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- 3811: Andrew Jackson
- ... bank into "pet banks" which virtually took away the power Nicholas Biddle's power as president of the Second National Bank, which left him and anti-Jackson people very upset with what they called the abuse of his powers. The increase in loans from the state chartered caused a land boom and gave the federal government a surplus (which it split up amongst the states), the increase in loans brought on ...
- 3812: Alexander The Great
- ... as his cousin. One person suprisingly he did not kill was his retarded half-brother. Philip's last bride had given birth to her second daughter, and Olympia’s is said to have had the child killed in front of the mother. Alexander became king when he was twenty years old. He was very good looking but he was a big drinker. He had good health and was very athletic. He ...
- 3813: Alexander Hamilton
- ... Hamilton had a rough and tough childhood. Born on the West Indian Island of Nevis as the illegitimate son of James Hamilton (a Scottish trader) and Rachel Faucett Lavien. Hamilton underwent a lot as a child. He had to face his mother's death at the age of twelve and his dad's bankruptcy, which forced him to go live with some folks that accepted to take him in. 4. What ...
- 3814: Marcus Garvey
- ... their own nations and governments, businesses and industrial enterprises, and their own military establishments which are the same institutions by which other peoples of the world have risen to power. Marcus Gravey was the eleventh child of Marcus and Sarah Gravey. He was born in 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, a rural town on the north coast of Jamaica in the British West Indies. Garvey learnd at a young age ...
- 3815: Malcolm X
- The year was 1925, and someone special was born. His birth name was Malcolm Little, however there were big things in store for this child. Born in Omaha, Nebraska. The seventh of eleven children born to Earl Little, an organizer for Marcus Garvey’s "back-to-Africa" movement (Compton’s encyclopedia online). At age six Malcolm’s father was murdered ...
- 3816: Joshua Larwence Chamberlin
- ... I was in charge of the Freshman Greek class. Fannie and I were finally married on December 7, 1855, at First Parish Church by Dr. Adams. In October 1856, Fannie gave birth to our first child, a daughter we named Grace Dupee. In November 1857 she gave birth three months early to a son, who only lived a few hours; it was a very sad Thanksgiving in the Adams house that ...
- 3817: William Tecumseh Sherman
- ... Lancaster, Ohio, his father died when he was young. Widowed and unable to care for the entire family, his mother sent his brother Thomas to be raised by an aunt and William became a foster child to Thomas Ewing, his father's friend. Cump, as he was known, later married Mr. Ewing's daughter, Ellen. Educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he graduated in 1840. During the ...
- 3818: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart s name is familiar even to people who know little or none of his music. However, Mozart s fame is based on two different frames of reference: firstly, being the most famous child prodigy in music history (as both a performer and a composer) and secondly, his unquestioned brilliance as an adult composer of Classical symphonies, operas, chamber music, sonatas, church music, and concerti for various instruments. Perhaps ...
- 3819: William Shakespeare 2
- ... s were farmers, and sold their products to make a living. (Brown 23) Shakespeare had two sisters. Joan died in 1562; Margaret died at infancy. Then in 1566, Gilbert was born. In 1569 a second child named Joan was born; in 1571 came Anne, who died when she was eight year s old. Richard was then born in 1574 followed by Edmund in 1580. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at the ...
- 3820: William Shakespeare
- ... women, their second thoughts and wiles and the wiles of innocence. Emersons high praise for Shakespeare included that the distinguished author could divide the mothers part from the fathers part in the face of a child. (Rogers 114). Further, he proposes that Shakespeare stands out from all other eminent authors. He is unconcievably wise; the others concievably. (Rogers 116). Shakespeare never let any partially appear in his writings. Shakespeare has no ...
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