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- 6431: Booker T. Washington 2
- ... opposers. Washington continued his idea of incorporating blacks into society by finding several organizations, including the National Negro Business League, which was to further black advancement. Washington also remained principal of Tuskegee Institute till his death on November 14, 1915. Booker T. Washington is one of the most important people to the African-American race as well as the American race. His ideas were very initiative at the time and were ...
- 6432: Booker T. Washington
- ... men and women how they too could raise themselves. Washington s method of uplifting was education of the head, the hand, and the heart. From his founding of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 to his death in 1915 Booker T. Washington exerted a tremendous influence on the people that surrounded him. With his emphasis on industrial education Washington s approach gave African-Americans hope of accomplishment and success. Growing up in ...
- 6433: Bontsha And Gimpel
- ... child with madness. The greatness of his faith is rendered further when witnesses his wife cheating on him and giving birth to another child that could not possibly be his. Moreover, after his wife s death Gimpel did not cease loving her and dreamt of her at night. Gimpel the Fool helped Singer illustrate the greatness of someone who lives by simply having faith: it is written that a good man ...
- 6434: Bonnie And Clyde
- ... home Clyde developed two interests that remained with him to the end of hid life: a passion for music, and an obsession with guns. Even as Clyde drove along the lane in Louisiana to his death, he carried a saxophone and reams of sheet music, as well as an arsenal of firearms. Clyde loved and named his guns, and regarded them as tokens of his power. At the age of sixteen ...
- 6435: Bob Marley
- ... has him saying, ³Just canΉt live that negative way ... make way for that positive day.² Unfortunately Marley was a very smart guy and he knew of his fate. Being a visionary, Marley foresaw his death. He realized reality and what was going to happen to him. An internet source titled ³thirdfield² writes these lyrics by Marley: ³ One bright morning when my work is over I will fly homeΉ² Marley was ...
- 6436: Biography Of Karl Marx
- ... back to Europe with Engels and began to get involved in European politics again. During his last years Marx spent much time at health resorts and even traveled to Algiers. He was broken by the death of his wife on Dec. 2, 1881, and of his eldest daughter, Jenny Longuet, on Jan. 11, 1883. He died in London, evidently of a lung abscess, on March 14, 1883. Marx seems to have ...
- 6437: Billie Holiday
- ... life and career never or rarely got family approval or recognition (W 13). The extent to which Billie did not get along with her family is evident as she was chastised for her grandmother's death at the age of six (E). The turmoil within Billie's family was manifested when Billie commented later on in life that "As far as I'm Concerned, all the Fagans are dead" (W 14 ...
- 6438: Benjamin Banneker
- ... and new moons, times of sunrise and sunset, tide tables for the Chesapeake Bay, and news about festivals and horse habits. Benjamin Banneker was a truly successful person, as well as an outstanding mathematician. His death in Baltimore County, Md., in 1806 was a terrible tragedy.
- 6439: Benito Mussolini 2
- ... was trying more and more to reform Italy as a Fascist government. But as we all know as German defenses in Italy collapsed, Mussolini's army crumbled to little Italian pieces. He tried to avoid death by crossing the frontier as a German soldier, but they recognized him, he was shot and killed. His body was hung with his mistresses, head downward, in the Piazza Loreto in Mila
- 6440: Benedict Arnold
- ... was taking place, Arnold was en route to Quebec. Arnold s men were constantly flirting with disaster. All sorts of problems plagued Arnold s men; from contaminated food and water, which led to sickness and death, to the winter months that brought snow and cold, which in turn produced frostbite. Hunger and fatigue was another problem that the troops had to overcome, for this, Arnold went ahead of his troops to ...
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