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- 1921: Famous African Americans
- ... U.S. President John F. Kennedy awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights, born into slavery in Hurley, Ulster County, New York, and originally named Isabella. (She was freed when New York State emancipated slaves in 1828.) A mystic who heard voices she believed to be God's, she arrived in New York City in 1829, where she preached in the streets. In 1843, obeying her voices, she took the name Sojourner Truth and went preaching along the eastern seaboard. That same year she came into ...
- 1922: Vietnam War
- ... own programs, and the scattered teach-ins had become more of a problem for President Johnson when their organizers joined in an unofficial group, the Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing on Vietnam. This new committee began planning a nationwide teach-in to be conducted on television and radio, of which would be a debate between protesters and administrators of the government. The antiwar movement, through the national teach-in ... many of the participants tried to march the various government grounds, most importantly taking place at the Lincoln Memorial. For most Americans, the events were symbolized by television images of dirty-mouthed hippies taunting the brave, clean-cut American soldiers who confronted the unruly demonstrators (VN H. and P.). Americans were soon shocked to learn about the communists' massive Tet Offensive on January 31, 1968. The offensive demonstrated that Johnson had ... reelection in March of 1968, and he was offering the communists generous terms to open peace talks. In the meantime, as the war continued to take its bloody toll, the nation prepared to elect a new president. The antiwar movement had inadvertently helped Richard Nixon win the election. As Johnson's unhappy term of office came to an end, antiwar critics and the Vietnamese people prepared to do battle with ...
- 1923: The Emotional Creativity Of Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Ludwig van Beethoven has been called one of the greatest composers to ever live. His emotionally charged creations of poetry in music are world renown for their ability to spark feeling into the hearts of those listening. It is often wondered what emotional tragedy in Beethovens life provoked him to write such awe-inspiring music. Beethoven had many ... violin(Solomon 16). Beethoven had few friends and spent little time playing with other children, although he did play with his brothers from time to time(Burke 33). Young Beethoven was extremely withdrawn from the world around him. Outside of music he understood nothing of a social life.(Solomon 20). Besides being uninterested in friends, young Ludwig was a poor student. His grasp of spelling and arithmetic was insubstantial, but he ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. When he played for Mozart the great master ran into an adjoining room and said to his friends Pay attention to him-he will make a name for himself one day.(The World of Music 124) During his stay in Vienna Beethoven found out that his mother was dying and rushed home. When he got there he found that his father had become a hopeless alcoholic. His ...
- 1924: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- ... that night and held him close, and related the things that I, too, wanted to believe. I reminded him it was just a movie. I told him this movie was made and seen throughout the world by satellite, and that persons of all nationalities and in many countries had seen it too. I reminded him of the reason the movie was made. The purpose was to warn us and remind us ... seemed to accept these explanations, and felt reassured by them. I was pleased these explanations eased his mind that night, but will they work tomorrow? Will they be sufficient for my grandchildren? Most of the world breathed a huge sigh of relief when the Berlin wall came down and with it the symbolic end to the Cold War. Soon after, the worlds superpowers agreed to stop aiming their missiles at each other, and decrease their arsenals of nuclear weapons. No longer were two superpowers locked in a stare-down. That sigh was premature. The threat ...
- 1925: The Color Purple: Real Outcome of Economic Achievement and Alternative Economic View
- ... generally work to maintain order, decorum, and stability. Within the novel the reality was that blacks had to work for whites on whatever terms were available. When using manners and customs to depict the real world of the novel, it is evident we are examining an external world based in a society where the white oppressor governs the oppressed black populace. The economic realities of white land ownership, near-monopoly of technical and business skills and control of financial institutions was in fact the accepted norm (Sowell 48). When presenting the term fact - we must account for the introduction of a second model, "historical and empirical data" in representing the real world of The Color Purple. As illustrated in the pages of American history books, it is evident that American Negro slavery had a peculiar combination of features. The key features of American slavery were that ...
