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- 1411: John Wilkes Booth
- ... professional actor before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Today his life is often forgotten and is also overlooked in schools around the world John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 in a log house. The family home was on property near Bel Air, Maryland, twenty- five miles south of the Mason- Dixon line. Elder brother Edwin supervised his younger brother's upbringing. Later Edwin and older sister Asia would ... was important to the cops and to the world because this is what John Wilkes Booth used as a planner of some sort.) At 4:00 a.m. on April 15, they arrived at the house of Dr. Samuel Mudd. Booth received medical treatment for his injured leg and both men were extended hospitality by the Mudds. Early in the afternoon, April 15, Booth and Herold headed into the nearby Zekiah ... for the pair at the Garrett farm. Herold then left Booth at the Garrett farm with the three soldiers and headed for Bowling Green, Virginia. The men stopped at a tavern, described by some as "...house of entertainment," and continued chatting and drinking for several hours. Herold spent the night of April 23 at a nearby family farm. The next morning two ex- Confederate soldiers brought Herold back to the ...
- 1412: Bill Clinton - Redefines Democratic-Republican
- ... is the two party Democrat and GOP system which the majority of politicians of current day subscribe. However, many political and economic analysts find themselves perplexed by an incredible new phenomenon radiating from the white house - the economic policies of President Bill Clinton. This dilemma has left many wondering, did we elect a democrat or a republican? Has Clinton unintentionally begun a campaign to reunite the two rivals? The telltale signs ... sixth for defense programs and another one-sixth for "non- defense discretionary spending" (Rauch 2). Perhaps the most touted aspect of the initial Clinton administration was its ability to "create" jobs. According to the White House, almost six million jobs have been created in the past four years, and the unemployment rate in Texas has dropped from 7.5% to 5.8% (Progress 1). This is a level well below the ... rich only seem to get richer. Traditionally, aspiring presidents promise one (or several) things in regard to taxes during the election, yet deliver an entirely different bag of goods upon actual inhabitance of the white house. Clinton proved no exception by raising the marginal tax rates in 1993. At the current time, Clinton is considering a modified capital gains tax cut, despite the fact that this taxation has made sizable ...
- 1413: Richard Lederer: His Works
- ... we wear a pair of pants but, except on airy cold days, not a pair of shirts. That's why we can open up the floor, climb the walls, raise the roof, pick up the house, and bring down the house. Still, you have to marvel at the unique lunacy of the English language, in which your house can simultaneously burn up and burn down, in which you fill in a form by filling out a form, in which you add up a column of figures by adding them down, in which ...
- 1414: America Is In The Heart
- ... When his brother Macario went home to visit, Allos was speechless. He’s not used to see an educated man. He dressed formal, talked and acted like a real gentleman. When they all gathered on house, Macario said that he needed more money to finish three more months of school. But the money wasn’t enough for three months. So their father decided that they will sell the remaining hectare of ... kill them for no reason. Allos was hired for a job on a place called Moxee City as an apple picker. Few days after, they were attacked by white men, shooting, burned their employer’s house and killed his daughters. He ran away, and decided to take a freight to California. Allos always hoped he could go to California to look for his brothers. He reached Stockton after several days. There ... the man. Allos realized that he needs to work, but he is too weak. He remembered when he and Max robbed an old Japanese man. He walked down the street and passed by an open house. He looked inside and saw a diamond ring. He took it and sold it to a gambler. He sent a doctor to check his brother and bought enough groceries that will last for three ...
- 1415: Tom And Daisy Buchanon (the Gr
- ... plastic world, they could ignore it or pay someone else to fix it. Daisy considered her daughter a possession. She showed her off like a new piece of furniture. She dressed her up like a doll, presented her to her company, and could always send her off to the nanny when she was done. She calls her daughter "Bles-sed Pre-cious", or "the baby", never by her name, throughout the ... them that there had just been three deaths. They took off with reckless abandon to ignore the mess they had made, and left others to live with the consequences. Tom and Daisy bought a new house and went away to Europe to replace the void in their lives left by their dead lovers. Everything was replaceable, no matter what it was and they knew not what they did. The 20's ...
