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- 8941: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... literally remade his body, becoming the muscular individual who stands out in the photographs of many history books. On October 27, 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee. This supremely happy union ended with Alice’s death on February 14, 1884, following the birth of a daughter. On the same day Theodore’s mother passed away. From 1884 to 1886, because of his loneliness, Roosevelt wrote writing history books and operated a ...
- 8942: Jean Toomer
- ... grownups, an attitude which made them keep their hands off me; keep, as it were, a respectable distance." Eugene and Nina and a new husband moved to New York in 1906; however, upon Nina's death in 1909, Nathan moved back to Washington and his grandparents. When Jean Toomer graduated from high school he began traveling. He studied at five places of higher education in a period of less than four ...
- 8943: Charles Darwin
- ... Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" or "The Origin of the Species" for short. After publication of Origin of Species, Darwin continued to write about botany, geology, biology and zoology until his death. Darwin's work had a tremendous impact on religious thought. Many people strongly opposed the idea of evolution because it conflicted with their religious convictions. Other people understood the scientific foundation of it and realized ...
- 8944: Alexander Hamilton
- ... His Father was a Scotsman named James Hamilton. His father abandoned him along with his brother James and his mom in 1765. The first written record of Alexander Hamilton’s life is his mother’s death certificate, which stated he was 13. This was written in 1768. What is know about his early life is that he lived on the island of St. Croix as part of the lower class white ...
- 8945: Benedict Arnold
- ... Benedict Arnold was stewing only a couple of miles away. The shots of the soldiers taunted him, as he longed to return to combat. Unable to bear the strain any longer, Arnold shouted, "Victory or Death!" and took flight on his horse towards his men and the battle ahead. Gates noticed Arnold's return, and ordered Major John Armstrong bring him back. Armstrong was never able to overtake Arnold, as he ...
- 8946: The Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor
- The Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor, a prolific Southern author, was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925 during the Great Depression. After her father’s death from lupus when O’Connor was fifteen, she and her mother moved to Andulusia, a rural quail farm outside of Milledgeville, Georgia. O’Connor herself was diagnosed with lupus at the age of twenty-five ...
- 8947: Socrates
- ... to listen to a word that he said, for he was contridicting everything that Athens has stood for and known their whole life. He was put to trial and found guilty, and was sentenced to death. Without Socrates and the many scientist that died to learn more about the earth and the way of living, we might still be living in the past. With Socrates coming out and not being afraid ...
- 8948: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... support at the bay of Pigs “as Jim Marrs states in his book “CROSSFIRE”. He also had known C.I.A connections. He was found dead from a prescription drug overdose. The facts of his death were questionable. Was it suicide or murder? Clay Gertrud, or Clay Shaw, was investigated and evidence proved strong enough for charges to be brought against him for conspiracy to assassinate the President. His connections or ...
- 8949: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... he and Emma escaped from London to live in the Kent countryside. The couple were rich and wealth meant security and self-financing. Of their ten children, two died, and ten-year-old Annie's death from typhoid in 1851 stripped away Darwin's final shreds of belief in Christianity. Thus did twenty years pass for the closet evolutionist. Through the decades, he declined to stay in other people's houses ...
- 8950: Life of Charles Robert Darwin
- ... species. Nature fascinated him. When Charles was only eight years old, his mother died. She had had poor health since the birth of her second child, Caroline. Dr. Darwin became grumpy, and impatient after the death of his wife. At the age of nine Charles went to Shrewsbury School, where his older brother Erasmus was already attending school. The school was very strict, and Charles found the lessons mindless and boring ...
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