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- 5901: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... their victims in the most painful and agonizing way. Still, terror seems to be the main theme. That is what Poe tries to bring about in his stories. For example, in The Fall of the House of Usher what kills Roderick Usher is the sheer terror of his sister who appeared to have come back from the dead. According to Marie Bonaparte, one of Freud's friends and disciples, all the ...
- 5902: Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
- ... type. With the Cat In The Hat all that changed by creating a fun, interesting story that a young reader could read. Ted Geisel also ran the publishing company Beginner Books (a division of Random House). He thus was the publisher of many of his own books. Beginner Books also fostered several other children's writers, most notably Stan and Jan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears. Ted had so many ...
- 5903: Charles Lindbergh
- ... the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh's home. At about 10:00p.m , the child's nurse, Betty Gow, found that the baby was not in the nusery. The grounds around the house were searched and a ransom note demanding 50,000 dollars was found. The New Jersey State Police took charge of the Investigation. A second ransom note was given to Lindbergh on March 6, 1932, stating ...
- 5904: Charles Darwin
- ... natural selection. For the next twenty years, he worked on his theory and other natural history projects. In 1839, he married his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and soon after moved to a small estate, Down House, outside of London. There he and his wife had ten children, three of which died during infancy. Darwin's theory was first announced in 1858 in a paper presented at the same time as one ...
- 5905: Changing Attitudes of Ferhat Abbas
- ... did not agree. Ben-Bella was aware of the reputation that Abbas had with the people and therefore could not allow him to speak or write against him. Ferhat Abbas was placed, in Algeria, under house imprisonment for year. The changes in the attitude of Ferhat Abbas were caused by the series of attempts to negotiate and constant ignoring by the French government. He understood that the only way to get ...
- 5906: Carl Jung
- ... rational and irrational forces of the psyche never ceases either. One's integrity of "self" can actually determine whether or not this opposition will cause a shattering of a personality. Must personality always by a house divided against itself, though? Jung thought not. There can always be a union of opposites, a theme that looms very large in Jung's writings. DYNAMICS The psyche is a relatively closed system that has ...
- 5907: Buffalo Bill
- ... 1863, Bill Cody enlisted in the 7th Kansas Cavalry as an army scout in Indian campaigns. In 1866, after the war was over, Bill bought and ran a hotel in Kansas called the "Golden Rule House Hotel". After this failed, Bill contracted with the Kansas Pacific Railroad, in 1867-1868, to furnish buffalo meat to the workers on the line. This earned him his nickname, Buffalo Bill. In 1868-1872, Buffalo ...
- 5908: Bruce Lee
- ... consisted of Mr. Lee, his wife Grace Lee, Bruce's two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert. Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat. Upon the death of Mr. Lee's brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in his whole brother's Family and had to be the provider ...
- 5909: Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
- ... had a 'second' name, and the teacher asked him his, he invented the name Washington." A great influence on Washington was Viola Ruffner, the wife of the owner of the salt furnace. Washington became her house boy, where he learned the importance of cleanness and hard work, and pride in a job well done. He would use these principles for the rest of his life. "The lessons I learned in the ...
- 5910: The Accomplishments of Alexander the Great
- ... to punish the city for what he regarded as treachery; . The city was destroyed and its people sold into slavery or killed. All of the city_s buildings were destroyed except for temples and the house of Pindar the poet. Pindar was long dead, but Alexander wanted to prove that even a Macedonian conqueror could be a Hellene. The savage lesson of Thebes brought results, the Athenian assembly quickly congratulated Alexander ...
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