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- 4461: Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell is a name of great significance in American history today. A skillful inventor and generous philanthropist, he astounded the world with his intuitive ideas that proved to be both innovative and extremely practical in the latter half of the 19th century. Most notable ... a method of locating icebergs by detecting echoes from them. With his many inventions (especially the insanely popular and universally applied telephone), his efforts to educate the deaf, and the founding and financing of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (now called the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf), Alexander Graham Bell has become a very important historical figure indeed (Berstein 9). Perhaps a ...
- 4462: Edward James Hughes
- ... 9).This might be an argument in favour of those, who see some fascist tendencies in Hughes's verse (4:63, 5:62). G. Bauzyte observes that in his negativism, Hughes is close to the American poet Emily Dickinson. In his Manichaean vision of the world darkness often prevails over light, cold over warmth, hatred over love (4:163). Speaking of predecessors, Hughes is said to be kindred to Dylan Thomas ... resist the universal chaos. In the opinion of A. Skorodenko, Hughes's concept of the world fully unfolds in his books published in the seventies Crow, Cave Birds and Gaudete!, where he collaborated with the American sculptor Leonard Baskin, who drew the pictures, which inspired the poems. Hughes' vision of the world in those cycles approach the quality of a myth. Blood there figures as the ultimate metaphor and goes through ...
- 4463: Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee Introduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life ... college back on its feet and the problems of reconstruction took its toll, and Lee's health began to fail. He died on October 12, 1870, and was buried beneath the college chapel. Analysis Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, is an in-depth recounting of the life and death of Robert E. Lee, one of America's great heroes. It begins with an account of Lee's ...
- 4464: Napoleon I
- ... without permission. During one of these visits, Napoleon had trouble with a Corsican nationalist, named Pasquale Paoli, and Napoleon and his family fled to Marseille in 1793. Later in 1793, the beginning of the French revolution, Napoleon led an artillery brigade to push out a British fleet that the Royalists had allowed in. Napoleon's mission was a success, and he was promoted to general, and was assigned to the army in Northern Italy. During the early part of the revolution, Napoleon had supported Maximilien Robespierre's revolutionary group, and when Robespiere was overthrown in 1794, Napoleon spent two months in jail for being associated with him. When he was released from jail, Napoleon refused to ...
- 4465: Mohandas Gandhi
- Mohandas Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as mahatma Gandhi, was a Indian nationalist leader, who established his country's freedom through a nonviolent revolution. Gandhi became a leader in a difficult struggle, the Indian campaign for home rule. He believed and dedicated his life to demonstrating that both individuals and nations owe it to themselves to stay free, and ... Indian National Congress at a conference in London. In 1932, Gandhi began new civil-disobedience campaigns against the British. Gandhi fasted for long periods several times; these fasts were effective measures against the British, because revolution might well have broken out in India if he had died. In September 1932, while in jail, Gandhi undertook a fast unto death to improve the status of the Hindu Untouchables. The British, by permitting ...
- 4466: Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee Introduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life ... college back on its feet and the problems of reconstruction took its toll, and Lee's health began to fail. He died on October 12, 1870, and was buried beneath the college chapel. Analysis Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, is an in-depth recounting of the life and death of Robert E. Lee, one of America's great heroes. It begins with an account of Lee's ...
- 4467: Karl Marx
- ... change their ways. In other words, peaceful progess toward equality and social justice was impossible. The only way to establish justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the world unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the ... neglecting the count badly. Making conditions even more miserable for the people were the hardships the First World War and a particularly cold winter. By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution. fact, they got two for the price of one, the first in March when the Tsar was deposed and a provisional government was set up. Then in November a political called the Bolsheviks led a ...
- 4468: Jim Bridger
- ... In 1843 when fur sales declined he set up a fort in southwest Wyoming as a way station to supply immigrants on the Oregon trail. In the next 40 years he married 3 times to American Indian women, none of whom survived with him. Bridger's vast knowledge of many trails gave him a job as a scout and he helped the army when fighting the Indians. Bridger strongly opposed the ... powder river expedition. And also became the first person to measure the bozeman trail (600 miles) from fort laramie, Wyoming to Virginia City, Montana. James Bridger was just about the most famous explorer of the American West. In honor of his travels, The Bridger Mountains, Bridger pass and Bridger National Forest are among the places named for him. And on July 17, 1881 James Bridgers life came to an end, just ...
- 4469: Jesse Jackson: a Brief Biography
- ... scandal came along when he led over five hundered Stanford University students singing, "Hey hey, ho ho. Western civ has got to go!" Jesse Jackson boycotted the Academy Awards last year, because only on African-American was nominated. However no less of an authority than Denzel Washington, says that Jesse Jackson overreacted. "I didn't really think that there were any Oscar worthy African-American performances," said the actor in a recent interview. Jesse Jackson was standing next to Martin Luther King, when he was assassinated. Let's just hope that Jesse Jackson doesn't meet the same fate.
- 4470: James Earl Jones: A Voice in the Crowd
- ... York, Robert Earl let his son move in and they pursued separate careers. Recalling a childhood nickname, Jones assumed the stage name of Todd Jones and, at the age of 24, was accepted by the American Theatre Wing. One year later, after an argument with his father, James Earl Jones rented his own Acold-water-flat@ and went back to his full name. After receiving his diploma at the Theatre Wing ... line AMrs. Roosevelt, supper is served@(105). AMary Fickett, the actress playing Mrs. Roosevelt, just stood there and (Jones) got through it...(he) recovered..and miraculously it never happened again@(106.) Two teachers at the American Theatre Wing noticed Jones while he was a student: director Joseph Papp and acting teacher Lee Strasberg of the Actors Studio in New York. Jones auditioned seven years in a row and was never invited ...
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