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- 5181: A Remarkable Woman Of The Earl
- ... Ann Martin was born in Greenfield, Nelson County, Virginia on January 20th, 1834. Her parents were Hudson Martin and Nancy Thorpe. Hudson Marton was born in Virginia in 1765. At the close of the Revolutionary War, Giddeon Martin, his after moved to Kentucky. Giddeon Martin had fought for seven years in the Revolution under General George Washington. Hudsont Martin and Nancy Thorpe were married March 22nd, 1824. The following children were ... dinner with her and had been gone about fifteen minutes when the house was surrounded by soldiers. Once he came for a visit overnight and at another time for nine days. At the close of war, Captain and Mrs. Jackson moved to South Carolina two years in the fall of 1865hey started West by ox teams, stopping in Bandera Couny, Texas, where they remained until 1873. Mr. Jackson was running a ...
- 5182: J.p. Morgan
- ... and Paris. He was the commanding figure in international finance. Pierpont Morgan was an imposing figure on Wall Street and in the financing world but was virtually unknown to many until 1869. That year a war over railroads began including Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, both famous financiers. Gould already had dominant control over the Erie railroad and began to buy up stock in the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad. The board of ... until the ownership argument was settled. Ramsey and the board of the company fought Gould buy acquiring more shares of the company. Both sides had judges that placed injunctions on the opposing sides of the war. Mr. Ramsey soon found himself with not enough money to keep up his contention for the 142 miles of track. The board of directors and Ramsey asked Morgan for his financial support. Morgan deposed the ...
- 5183: John Paul Stevens: Biography
- ... then later went to the University its self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered World War 2. Stevens was stationed in Washington D.C, as a intelligence officer on the staff of admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He worked with a group assigned to break Japanese codes. for doing this, he was awarded the Bronze Star. After he returned to Chicago, (at the end of the war) he enrolled himself into Northwestern University School of Law to earn his J.D. degree, where he graduated first in his class. Not long after that, he was admitted into the Order of the Coif ...
- 5184: James Buchanan
- ... to study law in Lancaster PA. James worked hard and later became a successful lawyer. He made more than 11,000 a year. James became a canidate for the Pennsylavania legislature in 1814. But the war of 1812 was growing fast. The British Had just burned down Washingto D.C. James volunteered to serve his country so he joined a calvary company. Buchanan returned for the election and won a seat ... the president nomination and gave all his support to James Polk. James Polk won the nomination and election. Then President Polk assigned James Buchanan to the secratary of state. While Polks term of President a war brokeout between USA and Mexico. James Buchanan as Secratary of State arranged a peace treaty in 1848. By this treaty United States purchased all the land from Texas to the Pacific Ocean. When Polk left ...
- 5185: Albert Einstein
- ... there. In 1914 Einstein returned to Germany but did not reapply for citizenship. He was one of only handful of German professors who was opposed the use of force and did not support Germany's war aims. After the war, the allies wanted the removal of German scientist from international meetings, but Einstein was a Jew and traveling with a Swiss passport, he remained an acceptable German delegate. Albert Einstein's political views as a ...
- 5186: Magnificent Minds Of The Renai
- ... circulatory system, and the functions of the heart and brain. As an architect and engineer, Leonardo designed many inventions such as the Ornithopter which was a primitive flying machine, and he created many weapons of war such as the War Scythe and the Crossbow Machine. Leonardo also made schematics of a machine that would dig canals. When Leonardo died in 1519, he left behind a legacy. This legacy would be remembered for all time. This ...
- 5187: Jack Robinson
- ... offered him the opportunity. After leaving baseball, Robinson became Vice President of a restaurant chain in NYC. He also promoted black business enterprises in New York's Harlem Neighborhood and became a leading advocate for civil rights. From 1964 - 1968 he served as special assistant for civil rights to govern Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Robinson starred in the motion picture Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and was the author with Alfred Puckett of " I never had it made " (1972). He died of ...
- 5188: South Africa
- ... Mountains and the sea. The Sotho clans settled in the interior, north of the Cape Colony. The 19th century competition for land led to the conflict between the Bantu clans, which led to the boer war, 1899-1902. Hundreds and thousands died during the wars, entire clans disappeared and it resulted in the creation of many Bantu nations. Now they are unable to communicate with each other, and now they don ... When the Dutch, or the Afrikanns found out that slavery was ebolished they got angry, because they thoght that the Bilble said that black people were supposed to be slaves, which then created the Boer war. It is now 1948, the Europeans have now taken over South Africa. Four Years earlier a man named Nelson Mandela became a lawyer, and joined the A.N.C. so he could help the salvaging ...
- 5189: Walt Disney
- ... 1950, Disney released Treasure Island, his first full-length movie to use only human actors. Mary Poppins (1964), which combines human actors with animation, is the most successful of Disney's later films. During World War II (1939 to 1945), Disney's studio made educational films for the U.S. government as well as cartoon comedies. After the war, Disney created fewer animated movies. He concentrated on making films that starred real animals or human actors. In 1948, Disney released Seal Island. This short movie was the first in a series of ''True-Life ...
- 5190: Worn Path
- ... five hundred years. I believe this is used to describe her life. Her family saw Phoenix as a symbol of hope, born into to slavery and a slave for eighteen years or more. After the war slavery was abolished. We can assume her family was killed during the war, or she just couldn t locate them. Phoenix Jackson went on to have children. This is evident because of her grandson. Probably her family went north to a better place to start a new life ...
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