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- 1131: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... and we must go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to become an "antiwar Correspondent", and found that ...
- 1132: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... already to pass a $240,000 appropriation to resettle abroad the State's entire population of free Negroes, over a period of 28 years. (Archer 47) The Christian solution was to send them back to Africa. Garrison was appalled at this idea and threatened to expose the American Colonization Society as a fraud perpetrated on Americans to persuade them that Negroes were inferior subhumans and were fit to remain in the ...
- 1133: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... and we must go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to become an "antiwar correspondent", and found that ...
- 1134: Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
- ... about a family living in the country raising a maize crop. In this story, the main character’s conflicts parallel those Lessing’s mother faced. The story takes place in Rhodesia, a country in Southern Africa which is now Zimbabwe. Lessing grew up in Rhodesia also on a 3,000 acre maize farm. She uses her memories and experiences to create a feeling that a person of another background would not ...
- 1135: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- ... and we must go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to become an "antiwar correspondent", and found that ...
- 1136: Malcolm X
- ... in 1925. His father was a baptist minister and an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist leader of the 1920s who preached that all blacks should leave the US and go back to Africa. While Malcolm's father was away and Malcolm's mother was pregnant with Malcolm, a group of KKK members came to their house and told Mrs. Little to send out her husband. She came out ...
- 1137: Julius Caesar and His Accomplishments
- ... vici", which means, "I came, I saw, I conquered" (World Book of Encyclopedia, 1998,p.79). Pompeii’s forces reorganized after the death of their leader. But, in 46 B.C., at Thapsus in northern Africa, Caesar defeated them decisively. The announcement of Caesars victory led to Cato the younger, one of Pompeii’s supporters, to take his own life. In 45 B.C. at Munda, Caesar defeated the two sons ...
- 1138: Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
- ... only by the more modern forces of Britain, France and the USA, but by the Greeks, when they attempted to invade Greece in 1941. By July 1943, Italy had lost all of it colonies in Africa, and most of its army, and was being invaded. Mussolini was deposed by a revolt within his own Fascist Grand Council, and Victor Emmanuael III, the King of Italy, who had been reduced to a ...
- 1139: Benito Mussolini
- ... kept out of World War ll until 1940, when the fall of France was imminent and the Germans seemed to be winning the war. After a series of Italian military disasters in Greece and North Africa, the leaders of his party abandoned him. The king dismissed him on July 25,1943 and had him arrested. On September 12 the Germans rescued him, making him puppet head of a government in northern ...
- 1140: Life and Times of Alexander the Great
- ... the same harvest dances that his fellow Greeks performed near Thessalonika. This was the breadth of Alexander's influence on hundreds of different cultures around the world. Throughout the whole of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, stories of this great man have been handed down from generation to generation throughout the centuries. In many cases Alexander has even taken on a superhuman aura, and many unbelievable legends have been based on ...
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