- 1416: Elvis Presley
- ... Life On January 8, 1935 at 4:35 a.m., a little boy by the name of Elvis Aaron Presley was born to parents Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Presley in a two-room house located in Tupelo, Mississippi. Little did anyone know that this little boy would forever change the world of music and entertainment. Although this was a happy occasion for both of them, it was also a ... famous GI haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. The draft leads him to Fort Hood, Texas where he goes through basic training. He is stationed there for six months, and his parents moved to a temporary house near the base as soon as they could. After a couple of years, Elvis gets promoted to Sergeant before he leaves West Germany for good. On March 5, 1960, he is officially discharged from active ... lived on. III. Impact on History Elvis wasn t just a musician; he starred in 33 successful films including Love Me Tender, King Creole (playing the role James Dean was slated to play), and Jail House Rock . Some later movies included GI Blues, Fun In Acapulco, and others that were considered uninspired and repetitious. Globally, Elvis has sold over one billion records; more than any other artist. His American sales ...
- 1417: The Republic
- ... it. The only thing I can figure is that everyone would be equal and raised by everyone else as a community and not as a family and all the children would be raised in one house and all the carpenters would live in one house and all the butchers would live in one house and so on. He also says that other evils, against which it is not easy for the authors of such a community to guard, will be assaults and homicides, voluntary as well as involuntary, ...
- 1418: A Crime In The Neighborhood
- ... had been raped and murdered, his body dumped behind the local mall. While shaken residents organized a neighborhood watch program and clued detectives in on anyone’s suspicious behavior, the inhabitants of at least one house were distracted by a tragedy of their own: 10-year-old Marsha Eberhardt’s father, Larry, had run off with his sister-in-law, leaving his wife and three children to manage on their own ... Marsha’s evidence notebook, “around the middle of July-July 20th to be exact, three and a half weeks after my father and Aunt Ada disappeared, [ I ] saw Mr. Green’s car drive past the house, two hours before he normally got home from work. Later Mr.Green pulled up ten minutes before his usual time ... he looked sallow as he got out of his car, a little bruised around the ... be. Once the detective arrived much was accomplished by questioning Marsha. She had told the detective about how everyone thinks he’s weird and that she saw him hiding in the bushes near the Ellisons’ house. Marsha twisted the truth a bit and didn’t tell the detective all she knew. Lois had warned her that it was not a good idea to go around accusing people of things. When ...
- 1419: Comparison of "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
- ... real detail he gives about the surroundings is that he lives on the Cross Corners of New Hampshire and that he's on a farm. The story doesn't give much description on what his house looks like or the scenery. Also, in “The Devil and Daniel Webster” it tells the story at a quicker pace. Jabez meets the Devil and makes a deal before the story and plot really develop very much. In the “Devil and Tom Walker” the story goes into a lot of details about how his house is raggedy, ugly, and trashy looking. No man traveling ever stops at their house. His wife hides things, is mean, and a loud-mouth. The story describes how Tom walked through the murky swamp and how he met “Old Scratch” unlike “The Devil and Daniel Webster” when all ...
- 1420: Character Sketch of Mr. Pignatti
- ... ever you want" he says with a big smile,. Mr. Pignatti gives Lorriane and John something that there parents don't, freedom. For the reasons listed above John and Lorriane often go to Mr. Pignatti house. John and Lorriane love the pig man, they find many qualities in him that they don't find in there own parents. It nice to get away from the nagging sometimes. At first John and ... over exerts him self and has a heart attack. Mr. Pignatti must stay at the hospital to recover, amazingly he gives the keys to John and Lorriane! Their parents would never let them have the house for a week. Mr. Pignatti comes home and day early and finds his house a mess he is very devastated. The next day John, Lorriane and Mr. Pignatti go to the zoo to visit Boob. When Mr. Pignatti finds out Boob died of Phunemonia he has a second ...
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