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- 6541: John Quincy Adams
- ... XYZ affair peace commissioners retuned from Paris with stories of bribery and deceit, Adams built up the armed forces and took many national security measures. Jefferson and the Republicans and Hamilton and some Federalists wanted war with France for economic reasons, but Adams kept his nerve and when the opportunity was there he sent another peace commissioner to France and defused the crisis. Because of his opponents, he has forced out ...
- 6542: Cleopatra VII
- ... to meet Caesar. Caesar saw that she was alive and restored her to her throne. Ptolemy XIII thought that Caesar could not just restore her to the thrown so Ptolemy became enraged and started a war against Cleopatra and Caesar. Of course Caesar and Cleopatra won because of the military back-up Caesar had with his Roman soldiers, the best army in the world. The Romans then started to hate Cleopatra ...
- 6543: Cornelius Vanderbilt
- ... well as a financier and promoter. He was born to a poor family and he quit school at eleven. He owned his first business at age sixteen as a transport and freight service. By the war of 1812, the government was contracting him to supply forts around New York and the profits allowed him to build a schooner and two other boats for coastal trade. He became known as "the commodore ...
- 6544: Cortes
- ... asked to quit and return to Spain. There he appialed to the king and was created marquis of the valley of Oaxica. There he was reappointed Captian-General but he was not returned to the civil government of Mexico. He married the daughter of the count of Aguilar and in 1530 he returned to Spain. In Spain he was constantly checked on his activities, all his stuff was confiscated, his rights ...
- 6545: Bob Dylan
- ... of radio, movies and television. By the mid 1950's it, too, felt the social tensions that were rolling across the country, especially with Senator Joesph McCarthy accusing innocent americans of being communists. Meanwhile the civil rights movement was gaining momentum. In 1954 after the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, the segregation of races in public schools is declared a violatation of the equal protection clause. The ...
- 6546: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... presidency, thanks in large part to the fact that his arch rival, Hamilton, supported him when the Electoral College vote was tied. Among the events of his triumphant first term (1801--05) were the successful war against Barbary pirates, the Louisiana Purchase (which more than doubled the size of the U.S.A.), and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. His second term (1805--09), however, was marred by vice-president Burr ...
- 6547: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... University get away with racial discrimination, and for foot dragging on the Voting Rights Act extension. As he received staunch support from some of the Republican Party, support from his own people began to fade (Civil Rights Movement). It took NAACP Washington Bureau director Althea T. L. Simmons to urge her fellow constituents to withdraw opposition for the post but on the other hand not support him either. The main concern ...
- 6548: Daniel Boone
- ... the family moved to the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina, a trek that took over a year. At nineteen or twenty he left his family home with a military expedition in the French and Indian War. There he met John Finley, a hunter who had seen some of the western wilds, who told him stories that set him dreaming. But Boone was not quite ready to pursue the explorer's life ...
- 6549: John Dalton (1766 - 1844)
- ... In memory of the English chemist, physicist and teacher a statue was erected in his memory out side of his home in Manchester, but most other of Daltons collected relics were lost in World War II. John Dalton was a very important figure in study of atoms and meteorology. Works Cited "My Brother John". (online) available http://encarta.msn.com/encarta/MediaMax.asp?z=2&br=0&pg=3&ti ...
- 6550: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... to others, yet never perfect enough to please himself. He would begin huge projects like trying to change the course of a river, but he would leave many of them unfinished. He could speak of war as the most bestial madness, yet he could invent the most deadly weapons, perhaps hoping they would never be used. He refused to eat meat because he hated to have animals harmed, but he was ...
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