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- 3771: Frank Sinatra
- By: Someone Special Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey later became known as Frank Sinatra and one of the greatest entertainers of his generation. American singers - Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank Sinatra. Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced generations of popular vocalists. Sinatra anticipated the decline of big-band instrumental jazz music ... Candidate and Ocean's 11, which teamed him with the other members of the "Rat Pack," which included Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra recorded with the big bands of American jazz musicians Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Frank Sinatra was a soulful crooner that established himself as he branched out into films. After leaving Capitol Records in 1961, Sinatra became one of the first to ...
- 3772: FDR
- ... he once again became seriously ill with influenza. Three months later, after overcoming the illness, Roosevelt sailed on the George Washington with his wife. The boat was headed for Europe on a mission to dismantle American Navy installations. On the way to Europe, they stopped in Boston and had a luncheon meeting with Wilson. Wilson convinced Roosevelt that the United States had to join the League of Nations. (Eisenhower 118) The ... successful part of his career did not occur until after this major setback. Leave it to Roosevelt to accomplish something that improbable. Through all of this hardship, Roosevelt still managed to become president of the American Construction Council for six years. He also became the presidential campaign manager for Alfred E. Smith. On June 26, 1924, FDR delivered the nominating speech for Smith in Madison Square Garden on crutches. He called ...
- 3773: Billy Sunday
- ... applause of the crowd for his own praise. He often confused the will of God with his own social and political agenda. He even sometimes compared the gospel of Jesus Christ with special interest and American foreign policy. Nevertheless, Billy Sunday was a sincere man whose life was fundamentally changed by his response to an evangelist’s call to repent of his sins, to believe that Jesus Christ died in his ... him in, loved him, worked him hard, and Oswalt / 6 sent him to two years of high school. No one knows whether or not he graduated, but he was much better educated than the typical American was. In 1880, two months before his eighteenth birthday, Billy Sunday decided to give up the rural life. He moved thirty miles east to Marshalltown, an agricultural service community that was becoming a small city ...
- 3774: The Greatest
- ... John Stravinsky. Copyright 1997. Random House Value Publishing, Inc. 201 East 50th Street. New York, New York. Muhammad Ali: The Greatest. By Jim Spence. Copyright 1995. The Rourke Press, Inc. Vero Beach, Florida. Encyclopedia of American Biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Jerome L. Sternstein. Ali, Muhammad, pg. 29-30, Harvard Sitkoff. Muhammad Ali: The Fight for Respect. Thomas Conklin. Copyright 1992. Millbrook Press. Brookfield, Connecticut. Champions Forever. Film. 115 min. 1996 American Home Entertainment. Word Count: 909
- 3775: Selena
- ... Quintanilla. Abraham was a shipping clerk for a chemical company and Marcella was a housewife. Abraham being a well respected Mexican musician, who only sang English songs, and had his career ruined because of that. American people didn’t respect him because he was Mexican, and the Mexican people did not respect them because they sang English songs. By the time Selena reached age 10, it became very obvious that Selena ... the family with open arms. In 1994, Selena’s first mainstream exposure came in, she played a singer in the 1993 film Don Juan DeMarco. Also in 1994 she won a Grammy for “Best Mexican/American Album” for her album “Selena: Live”. It was her first time ever being nominated for a Grammy. Also, later that year she opened “Selena Ect.” Two fashion boutiques located in Texas. Her outstanding success, concerts ...
- 3776: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... issues including nature, society, conspiracy and freedom. After returning to America after a visit to England, he wrote for the abolitionist cause, which was eliminating slavery. Emerson used these ideas in his 1837 lecture “The American Scholar,” which he presented before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. In it he talked about Americans becoming more intelligently independent. In a second address, commonly referred to as the “Address at Divinity College ... Emerson, Ralph Waldo.” Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM. 1998 ed. “Emerson, Ralph Waldo.” Lkd. Columbia University Homepage, at “ILT Web.” *http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/acedemic/digitexts/emerson/bio_emerson.html * Hodgins, Francis. ed. Adventures in American Literature. Orlando: Harcourt, 1989. Myerson, Joel. “Ralph Waldo Emerson.” Grolier Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1993 ed.
- 3777: Princess Diana
- ... went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school when she moved to Coleherne. There she watched after a child for an American couple, while she began her job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England school in Pimlice, London. Like most teachers she didn't have a lot of spare time on her hands, but when ... went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school when she moved to Coleherne. There she watched after a child for an American couple, while she began her job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England school in Pimlice, London. Like most teachers she didn't have a lot of spare time on her hands, but when ...
- 3778: Paul Revere
- ... the Revolutionary War were be gossiped about around the town. On the Sunday morning in which he was to toll the bell of Christ’s church a young boy heard the first gun of the revolution. Revere didn’t know this yet but his honorable duty lay within that revolution. On the twenty-second day of July, 1754 Reveres father died in his sleep. He was buried in the Old Granary. Paul was very distraught over losing his father. They were close, more like friends ...
- 3779: Frost, Robert
- By: Ryan Graves E-mail: z714x4pmp@aol.com Robert Frost, perhaps the greatest American poet of the twentieth century, has brought himself great recognition. Many critics have tried to find a faulty side to his writing, but they have had a difficult time because his writing "romanticizes the rural ... is less traveled and more difficult. Is the traveler happy with the decision he has made to take the road less traveled? Many critics think he may have had second thoughts. Magill's Survey of American Literature states that there are many contradictions throughout the poem, "…He seems to contradict his own judgment. The poet appears to imply that the decision is based on evidence that is, or comes close to ...
- 3780: Farai Chideya
- ... and BET's "Teen Summit" and "Town Hall Meeting on the Black Family." She saw the publishing of her new book, The Color of our Future: How the Nation's Most Diverse Generation is Reshaping American Culture., in 1997. That was also the year that she began her two current positions as an ABC News Correspondent and Editor of National Affairs at VIBE magazine. During same period, Newsweek named her to ... about the black family) and a GLAAD Award (for a Spin magazine story on homophobia in hip-hop). Besides her two current postions, Chideya currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the American News Service and has her own web site called www.popandpolitics.com, which has both music reviews and political commentary. Word Count: 460
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