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- 3761: John Dalton
- John Dalton was born in September 5,1766 in Eaglesfield in Cumberland, England. Dalton and his family lived in a small country house. His family had been Quakers since 1690. Quakers where members of a society of friends. John had a brother named Mary and A brother named Charles, when he was born his brother was twelve years ...
- 3762: John Brown
- ... to his side. Instead, numerous bands of militia and a company of United States Marines under Bvt. Colonel Robert E. Lee hastened to the river village, where they trapped the raiders inside the fire-engine house and on the eighteenth stormed the building. The fighting ended with ten of Brown’s people killed and seven captured, Brown among them. During his trial, Brown’s last speech attempting to justify himself infront ...
- 3763: Joesph Mengele
- ... create concentration camps were thousands of Jews were executed, along with other races. Josef, seeing the logic in Hitler's statements, commenced to try and create the 'super race'. Auschwitz was Mengele's home, his house, his place to carry out his evil intentions. Auschwitz was the most streamlined mass killing centre created and was one of the five "death camps" constructed by the Nazis. This is were Mengele would attempt ...
- 3764: JFK: Was His Assassination Inevitable?
- ... and the Russians were more than eager to return the favor. This led to what is now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 16, 1962 Kennedy called his closest advisors to the White House. The CIA had verified that nuclear missiles were indeed present in Cuba, Kennedy had to react fast. He eventually decided to launch a naval blockade to prevent any further missiles from entering Cuba. Though threatened ...
- 3765: James Baldwin
- ... There, he first met Richard Wright (an African-American author whose strong protests against racial prejudice made him one of his generation's most important spokespersons) and began his first novel, In My Father's House. It was not until four years later that James Baldwin began to receive recognition, such as awards and fellowships, for his writings. It was at this time that Baldwin published his first essay, "The Harlem ...
- 3766: Jackie Robinson
- ... family became poor and had to live in a cabin. Soon after that, in 1920, Mallie sold a few of her family’s things and the family boarded a train to California. They bought a house on Pepper Street in Pasadena. As child, Jackie enjoyed sports as much as the next kid did. Just before he started school, he became ill with Diphtheria and almost died! He was an average student ...
- 3767: Jack Kevorkian
- ... him to employ his services (Wolfson 56). Her husband complained to Dr. Kevorkian that he had to remind her of the times of her tennis lessons, and that she kept leaving her purse in the house. After the brief conversation, Kevorkian agreed to meet with her (Gutmann 20). ³Dr. Kevorkian was a retired pathologist in Michigan with a passionate commitment to promoting assisted suicide and the use of his Œsuicide machine ...
- 3768: J.D. Salinger
- ... Salinger. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc, 1963. Green, Becky S. Biographical Sketch. Pennsylvania University. 7 February 2000. <www.pen.eiu.edu/~covgi/biograph.htm> Hamilton, Ian. In Search of J.D. Salinger. New York: Random House Inc, 1988. Jones, Bonsey. Biographical Notes: J.D. Salinger. FringeWare, Inc. 7 February 2000. <www.fringware.com/subcolt/J_D_Salinger.html> "Zen" Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia (1986 ed.), 28, 146
- 3769: Henry David Thoreau
- ... in 1841, John Thoreau, Henry's beloved older brother, became very ill, most likely with tuberculosis, and in early May a poor and distraught Henry David moved into the upstairs of Ralph Waldo Emerson's house (35). On March 11, 1842 John died, and Henry's life long friend and companion was gone (40). In early 1845 Thoreau decided to make a sojourn to nearby Walden Pond, where Emerson had recently ...
- 3770: Harriet Tubman
- ... the head with a shovel and she blacked out. From then on she had awful migraines and would sometimes just collapse on the ground while she was working. She served as a field hand and house servant on a Maryland plantation. In 1844 she married John Tubman, who was a free black. In 1849 she escaped to the North, where slaves could be free before the outbreak of the American Civil ...
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