- 1926: Albert Einstein
- ... in Munich, where his family owned a small electrical equipment plant. He did not talk until the age of three and by the age of nine, was still not fluent in his native language. (Discovering World History) His parents were actually concerned the he might be somewhat mentally retarded. His parent's concerns aside, even as a youth Einstein showed a brilliant curiosity about nature and an ability to understand difficult ... prepared to begin his college studies without a high school diploma. Other biographies, however, state that Einstein was expelled from the gymnasium on the grounds that he was a disruptive influence at the school. (Discovering World History) In 1895, Einstein thought himself ready to take the entrance examination for the Eldgenossiche Technische Hochschule (ETH: Swiss Federal Polytechnic School, or Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), where he planned to major in electrical ... wife Mileva Marie and had two sons and a daughter. There are no records of his daughter due to the fact that she was given up for adoption, they simply did not want her. (Discovering World History) In 1905, during a single year, Einstein produced a series of three consecutive papers. These are among the most important in twentieth-century physics, and perhaps in all of the recorded history of ...
- 1927: Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S.
- ... own programs, and the scattered teach-ins had become more of a problem for President Johnson when their organizers joined in an unofficial group, the Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing on Vietnam. This new committee began planning a nationwide teach-in to be conducted on television and radio, of which would be a debate between protesters and administrators of the government. The antiwar movement, through the national teach-in ... many of the participants tried to march the various government grounds, most importantly taking place at the Lincoln Memorial. For most Americans, the events were symbolized by television images of dirty-mouthed hippies taunting the brave, clean-cut American soldiers who confronted the unruly demonstrators (VN H. and P.). Americans were soon shocked to learn about the communists' massive Tet Offensive on January 31, 1968. The offensive demonstrated that Johnson had ... reelection in March of 1968, and he was offering the communists generous terms to open peace talks. In the meantime, as the war continued to take its bloody toll, the nation prepared to elect a new president. The antiwar movement had inadvertently helped Richard Nixon win the election. As Johnson's unhappy term of office came to an end, antiwar critics and the Vietnamese people prepared to do battle with ...
- 1928: The World Of Auto Racing
- Delaware and IT'S Speedway Auto racing has been around for many years. From dirt track to asphalt, oval to road course, from sprint cars to stockcars. As you can see the world is full of all kinds of racing. Racing has been around for an extremely long time. The Romans had chariot races to entertain Caesar and his people. Over the years racing has evolved from chariots ... across North America. Set in the small village of Delaware Ontario is Delaware Speedway an 5/8 of a mile oval asphalt track. Delaware Speedway is making money and moving forward into the future with new technologies to ensure their future in racing. These technologies help Delaware Speedway and also have a positive effect on the small town of Delaware. It helps gas stations, restaurants, and other small businesses that racing ... sponsor of the night. This sponsor is promoted throughout the entire night and sometimes gives out souvenirs to the fans. The Speedway also allows the sponsor to bring in fans with them so this introduces new people to the world of auto racing. Small business names are also featured on the many racecars that run on the track. Recently Cascar signed a multi million-dollar agreement with Speed Vision for ...
- 1929: Aids
- ... infection. Within the year, similar cases were reported from all over the country: apparently healthy adults who were suddenly getting sick with rare infections and malignancies that healthy people should not get. Most were from New York City, California, Florida and Texas, and not all were homosexual men. Men and women who used intravenous drugs were also getting sick, as were men with hemophilia, the male and female sexual partners of ... be tested to see if they were at risk for developing AIDS, and scientists could get some idea of the form the epidemic, if unchecked, might grow to take in the USA and around the world. The news was not good. The epidemic was shaped like an iceberg, with a small visible tip and a huge invisible base. For every person who was sick with AIDS, thousands of others were infected ... in the United States began to change dramatically. In 1996 the death rate from AIDS in the US was 23% less than in 1995, and in 1997 it fell again by more than 40%. The new drug combinations could also stop healthy people who were H.I.V. infected from getting sick with AIDS, and rates of new AIDS cases began to fall--by 6% in 1996, 15% in 1997, ...
- 1930: Progression of Music From the 1940's To the Present
- ... and a singer or two. This was the time period when music started to be broadcasted live over television and record albums were entering the home. (Hays) The 50's marked a beginning for a new era of music to be known as Rock & Roll. Many of the artists took advantage of the Electric guitar, developed for popular music in the 1930's but never really became popular until the 50 ... Nash, The Band, and Creedence Clearwater Revival suggested a return to country roots, a search for a simpler time." (25 years,p60) Disco returned in 1974. Everything went wild when " Saturday night Fever" introduced a new type of dancing and music. The new form of disco hit the floors with "The Bee Gees" They kept the anger of original Rytheme and Blues and created very upbeat material. Very popular among disco was Gloria Gaynor. She sang the ...
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