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- 2511: Silent Cal: An American President
- ... reached the lowest ebb in our history ... in a time of extravagance and waste...." Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper. He was graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts. Slowly, methodically, he went up the political ladder from councilman in Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En route he became thoroughly conservative ...
- 2512: Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
- ... faith in the people's ability to govern themselves. He left an impact on his times equaled by few others in American history. Introduced to the ideas of the Enlightenment as a student at the College of William and Mary, Jefferson displayed throughout his life an optimistic faith in the power of reason to regulate human affairs. As a young member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Jefferson questioned British colonial ...
- 2513: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... hard-headed business man with no patience for such vagaries. He handled the situation without tact by reminding the boy of his "disreputable" parentage; he reproached him for his lack of "gratitude" for his home. College Years In spite of the growing antagonism between foster father and son, Mr. Allen was willing to send Edgar to the University of Virginia. Edgar, in turn, was eager to go, to escape the Allen ...
- 2514: Biography: William Gibson (1914- )
- Biography: William Gibson (1914- ) Born in New York City on November 13, 1914, William Gibson studied at the College of the City of New York. His work was produced only by regional theatres until Two For the Seesaw opened on Broadway in 1958. The highly successful play was later made into a film and ...
- 2515: Dustin Hoffman
- ... thought that this film was absolutely hilarious, but I'll try not to talk less about the films and more about Hoffman's performances. He played a young man named Benjamin who has just graduated college, but has no ambition and doesn't make his own decisions. Everyone around him tells him what to do. Benjamin is usually a pretty quiet and shy person and Dustin Hoffman plays this character well ...
- 2516: Gandhi: A Man with Virtues
- ... for India; and how Mohandis finally obtained freedom for India. Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in the present state of Gujarat on October 2, 1869. He was educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, after Gandhi was admitted to the British bar, he returned to India and attempted to create a law practice in Bombay, which failed. Two years after his failure, and India firm with ...
- 2517: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951. In 1955 he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Boston University. While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, whom he married in 1953. In ...
- 2518: Pope Paul III: The Sixteenth Century Miracle
- ... peace. Paul did not merely talk reform, he reformed. There was a huge desire for spiritual cardinals to replace the worldly Renaissance princes in the last generation. To alleviate this desire Paul filled the sacred college with hardworking reformers, men like Gian Pietro Caraffa and Reginald Pole. He was also faced with; A crying need for reform of the clergy and the religious orders. Paul gave strong support to new orders ...
- 2519: Robert Boyle
- ... Fenton, his second wife, Boyle was the youngest son in a family of fourteen. However he was not shortchanged of anything. After private tutoring at home for eight years, Robert Boyle was sent to Eton College where he studied for four years. At the age of twelve, Boyle traveled to the Continent, as it was referred to at the time. There he found a private tutor by the name of Marcombes ...
- 2520: Robert Andrew Millikan
- ... which may have had a little to do with his teachers habit of spending the summers using a divining rod to find water. After Millikan graduated from Maquoketa High he was accepted into Oberlin College. Robert actually began his physics career when he taught an elementary course at the request of his Greek professor during his sophomore year. He then transferred to Columbia University from which he graduated in 1893 ...
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