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- 4691: Maurice Sendak
- ... and it is still hot). Sendak based the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are on his Jewish relatives, who would come to their house when he was growing up, with their foul breath and big, yellow teeth. He has also said that the title of the book was supposed to be Where the Wild Horses are, but he was not successful at drawing horses, so his editor changed the title ...
- 4692: Roswell Speech
- ... McBoyle, a local reporter, called Lydia Sleepy at KOAT radio station in Albuquerque. He told her that a flying saucer had crashed near Roswell. He claimed to have been there and described it as a big crumpled dishpan. He also mentioned something about little men being on board. As Lydia was using the teletype to relay the information, it suddenly stopped. When she got back on the phone with McBoyle he ...
- 4693: Roman Law
- ... upper courts and lower courts and the right to an appeal was very well granted but only with good reasoning. The only thing about their court system that we did not take on in a big way is capital punishment. I say this because the Romans loved to kill any one who broke any of their laws but we do not kill unless you have killed first. Another aspect of Roman ...
- 4694: Is Korean Unification Possable
- ... was almost totally destroyed. South Korea with the help of the United States rebuilt their capital city, Seoul which now has modern skyscrapers, fancy stores and not to mention high tech factories. This is a big change from the one ruined city where barley a building was left standing tall. South Korea has become a proud county and is considered a global economic power. The success of a county that was ...
- 4695: Elvis Presley
- ... 1954. In late 1955 his recording contract was sold to RCA Records. The songs that he recorded was " My Happiness and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". Sam Phillips, finally calls him in to record "Big Boy" Crudup's " That's All Right" and song was backed by "Blue Moon of Kentucky". By 1956, he was an international sensation. With a sound and style that uniquely combined his diverse musical influences ...
- 4696: The Invasion Of Poland 1939
- ... year 1919 there were 2 million Jews living in Poland. By the year 1939 there were at least 3 million Jews in Poland. The Jews made up one third of the people in Poland's big cities. The Jews worked as shop owners and merchants. They competed with peasants in their lines of work. Economically the peasants ussally came out on top in the competition over the Jews. All the competition ...
- 4697: Lincoln And His Generals
- ... upon the role of Lincoln as a placicator, its with the emergence of Grant, that some of the other Generals start feeling unattended to (336). Lincoln becomes understanding and does his job of keeping the big picture of the war in mind by soothing the bruised egos. Williams has done wonders showing Lincoln as one devoid of any ego. This is one of the subtle tones of the passages, but yet ...
- 4698: Life In Rome
- Life in Rome "Was Rome a pleasant city to live in?" Well, writers who wrote about it say that they didn't think so. This is based on survived writings. One big reason why life was not that good was the plan of the city. To many buildings were being built. Emperors were building too many impressive, marble temples. Then in the residential areas were the insulae ...
- 4699: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... was always busy in making plan sketching for military inventions, such as; missiles, bombs, tanks and fortresses. He didn't had any opportunity to finish the mayor parts of his ideas, but he was a big precursor in his time period. The tank, for example wasn't use until the First World War, almost 450 years after Leonardo had designed his armored vehicle. When Leonardo died, he left more than 5000 ...
- 4700: Leadership In Ancient Civiliza
- ... he impeached another tribune, Octavius, the major opponent of Tiberius bill. Thus Tiberius willingly destroyed the long-held and quite favored notion of an immune tribune. However, this is what the common people wanted. Tiberius big mistake was blatantly opposing, thus disrespecting the Roman senate. As a result, the senate assassinated Tiberius. The lesson to be learned here is not that Tiberius agenda was constructed out of self-interest or greed ...
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