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- 5801: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... fifteen miles away. At sixteen he left school. Through the influence of Uncle Cent a place was found for him in the office of Goupil and Cie at The Hague. Goupil's was a conservative house, specializing in well-made reproductions of famous paintings. When he was twenty Vincent was transferred, with a fine recommendation, to the London branch of Goupil's. He found a room in the home of Mrs ...
- 5802: Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros?
- ... I do commend you for putting together a project that lets us the students express our opinions in a way that we’d like to. And even though I haven’t gone out of the house ALL WEEKEND at least I learned a little while I was here. Work Cited Chawla, Navin. Mother Teresa The Hilgress, Cliff. Cliff’s Notes on Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Nebraske: Cliffs Notes, Inc., 1997 ...
- 5803: Biography of Julius Caesar
- ... Spain for a year, Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia because of the allegation that she had been implicated in the offense of Publius Clodius. The latter was then awaiting trial for breaking into Caesar’s house the previous December disguised as a woman at the festival of the Bona Dea, which no man is allowed to attend. After his return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar was elected consul for ...
- 5804: Mark Twain
- ... editor of the Atlantic Monthly and a highly respected novelist, became his close friend and literary adviser. Twain bought a publishing firm in Hartford, Conn. He earned much money writing, lecturing, and in his publishing house, but he spent it on high living and unsuccessful investments. He lost a fortune promoting a typesetting machine. By 1894 his publishing company had failed and he was bankrupt. Twain set out on a world ...
- 5805: Is it Really Bad to Disobey?
- ... than Martin Luther King. He taught himself most things and received little schooling but became well known because of his determination. His dad's death was the result of the Ku Klux Klan burning his house down. Then his mother suffered a nervous breakdown and his family was split up. He was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther ...
- 5806: Frederick Douglass
- ... says, "We loved each other, and to leave them at the close of the Sabbath was a severe cross indeed. When I think that these precious souls are to-day shut up in the prison house of slavery, my feelings overcome me, and when I am almost ready to ask, 'Does a righteous God govern the universe?' and for what does he hold the thunders in his right hand, if not ...
- 5807: Life of Julius Caesar
- ... to govern Further Spain for a year, Caesar divorced his wife Pompeiabecause of the allegation that she had been implicated in the offense ofPublius Clodius. The latter was then awaiting trial for breaking intoCaesar’s house the previous December disguised as a woman at thefestival of the Bona Dea, which no man is allowed to attend. After his return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar waselected consul for 59 BC ...
- 5808: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... 697 - 698 Western Civilization volume II). "No longer was Napoleon a poor Corsican with shabby clothes and cheap boots. He dressed well, took part in the gay life of Paris, and often visited the grand house of Barras. There he met Josephine de Beauharnais, the widow of a French nobleman." (pg.7 Britannica Junior Encyclopedia #11 N-O). On March 9, 1796, Napoleon married Josephine and two days later left to ...
- 5809: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... 697 - 698 Western Civilization volume II). "No longer was Napoleon a poor Corsican with shabby clothes and cheap boots. He dressed well, took part in the gay life of Paris, and often visited the grand house of Barras. There he met Josephine de Beauharnais, the widow of a French nobleman." (pg.7 Britannica Junior Encyclopedia #11 N-O). On March 9, 1796, Napoleon married Josephine and two days later left to ...
- 5810: John F. Kennedy
- ... his crew and because of this he received medals of honors. Kennedy was later discharged from the Navy in 1945, After hurting his back and catching malaria. In 1946 Kennedy was voted into the US. House of Representatives. As a congressman Kennedy went for the bills that went to help the working class people. And he sided with Truman's foreign policies except for America's weak stand against communist's ...
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