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- 8311: Lizzie Borden
- ... statuses. She also had a habit of stealing from the local merchants. The Borden family of Fall River, Massachusetts, was well known-not only because of Andrew Borden's wealth, but also because of the New England name. Lizzie was the ninth-generation on her father's side to live in Fall River. Andrew held many positions throughout his life, which included president of Union Savings Bank, director of First National ... a "heavy, sharp-edged candlestick," yet no axe, hatchet, or even candlestick could be found to uphold these theories in court. The contrarieties of the case caused more than 1,900 divorces (according to a New York Times poll at the time) in which husbands and wives, argued over the innocence or guilt, decided that they were mutually incompatible. By nine thirty August 4, 1892, Abby Borden's head was nearly ... by the name of Nance O'Neil. It was a party thrown for Nance and her acting members that caused Emma to move from Maplecroft in 1905, she simply could not abide by Lizzie's new rowdy friends. After Emma moved to Newmarket in New Hampshire, Lizzie and her had little or no communication and the two sisters never saw each other again. Lizzie died on June 1, 1927, at ...
- 8312: Biography of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... later. His plant had been burned to the ground. In August of 1832, Elizabeth and her family set sail for America. When Elizabeth was eleven her family settled in Manhattan, which is known today as New York City. Then her father raised enough money and they bought a house in New Jersey. Uncle Charles came to America and married Miss Major. In 1837 hard times came to America. In 1838, Elizabeth's father went to see the Ohio River Valley, and when he came back he ... to do with her life. One day, she was visiting her mother's sick friend when the lady said that she could be the first woman doctor. Elizabeth agreed. Everyone was shocked to hear her new goal. "Impossible—a woman doctor—never!" was everybody's reaction. Elizabeth went to a medical library to start her studies. She worked long hours and memorized over two hundred bones and four hundred muscles. ...
- 8313: Dredd Scott Decision
- ... unfalteringly sided with the Scott's and ordered them freed, citing that once he had been in free territory, he was indirectly freed and remained freed. By this time Mrs. Emerson had married, moved to New England with her new husband, and left these affairs and ownership of the Scotts to her brother, John F. A. Sanford. After Scott was declared free by the courts, Sanford sought an appeal from the Missouri Supreme Court. In ... not as the freeing of one slave but as a threat towards the institution of slavery. Basically, the court replaced the notion of "once free, always free" with an opposite, pro-slavery rhetoric as the new "law" of Missouri. Scott's lawyers then decided to appeal this case to the U.S. Supreme Court as Scott v. Sandford (there was a clerical error in which Sanford's name was misspelled ...
- 8314: An Exemplum
- ... dealership. The owner of this dealership was aware that Petros was a rich man and knew about his successful business. He asked Petros what he wanted to buy, and Petros left the dealership with a new Cadillac. Over the years, Petros came to buy many different cars from the dealership. Many years later, when Petros was an old man, and his daughter had taken over the produce store, he put on his old hat and decided to go back to the Cadillac dealership. When he arrived at the dealership, a new salesman came out to help him. Petros asked him the price of one of the new models in the showroom. The salesman looked at the old man, with his foreign accent, and wearing his old, beat-up hat, and told him that it was very expensive and that he would ...
- 8315: Charles Goodyear
- Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 29, 1800 to Amasa and Cynthia Goodyear. Charles’s father was a hardware manufacture and a merchant. Amasa Goodyear built mainly farming tools like hayforks and scythes, which he invented. When ... man and placed him in the hardware store of the Rogers brothers in Philadelphia at the age of seventeen. He worked there until he was twenty-one years old. At that time he returned to New Haven to join his father’s business, making farm tools. For five years he worked for his father, building up the family business. On August 24, 1824, while he was still working for his father he married Clarissa Beecher who also lived in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1826 Charles Goodyear decided to move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he opened a hardware store where he sold the products that his father made. Four years after opening this store both ...
- 8316: Jamestown
- ... on the Chesapeake Bay as the arrangements stated. This distraction was only a minor disaster compared to the ones to come. Summer was ending and it was getting late in the year to establish a new settlement. They would have to make the supplies they had last all winter up to the following summer, which meant they would have to depend on the Indians for more surpluses. On top of all that, the Indians had become hostile to the last English settlers that tried to set up a new settlement. Manteo and Towaya were two Indians that accompanied the settlers and gave them advice. Manteo was the colony's most important advisor to the new land. His community was located on the Croatoan Island. It did not take long for the colonist to realize that they needed supplies as soon as possible, but since they did not land at ...
- 8317: 1775-1900: The History of the Buffalo Soldier
- ... to his naval ships. But after the Battle of Lake Erie, Captain Perry was "unstinting" in Afro-American praise as men who "seemed insensible to danger." (Fowler 46) After the Battle of Lake Erie the New York legislature authorized the forming of two Black regiments. These regiments included slaves with their masters' permission, and two battalions of Black soldiers were enlisted for New Orleans and its surrounding area. The mobilization for New Orleans was particularly significant because it was there on September 21,1814, three months before the Battle of New Orleans, that General Andrew Jackson issued his proclamation "To the Free Colored Inhabitants of Louisiana." ...
- 8318: Eight Men Out
- ... In the golden days of baseball, where the heros became legends and young fans could actually afford to pay to attend the games, an incident that would scar baseball for life was committed in the World Series of 1919. Based on the Elliot Asinof's 1963 best-seller of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, Eight Men Out is an attempt to tell the story of how the White Sox were hired by gamblers to throw World Series. Film maker John Sayles brings in a variety of well- known actors to play roles of players, gamblers, and everyone else that is involved in the scandal. However, the movie concentrates more on the ... 3 costly errors in the field that resulted in 10 runs for Cincinnati. The numbers certainly do not lie in telling the tales of these five men that took money to throw games in the World Series. The other men involved, Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin (who only had two at bats in the whole Series), and of course Buck Weaver were grouped together with others to have conspired to dump ...
- 8319: A Jew In Germany or Occupied Europe:
- ... shop, which supplies us with enough money to get by on during these hard times since the slump nearly five years ago. Life is hard but rewarding at the moment, soon there will be a new member to the family, since my wife is expecting our second child. I hope one day to see my children grow up and carry on the business which I started nearly eight years ago in ... own shop in Germany with her husband, but in this letter she seems to be very distressed and worried. She says that life has started to become very difficult since 1933. There has been a new ruling body installed in Germany called NAZI and according to her newspapers it is led by a hero, who has come to save Germany; Adolf Hitler. These Nazis oppose our jewish religion greatly; nearly everybody does, but this is a new strain of hatred that I have no seen before. In letter she states that some new anti-semitic rules called "The Nuremburg Laws" came into effect just this month which will practically sign her ...
- 8320: Jamestown
- ... on the Chesapeake Bay as the arrangements stated. This distraction was only a minor disaster compared to the ones to come. Summer was ending and it was getting late in the year to establish a new settlement. They would have to make the supplies they had last all winter up to the following summer, which meant they would have to depend on the Indians for more surpluses. On top of all that, the Indians had become hostile to the last English settlers that tried to set up a new settlement. Manteo and Towaya were two Indians that accompanied the settlers and gave them advice. Manteo was the colony's most important advisor to the new land. His community was located on the Croatoan Island. It did not take long for the colonist to realize that they needed supplies as soon as possible, but since they did not land at ...
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