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- 5941: Neil Armstrong
- ... solar wind equipment, a laser beam reflector, and a seismic experiment package. The two men also put up an American flag, and talked, by satellite communications, with United States President Richard Nixon in the White House. The men found that walking and running at one-sixth the gravity of Earth was not difficult. Also by satellite communication, millions of people watched live television broadcast from the moon. Returning to the Lunar ...
- 5942: Martin Luther King
- ... normal. Blacks had to walk to work, and so they did not have time to do any shopping and therefore the sales decreased dramatically. On January 30, while M.L was making a speech, his house was bombed. Luckily his wife and baby had left the living room when the bomb exploded, but a black mob formed and was angry about what had happened, and Policemen were sent to the scene ...
- 5943: John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
- ... John Steinbeck novels are records of social history. His books are the history of plain people and society as a whole, many of his books focused on the Great Depression, Social Prejudice, religion, the whore house, and the automobile (Rundell, 4). He may be considered as a Sentimentalist, because of his concerns for the common man, human values, for warmth and love and understanding. The social relevance of his writhings reveals ...
- 5944: John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice
- ... His first cases were not important, but he handled them well and made a favorable impression on his neighbors; so favorable that they sent him to Richmond in 1782 as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates." He became a prominent lawyer and was on his way to a successful future. Mr. Marshall worked under the administration of John Adams starting in 1798. He was offered the position of attorney ...
- 5945: John F. Kennedy
- ... was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940. Which led to some of his earlier political successes. Some came from when he ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1946, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952. In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery, Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won ...
- 5946: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... Spanish fluently. They were wed on September 12,1953, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. All seemed well, yet after three two-year terms as a Congressman, Kennedy became frustrated with House rules and customs and decided to run for Senate. In 1952, Kennedy ran for Senate against Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Fifteen years older than Kennedy, Lodge was the incumbent of two terms in the ...
- 5947: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... that if he put his stories on paper, he would find a publisher, and the vexing question of his career would be answered - he would become a writer. As he sat in his mother's house to write his first novel, Melville turned to the part of his South Seas adventure about which everyone was most curious: his stay among the cannibals. The story was his own, certainly, but in writing ...
- 5948: Evita Peron
- ... sustained them in power. She would patiently listen to the stories of the poor, then reach into her desk to pull out some money. Or she would turn to a minister and ask that a house be built. She would caress filthy children. She would kiss lepers, just as the saints had done. To many Argentines, Evita Peron was a flesh-and- blood saint; later, 40,000 of them would write ...
- 5949: Evita: Saint or Sinner?
- ... she could be like the women in the movie magazines she either stole or borrowed from her friends. Eva met singer Agustin Magaldi, and, packed her bags and sneaked out of her mother's boarding house to the city of Buenos Aires. Once Eva learned the rules of the 'casting couch,' she dropped Magaldi and began her ascent to stardom. For years she wandered the streets, auditioned, and did whatever she ...
- 5950: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... bore him four sons; Theodore, Jr.; Kermit; Archibald; and Quentin, and a daughter, Ethel. For two and one-half years after his second marriage Roosevelt lived as a sportsman and scholar in Sagamore Hill, his house at Oyster Bay, on Long Island. He published biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart Benton and works on the American West, some based on his personal experiences. In 1889 he was appointed to the ...
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