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- 6601: Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book ...
- 6602: Freud 2
- ... Freud's emphasis on the sexual origin of neurosis. Freud met these setbacks by developing further his basic concepts and by elaborating his own views in many publications and lectures. After the onset of World War I Freud devoted little time to clinical observation and concentrated on the application of his theories to the interpretation of religion, mythology, art, and literature. In 1923 he was stricken with cancer of the jaw ...
- 6603: John F. Kennedy
- ... year. Because of the Military build up in Cuba, the US put the government into DEFCON 1, the highest placing in peace time. Kennedy had many choices to make and wanted it to end without war. After much bargaining with Khrushchev it was decided that if the US took the missiles out of Turkey then the Russians would take the missiles out of Cuba. And through it all Kennedy worked his ...
- 6604: Burr, Aaron
- ... and the grandson of another (Jonathan Edwards), Burr could trace his ancestry back to the earliest Puritans. He entered Princeton at the age of 13, graduated at 16, and went on to become a Revolutionary War hero, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel at the age of 21. In July 1782 he married Theodosia Bartow Prevost, the widow of a former British officer. They moved to New York City, where ...
- 6605: Alexander The Great: A Life With A Meaning Like No Other
- ... Illyrians and then hastened to Thebes, which had revolted. He took the city and razed it sparing only the temples of the gods. The surviving inhabitants, around 8000, were sold as slaves. Alexander began his war against Persia in the year of 334B.C by crossing the Hellaspoint with an army of 35000 men. At the river Granicus, near the ancient city of Troy, he successfully defeated an army of Persians ...
- 6606: Andrew Jackson: Indian Fighter
- ... Indians to try and cause havoc in the states by selling guns to the Indians. The Indians would then attack settlers in the western front of the United States. In the early part of the war Jackson's feats in crushing the Creek people won him national acclaim. The Creeks were British allies, who had threatened United States southwestern borders(Encarta CD). Jackson's decisive victory at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, in ...
- 6607: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... 1847), and Mardi (1849) were romances of the South Sea islands. Redburn, His First Voyage (1849) was based on his own first trip to sea, and White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (1850) fictionalized his experiences in the navy. In 1850 Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he became an intimate friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he dedicated his masterpiece Moby-Dick; or ...
- 6608: Billy Sunday
- ... popularity. By 1905 he was very popular and well-known in America. He would preach to thousands of people nightly. He preached about Christ, morality, hard work, the wickedness of alcohol, and patriotism. During World War I, Billy preached mostly on patriotism. He is quoted in saying, "In these days all are patriot or traitors, to your country and to Jesus Christ." He would wave an American flag from the pulpit ...
- 6609: Martin Luther: A Biography of Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- ... and lodged (for his own protection) in the Wartburg, the elector's fortress. During the year he spent there, he translated the Scriptures and composed his cogent controversial treatise, "Refutation of the Argument of Latomus'. Civil unrest called Luther back to Wittenberg in 1522. He rebuked the unruly elements, and made a stand against lawlessness on the one hand, and tyranny on the other. In the same year Luther published his ...
- 6610: George Lucas
- ... by far in the entire class. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree from USC in 1966, Lucas had to decide what to do with his future. He contemplated whether to enlist in the Vietnam War, but when he tried to join the air force, he was rejected for his police record. All of the speeding tickets he had received when he was younger were coming back to haunt him. Unable ...
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