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- 3921: Cardinal Richelieu
- ... Louis died young and left five sons, the second oldest of whom, Francois, was Richelieu's father. Francois also died young, leaving his family in dire financial straits due to some poor investments. As a child, Richelieu was sickly and unfortunately would suffer from various maladies for the rest of his life. Armand was extremely intelligent and at the age of nine was sent to College de Navarre in Paris. Originally ...
- 3922: Comparison Of Marcus Garvey And David Duke
- ... races should be separated... (Sims 168) Duke was an intelligent young man who read lots of books, magazines, and gathers various information. His father was racist and so was Duke. Duke claims that as a child he was pro-integration but after reading the novel Race and Reason and doing various research he felt that the white race was the genetically superior race. Duke said, Race and Reason was the first ...
- 3923: Charles Lindbergh 2
- ... U.S. Air Service Reserve, and a technical adviser to commercial airlines. He made goodwill tours all over the world. In 1932, however, his luck ran out with the kidnapping and murder of his first child. A German carpenter was found guilty and executed. Lindbergh left America to escape the publicity and moved to Europe. He studied the air forces of various countries, and accepted a decoration from Adolf Hitler and ...
- 3924: Charles Dickens 2
- ... terrible, this brief collapse into the working class, he began to gain that sympathetic knowledge of their life that informed his writings. Also, the images of the prison and of the lost, oppressed, or bewildered child recur in many novels. When his father and mother got out of jail his mother wanted him to stay at work. Happily the father's view prevailed. His schooling, interrupted and unimpressive, ended at 15 ...
- 3925: Cathrine The Great 2
- ... 56). Catherine was also forbidden to write to anyone without going through the College of Foreign Affairs. (Troyat 59). The empress continued to make life hard for Catherine by not even letting Catherine hold her child after birth or allow her to see him. Catherine said, my sprit was too proud, and the very idea of being unfortunate was unbearable to me. ( Troyat 90). She avoided asking to see her son ...
- 3926: Biography Of Frank Zappa
- ... lived a eventful life. He has been in numerous groups and produced 8 times as many records. Frank was the one of 3 children (Carl, Candy, & Bobby) born in Baltimore, Maryland. Frank was a curious child and learned about music at a young age. At this moment Frank's talent began to build. He first started his interest in drums at the age of 12. Going to summer school in Monterey ...
- 3927: Stephen King
- ... which he sometimes wears between the end of the World Series and the opening of baseball practice in Florida. Occasionally he wears a moustache in other seasons. He has worn glasses since he was a child. He put some of his college dramatic society experience to use when he did a bit part in a George Romero picture, Knightriders, and Creepshow, a film he scripted. Joe Hill King also appeared in ...
- 3928: Bruce Lee
- ... the most part Bruce would ignore it (30). Bruce s discipline can also be seen in the amount that he practiced his martial arts. He would practice everyday for hours, and even as a young child he was always practicing. Bruce Lee s devotion to kung fu was total. At home, during dinner, he pounded away on a stool with alternate hands to toughen them (8). Although Bruce Lee is a ...
- 3929: Booker T. Washington 3
- ... lived a eventful life. He has been in numerous groups and produced 8 times as many records. Frank was the one of 3 children (Carl, Candy, & Bobby) born in Baltimore, Maryland. Frank was a curious child and learned about music at a young age. At this moment Frank's talent began to build. He first started his interest in drums at the age of 12. Going to summer school in Monterey ...
- 3930: Booker T. Washington
- ... education. The Reconstruction period from 1867-1878 helped fuel an urge that Washington had to educate his race. He felt that blacks throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, just like a child needing its mother. Also, that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to blacks, was in a large measure on a false foundation. Washington states, In many cases it seemed to me that the ...
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