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- 801: Duke Ellington 2
- ... into all forms from three minute pop songs to hour-long symphonies, ballets and musical comedies. They embrace all tonal colors from the highs and lows of black and white Americans to exotic sounds from Africa and the Far East. It's no coincidence that two of Ellington's most important albums of the '60s were collaborations that found the maestro fitting in equally well with major musicians who had each ...
- 802: Cardinal Richelieu
- ... own people in government and seats of power where he could, eliminating the king's and his own enemies. He also tried to press France's advantage beyond it's borders by advocating colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Richelieu was also a patron of the arts, founding the Acadamie Francaise and rebuilding the Sorbonne. He built the Palais Royal beginning in 1624, also referred to as the Palais Cardinal. Of ...
- 803: Albert Camus
- ... with great illness in his short life. Camus is a great role model and idol for us all. Camus was born into poverty on November 2, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria (a former French colony in Africa). His mother, Catherine Sintes, was a cleaning woman, and his father, Lucien Camus, was a farmhand. Only a few months old, Albert lost his father in the horrors of World War I in 1914. After ...
- 804: Booker T. Washington
- ... family were declared free. Washington does not no know much about his family history other than his ancestors, form his mothers side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America. Washington and his family lived in a typical log cabin, which was fourteen by sixteen feet square. The log cabin was not only their living space, but also used as the kitchen for ...
- 805: Australia
- ... marsupials, saved from competition with carnivores and herbivores and free to evolve uniquely, when Australia split from Gondwanaland between 45 and 70 million years ago. By contrast, other animals drifted free with South America and Africa but became extinct when those continents encountered Northern Hemisphere landmasses that were home to predators. When Australia drifted closer to Asia 20 million years ago, Asian animal immigrants reached northern Australia across shallow continental shelves ...
- 806: Alice Walker
- ... secure woman. It has been translated into 22 languages and has sold over four million copies. The novel covers the period between the World Wars, telling the story of two sisters, one a missionary in Africa, the other a child-wife living in the South. They sustain each other, and themselves, through a series of letters. However, many critics have objected to its representation of black men. The main problem is ...
- 807: JFK
- ... to promote world peace and friendship with developing nations. The idea of American volunteers helping people in foreign lands touched the idealism of many citizens. Within two years, Peace Corps volunteers were working in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, living with the people and working on education, public health, and agricultural projects. However, after his initial success with Congress, Kennedy found it increasingly difficult to get his programs enacted into law ...
- 808: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... The travels of Hemingway are another source of influence on the authors work. Many, in fact most, of his short stories and novels take place in a foreign country. France, particularly Paris, Spain, and Africa are Hemingways treasured spots. The author always seemed to come back to America, but left after only a short while, being disgusted with the society. It is interesting that Hemingway became the best chronicler ...
- 809: Come Home
- ... complete with a waterfall and streams. Flora from the Amazon Basin, African Rain Forest, and tropical eastern Asia thrive here. The Helen Mattin Warm Temperate Pavilion houses plants from central China, the Mediterranean, Australasia, southern Africa, and the western U.S. The Desert Pavilion holds spectacular plants from arid regions. The Conservatory offers other wonderful displays and exhibits on themes such as geological and botanical evolution, tropical water plants, and the ...
- 810: Mother Teresa
- ... to start a new one, and her pleas were answered. She was able to leave the order. From there, Mother Teresa touched peoples lives all around the world. She worked in the slums of Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, and North America. This single woman started out an order of nuns, an order of brothers, a group for lay people, houses and programs for poor and starving children, women, and ...
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