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- 2141: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... Life of Anne Frank On the Deportations "Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treatiang them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them ...
- 2142: Marie Antoinette
- ... was a great target for hatred which fanned the fire of revolution. Even if she wasn't such an insensitive person, she probably would have been killed anyway, since she represented the authority. Marie's big mistake was that while she was prisoner, she might havee rallied the people to a new constitutional monarchy similar to England's. Instead Marie convinced her weak-willed husband to refuse tributes to the people ...
- 2143: Dr Jack Kevorkian: Disrupting the Universe
- ... someone would do such a thing. He really did disrupt the universe by taking the whole world by surprise. Jack Kevorkian was the first person in the United States to assist in suicides in a big way. He started in 1990 by placing a newspaper add for assisted suicide. He then developed a device he called the Suicide Machine, which injected deadly drugs into the bloodstream. Once the shock passed over ...
- 2144: Alexander the Great
- ... the main Persian army, commanded by King Darius III, at Issus. The size of Darius's army was unknown; but ancient tradition said it contained about 500,000 men but now is considered a very big exag¬ geration. The Battle of Issus, in 333 BC, ended in a great victory for Alexander, who treated them with the respect due to royalty. Tyre, a strongly guarded seaport, offered obstinate resistance, but Alexander ...
- 2145: Women Who Changed the World: Rosa Parks
- ... as well as an honorary degree from Shaw College. I think that without Rosa Parks or any other men or women who tried to stop the racism against blacks has helped our nation in a big way. Without these people our world would be prejudice and racist.
- 2146: Pompey The Great
- ... when appointed in Lucullus's place as commander against Mithridates the Great. With little difficulty, the new Roman commander forced the Mithridates from Asia Minor and then spent some years overrunning the North East. The big range of Pompey's Journeys and his hatred towards the natives started future trouble with Parthia. Pompey did, however, increase Rome's dominions, and he also laid a firm foundation for Roman administration in the ...
- 2147: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... man little known outside his own state. The choice was a surprise to political forecasters and a disappointment to some Republicans. Nixon realized, however, that a conservative Southern candidate would have lost him badly needed big-city and liberal votes in the North and that a liberal Northern Republican would have alienated the South, which backed him solidly at the convention. Agnew was a compromise choice acceptable to both the North ...
- 2148: James Buchanan
- ... president. On March 4, 1857 James was elected president. Two days after Jame's inauguration the Supreme Court declared the Dred Scott case that Congress did not have any power over slavery. James played a big role in slavery. After James retired from politics he went back to Lancaster were he would die seven years later.
- 2149: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... about dark castles and castle-ruins which often have secrets buried deep down in the walls where they have been for centuries. Most likely in a moonlit desert landscape. Magical experiments and hypnosis play a big part in Poe's works. Many people thinks that Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first detective story writer with the short story "The murders in the Rue morgue", where the detective Monsieur Dupin ...
- 2150: Jonathan Larson
- ... stated that it could have been treated with` a surgery which had a survival rate of 80%. Ironies like these plagued and enchanted Larson's life, almost as if they were part of a great big story the outcome of which, if one could have only read it, could have been easily guessed.
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