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- 2601: Harriet Tubman
- ... freedom which is their lives. They could been killed if they gave up and people would find out, they worked hard to make their dream come true. Harriet is a woman who fought for her rights, and won. Mark Twain thought that being a pilot was cool, because they got paid a good salary. Everyone in Mississippi thought it was a great position to be a pilot. He decided to become ...
- 2602: Hannibal
- ... war by Rome; which started the second Punic War and Hannibals promise to visit Roman injustice back on Rome a hundred fold. For Carthage to take the town of Sagunto was completely within the rights of the Carthage and the treaty but Rome at the time was getting too big and becoming very imperialistic. All Rome could see was that they had to have all of the Mediterranean and the ...
- 2603: George Brenard Shaw
- ... pamphlets for the society including The Fabian Election Manifesto in 1892, and Socialism For Millionaires in 190. He also took the position as a political activist during World War 1, writing pieces such as The Rights of Man, and Common Sense About the War. Shaw was also a great believer in Marxism and was able to visit Russia and meet Stalin in 1931. In 1938 Shaw received an Oscar for Film ...
- 2604: Gandhi
- ... so elect it must be by her own free will.... If, on the other hand, she elects for independence, in our view she has a right to do so.... We are very mindful of the rights of the minorities, and minorities should be able to live free from fear. On the other hand, we cannot allow a minority to place a veto in the advance of the majority."(Alexander 128) Yet ...
- 2605: Frank Sinatra
- ... followed by Duets II. He granted his likeliness to ties, credit cards, Lipton Iced Tea, and spaghetti sauce. His marketing antics caused a rift between his wife, Barbara, and his children over who owned the rights to what Sinatra songs. At this time, as his health was fading, a renewed interest be people (like myself) who werent even born when he "retired" in the 1970s, began to crave Sinatra ...
- 2606: Eliot Ness
- ... state trooper from Pennsylvania 6. Joe Leeson: arguably the greatest urban driver ever to live 7. Paul Robsky: telephone expert with extraordinary courage 8. Mike King: unobtrusive man with a talent for analyzing facts 9. Bill Gardner: an enormous former pro football star of Native American decent Even with his team of specialists Ness was not without human fears. It was well known that Al Capone was the greatest criminal ever ...
- 2607: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... to pursue his creative career largely uninhibited by official intrusion. He did, however, experience some difficulty over the work "Baby Yar" by the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, on which he based his 13th Symphony (1962), including rights and royalties. The work was withdrawn after its first performance. He tried again with his 14th Symphony (1969), presented as a cycle of 11 songs about death, which did not satisfy official circles. The composer ...
- 2608: Christopher Reeve
- ... down many big money roles to play in small films, which of course paid small or no paychecks. Over the years Reeves has been involved in many charities and causes involving the arts, kids, human rights organizations, and the environment. Amnesty international, Lindbergh Foundation, and people for Creative Coalition, just to name a few. In nineteen eighty-seven Reeve went to Chile to demonstrate in support of some artists with death ...
- 2609: Charles Shults
- ... him. Woodstock only talks a kind of birdspeak, and find an alphabet make up entirely of exclamation points. Quite adequate to express such emotions as distress, frustration and a real temper. His flocking friends are Bill, Harriet, Olivier, and Conrad. Now for my all time favorite, Snoopy, also known as: Joe Cool, World War I Flying Ace, Literary Ace, Flashbeagle, Vulture, Foreign Legionnaire, etc. Snoopy is the life of every adventure ...
- 2610: Catherine The Great
- ... the administration of the state. In 1785, she issued two charters--to the towns and to the nobility--to involve the educated classes in local administration in return for protection of their status and property rights. In a similar spirit, Catherine established (1765) the Free Economic Society to encourage the modernization of agriculture and industry. She promoted trade and the development of underpopulated regions by inviting foreign settlers such as the ...
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