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- 7411: Billy The Kid
- ... Billy like a son and Billy loved him a lot. But in February 1878, a rival cattle outfit killed Tunstall. Billy vowed vengeance on anyone who was involved in the horrible murder of Tunstall. The death of Tunstall started the Lincoln County War in which Billy played a major part. This "War" was actually a struggle between two rival groups of businessmen and ranchers. Murders and depredations between the two groups ...
- 7412: Bible - Role Of Abraham
- ... does he make Sarah conceive. After Sarah dies, he goes to great lengths to secure a burial place for her and "came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her." When he is near death, Abraham tells a servant, "Thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and ...
- 7413: Betsy Ross
- ... she knew how, but despite her efforts he died in the middle of January. Against her parents will, Betsy continued to run the upholstery shop. Six months later, in June of 1776, with her husbands death behind her she was approached by George Washington, Robert Morris, and her uncle George Ross. They wanted to discuss the possibility of her sewing the first American flag. The meeting was held in the back ...
- 7414: Berlin Wall 2
- ... 160 killed, and 120 injured, while 5000 managed to escape the soldiers. The was in segments with a luminated area on the eastern side know as the watch area, but more commonly known as the "death area" (refugees reaching this area were shot without warning). Beyond this was an anti-vehical trentch, patrol tacks, watchdogs, watch towers, bunkers, automatic firing systems, then a second wall.The border cut through192 streets, about ...
- 7415: Ben Quarles Negro In The Revol
- ... schooner Patriot, which was involved in many battles, one of them capturing the British ship Fanny. For his wartime efforts the legislature bought him from his master and was set free. Many years after his death his daughter received about three thousand acres of land in Ohio for her fathers services. Between 1775 to 1781 there were not any battles without black participants. Black soldiers fought for the colonies at Lexington ...
- 7416: Before 1640, Parliament Was No
- ... Montague who Charles had to protect. Foreign policy, Charles followed a policy of war, to protect his sister in the Palatinate and failed raids to Spain led by the much disliked Buckingham. Buckingham upto his death was continuously attacked because of his close relationship to the King, as Sir Edwin Sandys sarcastically remarked "that great man, the Duke of Buckingham". Charles reacted to this opposition, "...it is now the labour of ...
- 7417: Battle Of Gettysburg
- ... s performance on July 1 harshly. Yet the fact remains that Howard, like Buford, Doubleday, and Reynolds before him, saw that the ground at Gettysburg was the best the AOP could hope for in their death struggle with the ANV. Leaving a division under Brigadier General Adolph von Steinwehr in reserve on Cemetery Hill south of Gettysburg, Howard rushed the rest of his winded men, who had come into Gettysburg on ...
- 7418: Baseball And American Popular
- ... 1950s, and 1960s, changing race relations appeared in the major leagues. Nineteen ninety-seven marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first black baseball player, Jackie Robinson, permitted to play in major league baseball. He tolerated death threats, white teammates spitting on him, and lack of enthusiasm by the press. Eventually, people came to realize that African Americans had a place in baseball and the rest of society. Soon, more black players ...
- 7419: Babylonia A Great Civilization
- ... with a "contract inscribed on a tablet." "Children were under the absolute authority of their parents." They could disinherit them or sell them into slavery. But under normal conditions, children were loved and, at the death of the parents, inherited all their possessions. Adopted children were not uncommon and were treated nicely and cared for properly. Thus, this shows that the Babylonian civilization was quite civilized and had a daily way ...
- 7420: Aztec Indians 2
- ... a man prisoner - the newborn child. During the afternoon the souls of the mothers lead the sun to its setting, where the stars die and where the sun, like the eagle in his fall to death, is gathered close again to the earth. Each day this divine combat is begun anew, but in order for the sun to triumph he must be strong and vigorous. For that reason man must give ...
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