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- 2671: Don Pepe Figueres
- ... During his interim term following the revolution and his subsequent terms as president, Figueres would institute a number of changes that would steamroll Costa Rican democracy. Don Pepe began by extending suffrage and full political rights to blacks and women, a certain democratic move. He then instituted a ten percent tax on the very wealthy, which had no considerable backlash politically in Costa Rica due to the surprisingly large middle class ...
- 2672: 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 ...
- 2673: Courageous John Quincy Adams
- ... that the Republican Party organized to protest the retaliation on the British, leaders of the federalists party said that no just honorable man should attend this meeting, but John Quinsy did. John Quincy supported the bill to not let any British vessels onto American waters and end trade with them. (embargo act). This angered the Federalists. The thought that one of their own was going against them. He was thought of ...
- 2674: Costly Mistake 2
- ... go to jail. The officer that had pulled me over placed me in his car. The officer finally got back into the car I had been placed in early. He started to read me my rights that's when it all hit me that it was over I was going to jail. I had been charged with a DUI. It seemed like hours past before my friends arrived and bailed me ...
- 2675: Costly Mistake
- ... go to jail. The officer that had pulled me over placed me in his car. The officer finally got back into the car I had been placed in early. He started to read me my rights that's when it all hit me that it was over I was going to jail. I had been charged with a DUI. It seemed like hours past before my friends arrived and bailed me ...
- 2676: Clinton Vs. Nixon
- ... history and her presidents I have found out that presidents are not just political figures but that they are also people. In my research I will compare and contrast two of the American presidents current Bill Clinton and ex-president Richard Nixon. President Clinton and President Nixon both associated themselves with criminal actions. Both the presidents misled the American public, causing personal as well as professional problems. For instance, President Clinton ...
- 2677: Christopher Marlowe
- ... often assisted Poley. Poley, Skeres and Frizer were all experienced con men and liars. Also present that day was Christopher Marlowe. Some believe that the cause of his murder was a dispute over a dinner bill. Others believed that Marlowe was murdered because the three men believed that he knew too much about the government. Although the facts surrounding his death are unknown, the end result was Marlowe s death by ...
- 2678: Chistopher Reeves
- ... 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 ...
- 2679: Charles Shultz
- ... 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 ...
- 2680: Stephen King
- ... short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication. On Mother's Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time. After having lived in and around Bangor since their marriage, the Kings moved their growing family ...
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