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- 3721: Joesph Stalin
- ... to 1913. Stalin frequently attended Bolshevik party secret meetings. At these meetings is where Stalin befriended Lenin and they each had high regard for each other. Because of this friendship Lenin had Stalin workon the Revolution of 1917. Stalin was responsible for the murder of many in the bloody October 1917 revolution. In 1922 Stalin became Lenins trusted aide, but even Lenin, like everyone else, thought stalin was too violent. After Lenins death Stalin took over the rule of the U.S.S.R. During his rule ...
- 3722: Jackson, Andrew
- ... thinking, and strong willed plantation owners, such as; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. To mere farmers and soldiers, such as; Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor. The years from 1828-1848 are known has the Jacksonian Era, a revolution where the "common man" overthrew the noble. In those years from our Founding Fathers to Jackson, many changes took place. The industrial revolution had come over from England, helping us to be a more independent nation. With this in effect we went on to massive campaigns to build roads, canals, bridges, and railroads. Many new inventions improved the ...
- 3723: Jackie Robinson 2
- Robinson, Jackie (1919-72), American athlete and business executive. He was born Jack Roosevelt Robinson in Cairo, Georgia. He attended Pasadena Junior College (now Pasadena City College) in California and the University of California, Los Angeles. As an undergraduate, Robinson ... thereafter joined the U.S. Army. Discharged early in 1945 with the rank of first lieutenant, Robinson signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Monarchs, a Kansas City, Missouri, team of the Negro American League. Later in 1945 Robinson signed with Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to play with the minor league Royals in Montrιal. After one season with the Royals, Robinson joined the Brooklyn team ...
- 3724: Ida B. Wells
- ... life, but he carried the message that if Ida were to show her face ever again in Tennessee she would be killed. Now with all this ammunition based on personal experience, even as an African American woman, she had gained credibility to be able to speak with authority. As Ida B. Wells was going through this, it was at the same time that all woman, black and white, were experiencing suffrage ... great representative against lynching. Her parents had installed a lot of exceptional qualities that she helped her in her crusade. Also, based on her personal experiences, she had gained strength. Finally, even as an African American woman, her credibility was impressive among both African Americans and non-Americans.
- 3725: Henry T. Ford
- ... That was the paths that ford followed in his later years. He showed his businessman side when he first sold his first and only prototype for $200. For the next three years he watched the American automobile industry develop. Even though most of the cars still were made by foreign countries, some thirty American manufacturers made 2,500 cars, most of them were based in New England. In 1898 many industries that were making bicycles changed their production form bicycles to automobiles. This kept the factories busy because bicycle ...
- 3726: Hemingway
- ... on his father. 1929 marked the release of A Farewell to Arms. It was instantly accepted as a great work by critics and the public. With the success of this novel, Hemingway became a true American writer. To many, he also became a hot headed fool. He would make loud remarks about some of his fellow writers. He would make proclamations about artistic integrity that he himself would often not respect ... Africa was The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber, which seeks the meaning of courage. The Spanish Civil War became official in July, 1936. Hemingway was offered a liaison's job by the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). He accepted, much to Pauline's opposition. Being a newsman, officially he remained neutral throughout the war. Despite this, Hemingway could often be overheard raising funds at social gatherings in America to ...
- 3727: Helen Keller
- ... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her involvement with this particular group seemed to be the most controversial and it infuriated her family and friends back in her home state of Alabama. The American Foundation for the Blind was founded in 1924 and asked Helen to help raise funds for the foundation. Helen agreed to campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind. She raised two million dollars and spread public awareness (Briggs 307). In 1929, the second volume of her autobiography, Midstream: My Later Life, was published. Helen continued to change the world ...
- 3728: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... of rewriting his past in order to paint a more dramatic picture of himself. Among the events he reported that have been found to be grossly untrue are his tales of being entertained by the American president Millard Fillmore and his wife in 1851, and his narrow escape from the San Francisco fire of that same year (Traill 9-13). More disturbing is when he applies these tactics to his archaeology ... the city, one frigid and one steaming. Schliemann found over forty springs there (Duchκne 43, Burg 69). Most important to Schliemann's theory was information brought to him by Frank Calvert, the son of the American vice-counsel in the Dardanelles. Calvert had been digging trenches in another area on the Troad, Hissarlik, for several years, and had discovered that it was a tell, or artificial hill, that had been built ...
- 3729: Health
- Edgar Allen Poe Who is Edgar Allen Poe? He was a 19th century American writer born to Elizabeth ( betty ) Arnold Hopkins and David Poe. (Internet source) Poe was an well-educated individual. He would attend a private school in London and then an academy in Richmond. Later being accepted ... the nineteenth century. If it was not of that fateful day in Baltimore Oct. 7, 1849 where he went out with some friends, we would not have lost one of the greatest and most remembered American writers. As it was Edgar Allen Poe died at that age of forty in Baltimore.
- 3730: Harriet Tubman 2
- ... and known as the Glory Brigade before its heroic but futile attack on Fort Wagner in 1863. She later received an official commendation, but no pay for her efforts. In 1869 she married an African American war veteran, Nelson Davis. He died in 1890. Tubman spent the years after the war in the North, where she continued her work to improve the lives of blacks in the United States. She raised ... the first and only meeting of the National Conference of Colored Women in America (NCCWA), a group formed to combat attacks, made by the press and others, on the morality and civic pride of African American women. The NCCWA evolved into the National Association of Colored Women in 1896, although Tubman had only limited involvement in this organization. She also became a strong supporter of woman suffrage. In 1974, more than ...
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