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- 1121: Robert E. Lee
- ... Fort Monroe, Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her family home in Arlington on a hill overlooking Washington D. C.. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Custis Lee. Later in 1835 they had their second child, Mary Curtis. They had five ... 1859, and was sent there to arrest Brown and restore order. He did this very quickly and returned to his regiment in Texas. When Texas seceded from the Union in1861, Lee was called to Washington D.C. to wait for further orders (http://darter.ocps.k12.fl.us/classroom/who/darter2/relee.html 1) Unlike many Southerners, Lee did not believe in slavery and did not favor secession. He felt that ... draw up plans for the Confederate forces in Virginia, then under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston was wounded on May 31, 1862, in the Battle of Fair Oaks (Thomas 225). The next day, Lee took command of Johnston's army, which he called the Army of Northern Virginia. From his first day of command, Lee faced what looked like an impossible task. Union General George B. McClellan ...
- 1122: Jimi Hendrix: A Reflection Of A Man Through His Music
- ... by Bob Dylan, about whom Hendrix said: “Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. I felt like “Watchtower” was something I’d written but could never get together. I often feel that way about Dylan”. “All Along the Watchtower” is a protest song, pure and simple. During this period of the late 1960’s, music had become ... The Band of Gypsies was outasite as far as I’m concerned. It was just...going through head changes is what it was, I really couldn’t tell – I don’t know.... And here I’d been fighting the biggest war I ever fought. In my life. Inside, you know? “. Hendrix got together with The Experience midway through 1970, but they never recorded another album (Welch 197). The Band of Gypsies ... him was because his band included two other white members. Through the filter of history, though, the praise that Hendrix has been given has been both color-blind (as far as his influence on modern-day rock musicians) and based on his ethnicity (when he is praised as a blues and R&B guitarist) (McDermott 156). The evolution of the albums of Jimi Hendrix was influenced by multiple occurrences: his ...
- 1123: Jonas Salk
- ... He graduated from Townsend Harris High School in 1929 and then went on to the College of the City of New York where he received his B.S. in 1934. He finally earned his M.D. degree in June of 1939 from the New York University College of Medicine. Jonas Salk was "a somewhat withdrawn and indistinct figure" but was always reading whatever he could lay his hands on. Dr. Salk ... a vaccine had been found that they "observed moments of silence, rang bells, honked horns, blew factory whistles, fired salutes, kept their traffic lights red in brief periods of tribute, took the rest of the day off, closed their schools or convoked fervid assemblies therein, drank toasts, hugged children, attended church, smiled at strangers, forgave enemies." It "consummated the most extraordinary undertaking in the history of science." Although Dr. Salk tried ... ignored his words and gave all the credit to him. Jonas Salk "awakened that morning as a moderately prominent research professor on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He ended the day as the most beloved medical scientist on earth." Dr. Salk did not patent his vaccine, therefore, he did not receive any royalties for it, though he could have been a millionaire. As it was ...
- 1124: Filial Piety
- ... complete as they should be, they can then preserve their ancestral temples1. This is the filial piety of high ministers and great officers. "It is said in the Book of Poetry: He is never idle, day or night, In the service of the One man."2 Notes 1. Their ancestral temples were to the ministers and grand officers what the altars of their land and grain were to the feudal lords ... high situation pride leads to ruin; in a low situation insubordination leads to punishment; among equals quarrelsomeness leads to the wielding of weapons. If those three things be not put away, though a son every day contribute beef, mutton, and pork to nourish his parents, he is not filial."1 Notes 1. Cf. Analects 2.7. XI Filial Piety in Relation to the Five Punishments The Master said, "There are three ... and death are all satisfied, and the filial son's service of his parents is completed."1 Notes 1. The above is the Classic of Filial Piety, as published by the emperor Xuan in A.D. 722, with the headings then prefixed to the eighteen chapters. Subsequently, in the eleventh century, Si Ma Guang (A.D. 1009-1086), a famous statesman and historian, published what he thought was the more ...
- 1125: Peter The Great
- ... the people. The German Suburb, in particular, showed Peter how backwards and behind Russia was compared to Europe. This realization made Peter determined to bring Russia into the modern and European world. A very important day in Peter the Great's life was when he and a Dutchman named Frans Timmerman were visiting the sheds of a family estate. Peter saw a boat in a corner and asked Timmerman what it ... English sailboat. When he asked what it was for and found out that it could sail against the currents and winds, he was hooked. He had Timmerman fix it up and started sailing it every day. The importance of the boat was that it showed Peter what a great idea it was to build a Russian navy. In order to do that Peter would have to gain some more coastline. All ... for Peter. It delighted him and maximized his hunger for a strong navy. When Peter returned from Europe due to a rebellion that was occurring, the Russian nobility was glad to see him because he'd been gone for so long. When they bowed to him he was quoted as saying "You must stop doing that. If you give such honor to a man, what is left to give God?" ...
