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- 591: Lester Pearson
- ... In 1952-1953 he was the president of the UN general assembly. In 1957 he won the Nobel Peace prize. It was mainly for creating the UN emergency force which helped settle the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. When the Conservative Party under John Diefenbaker defeated The Liberals in 1957 Pearson was out of public office for the first time in nearly 30 years. In 1958 Pearson replace St. Laurent as ...
- 592: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... South African government. In 1906 he gave aid against the Zulu revolt. Later in 1906, however, Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He was imprisoned twice. Yet in World War I he again organized an ambulance corps for the British before returning home to India in ...
- 593: George Bizek
- ... young death. Some say that the unenthusiastic reception of Carmen prompted his early death. The actual cause was throat angina which he had suffered since he was seventeen. These bouts were always followed by emotional crisis leaving Bizet in the state of nervous breakdown. Bizet described his illness in a letter to his friend as, colossal angina, imagine a double pedal from A flat to E flat going through your head ...
- 594: Winston Churchill
- ... occasional travel, a little painting, and the publication of his "History of the English Speaking People" (1956-58). This was the last of his many notable writings, which included "Lord Randolph Churchill" (1906), "The World Crisis" (1923-29), "My Early Life" (1930), "Marlborough" (1933-38), and "The Second World War" (1948-54), which was maybe his greatest work ever. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953. Churchill occupied ...
- 595: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... occasional travel, a little painting, and the publication of his "History of the English Speaking People" (1956-58). This was the last of his many notable writings, which included "Lord Randolph Churchill" (1906), "The World Crisis" (1923-29), "My Early Life" (1930), "Marlborough" (1933-38), and "The Second World War" (1948-54), which was maybe his greatest work ever. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953. Churchill retained ...
- 596: Nathan McCall
- ... convey his anger and his message: race itself does not make people violent. A columnist from The Washington Post, McCall told a sparse crowd in Colton Chapel last Thursday that America is experiencing a serious crisis in race relations. McCall has been on tour for two years promoting his book Makes Me Wanna Holler. He said he has been gauging the social pulse of the nation beyond what I read in ...
- 597: Important People in History
- ... showed that anthropology was gaining respect in American society. Erikson, Erik - Psychoanalyst (1902 - 1994) He was interested in human development. He believed that all individuals struggle to establish their identities. He invented the term, "identity crisis". This was to describe the conflict inside us as we struggle to achieve our unique identity. According to his theory, a normal life span is 8 stages from when you are young to when you ...
- 598: Thomas Jefferson
- ... a bill of attainder. Jefferson was present as a member of the convention, which met in the parish church at Richmond, in March, 1775, to consider the course that Virginia should take in the impending crisis. It was at that meeting that Patrick Henry electrified his hearers with the thrilling words: "Gentlemen may cry, 'Peace, peace!' but there is no peace! The war has actually begun! The next gale that sweeps ...
- 599: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... in November 1932 by seven million votes. The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal. . These measures revived confidence in the economy. Another flurry of New Deal legislation followed in 1935 including the establishment ...
- 600: Thomas Jefferson's Accomplishments
- ... States and France were still unfriendly, and France had the power to cut off American shipping at New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi. In 1802 the cession was confirmed. Jefferson called the resulting crisis "the most important the United States have ever met since independence." He sent James Monroe to help the American diplomatic representative to France negotiate the purchase of New Orleans. Congress appropriated $2 million for the ...
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