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- 6241: James Boswell
- ... improved edition was published by the authour in 1766. -- M.] 2. The celebrated oratour, Mr. Flood, has shown himself to be of Dr. Johnson's opinion; having by his will bequeathed his estate, after the death of his wife Lady Frances, to the University of Dublin; desiring that immediately after the said estate shall come into their possession, they shall appoint two professors, one for the study of the native Erse ...
- 6242: James Baldwin
- ... the murder of a young black man, Richard, by a white shop owner, Lyle Britten. Richard is a bitter, busted musician returning home. His open expression of hatred towards whites, we learn, leads to his death. Later, the pastor, Meridian, Richard's father and civil rights leader, expresses his faith in Parnell, a friend and white liberal, to help. Parnell seems to represent Baldwin's belief in the fact that you ...
- 6243: Jackie Kennedy Onasis
- ... was short lived. The couple had different tastes and their relationship had been condemned from the beginning. In march 1975, Aristotle was planning on divorcing Jackie, before he could do so he died. After his death, Jackie became very wealthy. She needed something to occupy herself with so she became an editor with Viking Press. Two years later she moved over to Doubleday Press. In December on 1993, Jackie was diagnosed ...
- 6244: Isadora Duncan
- ... the car company. She was wearing a long, elegant, red scarf, and as Mary Desti looked on in horror, that scarf got caught in the axis of the spinning wheel and strangled Isadora Duncan to death. More than ten thousand people gathered at the cemetery to watch Isadora Duncan's ashes be place next to her children's in their memorial. Even people who had watched her dance decades before came ...
- 6245: Hernan Cortes
- ... In 1541 Cortes went on the expedition to Algiers. This was unsuccessful and there he was shipwrecked. After this expedition the court neglected Cortes and he retired in a small estate near Seville till his death in 1547. He died at the age of 62.
- 6246: Herman Melville
- ... characters that has a stubborn nature is captain Veere. He does not let his own feelings of those of the crew interfere with the strict facts of the case, which eventually resulted in Billy’s death. He remains stubborn with his decision and makes no exceptions in any case. Another personality trait Melville portrays in his writing is passive resistance. By Melville not changing his writing style to please society he ...
- 6247: Herbert Spencer
- ... future will be that of putting a limit to the powers of parliaments." Spencer’s political ideas hardly changed between 1842, when he published his Proper Sphere of Government, and 1903, the year of his death. The constancy of his political thought in the face of rapidly changing social and economic scene explains why the same ideas that were the last word in radical individualism in the eighteen-forties had become ...
- 6248: Henry VIII
- ... good with the ladies. Henry was the second son and the third child of his father. Henry the VIII died in 1509, the only reason Henry would become king is because of his brothers, Arthur, death in April of 1502. Soon after that, Henry would marry his first wife, his brother (Arthur's) widow, Catherine of Aragon. Many wifes would follow after her. During most of his early reign, Henry relied ...
- 6249: Henry Ford
- ... at the number two spot of the producer of all cars. Two years after Henry Ford stepped down from his position at Ford Motor Company, he passed away at the age of 84. When his death first occurred, many people were corrupt and argued that Ford’s way of business was unlawful because machines were replacing skilled men. However, in the minds of most individuals, Henry Ford will forever be remembered ...
- 6250: Harry S. Truman
- ... to 1949. In 1948 he was elected U.S. vice president on the Democratic ticket headed by Harry S. Truman. He was again elected U.S. senator from Kentucky in 1954 and served until his death on April 30, 1956. 9. Role of the President’s First Lady Harry Truman’s first lady was Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman who was born in 1885 and died in 1982. While she lived in ...
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