- 1126: Mockingbird
- By: John Dow "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want , if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to ... the niggers and trash he works for!" not only show us her own views, but they also represent the views of the rest of Maycomb County. As they were going by the house later that day Jem snatched Scout's baton and "ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard...He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush ... the novel, Atticus Finch personifies justice, and acts rationally as the voice of reason. Thus, we are, finally, brings us back to the title of the story, To Kill A Mockingbird, as Atticus says, "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin ...
- 1127: Marking Time Versus Enduring in Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eater's"
- ... s runs only eleven lines. It is written in plain language about very plain people. Yet its meaning is ambigous. One critic, George E. Kent, says the old couple who eat beans "have had their day and exit now as time-markers"(141), However, another reader, D. H. Melhem, perceives not so much time marking as "endurance" in the old couple (123). Is this poem a desparing picture of old age or a more positive portrait? "The Bean Eaters" describes an "old ... unexceptionl, whatever message they have for readers. The isolated routine of the couple's life is something Brooks draws attention to with a separate stanza: Two who are Mostly Good. Two who have lived their day, But keep on putting on their clothes And putting things away. (5-8) Brooks emphasizes how isolated the couple is by repeating "Two who." Then she emphasizes how routine their life is by reating" ...
- 1128: Big Bang
- ... universe and that a temperature in excess of one billion degrees was necessary to create our new universe. This energy would in turn produce an infinitesimal amount of radiation that should be measurable to this day. Based on Planck's law that all bodies emit energy that can be documented on an electromagnetic diagram. Depending on the length of the wave they can register anywhere from X rays to radio waves ... when he plotted a number of radio galaxies many billions of light years away. The evidence for this closed universe was quickly challanged a few years later and eventually fell out of favor. To this day the Hubble Constant and the q constant remain the two most important unanswered problems in modern cosmology. Observations have also supported the predictions of theorists that certain elements could only have been created moments after ... three arduous years to sort through the billions of bits of data that the DMR provided. His announcement on the 23rd of April, 1992 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington,D.C. said it best: "English dosen't have enough superlatives...to convey the story [of the results] , we have observed...15 billion year old fossils that we think were created at the birth of ...
- 1129: The Ss
- ... other books about World War II. The other general consultant was George H. Stein who was a distinguished teaching professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He, like Col. John R. Elting, wrote and translated many books on Hitler. He published numerous articles on modern European history, and served with the United States Air Force from ... branch of the German Wehrmacht (Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine) as in the field, it came under the direct tactical control of the OKW, even though strategic control remained within the hands of the SS. To this day the actions of the Waffen-SS and its former members are known for ultimately being a part of the larger structure of the political Allgemeine-SS, regardless of the fact that the Waffen-SS was ... encircle the LAH, and a counter-attack by the II. SS-Panzer-Korps rescued the nearly destroyed LAH from certain death. Once again, the LAH was moved to France for rest and refitting. After the D-Day invasion by the Allies on the Normandy coast in June, 1944, the LAH was committed in August to fighting in Caen, Falaise and Argentan. Continuously pushed back, the LAH was brought back behind ...
- 1130: Countess Elizabeth Bathory Out
- ... legally) because they were of lower class than their mistress. III. After years at the castle, she began to realize the one thing she counted on the most, her beauty, began to wane. A. One day as a servant was addressing her mistress’ headdress, she pulled the hair too hard and Elizabeth slapped her. Blood spurted onto her hand. As she wiped it away, wrinkles seemed to disappear. B. Turning to witchcraft once again, Darvulia explained the only way to regain lost youth was to bathe in virgin blood. C. As a result, 650 virgins, each of noble and pesantry class, were brought before her. D. They were tormented, slaughtered and buried. Some bodies were eventually thrown to wolves. IV. Torturing techniques written in her diary as well corpses that were eventually found lead up to her two trials in 1612 ... Elizabeth’s other helpers, stated all they knew when they were present. B. One found her diary covered in names and techniques used. C. Helpers were to have their fingers pulled off and then decapitated. D. Elizabeth was never present at her trials due to her nobility. She was eventually sentenced under solitary confinement. E. She was found dead in 1614, in her room. Concluding Statement: It was Countess Elizabeth ...
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