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- 6551: Don Pepe Figueres
- ... to political power also presents an argument. Figueres from the beginning has looked to the U.S. for security and power. The time of the Costa Rican revolution was also the beginning of the Cold War, and a time during which the U.S. was beginning it s battle for democratic conquest of the western hemisphere. (Langley, 9) The election of 1948 gave Figueres the window for revolution and a chance ...
- 6552: Muhammad Allah
- ... This move called the Hijra which in Arabic means emigration took place in 622. In medina an organized muslim community came into existence under the leadership of Muhammad. Attacks on caravans from Mecca lead to war with the Meccans. Muhammads followers obtained some victories but were unable to win them all. One of the greatest victories was when they successfully defended Medina against 10,000 Meccans. Medina had three clashes with ...
- 6553: Dorothy Parker
- ... never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.' *** Dorothy Parker became popular shortly after the first world war with her light verse and short stories. Although her works may not seem harsh and unwomanly today, they were labeled in this manner at the height of her popularity. Her cynical verses developed into something ...
- 6554: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who he saw as a phoney. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Very much like the hero of A Far
- 6555: To Race the Wind by Krents and All But My Life Klein
- ... autobiography in which a character tells of her hardships and the inner strength she find to survive is All but My Life by Gerda Klein. In her life, her family was torn apart by the war and were all taken to different concentration camps. Gerta encountered suffering throughout her life. She lived through being ripped away from her family, watching others die before her, and losing contact with everything that was ...
- 6556: Dylan Thomas
- ... In April of 1940 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was published and in September Dylan began working for Strand Films, Inc. He remained with Strand through the conclusion of the Second World War. His second child Aeronwy, Byrn Thomas was born in March of 1943. Deaths and Entrances was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume ...
- 6557: Alexander The Great
- ... Alexander married a daughter of a Sogdian baron, Roxanne. Victory in India Alexander reinforced his troops and reached the rich plains of India in 326 BC. He defeated the Indian prince, Horus, along with his war elephants. Alexander then sailed down the Indus River to its mouth, and carried his army across the terrible desert of Gedrosia, in present day Pakistan and Iran. His army sailed along the coast into the ...
- 6558: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... from the the world. Foreign and minority languages were banned and all nieghboring countries Laos,Vietnam, and Thailand were attacked. Rice and other edangered wildlife were exported to China for weapons. Peasants were ruined by war destruction, and many supported the Khmer Rouge guerrillas when they overthrew an American backed military goverment just days before South Vietnam fell. On the four years they were in power, the Khmer Rouge tried to ...
- 6559: Davy Crockett
- ... Crockett family, where their two sons, John Wesley and William, were born. After Polly Finlay's death in 1815 he married Elizabeth Patton, a widow. He was commander of a battalion in the Creek Indian War in 1813-1814. He was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1821-1822 and again in 1823-1824, and of the twentieth Congress of the United States in the years 1827-1829, in the ...
- 6560: The Period of Ramses II
- ... because he hired Libyans and other foreigners from the islands of the Mediterranean and the sea-coast to fight their battles (Budge 96). He also had a pet lion that drove with him in his war-chariot and attacked the foe (Budge 138). The Egyptians could not have been successful at any of their battles if they had not received help from other empires. Since Ramses did creative acts while in ...
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