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- 921: Shaka Zulu
- ... the assegai, was no good for hand-to-hand combat, and left the warrior defenceless after he threw it, so Shaka introduced the short stabbing spear. His warriors used their shields to deflect the initial rain of assegais, then advanced on a nearly defenceless enemy with their stabbing spears. In a style fitting his reputation for bravery, Shaka demonstrated his stabbing spear in a battle with the Butelezi. Responding to the ...
- 922: Neal Cassady
- ... York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1955 Plummer, William. Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady. New York: Paragon House, 1981 Richman, Robert. "Allen Ginsberg Then and Now." Commentary. July, 1985 Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
- 923: Lizzie Borden
- ... a daughter in shock. Many suspects had been eliminated, but it was inevitable that Lizzie would become the prime one, especially that after they learned she had tried to purchase ten cents worth of prussic acid poison the week before from Eli Bence, a clerk at Smith's Drug Store. Adelaide Churchill, the neighbor who stayed with Lizzie until the doctor arrived, testified in court that she did not see any ...
- 924: John Dalton
- ... Gough was the one that told Dalton to keep a daily journal, and he would for forty six straight years. Through his observations Dalton was the first to prove the validity of the concept that rain is precipitated by a decrease in temperature, not by a change in atmospheric pressure. In 1787 Dalton began to try to get more money by selling his eleven volume classified botanical collections and giving public ...
- 925: Howard Hughes
- ... detail was immaculate. If the scene called for a rainy night, Hughes would require the actors to be on call until it rained at night, and force them to stay awake all night in the rain. The director, Hughes, would demand re-take after re-take of scenes, often because of his own flaws. Hughes attention to detail on the ground was nothing compared to that of the air. The film ...
- 926: Heinrich Himmler
- ... one that would accelerate the killing and would at the same time spare the SS men the necessity to murder women and children in cold blood. The decision was made to use poison gases (hydrocyanic acid and carbon monoxide) in both stationary and mobile gas chambers in Poland. It is estimated that around 6 million Jews were killed during the Final Solution, along with as many as another 6 million non ...
- 927: Dylan Thomas
- ... is part of the cycle; A cycle that must be appreciated from all sides if we are to value life at all. Thomas would ask, "How can you appreciate the sun if there is no rain?" and vice versa. One is essential. He has deemed the point at which the cycle stops as the only truly lamentable moment with regard to life and death. Thomas often wrote about life and death ...
- 928: Charles Manson
- ... that Manson seriously started developing his cult. Mansons following grew and many more people were recruited in the "Family." He started preaching to his followers in bizarre ways. He would have the group take acid trips then listen to him as he spun twisted stories that put ideas into their heads. Charles would reenact the Crucifixion of Christ, trying to instill upon his followers minds that he was Jesus ...
- 929: Antoine Lavoisier
- ... materials, or products. He concluded that combustion results from the rapid chemical union of a flammable material with a newly discovered gas, which he named "oxygen", previously known as "dephilogisticated air." The word "oxygen" means acid producer. Lavoisier and others had found that oxygen is a part of several acids. Lavoisier incorrectly reasoned that oxygen is needed to make all acids. He developed endings of the degree of oxygen by adding ...
- 930: Andrew Jackson
- ... To emphasize his point, in 1838 (one year after Jackson left office), a unite of federal troops rounded up the 15,000 Cherokee who resisted relocation and remained in Georgia and during the cold and rain of winter forced them to march to their lands in the west, this was known as the "Trail of Tears" since about 25% of the people died in route of either disease, starvation, and exposure ...
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