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- 2681: 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 ...
- 2682: Biography Of Karl Marx
- ... country although is not a communist country in the way Marx would have envisaged it. China is still a communist country that is slowly coming out of its isolation, however it still continues it human rights abuses.
- 2683: 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 ...
- 2684: Betty Friedan
- ... truly equal partnership with men." NOW has gone on to obtain more than a dozen resolutions on many different issues affecting women. Some of these include women in poverty, the Equal Right Amendment, and lesbian rights. NOW was probably her biggest accomplishment. She served as president until 1970. Along with her amazing political career, she was a lecturer, she was active in the academic community, and an accomplished author. Betty's ...
- 2685: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... When King George III issued the Stamp Act in 1765 The crisis precipitated by the stamp Act, Pennsylvania becoming a royal colony was no longer important, but Benjamin Franklin stayed in England to defend the rights of the colonies. At first he thought the Colonists should just accept the Stamp Act, but when he heard how much the Colonists were against it, he argued their case to the British ambassadors. The ...
- 2686: Ben Franklin 2
- ... skills to print paper money, helping to establish the paper currency system in America." To this day the United States is reminded of Franklin's contributions because his face is on the one hundred-dollar bill. Ben Franklin also added in the field of music. He played several instruments, the violin, harp, guitar to name a few. He was very interested in music, which lead to him building his own glass ...
- 2687: Booker T. Washington
- ... Europe traveling through Paris, London, and then too England where they where quests of very high ranking individuals. I agree with the did go through allot of harsh times. They where deprived of all their rights as citizens. They could eat in the same place as a white person, I think this would be very hard. Also they could not sit in front of the bus, the first lady who tried ...
- 2688: Andrew Jackson 2
- ... a monopoly. He said its vast powers threatened democratic government because it meddled in politics. All the events that Jackson experienced along with his personal feelings helped him to make the decision to veto the bill that would charter the national bank for an additional term In the early 1820 s Jackson s military career had ended and there began talk of electing him as President. In 1824, the presidential election ...
- 2689: Alexander I
- ... the conflicting demands of his grandmother and loyalty to his father, and the confusion between his political ideals all contributed to his instability. Catherine had already written the manifesto that deprived her son of his rights and designated her grandson as the heir to the throne, when she died suddenly on Nov. 17, 1796. Alexander, who knew of it, did not dare to disclose the manifesto, and Paul, his father, became ...
- 2690: Al Capone
- ... boss when Torrio, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, surrendered control and retired to Brooklyn. Capone had built a fearsome reputation in the ruthless gang rivalries of the period, struggling to acquire and retain "racketeering rights" to several areas of Chicago. That reputation grew as rival gangs were eliminated or nullified, and the suburb of Cicero became, in effect, a fiefdom of the Capone mob. Perhaps the St. Valentine's Day ...
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