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- 1091: John Kennedy
- ... Kennedy called for a naval quarantine to halt the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba. When the discovery of the missiles took place by the U-2 spy planes pictures, it was called the Cuban Missile Crisis. These missiles were approximately ninety miles of the coast of Florida. They had the technology and the range capable of hitting the Unites States. Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian leader at the time, later retracts missiles ...
- 1092: John Dryden
- ... greatest plays and one of the masterpieces of the Restoration tragedy. Throughout his career he wrote several occasional poems, which celebrated particular events of a public character, a military victory, a death, or a political crisis. What made these poems he wrote special was the fact that they were written not for the self but for the nation. In 1670 he was appointed poet laureate and royal historiographer. In 1681 he ...
- 1093: J.p. Morgan
- ... including Carnegie and Rockefeller were stronger than the government and were not subject to ordinary laws. The validity of this statement can be only subjectively measured; however the power of Morgan was clear after the crisis in 1895. The national Treasury had been successively issuing bonds to maintain the depleting gold reserves. However, their actions were hurt by the ironic withdrawals of gold, by the Treasury itself, with which to make ...
- 1094: Influences Of Virginia Woolf
- ... her life. From the time Vanessa and Virginia were children, Vanessa acted as a safety net for Virginia. Virginia looked to her sister for comfort in a motherly role, and this continued with each new crisis. However, Vanessa failed to live up to the expectations Virginia had on her as a substitute mother. The first instance occurred with the death of their father, Leslie Stephen. Virginia "found herself emotionally drained and ...
- 1095: Herman Melville
- ... society. A teaching job in Pittsfield made him unhappy, however, and after three months he returned to Albany. Melville had already begun writing, but the remainder of his youth became a search for security. The crisis that started Herman on his wanderings came in 1837, when Gansevoort went bankrupt and the family moved to nearby Lansingburgh (later Troy). In what was to be a final attempt at established employment, Herman studied ...
- 1096: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... had visited ten years earlier following the death of his brother in California (Duchκne 36). In 1866 Schliemann took up residence in Paris and began to study archaeology at Sorbonne. He also took courses in Asian languages, Egyptology, and Sanskrit. In the beginning of 1868 he began attending the meetings of scientific societies, and in May took a pleasure trip to Italy in order to closely study the work of other ...
- 1097: G. Carter Bentley
- ... exist in a vacuum. They must constantly adjust to changing requirements of production and reproduction (Bentley 1987: 43) A breakdown in such regimes (as a result of leadership, for example), will necessarily lead to a crisis in ethnic identity. Symbolic domination, then, requires " sufficient integration of preconscious assumptions about the world to maintain a functional complementarity of perception and motivation among leaders and followers" (Bentley 1987: 44). If such functional complementarity ...
- 1098: Edgar Allan Poe 6
- ... he might have died from rabies (Shea). Edgar Allan Poe faced numerous obstacles during the course of his life. Although raised by a family with some wealth, Poe was always in a state of financial crisis. Among the relatives and friends of the Allan s, Poe was an outsider and maintained a low socio-economic status. In addition, his losses include almost all the people who ever demonstrated any kind of ...
- 1099: Ernesto Guevara De Serna
- ... kind of communist philosophy. He was moving away from Moscow, towards Mao, and beyond into what is essentially the old idealistic, Anarchism. His formal breach with Soviet Communists came when, addressing the Organization for Afro-Asian Solidarity at Algiers (February 1965) he charged the USSR with being a tacit accomplice of imperialism by not trading exclusively with the Communist bloc and by not giving underdeveloped socialist countries aid without any thought ...
- 1100: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... the White House where he served two terms. He served from 1953 to 1961. During his presidency, many things occurred during his two terms including a revolution in the space age and the Cuban missile crisis (149, Richardson). Eisenhower was also the first president whose term was limited by the Constitution. Eisenhower left office in January 1961. On March 28, 1969, after a series of heart attacks, Eisenhower died of heart ...
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