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- 3441: George Washington Carver
- ... well and fast, he had to look else where. He moved to Fort Scott and lived with Felix Payne while going to school. While in Fort Scott, an unfortunate incident occurred of a black man crime against a white girl. Racial prejudice soon got horrible and George was forced to escape from town fast. After some time, he continued his education in Minneapolis, Kansas where he went to a mostly white ...
- 3442: Harriet Tubman
- ... was a slave. He used him when he wanted too. Mark didn't liked to be treated this way. Mark once said in the story "I often want to kill Mr. Brown." He committed a crime which was that he striked him and beat him up. When Mr. Brown comes and complains to the captain about the cub Mark he refuses to work with him and says that either he goes ...
- 3443: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... blacked out. We are supposed to occupy our minds with sports on big-screen TV's, video arcades, fast food, cellular telephones to occupy our minds while traveling, lap top computers and even on-flight computer games. Computerized "chat rooms" that enable us to "speak" to faceless strangers are all the rage. How far are we from Bradbury's broadcast TV "families"? Montag's wife exclaims, "If we had a fourth ...
- 3444: Ivan The Terrible
- ... up a bodyguard that has been described as Russia's first 'secret police' (the Oprichniki) as a religious brotherhood sworn to protecting God's Tsar. In reality, they became marauding thugs, ready to commit any crime in the Tsar's name. Ivan sentenced thousands to internal exile in far off parts of the empire. Others were condemned to death their families and servants often killed as well. Ivan would give detailed ...
- 3445: Jeffrey Dalhmer
- ... a high wall around himself from which their influence is progressively shut out. While fortunately, most parents do not have a Jeffrey Dahmer to raise, too many have seen their children succumb to drugs, alcohol, crime despite their very best and, often frantic, efforts to intervene. "It is a portrayal of parental dread... the terrible sense that your child has slipped beyond your grasp, that your little boy is spinning in ...
- 3446: John Marshall Harlan II
- ... American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre. After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From 1951 to 1953, Harlan served as a chief counsel to the New York State Crime Commission. During his time as chief counsel, Harlan helped to investigate illegal gambling, as well as waterfront rackets in New York City. During his time as chief counsel, Harlan helped to investigate illegal gambling, as ...
- 3447: Joseph Stalin
- ... camps of the Gulag archipelago - victimized tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children for more than 20 years." Millions of people were sent to the Gulag camps from 1939 through 1953, for the crime of doing absolutely nothing. There were "...eight million souls (a conservative estimate) who languished in Soviet concentration camps every year between 1939 and 1953." under the horrible conditions at the Gulags. Every year Stalin, in ...
- 3448: Julia Roberts
- ... the late 1980s, Roberts had a modeling contract with the Click modeling agency, soon after, she landed her first motion picture role in Blood Red. Her first professional appearance was on a TV series, Crime Story in 1988. Romantic comedies and light dramas are where Julia is at her best. Julias marriage to Lyle Lovett was a brief, newsworthy event. She met Lovett just three weeks before the marriage ...
- 3449: Lee De Forest
- ... audion helped start the explosion of electronics earlier this century. American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made live radio broadcasting possible and became the key component of all radio, telephone radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. (Kraeuter, 79). Forest passed away on June 30, 1961 in Hollywood, CA. De Forest wrote an autobiography entitled Father of Radio, but did not get that ...
- 3450: Miyamoto Musashi
- ... s man hunt. Musashi finally returns to his hometown of Miyamoto but was not welcomed back as a hero. The people remembered what Musashi was like as a youth. He was falsely accused of a crime but could not be captured by the locals. Musashi was too powerful for the people to beat. In the end it took only one man with little battle experience to capture him. That one man ...
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