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- 4541: Edison
- ... to design things, which led to his working 20-hour days. When working on several inventions, Edison stayed awake for a week straight (Cousins 104). Furthermore, Edison never took time off. Even in his "vacation house" in Florida, he had a lab built so he could have working vacations (Thomas Alva Edison). Edison was a very prolific inventor. When he first started inventing, he forced his workers to stay at the ...
- 4542: English And French Relations I
- ... Lesage, attacked the federal Conservatives, and started the Quiet Revolution 196, with phrases like, "Maitre Chez-Nous." He promised the new generation of educated, affluent Quebec coters a chance to be "masters in our own house," quite different from any desire to be unified with Canada. Lesage's independent sentiment were reinforced at Expo 67 in Montreal, when French president De Gaulle endorsed and supported Quebec independence with his bold cry ...
- 4543: Early Chinese Immigrant
- ... disallowing citizenship of the Chinese. In late 1860's, violence started to arise from the hate. Whites rioted and killed many Chinese in towns all over California. In May 1876 some whites burned a Chinese house in Truckee and then shot the Chinese as they tried to escape. Although the town claimed to be outraged, those arrested were useless. They found not guilty. Examples like this show the inequalities of the ...
- 4544: Economics Of Eisenhower .
- ... Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970 Bonker, Don. Americas Trade Crisis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988 Branyan, Robert L., Larsen, Lawrence H. The Eisenhower Administration 1953-1961. New York: Random House, 1971 Melanson, Richard A., Mayers, David. Reevaluating Eisenhower American Foreign Policy in the 1950s. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987 Pach, Chester J. Jr., Richardson, Elmo. The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kansas ...
- 4545: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... success. His theories on musical poems and short prose narratives which were to aim at "a certain unique or single effect" can be for example be seen in "Ligeia"(1838) and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1839) which would eventually become one of his most famous stories. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is sometimes considered the first detective story. Examples of his use of a rythmic and ...
- 4546: Elvis Presley
- ... family on January 8, 1935. He and his twin brother (Jessie Garon who died at birth) were the sons of Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Smith Presley. Gladys Smith gave birth in two-room house built by her husband and her brother - in -law. His way of life was rough in Tupelo, Mississippi where he was born. He was born during the Great Depression. Elvis and his parents attended the ...
- 4547: Jack London(biography)
- ... observed in Japan, such as terracing and manure spreading, and was accomplished in animal husbandry. He was far ahead of his time in conceiving of the ranch as self-sufficient and self-regenerating. His Wolf House, for example, was built of rock and lumber from his property. He was much influenced by the Arts and Crafts philosophy in these regards. London's first marriage was to Bess Maddern, with whom he ...
- 4548: Life In Rome
- ... and craftsmen had their own district. If people were in the same trade, they would join together to form a collegia. When children were born, they were placed at the front of their fathers house, so the father could inspect the baby. The father could accept or reject the child. To accept the child, the father would pick it up. The baby is given a name eight or nine days ...
- 4549: Lbj
- ... Georgetown Law School, and in August, and became Texas administrator of the National Youth Administration. He served in the navy as a lieutenant commander during World War II, and he had six terms in the House. Later he became a Senator gaining a nickname "Landslide Lyndon" because he got tremendously many votes from Texas, which is his homestate. He was asked to run for the Vice Presidency during John F. Kennedy ...
- 4550: Latin America And Slavery
- ... of control from these outside interests did not in any way guarantee Latin America a return to the status quo. In fact, the inhabitants of Latin America had done very well in assimilating their in house controllers. They adopted European language, religion, color, and just about everything else that the European culture had to offer them. Although they were free to do as they please and run their own affairs in ...
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