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- 4591: Fredric Remington
- ... then he signs a 4-year contract with Colliers. In 1908 he buys property for new home and studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut. In 1909 His Colliers contract is terminated so then he exhibits work at Doll and Richards Gallery in Boston. He has a lot of success in his exhibits. He is very unhealthy and over weight and he has a lot of health problems and on December 26 1909 He ...
- 4592: Frank Sinatra
- ... a half later. In the early 70’s at the age of 55, he felt that he was becoming too old and decided to retire from his singing career. He then sang at the White House for President Richard Nixon and Nixon told him he should continue with his singing career because he had such an excellent voice. So Sinatra began singing again. He kept on singing into his late 70 ...
- 4593: Fort Henry And Donelson
- ... Tennessee, guarding the Cumberland River, became the site of the first major Confederate defeat in the Civil War. Victory at Donelson started Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant on his road to Appomattox and the White House. His cool judgment under pressure saved the day after the Confederates threatened to break his troop lines, yet errors by his opponents handed him a victory that he did not fully earn on his own ...
- 4594: First And Second Reconstructio
- ... Ginzberg and Alfred S. Eichner, Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black Americans (London: Transaction Publishers, 1993) p.153. 9 Ibid. p.159. 10 Ibid. p. 161. 11 A total of twenty-two Blacks served in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction. C. Eric Lincoln, The Negro Pilgrimage in America (New York: Bantam, 1967) p.65. 12 In the Presidential election of 1876, the Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, captured a majority of the ...
- 4595: Feudal Japan
- ... the male) 'dips his spear into the ocean and creates Japan along with Izanami (the female). They procure a pantheon of gods, and it is through this natural divinity that the hegemony of the Yamato House is mythically legitimized" (Lewis 1999). Here Lewis explains the myth of how Japan was created. He uses reference in relating the relationship of man, with the kami, or gods. "Kobutai refers to the traditional assertion ...
- 4596: Female Slaves And Their Famili
- ... when the crops were harvested. The family was important to most slave women, and they had ways of making sure that they stayed together, though these weren't foolproof. A woman assigned to the Big House when the rest of her family was on the fields could rebel, thus making "a mistress's life miserable by literally doing nothing." This would often cause the mistress to send the woman to the ...
- 4597: Fbi
- ... Director, five men were arrested photographing documents at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The break-in had been authorized by Republican Party officials. Within hours, the White House began its effort to cover up its role, and the new Acting FBI Director was inadvertently drawn into it. FBI Agents undertook a thorough investigation of the break-in and related events. However, when Gray ...
- 4598: European Settlements
- ... union that led to a period of peace with the Indians. Under the leadership of Sir Thomas Dale and Sir George Yeardley, De La Warr's successors as governor, the colony began to prosper. The House of Burgesses was found in 1619; that same year saw the importation of the first slaves to labor in the tobacco fields. In 1622, a new chief, Opechancanough, Powhatan's successor, organized a sudden attack ...
- 4599: Europe And The New World
- ... had such warm feelings towards them. This being their ability to trust and their innocence towards war and hate. Despite this, it must be understood that the American natives weren’t ‘marched to the slaughter house’ as many historians would have us believe. There was indeed conflict between the westerners and the natives, that natives did fight for their land and rights, however on many occasions they were defeated by weapons ...
- 4600: Egyptian And Mexican Pyramids
- ... civilization.ca/membrs/civiliz/maya/mmc01eng.html Newby, P.H. The Egypt story, its art, its monuments, its people, its history. Italy: Abbreville Press: 1979. Payne, Elizabeth. The pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. New York: Random House, Inc. 1984. “Photographs of Maya ruins of Tikal showing how Hasselblad cameras and Zeiss lenses result in better pictures”. Maya Art & books. International Photographic Archive of Maya Art. June 1998. http://www.maya-art-books ...
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