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- 1111: Bob Marley
- ... perform on the One Love Peace Concert in front of the Prime Minister Michael Manley and Leader of the Opposite Edward Seaga. Bob arranged a meeting on stage between the two rivals. He also visited Africa for the first time in his life. Later that year Bob got the Piece Medal of the Third World from the United Nations (White 36). A concious effort was made on Bob's part not ...
- 1112: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... and in so doing becomes the first President to travel abroad while in office. He was a man of no fear; he even joined the first dive with the first American submarine. He traveled to Africa for hunting while in office. He traveled around for nearly one and a half year. Roosevelt's candidate for president, William Howard Taft, took office in 1909. Dissatisfied with Taft's performance, Roosevelt bolted the ...
- 1113: Albert Camus
- ... of as a European writer, one who referred to himself as coming form a Mediterranean background. Many studies about Camus mention the “Alegiers summer,” on reference to the early portion of his life spent in Africa. On one occasion, when asked what were some of his favorite words, he mentioned the word “summer,” referring to the intense heat and sun of the Mediterranean an Algiers. His background was working class, with ...
- 1114: Sergey Bubka
- ... Berlin Club while residing in Paris and Donetsk. However, it did not matter where or who he competed for. A rare event took place in 1995. He was seriously challenged by a new comer from Africa, Okkert Britis, a vaulter ten years younger than himself. Although Bubka's record was not broken he now knew that he had challengers coming closer and closer to breaking it. Bubka wanting a chance to ...
- 1115: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... any was connected with war or, for that matter, with soldering." - Hitler stated in his book Mein Kampf. Cowboys and Indians gave way to battle re-enactments, especially after the Boer War broke out in Africa. Hitler, now eleven years old, took the side of the Boers against the English and never tired of playing war. Sometimes, he even wore out the boys he was playing with and then simply went ...
- 1116: Jimi Hendrix
- ... him was the almost epic-length blues number “Voodoo Chile.” “Voodoo Chile” is Hendrix statement of his own heritage, his refusal to deny himself and, as he said it, “dedicated to our friends from West Africa” (Fairchild, “Electric Ladyland” 22). Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray said this of “Voodoo Chile” in his book Crosstown Traffic: “The relationship between the blues and Voodoo as a hold-over from West African religious and ...
- 1117: The Apology Of Socrates: A Closer Examination
- ... executed him, he would become similar to a martyr. Once he was executed others would step into his place and question people similar to him. A modern example of this can be seen in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for promoting the ending of the segregation. While he was imprisoned several other factions fought against the white oppression, often resulting in violence. Yet after Nelson Mandela was released, the segregation ...
- 1118: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... without any thought of return. He also attacked the Soviet government for its policy of coexistence; and for Revisionism. He initiated the Tri-contiental Conference to realize a program of revolutionary, insurrectionary, guerrilla cooperation in Africa, Asia and South America. On the other hand, after a halfhearted attempt to come to some kind of terms with the USA, he was also attacking the North Americas, at the UN as Cuba's ...
- 1119: Christopher Columbus Was A Villain
- ... This ultimately forced the rest of Europe to find new routes to the East. During this period, besides Portugal, who was the prominent exploring country trying to find a route to the East from South Africa, Spain offered very promising ground for explorations as well. This was due to several reasons; one of them being that Spain had become unified through the marriage of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. In addition ...
- 1120: Levi
- ... In it Levi made one last attempt to clarify his life's writing and affirms his belief in the historical uniqueness of the Holocaust, while not separating it from the horrors in Cambodia or South Africa. The central question is according to Levi, how much of the camp is alive and well in our time, and how long it will remain in our memories. For further reading: Understanding Primo Levi by ...
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