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- 2611: Bob Dylan
- ... the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wanted to make ...
- 2612: Billy The Kid
- ... Lincoln County, New Mexico were he began working for J.H. Tunstall. Tunstall was a rich farmland owner who had an ongoing feud with L.G. Murphy and J.J. Dolan over farmland and grazing rights. Billy the Kid looked at Tunstall as a father and would do anything for him. But on February 18, 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a group of deputies who were under the authority of ...
- 2613: Alexander Ghram Bell
- ... the sidelines as the Bell Telephone Company captured the spotlight. Feverishly working to develop their own telephone technology, Western Union employed two prominent inventors--Thomas A. Edison and Elisha Gray. Looking to protect its patent rights, the Bell Company sued Western Union and won. In the years that followed, the Bell Company (which would eventually become AT&T) would be forced to defend its patent in over 600 legal challenges. In ...
- 2614: Al Capone
- ... 100,000,000 a year. He even acquired a sizable interest in the largest cleaning and dyeing plant chain in Chicago. Although he had been doing business with Capone, the corrupt Chicago mayor William "Big Bill" Hale Thompson, Jr. decided that Capone was bad for his political image. Thompson hired a new police chief to run Capone out of Chicago. When Capone looked for a new place to live, he quickly ...
- 2615: Adolf Hitler
- ... British, which recognized Germany's right to rearm. In 1935, the conditions for the Jews got worse. At a speech in Nuremburg, Hitler announced the Nuremburg laws, which stripped Jews of their citizenship, and their rights to enjoy the benefits of the state. The Jewish people of Germany were also forced to wear a yellow star of David, identifying them to the Gestapo (Hitler's secret police). Those who broke the ...
- 2616: The Harmful Effects Of Discrimination And Segregation
- ... group then fears that they will loose power and it may result in violence as well. Anger is yet another result of discrimination and segregation. Anger is felt by both the blacks and the civil rights leaders who helped in the case. When one is treated unfairly it is only natural to be angry and defensive. When the black children who had been treated unequally grew up they found a better ...
- 2617: Joshua Larwence Chamberlin
- ... 1787 the country expanded its boundaries and accepted a new territory to the original 13 colonies. The new territory was called the Northwest Territory. The Northwest Territory was in equal basis to the laws and rights of the eastern states. The government formed states out of the territories west of the original 13. Ten new states formed between 1791 and 1820. Through the years the government also purchased many states form ...
- 2618: William Lyon Mackenzie
- William Lyon Mackenzie is remembered in history not only for the offices he held, but also for his belief in the natural rights of man as expressed in the 1837 Rebellion to reform the government of Upper Canada and dedication towards bringing responsible government. However, a closer look will reveal that Mackenzie's role was insignificant in the ...
- 2619: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
- ... it did. When the public and media first found out about Roentgen rays, or X-rays, they freaked. A London lingerie company started advertising X-ray proof underwear. In New Jersey, a politician proposed a bill to ban X-rays in opera glasses. The biggest fear was that X-rays might go through the walls of houses and that nobody would have privacy anymore. People started seeing the good in these ...
- 2620: Walt Whitman 3
- ... free society could individuals attain self-hood. His rise to civic virtue improved his true spiritual self to become a democrat. This idea of democracy was that all men were created equal and have equal rights as stated in the constitution of the Untied States, but this democracy was tainted with spiritual democracy that the human being had immerse possibilities and a measureless wealth for spiritual power. Mysticism is an experience ...
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