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- 8961: Babe Ruth
- ... One night while Helen was sleeping in her home a serious problem occurred. There was an electrical failure which caused a large fire to burn down the house and it took Helen with it. The death of Helen would now allow Claire and George to get married. So they did so on April 17, 1929. Luckily Dorothy was not in the house at the time of the fire. Since Helen had ...
- 8962: Sojourner Truth
- ... blacks, so-called "Exodusters," did emigrate to Kansas from the South in 1877, the federal government never did heed Truth's call. Truth continued to speak out about rights for blacks and women until her death in Battle Creek, Michigan, on November 26, 1883.
- 8963: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- ... Myth, The Legend When George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856, the Crimean War was raging and Queen Victoria of Great Britain had barely reached middle age. By the time of his death in 1950, the atomic bomb and television were realities. "By living for nearly a century, Shaw was in a unique position to bear witness to the rise of modernity" (Bemrose 57). Shaw used his time ...
- 8964: Peter the Great
- ... for themselves and their owners. In the case of St. Petersburg the serfs had build without pay and those who did not build paid taxes. Peter was so mean that he tortured his son to death and that the people of Russia were saying some bad stuff under their breath about Peter. Due to the frequent wars the people that he drafted for the army had great chances of dying in ...
- 8965: Helen Keller
- ... that she was invited abroad and received many honours from foreign universities and monarchs. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom. After her death in 1968 an organisation was set up in her name to combat blindness in the developing world. Today that agency, Helen Keller International, is one of the biggest organisations working with blind people overseas. It ...
- 8966: Allen Ginsberg: Poet
- ... Ginsberg's poetry is classified as Contemporary American Poetry. Ginsberg was one of the most famous beat poets of our time, and continued writing and reading his poetry publicly up until the time of his death. On April 5, 1997 Allen Ginsberg died of a heart attack in his home in Manhattan, NY. He had had been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C since 1988. Allen Ginsberg was 70 years old. Works ...
- 8967: Sigmund Freud
- ... Freud also suggests that as long as an instinct operates internally it will remain silent and is only noticed when it is forced outward as an instinct of destruction. An example of this is the death instinct. Freud states that aggressive instincts are fixated in the interior of the Ego and being operated too often can be a danger to ones complete development as a human being. "A person in a ...
- 8968: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... the blacks getting their equality for long. On Thursday, April 4, 1968, just after six o'clock in the evening, Martin Luther King was shot and killed. People seemed to believe that he saw the death coming, because of the unusual speech he gave the same day, talking about how he has seen the promised land. 100,000 people followed the casket that held Martin Luther King. People were literally lining ...
- 8969: Bob Dylan
- ... image distinct from his Jewish heritage, enhancing his already growing career. Beyond this, an influential figure stepped into the light in his life. Woody Guthrie, a dieing folksinger emerged, consuming Dyaln's attention. After Guthries death in 1967 Dyaln adopted his styles of: a rough, hagard voice with guitar accompaniment in a folk music orientation. By the end of 1960 Bob Zimmerman made his final step into becoming Bob Dylan, the ...
- 8970: Andrew Carnegie
- ... contributed to each community so more libraries could be obtained. The philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie continued to benefit public libraries for many years and still has a slight impact today. By the time of his death in 1919, he had donated over $350,000,000. He achieved his beliefs that education is key and that knowledge should be free and easy accessible. His legend still lives on in the modern day ...
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