1 Million in bail.
After his relea .....
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Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia
.... the Anatolian highlands where he met and defeated the Persian army under Darius the third at Issus(near modern day Turkey). He then occupied Syria and after a long siege of Tyre, then Phoenicia and then he marched into Egypt,were he was accepted as pharaoh. From there he visited the famous Libyan oracle or amon. The oracle certainly haled him as amon's son and probably promised him that he would become a god.
He then organized Egypt and founded the city of Alexandria, next he crossed the Easter Deser .....
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Billy The Kid: The True Story
.... Soon after the death, his mother married a man named William Antrim in 1873.
Up until the age of twelve Billy showed no signs prophesying his desperate and disastrous future ahead. He was a favorite with all classes and ages, especially the old and the young. And he most loved his mother. He loved and honored her more than anything else on earth. But what was to come in the next few years were not for the best. Billy had been known to say that his home was not a happy one. He often said that t .....
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Life Of Julius Caesar
.... Uncle Marius and Cinna. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna’s daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter memory that long su .....
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A Critique Of C. S. Lewis
.... of Reason. . ."2 He began his pursuit of truth as an atheist and ended up as a Christian. His works the Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity dealt with issues he struggled with. Mere Christianity consists of three separate radio broadcasts. One of the broadcasts was titled The Case For Christianity.
In The Case For Christianity, Lewis discussed two crucial topics in his apologetic defense of Christianity. They were the "Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe" and "What Christians Be .....
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Frederick Douglass
.... He goes on to say "I love the pure, peaceful, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. When Frederick was younger he remembers watching from a cupboard one of the women slaves being tied up by their master and then being beaten till there was no flesh left one her body. .....
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John Wilkes Booth
.... to my Dr. Samuel H. Mudd. On April 15 a small federal troop set out in pursuit. For 11 days he was protected by sympathetic southerners. Finally on the night of April 25 he was cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, VA. Booth refused to be taken alive and was shot by one of the soldiers, or more likely by his own hand. He died on the morning of April 26. His body was brought back to Washington where it was secretly buried in a warehouse and then buried in a common graveyard for criminals. In 1869 the .....
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Is It Really Bad To Disobey?
.... but became well known because of his determination. His dad's death was the result of the Ku Klux Klan burning his house down. Then his mother suffered a nervous breakdown and his family was split up. He was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life.
The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both became the image of the African- American culture and had a great influence on black Americ .....
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Princess Diana
.... her father but never had a friendly relationship with her stepmother. Her mother remarried too. To a man named Peter Shand-Kydd. She then moved to the island of Seil which is west of Scotland where they now still live.
Diana attended finishing school briefly in Switzerland. Then she returned to London where she became a nanny. Diana loved children. After her nanny work she became a kindergarten teacher. She had a reputation of a hardworking, gentle, warm hearted and patient person. In Charles .....
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Francesco Redi
.... many experiments to help prove those scientific theories. From this Aristotlian support, he conducted his spontaneous generation experiments. Unfortunately, Redi died on March 1st in Pisa, Italy at the age in seventy-two. This was a grand age for the period at which he lived.
Spontaneous generation "is the ability of living organisms can originate in nonliving matter independently of other living matter.(Webster's)" This was popular belief before the seventeenth century. People saw dead organism .....
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Martha Graham
.... The patients would blurt out words and move their arms and legs in a wild manner, making her even more curious about people's actions (Pratt 13). Dr. Graham then took his daughter to a performance of Ruth St. Denis in 1911 where she was mesmerized by the dancers (Harmon et al. 182).
Martha entered Cumnock School of Expression after graduating from high school. There she trained in dance, drama, and self-expressions. Martha's love to study people's actions was incredibly strong. After Graham graduate .....
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