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- 6711: Lewis And Clark
- ... dollars a month plus clothing and subsistence. When the expedition returned they would be granted immediate discharge. The men would also receive a portion of land equal to that given to officers in the Revolutionary war. After waiting out winter in St. Louis the expedition finally began. On May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery, as they were called, a group of men totaling 41 and one dog, Lewis s dog ...
- 6712: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and died in 1807 (Barnett et al. 938). Brant, or Thayendanega, was educated at Wheelock s Indian school in Connecticut. He served the British in the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. Being a Mohawk Chief, Brant was subject to much racially motivated discrimination. Discrimination, though most author would like you to believe otherwise, is never one sided. Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization ...
- 6713: Lizzie Borden
- ... Another theory was that even though Emma had a perfect alibi, she could have possibly been in on it or could have planned it out. After all, Emma was the one who had started the war with their stepmother (Meganet, 1998). One possible theory that could explain what might have drove Lizzie to murder her parents, is that perhaps the paradox of having wealth but the appearance of poverty might have ...
- 6714: Tiger Woods: The making of a Champion
- ... a ¼ Chinese and half Black. Kutildra is a ¼ White, a ¼ Chinese and half Thai. Both of Earl's parents were dead by the time he was 13. He named his son "Tiger" after his Vietnam War partner Nguyen Phong of the South Vietnamese army. He nicknamed him Tiger for his iron will and bravery. Around 1967 or 1968 they lost contact and never spoke to one another since. Earl hopes that ...
- 6715: Thomas Paine
- ... was to only be a regulator, and thus pretty simple. His strong beliefs made him a major influence on the Declaration Of Independence. He joined General Washington in his battle against General Howe in the War of Independence. Where he motivated many downhearted soldiers who needed reassurance. The retreating of General Washington's army was a slow, daily affair. Being an Englishman himself, Paine knew that the British enemy, would not ...
- 6716: Richard Marcinko
- ... his Commanding Officer to send him to UDT, Underwater Demolition Team, training. Later, in June 1966, he joined Seal Team Two and went to Vietnam. He served two tours there and came back a decorated war hero. After his return to the United States, he became Commanding Officer of Seal Team Two, where he served for eight years. Then, he came up with the idea of the Navy's first counterterrorist ...
- 6717: Lytton Strachey
- ... He was an openly gay member of the artistically talented Bloomsbury Group, centering on Leonard and Virginia Woolf. (Strachey had once proposed to Virginia née Stephen, but she laughed. When he was conscripted in World War I, he declared himself to be a pacifist. When the board asked what he would do if a Hun were raping his sister, he said that he would try to interpose his body.) See the ...
- 6718: The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown
- ... song. It was a song with some gimmick that makes it catchy. During the 1950's most Americans felt secure, we started to see ourselves as a world power. We were involved in the cold war and blacks had started their movements. Because of the cultural situation rock and roll became a focal point for rebellion. The marketing techniques were very primitive, but started to turn rock and roll into a ...
- 6719: Ferdinand Prosche: Life And Achievements of A Pioneer
- ... Adolf Hitler, was going to put every German citizen on wheels. And it did. With help form the Nazi government, he started building the Volkswagen plant. Finally, the car hit showrooms on 1939, but the war postponed it's full production until 1945.The Volkswagen became more then a car, it became a symbol of easy, reliable engineering and design, and broke every mass production record for a car. It is ...
- 6720: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- ... differences with its Federal overseer. The Union Nationale, a religious nationalist movement rooted deep in the heart of Quebec culture, had forced the Federal government to reconcile and mediate with them in order to avoid civil disorder or unrest. The Premier of Quebec at the time, Maurice Duplessis, found it almost impossible to appease the needs of each diverse interest group and faction rising within the province and ultimately buckled underneath ...
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