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- 5871: William Henry Gates III
- ... twenties, was developing a completely new set of election tactics, using personal computer networks and electronic mail, or "e-mail". Many of these twenty-some-odd-year-old mini-Clintons, who now occupy the White House, show up for work in sneakers, T-shirts, and jeans, and spend each day, from morn till night, tapping away at personal-computer keyboards. As I myself have often experienced of late, when you exchange ...
- 5872: Jimmy Hoffa, His Life and Disappearance
- ... school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years as a teenager were also charged with a special kind of radiant energy. At the youthful age of seventeen Hoffa was unloading boxcars at the Kroger grocery chain warehouse in Detroit for thirty ...
- 5873: Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
- ... Enlightenment as a student at the College of William and Mary, Jefferson displayed throughout his life an optimistic faith in the power of reason to regulate human affairs. As a young member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Jefferson questioned British colonial policies and was an early advocate of American rights. His forceful pamphlet A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) gained him the reputation that placed him ...
- 5874: Nathan McCall
- ... and encouraged him to change his lifestyle. He read books as part of the prison programming and was influenced by authors that wrote about being Black. In February '94 he landed a contract with Random House; the hard-back edition of his book made The New York Times best-seller list. "I'm one of those brothers who slipped through the cracks," he said. But being successful meant he had to ...
- 5875: Julius Caesar Biography
- ... praetor, and the optimates became nervous for the first time because of his popularity. Again they accused Caesar of a crime. They said he was desecrating some secret ceremonies which women in the high priest house held. He then divorced his wife to fix this accusation and stop larger troubles. Caesar was now in debt and got Marcus Licinius Crassus, the richest man in Rome, to pay his 830 talents (7 ...
- 5876: Biography of James Polk (11th President)
- ... President) Often called the first "dark horse" (because no one counted on him to become president in the 1944 election) President James K. Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to sit in the White House, and the last strong President until the Civil war. He was born in Mecklenburg County, N. Carolina, in 1795. Hard working and industrious, Polk graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina ...
- 5877: Richelieu and Olivares: The Quest for European Domination
- ... career in the Nicandro Olivares argued that, while he had not always been successful, at least- unlike his rival- he had not adopted measures that offended against God, religion and the high traditions of the House of Austria (126). Cardinal Richelieu explained his reasons for allying with Protestants in order to defeat the Habsburgs: [they were] absolutely necessary for the salvation of the Duke of Mantua, who had been unjustly attacked ...
- 5878: Biography of Robert Cormier
- ... He attended St. Celia's Parochial Grammar School, where some of the nuns gave him a terrible time. When he was in eighth grade, he watched in horror from his classroom window as his own house caught fire and burned. His teacher refused to let him go to see if his family was safe until he had said the requisite prayers. This incident enraged him for years afterward. One of the ...
- 5879: Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
- ... establish himself as a force of literary jouranalism. Over the years he discovered new forms of poetry. He exemplifies a form in Ligeia (1838), he conidered his best piece of work The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1839). The Murders In The Rue Morgue (1841) was his first detective story, his musical mellifious verses are The Raven (1845) and The Bells (1849). Virginia died in 1847 it was very straining ...
- 5880: J.P. Morgan
- ... in a week (Sinclair 129). In addition to his business dealings, J.P. Morgan was also a great philanthropist. In his lifetime, he gave St. George's Church in New York a new rectory, parish house, and over $5 million toward the construction of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Boardman 130). As one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York and president in 1904, he bought ...
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