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- 5731: The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... With the birth of their third son Franklin Jr. he seemed to be very delicate. He died at 7 months. Eleanor went into a depression because she thought any thing that went wrong in the house was her fault. Eleanor would blame herself for the rest of her life. Franklin and Eleanor moved to Washington where they hired a social secretary named Lucy. Later Eleanor found out that Lucy and Franklin ...
- 5732: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... biographer. She was awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize for best biography in 1964 for Victoria R.I. Longford claimed the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award twice with Wellington,1969, and The Royal House of Windsor, Winston Churchill in 1974. It is with this same thoroughness and true human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II. Though ...
- 5733: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... working conditions and a higher salary. After the strike threatened the nations security because of the vital necessity of coal for fuel, the president invited bit the employers and their employees to the White House. Using his power of influence, Roosevelt called Morgan to control his workers. He warned the robber barren that anarchy and a revolution would arise if the coal operators refused to compromise. Naturally, J. P. Morgan ...
- 5734: John Wilkes Booth
- ... box. He went out the back door and rode away on his horse. He shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day. After his escape, he stopped at Dr. Samuel Mudd's house to get a splint for his leg. He hid in thickets for days. Then finally he was found on April 26 in Bowling Green, Virginia, with David E. Harold. He got cornered in an old ...
- 5735: Biography of Anne Frank
- ... 1933, in response to Hitlers anti-Jewish decrees, Mr. Frank opened a branch of his company, Opteka, in Amsterdam and began planning to bring his family there. The Frank family finally moved into a house on Medwedplein in Southern Amsterdam in 1933 and Anne began to attend the nearby Montessori school, where she excelled. Seven years later, 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and in five days, Holland surrendered to ...
- 5736: The Life of a Jamestown Colonist
- ... land. The settlers who were brought over to Jamestown under the headright system were to be indenture servants. Another reform that changed life for the better in Jamestown was the formation of representative government. The House of Burgesses became the lawmaking body. Another reform that made me especially happy was the arrival of ninety women in 1619. Up until that time, I had been the only woman in Jamestown because the ...
- 5737: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than King, an atmosphere of fear and anger where the seeds of bitterness were planted. The burning of his house by the Klu Klux Klan resulted in the murder of his father. His mother later suffered a nervous breakdown and his family split up. He was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his ...
- 5738: Malcolm X
- ... was red. After a year in Harlem, Malcolm was officially initiated into hustler society. He returned to Boston in 1945 after falling out with another hustler, and continued a life of crime, forming his own house robbing gang. Arrested for robbery in February 1946, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for seven years. While in prison, Malcolm became a follower of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of a small black cult ...
- 5739: William Shakespeare
- ... near Stratford. Richard Hathaway's will does not specify a daughter Anne, but names her Agnes, a name used interchangeably for Anne in the sixteenth century. He was a substantial, Warwickshire farmer with a spacious house and fields. The banns were asked only once in church, rather than the customary three times, because the bride was some three months pregnant and there was reason for haste in concluding the marriage. She ...
- 5740: Theodore Roosevelts Domestic Accomplishments As President
- ... the American industry and commerce. He expanded the powers of responsibility of the presidential office, establishing the model of the modern presidency, which has been followed by most of his presidential successors in the White House. One of his greatest achievements was his work for conservation. During his tenure in office he designated one hundred and fifty national forests, the first 51 federal bird reservations, five national parks, the first 18 ...
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