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- 2651: Jackson, Andrew
- ... the national road. He believed that it was unfair to build a national road in a state. Jackson vetoed more bills than all his predecessors combined, which congress soon became aware of when making a bill. They were careful to include his views in it or he would veto it. He believed that though all branches of the government were equal, the president came first before anyone else. He also didn ...
- 2652: Jackie Robinson 2
- ... Hall of Fame, the first black player so honored. After leaving baseball, Robinson was vice president of a restaurant chain in New York City. From 1964 to 1968 he served as special assistant for civil rights to Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Robinson starred in the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and was the author, with Alfred Duckett, of I Never Had It Made (1972) ROBINSON, Jackie (1919 ...
- 2653: Jackie Robinson
- ... York as Robinson says, Cooperstown, New York, and Birmingham, Alabama, are both in the Unites States. In Cooperstown I had been the guest of honor in the company of three other new Hall of Famers: Bill McKechnie, Edd Roush and Bob Feller. In Birmingham I was that negrah who pokes his nose into other peoples puddin (14). Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 and was raised ...
- 2654: Jack London 2
- ... called the Snark, and sailed around the world. The great voyage was to last seven years and take Jack and Charmian around the world. The "Snark" was to cost an amount of $7000. The final bill came in at about $30.000 (For comparison: a first class ticket on the "Titanic" was about $1.800, a steerage ticket about 100$). The journey in fact lasted 27 months and took them "only ...
- 2655: 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.
- 2656: 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 ...
- 2657: Is The History Nonsense?
- In responding to the President Bill Clinton's call for a national dialogue on race, Luis J. Rodriguez, the author of an article "Stop the Lies", suggests that we need to give the people in different colors a proper recognition in ...
- 2658: Influences Of Virginia Woolf
- ... men and women hold equal positions their treatment is far from equal. Woolf felt this comparison represented the everyday treatment of women. Virginia Woolf used her leadership and literary talent to fight for women's rights, and to bring justice to the unfair obstacles women were challenged with. "Only writing," Virginia Woolf said, "could compose 'the synthesis of my being" (Gordon 7). Virginia Woolf greatly affected the feminist movement with her ...
- 2659: Hofstadter
- ... democracy. In their minds liberty was linked not to democracy but to property. If this view of the Founders strips away some of their sheen, so be it; Hofstadter scorned their "rigid adherence to property rights." Yet he also credited them with an admirable realism: "The result was that while they thought self-interest the most dangerous and unbrookable quality of man, they necessarily underwrote it in trying to control it ...
- 2660: History Of Ozzy
- ... went through numerous bands until finally he put an ad in a paper and lone behold, Tony stumbled across this and tried out(GString). Black Sabbath consisted of 4 members, Ozzy, Tony, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward( Ozzy ). What started out as a soft blues band turned in a more heavier, metal sound known as, heavy metal( Ozzy ). Black Sabbath took the world by storm, making a record in one week ...
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