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- 3771: John Coltrane
- ... Love Supreme" (music and text) was the result of a seven- year development in which Coltrane sought a closer relationship with God. Part of this closer relationship involved Coltrane's understanding of himself as a child of God. Though Coltrane was raised in a household dominated by Christianity, and he professed to be a Christian for the majority of his life, he became dissatisfied with his personal relationship with God and ...
- 3772: John Adams
- ... forget his "Corrupt Bargain" with Clay. They also doomed almost every piece of important legislation he had tried to pass. Adams' own integrity allowed his rivals free reign. His own high standards about refusing to abuse his office resulted in his rivals retaining their positions of power. The scandal, political rivals, and his own integrity doomed his presidency to failure.
- 3773: Johann Sabastian Bach
- ... produced, among other masterpieces, the Brandenburg Concerti. While at Cothen, Bach's wife, Maria Barbara, died. Bach remarried soon after - to Anna Magdalena - and forged ahead with his work. He also forged ahead in the child-rearing department, producing 13 children with his new wife - six of whom survived childhood - to add to the four children he had raised with Maria Barbara. Several of these children would become fine composers in ...
- 3774: Joesph Mengele
- ... were Karl (1881-1959) and Walburga (?-1946) Mengele. He had two younger brothers; Karl (1912-1949 and Alois (1914-1974). He had several nicknames, one of them being Beppo. He was a bright and cheerful child in his early days. (Mengele32) He was full of ambition and had high hopes for his future. In 1930 he graduated from the Gymnasium and in 1935 he was awarded a PhD from the University ...
- 3775: Jim Morrison
- ... To better understand Jim Morrison himself, a background of his life and especially his character is necessary. James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida (Hopkins 5). He was the first child of George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clark Morrison. He had two younger siblings, Anne and Andrew ("James" 1). His father was an officer in the United States Navy and his mother remained a housewife to ...
- 3776: Jesse Louis Jackson
- ... of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. In 1971 Rev. Jesse L. Jackson formed Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity.) In the 1970s, Jackson traveled throughout the United States in a campaign for education against drug abuse and gangs. In the 1980s Jackson launched the National Rainbow Coalition to campaign for equal rights for African Americans, women, and homosexuals. Jesse L. Jackson was the breakthrough in black politics. In 1984, he ran ...
- 3777: Jasper Daniel AKA Jack Daniel
- Jasper Newton Daniel was born in 1848 as the tenth child of thirteen. At the age of 12 Jack Daniel started a career that would last him a lifetime. He was hired out to work for a man by the name of Dan Call, a preacher ...
- 3778: James Taylor
- ... good one. James Taylor was born into a rich family in Boston Massachusetts in 1948. His childhood taught him about friendship and the importance of being a good person because Taylor, the small, quiet, skinny child that he was, did not have many friends so he knew the ones that he did have were important. He started writing songs from the late 60s to the early 70s. His mother was a ...
- 3779: James Baldwin
- ... Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as a bitter account of American racism. Then, he wrote The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985). This was written as an analysis of the Atlanta child murders of 1979 and 1980. Although many of Baldwin's essays come off as being bitter, he should not be looked upon as a bitter man. He was simply fed up with the disgustingly intollerable ...
- 3780: Howard Hughes
- ... years his paranoia left him a recluse and in twenty years he had not been seen or photographed by the public. Howard was born on Christmas Eve 1904, in Houston, Texas. He was the only child of Howard Robard Hughes Senior and Alene Gano Hughes. His mother died when he was sixteen and his father died when he was 18. Howards childhood wasnt the greatest but in the end ...
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