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- 3911: Jon Philip Sousa
- ... The first Sousa Band Concert was preformed on September 26, 1892 at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1895 Sousa's first successful operetta, El Capitan debuts. In 1895 Sousa's first big tragedy hit. While on vacation with his wife in Europe, Sousa's promoter (David Blakely) died. This was hard for Sousa to face but it also inspired him to write the great Stars and Stripes ...
- 3912: John Locke
- ... is that of non destruction. God did not create anything for man to destroy. The amount produced by any man should be kept in check by his level of destruction. For example, there is a big difference between the cutting of one or a few trees and the harvesting of an entire forest. Yolton explicates this by stating that, ... specific rights comes in conjunction with this restriction. Since Nothing was made ...
- 3913: John Dalton 3
- ... the 1690 s. John was always a very smart and curious child. He was actually one of the smarter people in the village. He was a lucky child, who received schooling. This was a very big deal considering there were only 215 English men that could even read. He was always interested in mathematics and in science. When John reached the age of twelve he opened a school of his own ...
- 3914: Joan Of Arc 3
- ... voices, she set off to raise the siege of Orleans. Joan inspired the French. She brought on a new hope by encouraging them that God was with them. Joan spoke little and did not like big meetings and crowds, which she avoided as much as possible. Her soldiers admired her honesty and simplicity and she enjoyed speaking with them. Although she was not trained in warfare, she gave orders as calmly ...
- 3915: James Wilson
- ... will not create political difficulties for executives who are trying to build credibility for the agency. The manager's job is to make connections between the operators and the executives. They translate the executive's big picture into smaller pictures relevant to specific operators. They also try to inform executives of what is going on at the organization's edges, so that they have a more accurate understanding of what is ...
- 3916: Jackie Robinson 4
- ... people. He received letters threaten to kill him if he was to step on their hometown field with the other white players. A fellow baseball player from the opposing team slid into him putting a big gash in his knee that would take him out of the game. He was not the first black player in the major league baseball; neither was he the first black star athlete. Words cannot describe ...
- 3917: Jackie Robinson
- ... that you have arrived. Had good idea that you had the stuff and would make the grade. You are a credit to your race-the human race, son. Very glad to see you in the big leagues. Good luck. Sincerely: WHITE BOY (Rampersad 171). Obviously, people came to see him because he was black and was playing a formerly all-white league but many also came to see him because he ...
- 3918: Jack Robinson
- ... a fair student and had to work several part time jobs. For a while he was involved in several crimes and robberies with the pepper street gang. This didn t last long because he received "big brotherly" care from Carl Anderson, a local mechanic and Reverend Karl Downs. Both men were able to point him in a more positive direction. They had him focus more on athletics. After Pasadena Junior College ...
- 3919: Jack London 2
- ... scientific agriculture - as one of the few justifiable, basic, and idealistic ways of making a living. A significant portion of his later writing; Burning Daylight (1910), Valley of the Moon (1913), Little Lady of the Big House (1916), had to do with the simple pleasures of country life, the satisfaction of making a living directly and honestly from the land and thereby remaining close to the realities of the natural world ...
- 3920: J.p. Morgan
- ... been trying to establish that a "money trust" ruled over America's major corporations, railroads, insurance companies, securities markets, and banks. The investigation served as the climax to many years of popular antagonism to the "big money" men and corporations. The attorneys prosecuting Morgan made the pivotal point that eighteen financial institutions effectively controlled a two-thirds majority of the 1912 capital resources, over twenty five billion dollars. The lead attorney ...
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