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- 1371: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Poe worked as an editor for various periodicals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in New York City. In 1847 Virginia died and Poe himself became ill; his disastrous addiction to liquor and his alleged use of drugs, recorded by contemporaries, may have contributed to his early death.
- 1372: Ray Charles Robinson
- ... Ray Jr. cried. Charles, seeing this, realized that his son would be very hurt if someone yelled out that Charles was a drug addict, so he went to the hospital and went "cold turkey" on drugs. After a year, he was over the addiction. Charles is a man of extremes. He was impatient, and he would not listen to complaints. When he was happy, he was very happy, and when he ...
- 1373: Malcolm X
- ... became an excellent student and was voted class president. Nevertheless, at the age of 16, he moved east with relatives and drifted to New York City, where he became involved in Harlem's underworld of drugs, prostitution, and confidence games. In prison for burglary from 1946 to 1952, he read widely and was converted to the teachings of Elijah MUHAMMAD. On his release, he embraced the BLACK MUSLIM movement and changed ...
- 1374: Muammar al Qaddafi
- ... public life. After the raid of U.S troops in 1986, he was seldom heard from. There were many rumors such as that he was dead, or deposed in a coup, or under mind- controlling drugs. Libyans told U.S reporters that they no longer had cash or food. Slowly Qaddafi was disappearing from everyone's view. His big dream of uniting all the Arab world under his power was flushed ...
- 1375: Emily Jane Bronte
- ... on Wuthering Heights, Charlotte on Jane Eyre, and Anne on Agnes Grey. All three novels were successful and published in 1847 and 1848. During this time, their brother, Branwell, had become addicted to alcohol and drugs, and was dying. Emily, the one closest to him, was the only one tried to help, not judge him. She beat out the flames with her bare hands when he wrapped himself in a blanket ...
- 1376: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... death of Carlo Gambino. Gotti was appointed his own crew, the Bergin-Hunt crew. His crew soon became the highest earning crew in the family (Davis 161-162). Gotti began enforcing the ban on selling drugs in his crew, and he rarely carried a gun. This earned him respect and power, greatest demonstration of his power occurred in 1980. John's youngest son Peter was accidentally struck by a car and ...
- 1377: The Holocaust
- ... a tub of ice water for three hours at a time so the Nazi doctors could observe the reactions. Various methods of sterilization were practiced. Their different methods of sterilization were massive X-ray, irritants, drugs, and surgery without an anesthetic. The "experimental people" were also used by Nazi doctors who needed practice performing various operations. In a gas chamber at Dachau, people would hang from pipes for a low-pressure ...
- 1378: Hitler, Nazis, and The National Socialist German Workers' Party
- ... effect. Prisoners were forced to exist on sea water to see how long castaways might survive. Gynecology was an area of interest. Various methods of sterilization were practiced--by massive X-ray, by irritants and drugs, by surgery without benefit of anesthetic. As techniques were perfected, it was determined that a doctor with 10 assistants could sterilize 1,000 women per day. The "experimental people" were also used by Nazi doctors ...
- 1379: The Nazis and Their Rise to Power and Downfall
- ... effect. Prisoners were forced to exist on sea water to see how long castaways might survive. Gynecology was an area of interest. Various methods of sterilization were practiced--by massive X-ray, by irritants and drugs, by surgery without benefit of anesthetic. As techniques were perfected, it was determined that a doctor with 10 assistants could sterilize 1,000 women per day. The "experimental people" were also used by Nazi doctors ...
- 1380: Divorce and Preschool Children
- ... regression, anger, tantrums, aggression and anxiety. The Latency age group shows less impact although some symptoms are common such as anxiety and depression. Finally, the adolescence age showed symptoms such as trouble with the law, drugs, sexual acting out and running away. (Hodges and Bloom, 1984) Because my interest is in the early years of child development I focused mainly on the preschool age children. Hodges and Bloom define this preschool ...
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