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- 1761: Edward Vii
- ... In 1904, Edward contributed to the Entente Cordiale, and the Anglo Russian Agreement of 1907 (www.ukdb.web.aol.com). While at throne, Edward helps support the Territorial and Reserve Forces Acts, helped find Royal College of Music,witnessed the conservative party split,opposed woman's suffrage, and Edward is a patron of Arts and Sciences. Edward is also a familiar figure in the worlds of racing, yachting, and grouse shooting ...
- 1762: Edgar Allan Poe 3
- ... appears in great distress, and says he is acquainted with you, and I assure you he is in need or immediate assistance. Yours in haste, Jos. W. Walker (Walsh 46). Poe was rushed to Washington College Hospital where he fluttered between violent delirium and rambling consciousness for four days. During one of Poe s stages while conscious. He told J. E, Snodgrass, that the best thing his best friend could do ...
- 1763: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top honors in French and Latin. On May 26, 1827, Poe ...
- 1764: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... yearbook saw Dwight becoming a history professor and Edgar, interestingly, President of the United States (146, Richardson). After high school, Dwight worked full-time at the creamery and helped pay for some of Edgar s college expenses (12, Ambrose). Dwight never thought about a higher education until a friend persuaded him to apply to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He received an appointment to the academy by Senator ...
- 1765: Darwin
- ... His father furious with the idea that his son would not practice medicine then decided for him that he was to be a clergyman. Which meant that at nineteen, Charles was enrolled at Christ's College: Cambridge, the Gateway. Darwin hated his time here equally to the love that he shared for Edinburgh. Yet at the time while Darwin was there, Adam Sedgwick, the professor of Geology and Rev. John Stevens ...
- 1766: Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
- ... superior" category (French 45). At Valley Forge, however, Salinger's grades rose considerably and he earned a scholarship to New York University. Salinger attended New York University for two years and went on to Ursinus College and then to Columbia University, where he studied with Whit Burnett ("Salinger" CA 997). After receiving an English degree at Columbia, Salinger worked briefly as an entertainer on the Swedish Liner MS Kungsholm in the ...
- 1767: Chronicle - Life And Times Of Sula And Nel
- ... each one side of the same coin. Sula cared for no one but herself while Nel placed the feelings of others before those pertaining to her. This is also quite evident when Sula returns from college and speaks to Eva, her grandmother, and tells her that she did not want to make anyone else but herself. Sula did not care about having children because it would take away from herself. When ...
- 1768: Charlie Chaplin 3
- ... joined the famous Fred Karno Company and quickly became a leading player and writer therein. He managed to get Charlie involved, and he too became a Karno star. For both boys, Karno was almost a college of comedy for them, and the period had a huge impact on Charlie especially. In 1910 Charlie toured the U.S. with the Karno group and returned for another in 1912. It was on this ...
- 1769: Cesar E. Chavez
- ... where the powerful growers controlled the power to influence political and public agencies, especially law enforcement agencies that could be used to fight their battles against stickers. Across the nation, other rich and powerful groups, college students and general public consumers saw the injustice of the treatment of field workers and supported their grape boycott. Public officials such as Robert Kennedy, religious leaders and ordinary citizens from all over the United ...
- 1770: Cardinal Richelieu
- ... some poor investments. As a child, Richelieu was sickly and unfortunately would suffer from various maladies for the rest of his life. Armand was extremely intelligent and at the age of nine was sent to College de Navarre in Paris. Originally, Armand was to have had a military career and his older brother Alphonse was to have a religious life, but Alphonse suffered mental problems so, at the age of seventeen ...
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