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- 4101: Biography of Katharine Hepburn
- ... salary for These Days. In the 1930's, that was a very high salary for begining actresses. Katharine served as Hope Williams's understudy in Holiday. She sat through every performance for six months. One day at understudy rehearsal, Aurhtur Hopkins, the director, watched her act. Fine, he said, Just don't ever be sorry for yourself. One night at midnight, Jimmy Hagen, the writer of the play, asked her if she still knew her part. Hope was sick and they needed her to perform. She spent all day the next day memorizing her lines. Katharine did her best. I lived through it ... so did the cast. She did have one disappointment. Aurthur Hopkins didn't come to watch her perform. In the spring of 1930, ...
- 4102: Robert E. Lee
- ... Nancy and her children. And they were to be freed "soon as it can be done to their advantage and that of others. On Christmas, Lee wrote to his wife that he hoped this woul.d be the last time he would be away from her. While they were at war, even though is was hard, he attended church. He returned on June 29, 1843. On September 1, 1852 he was ... north had more of an advantage because they have all of the military supplies and factories. The south was a land of farmers without military supplies and hardly any money to buy them. Then one day when Lee was in hid hotel, he had a visitor. He read a report of the supplies coming into Richmond. 60,00 small arms, and 54,00 flintlocks. I July 21, 1861 they received a ...
- 4103: Isaac Newton
- Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born prematurely, on Christmas day 1642, in a small English town called Woolsthorpe. His father was a farmer, but died shortly after Isaac was born. Isaac's mother remarried 3 years later, but his stepfather died when Isaac was 14 ... 12, at the King's School, near Grantham. At first, Newton was a poor student. He was at the bottom of his class. He cared more about painting, making kites, and inventing toys. Amazingly, one day, a big bad bully gave him a hard kick. The little dreamy boy flew into a mad rage, and beat the other boy thoroughly. Yet that didn't satisfy him enough. He wanted to beat ... the black plague, so of course he couldn't go. He went back to the farm for that time, and had a lot of time to think. During that eighteen months, he invented calculus. One day in 1665, Newton was sitting in his garden, wondering what kept the moon up there, and saw an apple fall out of a tree. He asked himself, "why do things fall down, and not ...
- 4104: Sports And Competition In Ancient Greece
- ... city-states were then suspended. The sacred truce was to protect Games-goers from assault and lasted three months. The competitions were open only to honorable Greek men, and lasted five days. On the first day of the Games the athletes and the judges swore that they would compete and judge honestly. On the second, third, and fourth day the different contests were held. The main event at Olympia was the stadion or single-course race, and the winner of that race gave his name to the Olympiad. On the fifth day, at the conclusion of the Games, the victors were awarded a crown of wild olive leaves. The olive crown was the greatest honor for the contestant and also for his family and his city. ...
- 4105: Attack of the Normans In 1066
- ... inflicting horrendous damage with their two-handed axes. But it was not to be. Come the end of the long battle it was William who would stand victorious and the Normans who would win the day, and the kingdom. But this was not the end. Nor was it really the beginning... ****THE OFT-INVADE ENGLAND**** The British Isles had long been a favored target for conquest. As far back as the ... take advantage of the vast forests and rich grazing land the islands offered. In 55 B.C. Julius Caesar made his first invasion, and over time a Roman society evolved. In the fifth century A.D. more invaders arrived, and the Roman Britons, on their own since the western Roman empire had begun to dissolve, were ill-equipped to repel them. It is even possible that some were invited by a ...
- 4106: Solidarity in Poland
- ... and other factories in Gdansk. The riots ended in Gdynia when militiamen fired shots and killed some of the workers. The strikers demanded the release of some of their compatriots that were arrested the prior day. Even though strikes still were held, the economy seemed to be improving slowly. However in 1975 the people began to see through the governments screen and realized nothing was improving. In fact, foreign debts ... 1983: 50-51. 2. Brechler, John and Jorgen Pedersen. "Poland: The Resistance." Newsweek 4 Jan. 1982: 12-19 3. Laba, Roman. The Roots of Solidarity Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991. 4. Perdue, William D. Paradox of Change: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity in the New Poland. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1995. 5. Touraine, Alan, Francois Dubet, Michel Wieviorka, Jan Strzelecki. Solidarity. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Press, 1982.
- 4107: The Conflict in Chechnya
- ... square of Grozny, the capital city of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, after hearing the news of the attempted coup in Moscow against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The jubilant Chechens viewed this as their Independence Day. At the end of the summer of 1991, Dzokhar Dudayev led a movement that expelled the conservative Communist establishment in Grozny. Dudayev's strongly nationalistic group formed a National Guard, declared the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) dissolved, and proclaimed Chechnya a sovereign republic that would define its future relationship with Russia by treaty. The day before Dudayev took the oath of office, the President of Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin decreed a state of emergency in the Chechen-Ingush Republic and ordered a battalion of troops to fly in to restore ... he claimed during a press conference that no fighting was going on in Chechnya at the same time television news reports were showing helicopters bombing Chechen towns. The Russian campaign was a military disaster from day one, and in August 1996 Moscow gave up a military solution. A peace agreement was signed in Khasavyurt by Yeltsin's appointee Aleksandr Lebed, and Chechen chief of staff Aslan Maskhadov, bringing the war ...
- 4108: Australia Joining World War 1
- ... needed the money, clothes and food and also because it was easier work than cabinet making ..."I tell you what I have just joined the Australan army ... it's not bad money here 5/- a day and clothes and food that's nearly as good as cabinet making and not half as hard."Lieutenant D.G. Armstrong (former bank clerk from Kyneton, Victoria), thought that the war would be great opportunity to prove his strength and to show that he was not a coward..."I am going to have a ...
- 4109: Effects of the WWII Atomic Bombs
- ... the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed a necessary, even righteous way to end the madness that was World War II. However, the madness had just begun. That August morning was the day that heralded the dawn of the nuclear age, and with it came more than just the loss of lives. According to Archibald MacLeish, a U.S. poet, "What happened at Hiroshima was not only that ... fear that drove the cold war, the fear that has forever changed world politics. The fear is real, more real today than ever, for the ease at which a nuclear bomb is achieved in this day and age sparks fear in the hearts of most people on this planet. According to General Douglas MacArthur, "We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system ... and modern religious wars have annihilated millions. More recently, there was Hitler's genocidal six-million-death "final solution to the Jewish problem," and the Communists' ten of millions of mass murders continue to this day. All this has been done without benefit of nuclear power. Gen. MacArthur's comments came at the beginning of the atomic or nuclear age, and while the source and the judgment deserve respect, experience ...
- 4110: The Treatment of Prisoners by Nazis
- ... Holocaust. The Nazis used the gas Zyklon-B inside the chamber to quickly kill a number of Jews at a time. All the prisoners that came into these camps were brought there by train. Every day trains would deliver a new load of Jewish slaves. These trains would come in from all over the Nazi-controlled Europe. On the slow ride over, the Jewish people were forced to stay in train ... being in charge of the use of Zyklon-B. Rudolf Hoss was named the chief of the Central Administration for Camps in 1943. Hoss was given the orders to increase the number of deaths each day. His task was to make sure the Nazis deliver enough bodies to the incinerator. Hoss was credited with being a hard and dedicated worker. According to information from McVay, "Ιhe had been obliged to tear ... their arms and legs. Countless facts can be cultured by simply studying material pertaining to the camps. Some of these statistics include the layout of the camps, record keeping, death toll, and command staffs. Every day a new person learns about the Holocaust. It is an astounding time in history to learn about. The concentration camps hold so much information inside of them. The names of people who passed, and ...
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