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- 6481: FDR
- ... will always be debated. However, one thing that no one can deny is that Roosevelt took an atypical route on his way to becoming President. Whether he was fighting an illness or coping with the death of a loved one, Roosevelt always managed to keep himself on track and to persist towards his goals and those of the country. People remember FDR for his actions during the Great Depression and World ...
- 6482: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... for the "delight" in the horror of a "rushing annihilation" from such a height. What "would be our sensations?" (273) The narrator points out that it is the very loathsomeness and ghastliness of such a death which causes one to most vividly desire it. "If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and ...
- 6483: Daniel Webster
- ... as one of three Whig party candidates but carried only Massachusetts. For the remainder of his career he aspired vainly to the presidency. In 1841, President William Henry Harrison named Webster secretary of state. The death of Harrison (April 1841) brought John Tyler to the presidency, and in September 1841 all the Whigs but Webster resigned from the cabinet. Webster remained to settle a dispute with Great Britain involving the Maine ...
- 6484: Adolf Hitler
- ... concentration camps were set up to speed up the process to rid the world of the Jewish faith. By the end of the war, approximately six million Jews had been shot, gassed, or worked to death.3 By April, 1945, Hitler realized that his attempt to take over the world was now useless. The war was virtually lost for Germany. Part of his goal had been accomplished though. He had killed ...
- 6485: Adolf Hitler
- ... opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry." The only people which would be spared where the Scandinavians to the north, since they were closely related to the German race. With Hitler's death the Nazi party quickly fated. But there is still a lot of tension in todays Germany. Word Count: 1966
- 6486: Adolf Hitler
- ... be in the service. World War I began August 1914 and Hitler immediately signed for the Germany Army and was accepted. He served as a messenger and was decorated twice for bravery after two near death experiences. He was promoted to corporal. While recovering from an battle injury that caused temporary blindness, Germany surrendered to her enemies in November 1918. Hitler was angered and felt compelled to save Germany. In the ...
- 6487: Voltaire
- ... thought to criticize the French government and Voltaire was forced to flee Paris again. In 1759 Voltaire purchased an estate called "Ferney" near the French-Swiss border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile Voltaire produced a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of reason, and an outspoken critic of ...
- 6488: Twiggy
- ... to be beautiful, starvation level is required. It appears that the media and the fashion industry would have the public believe that ultra thinness symbolizes beauty when in reality, the standard represents infertility, and premature death. The public has to realize that Twiggy was different. Her slenderness was natural, and everyone should not set their physical goals to that of hers, because it is physically impossible. Twiggy is revolutionary. She is ...
- 6489: Thomas_Jefferson
- ... failed to elicit any concessions, devastated the nation's economy for a generation, and alienated New England, which lived by foreign trade. Retirement After leaving office he retired to Monticello where he lived until his death on July 4, 1826, corresponding with John Adams about the great issues of revolution and constitutinalism, trying to preserve his declinig estate for his daughters instead of his creditors, and brooding aver the baneful effects ...
- 6490: The Life And Works Of Frederic
- ... tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendτme. He was buried in the Pθre-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. In accordance with his will, however, his sister brought his heart, taken from his body after death, to Warsaw where it was placed in an urn installed in a pillar of the Holy Cross church in Krakowskie Przedmiscie. Chopin published 159 works distributed among sixty-five opus numbers, but he also composed ...
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