Rosa Lee Parks
.... high school diploma.
The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a white customer could sit down. She was arrested and put in jail for sitting in the front of the bus. Four days after, the black people of Montgomery and the people from other races organized and promoted a boycott of the city bus line. For 381 days blacks walked or arrange their own rides throughout the city rather than taking the bus. Rev. Martin Lut .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
.... who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph continued his younger brother’s education on the organ, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job a .....
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Julius Caesar
.... the populares, his 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 bitte .....
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Tina Turner
.... roll superstar, Tina Turner, but Ike wanted more. He knew he needed total control of Tina’s life, so he married her in Mexico, just by Tina signing a piece of paper. Before long Tina realized that Ike could be a very violent and controlling person. She knew it would take some risks, including her career, but she had to get out of that situation even though it could have cost her her life.
She left Ike with only 36 cents and a gas card; she lived in poverty and was totally removed from the music scene w .....
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John Gough
.... I have been working on the law of multiple porportions, but I’m still trying to acquire as much as I can on it first before I make a public advent with it.
Take care
Sincerely,
Jonathan Dalton
Mr. John Gough was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman who taught Dalton almost every thing you possibly could have needed to acquire the brilliance that John Dalton had. Dalton really flourished with Mr. Gough and they were very good friends during this period of learning for Dalton. .....
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Julius Caesar And Mussolini: The End Justifies Any Means
.... I founded the Fasci di Combattimento, which was a nationalistic, anti-liberal, and anti-socialist that attractedlower middle class support. The Fasci took its namae from an ancient symbol of Roman discipline. Fascism spread into the countryside, and the Black-Shirt militia won support from landownersand attacked peasant leagues and socialist groups. Fascism shed its republicanism and won sympathy from the army and the king, King Victor Emmanuel III.
Mussolini threatened to march on to Rome, but King Vi .....
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A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
.... Puritan/Calvinist people. Josiah Franklin made candles for a living. Since the Franklins were so poor, little Benjamin couldn't afford to go to school for longer than two years. In those two years, however, Franklin learned to read which opened the door to further education for him. Since he was only a fair writer and had very poor mathematical skills, he worked to tutor himself at home.
Benjamin Franklin was a determined young man. As a boy, he taught himself to be a very good writer. He also learned .....
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Michelangelo
.... invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent. There he had an opportunity to converse with the younger Medicis, two of whom later became popes (Leo X and Clement VII). He also became acquainted with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Angelo Poliziano, who were frequent visitors. Michelangelo produced at least two relief sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the (both 1489-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence), which show that he had achieved a personal style at a very earl .....
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
.... time, he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society.
The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall .....
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John F.Kennedy: Biography
.... Choate Academy when he was 18 years old. When he graduated he was voted "Most likely to succeed." By his fellow class mates.
Kennedy went to College at Princeton University, but he developed Jaundice, a disease where ones liver becomes bad and the poisons in your body back up, and was forced to drop out of the university. A year later, when Kennedy felt better, in 1936 he entered Harvard University. Kennedy's major was in government and international affairs.
In 1939, John went to Europe. He visite .....
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Wyatt Earp
.... 10, 1870, Wyatt Earp married Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Missouri. Wyatt’s father, Nicholas, performed the ceremony. Sometime that same year, Urilla died. How Urilla died is another small mystery in the life of Wyatt Earp. At least two references, Editor Glenn Boyer's comments in Josie Earp's memoirs states that Urilla died in childbirth. I married Wyatt Earp, page 38, note 4 Bob Boze Bell notes the same on page 19 of his book, "The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp". But in Lake's 1931 book, "Wyatt .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
.... is the exposition; the counter-
movement of the army under attack form the
complication, which requires dispositions and
and brings on crisis from which springs the
result or Denouement (Gray 6)".
Napoleon thought himself to be invincible and God-like. He felt that he had a destiny to be one of the greatest military leaders to ever live. The man thought that he could not be killed on the battle field, he was right. He went from a soldier to the Emperor of France in just ten short years; he fell in l .....
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Presdent James Abram Garfield
.... Mary, four. Mrs. Garfield courageously decided to run the farm and keep her family together. Thomas and Uncle Amos helped Mrs. Garfield with the farm work. She herself also sewed for the neighbors, and her girls learned to card wool and weave cloth. James early showed a love for books and his mother determined that he should have an education. When he was four years old, a log schoolhouse was built on the Garfields' lot.
The Boy on the Towpath
When he was 15, James was big enough and strong enough .....
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Stalin
.... through fertile valleys. His father was a very aggressive low life drunk cobbler. His mother was a housecleaner. His father died in a bar from wounds he got from a bad brawl. His town was a very aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. Young Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings.
In 1888 Stalin began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilis Theologi .....
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Genghis Khan
.... but the rest of his tribe did not accept their new leader and abandoned a teenaged Temujin and his family. For a short time the family lived in poverty, owning only a few sheep and other livestock and digging up roots for food. Temujin, however, managed to somehow preserve a considerable fund of prestige among certain members of the tribe that had rejected him. Soon, Temujin began to attract followers, form important alliances with other tribes, and was able to build his own army. He employed rig .....
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