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- 2591: Joan Of Arc
- ... her to be a saint. Her feast day is celebrated the day of her death, May 30. Today many authors write about Joan of Arc. Patriots, people studying the super natural, supporters of women's rights, and many more admire her.
- 2592: Jimmy Carter
- ... t do anything about it. After Carter lost the 1980 presidential election to Reagan, he returned to Georgia, where in 1982 he founded the non-profit Carter Center in Atlanta to promote peace and human rights worldwide. The center has initiated projects in more than 65 countries to resolve conflicts, prevent human right abuses, build democracy, improve health, and revitalize urban areas. He, and his wife, Rosalynn, still live in Plains ...
- 2593: Jim Morrison
- ... saw his body. It took a full six days after Jim had died for the story to come out to the media (Hopkins 368). It was kept a secret so well that Jim’s manager, Bill Siddons, did not receive even a rumor about it until two days after the death actually took place (Rocco 144). These two conditions gave rise to the rumors that heart failure was not the actual ...
- 2594: JFK: Was His Assassination Inevitable?
- ... Two of the biggest were the big businessmen and the "rednecks". Both of these groups were intimidated by the Kennedy administration. Kennedy tried to find a middle road between black and white radicals. His human-rights activities earned him the hatred of all racists. And as for big business, he angered them by obliging steel manufacturers to reverse price increases, as well as introducing a tax-reform legislation that would end ...
- 2595: James Cameron
- ... and they suggested that he should direct the second alien movie himself. Cameron did it on one condition, namely that Gale Anne Hurd would be brought on board as a producer. Cameron got Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn to star in the movie. Aliens was a great movie, it has great effects, a well written script and fine acting because Sigourney Weaver got an Academy Award nomination for her ...
- 2596: Jacques Louis David
- ... on the development of French -- and indeed European -- painting, and his many pupils included Gérard, Gros, and Ingres. Jacques-Louis David: Stage Manager of the Revolution The savagery of the French Revolution, which declared the Rights of Man but turned to bloody-handed tyranny and repressive terrorism, has long puzzled historians. Among the list of causes, and one rarely remembered, Elizabeth Wilson writes, was the painter Jacques-Louis David. Today, he ...
- 2597: Jack Kevorkian
- ... by Death. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. Hendin, Herbert. Suicide in America. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995. Larson, Edward. A Different Death. Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1998. Uhlman, Michael. Last Rights. Washington D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1998. Wolfson, Adam. ³Killing of the Dying.² The Public Interest Spring 1998: 56.
- 2598: J.P. Morgan
- ... control. Various devices were used to ensure Morgan's continued control and that of his associates over the companies. One of these devices was his famous voting trust, by which shareholders voted to give their rights to Morgan's nominees on the board. Morgan's methods of railroad organization followed a standard pattern with small variations. He would first slash watered stocks, issued new bonds at a lower interest rate, assessed ...
- 2599: Howard Hughes
- ... stretching the imagination as this yarn has turned out to be. I don’t know what’s in the autobiography. I don’t know Clifford Irving." McGraw-Hill, Irving, and Life, which had bought serialization rights, were not fazed by the denials. For months the debate was front-page news, often eclipsing the Vietnam War. The manuscript was read by many reporters that had covered Hughes and came to the conclusion ...
- 2600: Hernan Cortes
- ... civil government of Mexico. He married the daughter of the count of Aguilar and in 1530 he returned to Spain. In Spain he was constantly checked on his activities, all his stuff was confiscated, his rights contested with, and his popularity decaying. In 1536 Cortes found the peninsula of Baja California. In 1539 Francisco would not let Cortes search the seven cities that were there. He went back to Spain to ...
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