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- 3701: Robert Frost 2
- ... and became the first poet to read a poem at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy. His poetry was based mainly on life and scenery in rural New England, and reflected many values of American society. He died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. His epitaph reads: "I had a lovers quarrel with the world." Frost once said, "I guess I must be just an ordinary man" (Cox 5) and though he is, without a doubt, and extraordinary man, there is some truth in the statement. Throughout his poetry, Frost seems to make many attempts to appeal to the common working American and his feelings. He does this through the subject matter and themes as well as through the diction he uses. "An ordinary man is one whose imagination and character result from the constant impact of ...
- 3702: Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
- ... in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the "conscience of the nation" and "the great unifier." He is the best-known living American leader in the United States. Jesse Louis Jackson was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. A woman who did other people's laundry brought him into this world. The father was her ... many times as an international diplomat in sensitive situations. In 1984, Reverend Jackson secured the release of captured Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman from Syria, as well as the release of 4 8 Cuban and Cuban-American prisoners in 1987. He was the first to bring hostages out of Kuwait and Iraq in 1990. In 1990, Jackson was elected the U.S. Senator of Washington, D.C., a position also known as ...
- 3703: Princess Diana 3
- ... at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico. On February 24, 1981, it was officially announced that Diana was to marry the Prince of Wales. They were married at ... campaign. In June, Diana spoke at the landmines conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London, followed by a visit to Washington D.C. in the United States on June 17-18 to promote the American Red Cross landmines campaign. Diana's last public engagements were during her visit to Bosnia from August 7 to August 10, when she visited landmine projects in Travnic, Sarajevo, and Zenezica. Diana died in a ...
- 3704: Olaudah Equiano
- Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano was an African American that fell into slavery. He was forced like many other African Americans during the 17th and 18th century. In the short story about Olaudah Equiano, it tells about his life and what he went through ... business. The slaves weren t seen as a whole person. They brought the white people a lot of profit at their painful expense like Olaudah Equiano. In Conclusion, you can see how badly the African American slaves were treated. This is exactly how Olaudah Equiano suffered. Millions of slaves could relate to Equiano s lifestyle. He was given no rights and didn t have a say in anything he did. Slavery ...
- 3705: Nostradamus - The Man
- Nostradamus For four centuries Nostradamus's prophecies have inspired fear and controversy. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Did he, as his believers claim, predict some of history's most monumental events - from the Great Fire of London to the ... different place in the church, and while it was being moved a priest looked inside the coffin to reveal an amulet on his skeleton with the year 1700 on it. In 1791, during the French Revolution, soldiers broke into the church in search for money. While in the church the soldiers found food and alcohol that they ate and drank. Claims that a soldier drank wine out of Nostradamus's skull ...
- 3706: Nikola Tesla
- Nikola Tesla was a Yugoslav-American inventor who pioneered in radio and invented the alternating-current motor. He also invented a system that made the universal transmission and distribution of electricity possible. He was born in Smiljan, Croatia, on July 10 ... guided by radio, and in 1917 he accurately forecast radar. Among many honors, Tesla received degrees from Columbia and Yale Universities, the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, and the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In 1956, as part of international commemorations of the centennial of his birth, the term "tesla" (T) was adopted as the unit of magnetic flux density in the MKSA system. He ...
- 3707: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... at the age of 60, in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Hawthorne was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Concord. During his college days, Hawthorne made the acquaintance of several people who attained their fame through American literature and politics. The list of pallbearers for his funeral reads like the "who's-who" in American Literature; they included Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell and Emerson. Former United States President Franklin Pierce accompanied Mrs. Hawthorne and his children to the funeral.
- 3708: Napoleon And Caesar
- ... achievements was his supervision of the revision and collection of French law into codes. The new law codes, seven in number, incorporated some of the freedoms gained by the people of France during the French revolution, including religious toleration and the abolition of serfdom. The most famous of the codes, the Code Napoleon or Code Civil, still forms the basis of French civil law (Marrin 90). Napoleon should have learned from ... and for that the people loved them. Caesar put an end to the Gallic and Civil wars that Rome was involved in, with that, he entered into power . Napoleon took France out of the French Revolution by overthrowing the then government, the Directory. Napoleon instated a new government the Consulate and crowned himself first Consul and three years later, Consul for life, Caesar became all powerful when named dictator for life ...
- 3709: Mccarthyism
- ... is nothing in the files to disprove his Communist connections." From Case 40, there is an obvious case of "guilty until proven innocent" as opposed to the "innocent until proven guilty" method practiced in the American courts. As it was, neither McCarthy nor his staff spent much time researching these "81 of those whom I consider to be Communists in the State Department." He was a master manipulator of the press ... of us look at McCarthyism in a negative way, but in a nationwide poll, a full fifty percent approved of McCarthy and his methods, with twenty-one percent undecided. It is astonishing that half the American population approved of his tactics, even though there were serious flaws in his methods. This poll shows that either a large portion of people in the 1950's were quite gullible, or that Joe was ...
- 3710: Mark Twain 5
- ... an author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner declaring his works particularly Huckleberry Finn major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. His writing career began shortly after the death of his father in 1847. Apprenticed first to a printer, he soon joined his brother Orion ... after establishing his own firm, Charles L. Webster and Co., published his masterpiece, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1884. Increasingly involved financial problems prompted Twain to move to Europe in 1891, just after finishing The American Claimant (1892). In 1894, following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige typesetting machine in which he had invested heavily, Twain was forced to declare bankruptcy. During this period he turned out ...
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