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- 3871: Cassius Clay - Muhammad Ali
- ... around with signs that read "We all love Cassius Clay", "Without Cassius the game is dead! "March on Liston’s camp." "BEAR HUNTIN’." Cassius first heavy weight title shot was against Sonny Liston a very big man who would give Mike Tyson a good run for his money. There was a lot of hype surrounding their first fight. Cassius ran his mouth so much that everyone thought that Liston was going ...
- 3872: Booker T. Washington
- ... rest of his life. "The lessons I learned in the home of Mrs. Ruffner were as valuable to me as any education I have ever gotten anywhere since," he later commented. Booker heard of a big school for Negro's in Hampton, Virginia, and he decided to go there. In 1872, at the age of sixteen, he set out on the 400 mile journey to Hampton, traveling most of the way ...
- 3873: Billy Sunday
- ... Iowa, and he had never seen a city larger than Des Moines (Dorsett 18). Within an hour of arrival the small-town Iowan felt the anxiety and self-consciousness of a county bumpkin in the big city. He arrived at Spalding’s Sporting Goods Store, Spalding was owner of the team, just as the telegram directed. After waiting a couple of hours team members began to arrive. After a while Cap ...
- 3874: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... in The Strand magazine in 1901. Conan Doyle wrote a true autobiography, Memories and Adventures in 1924. Arthur's last published book; Edge of the Unknown, was published in 1930.22 World travel played a big role in the backgrounds for Doyle's stories and novels. The Doyle family visited Berlin, Germany in 1890 to investigate bacteriologist Robert Koch's claim to have possibly have found the cure for tuberculosis. In ...
- 3875: Ansel Adams
- ... sharp details in his pictures that focused through the smallest aperture in the camera lens, which was f/64. Group f/64 was an informal group that lasted for two years. This group made a big difference for the direction of American photography. In 1928 Ansel was an official photographer for the Sierra Club at the Jasper National Park in Canada. In 1932, Ansel opened the short-lived Ansel Adams Gallery ...
- 3876: Alfred Hitchcock
- ... early works of Hitchcock, and it was from this movie that Hitchcock became "Hitchcock", not just a director but a name. It emanated his distinct and unique style of directing and gave him a very big name in the industry and the audience. This film also displayed his talent in being able to make a novel's story line work in a movie with just a few adjustments. He was able ...
- 3877: Alexander The Great
- ... daughter, and Olympia’s is said to have had the child killed in front of the mother. Alexander became king when he was twenty years old. He was very good looking but he was a big drinker. He had good health and was very athletic. He enjoyed reading, music, and the theater. He was very kind to his friends and all his men. And he was, of course, a very good ...
- 3878: Margaret Laurence
- ... was throughout the years one of Margaret’s "greatest encouragers." After her father’s death, when she was nine and her brother still a baby, the family went to live with Grandfather Simpson in his big brick house on first avenue. After graduating from high school in 1944, Margaret attended United College (now the University of Winnipeg), and was an assistant editor of the college paper, Vox. She graduated from United ...
- 3879: Malcolm X
- The year was 1925, and someone special was born. His birth name was Malcolm Little, however there were big things in store for this child. Born in Omaha, Nebraska. The seventh of eleven children born to Earl Little, an organizer for Marcus Garvey’s "back-to-Africa" movement (Compton’s encyclopedia online). At age ...
- 3880: William Shakespeare 2
- ... statue is located in the Poet s Corner of Westminster Abby. (Wright 8) Shakespeare may not have felt a calling to write when he left Stratford, but he had a lot to learn in the big city of London. After Shakespeare went to London, he joined an acting group. He had no experience. He was merely a performer. William Shakespeare was an important part of a troupe called the Lord Chamberlains ...
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