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- 3691: John Grisham
- ... Baptist Church, donating to good causes, and, of course, writing one novel each year (Ferranti 82). John Grisham was co-writing the screenplay for The Rainmaker with director Francis Ford Coppola, and sold the movie rights to The Runaway Jury for a record eight million (Ferranti 42). On February 4, 1998, Grisham's book The Street Lawyer was introduced to the public The latest of his nine novels has two and ...
- 3692: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... coming, telling him how unhappy France was under Louis the fifteenth’s brother. Napoleon was very curious about what happened at the Congress of Vienna, the conference at which the Allies were setting Europe to rights after all the disturbances over the past twenty-five years. Napoleon sailed back to France in a brig repainted like a British warship. An opportunity had come; the Allied officer that had been put on ...
- 3693: Wyatt Earp
- ... this point, due to depression from the death of his wife and child, that Wyatt ran afoul of the law in Fort Smith, Arkansas in or about May of 1871. During that time, a "true bill" was returned by the Grand Jury of the United States Court of the Western District of Arkansas on the charge of larceny. Wyatt was charged with horse thievery in the Indian Nations. See The Illustrated ...
- 3694: Julius Caesar
- ... Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey's veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar's fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown from the platform and his ...
- 3695: Gandhi and His Views
- ... way to resolve his hardships was through satyagraha. His main obstacle was freeing India from the destruction of British colonialism. Gandhi was outrage d with inferiority for the British. He wanted to fight for the rights of the Indians. With patience and a positive attitude, Gandhi used his mind and peacefulness rather than violence to achieve his goals. Satyragraha to many Indian nationalists was regarded as the weak weapon for the ...
- 3696: Stephen Vicent Benet: An American Poet
- ... the misery and corruption, and you’ll find them in his books” (76). But, you will also find Benét’s fascination to be a place where that reckless and distorted word “liberty” actually means individual rights (76). The strength of his poetry is in the warmth and vigor of human feeling. The romantic message in Benét’s poetry was highlighted when Henry Steele Commanger in the New York Herald Weekly, June ...
- 3697: "Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam"
- ... altered to give almost all of them Australia in the title, and nothing of a British or Commonwealth flavour. He campaigned for new Australian citizens not having to swear allegiance to the Queen, but this bill was not approved until 1983. But the change that most Australians will remember, was that of Australia's national anthem, from "God Save the Queen" to "Advance Australia Fair". Whitlam did not escape criticism for ...
- 3698: Biography of Julius Caesar
- ... Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey’s veterans was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar’s fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown from the platform and his ...
- 3699: Life of Julius Caesar
- ... military command. Pompey for his part soughtthe ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for hisdischarged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian bill authorizingthe purchase of land for Pompey’s veterans was passed in January of 59BC at a disorderly public assembly which Caesar’s fellow consulCalpurnius Bibulus, was thrown from the platform and his consularinsignia were broken ...
- 3700: Walt Disney
- ... His first animated character was Oswald the Bunny. He prided himself on this creation. But when he found out that the distruibtor for Walt Disney Productions wouldn’t distruibe the movies anymore without having some rights, he stoped his contract with them. But Walt didn’t know that the artist that created Oswald, signed a contract of their own with the distruibtor that said, they would go and create the caractor ...
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