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- 421: John Gotti
- ... broken the family into two camps. Sammy was behind the idea of new leadership of a unified family. Sammy told Angelo that he would see how DeCicco and Robert DiBernardo would react to such a proposal before he made a firm commitment. After DeCicco agreed, the three key players were committed: Gotti, Gravano and DeCicco. DiBernardo, a very rich and influential man with strong Teamster connections, signed on shortly afterwards. Now ...
- 422: Benjamin Franklin
- ... Franklin knew of his potential to succeed he was not going to let his family ties interfere with the opportunity that awaited him. Franklin took advantage of everything that came his way but was a modest man and used it to his benefit. While he was in Philadelphia working for Samuel Keimer, his work attracted the attention of the Governor, Sir William Keith. Governor Keith offered to set up the then ...
- 423: George Washington Carver
- ... thought of Carver more as a contortionist than as a contributor to scientific knowledge. Many of his fellow blacks were critical of what they regarded as his subservience. Certainly, this small, mild, soft-spoken, innately modest man, eccentric in dress and mannerism, seemed unbelievably heedless of the conventional pleasures and rewards of this life. But these qualities endeared Carver to many whites, who were almost invariably charmed by his humble demeanor ...
- 424: Life of John F Kennedy
- Life of John F Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children. As an infant he lived in a comfortable but modest frame house in that suburb of Boston. As the time went by, the family’s wealth grew, as well as the size of the family. The Kennedy’s moved to larger, more impressive homes, first ...
- 425: Walt Disney
- ... own way. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on how Walt Disney’s life had an effect on each of these areas. Walter Elias Disney was born on, December 5, 1901, in a modest Chicago household. He had four siblings named Herbert, Raymond, Roy, and Ruth. In 1906 his family moved to Marceline, Missouri to live on a farm. This is where Walt began to draw, which was not ...
- 426: Watching Payton Was Pure Sweetness
- ... out. Defensive end Richard Dent was the game's Most Valuable Player and wide receiver Willie Gault caught four passes for 129 yards. But the Patriots' fascination with Payton, who carried 22 times for a modest 61 yards, allowed all of those other things to happen. In 1984, when Ditka ran out of quarterbacks -- McMahon, Rusty Lisch, Steve Fuller, Bob Avellini and Greg Landry -- he asked Payton to step under center ...
- 427: Should Eisenhower Be Praised for His Foreign Policies?
- ... finally ready to reach an agreement to prohibit the use and manufacture of nuclear weapons, reduce conventional forces, and create an inspection system to monitor compliance. However, Eisenhower and Dulles backed out of the disarmament proposal because they allowed their anti-Communist pride get in the way. They wanted to win the Cold War and they weren’t satisfied with simply ending it on peaceful terms. Pride became a factor in ...
- 428: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... to write The Abduction from the Seraglio, a Singspiel, for the Court Opera. His concerts were a great success, and the emperor, Joseph II, encouraged him, later (1787) engaging him as court composer at a modest salary. Mozart's works were now in constant demand by amateur and publisher. In 1782 he married Constanze Weber from Germany (Mozart had fallen in love with her sister, Aloysia, at Mannheim in 1777-78 ...
- 429: Marco Polo
- ... last part of his life moving in Venetian aristocratic circles. After living what was then a long life, Marco died in 1324, only seventy years of age. In his will he left most of his modest wealth to his three daughters, a legacy that included goods which he had brought back from Asia. His will also set free a Tartar slave, who had remained with him since his return from the ...
- 430: Richard Henry Lee
- ... the new government. This lack of power in the states and of the people was what Lee wanted to preserve. This was his main reason for wanting a Bill of Rights. Richard Henry Lee’s proposal for a Bill of Rights was to prevent the federal government from being able to abuse states and the people of the United States. He knew that with the central government having so much power ...
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