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- 2061: Famous Explorers Of Africa
- ... his fascination. Callie had entered a contest for the first person to reach Timbuktu and reach back. He had reached Timbuktu. During Callie's trip he did not find it easy to prove to the French Johann Rebmann Johann Rebmann was a German missionary, who was not like Mungo Park or Rene Callie. The purpose of Rebmann's explorations is to find a place where he might serve God. His most ...
- 2062: Biography of Bob Marley
- ... the living God; praised the spiritual effects of marijuana; and endorsed black racial superiority. Influenced by the Rastafarian movement, Marley's music contains elements of spiritualism and mysticism. Some songs call for personal freedom through revolution, while others embrace carefree attitudes toward life or convey stories of love. Marley and the Wailers recorded Catch a Fire (1972), Burnin' (1973), Natty Dread (1975), and Live (1975), among other albums. During the 1970s ...
- 2063: Thornton Wilder
- ... his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 (Unger 356). Wilder spent a year as a resident of the American Academy at Rome, where he began writing The Cabala. Back in the United States he taught French at Lawrenceville High School in New Jersey from 1921-1928 and began doing graduate work at Princeton, where he took his Master of Arts degree in 1926. The Cabala was issued as a novel that ...
- 2064: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer
- ... American War for Independence', was no longer a threat to the survival of the republic. Andrew Jackson, the first people's president, had served 2 terms in office. New states were entering the Union. One French observer stated that Americans had, a lively faith in the predictability of man, and that they, admit that what appears to them today to be good may be superseded by something better tomorrow. There were ...
- 2065: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... brought out a business sense that no one could ever compare to. He dressed like something out of a storybook. The new Godfather wore two thousand dollar, hand tailored, double breasted, silk suits. With white, French cuffed dress shirts with matching silk ties and pocket handkerchiefs. His shoes were gleaming three-Hundred dollar Italian leather loafers. Anytime you would see him he would have a smile on his face and a ...
- 2066: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... orchestral suites. Bach's keyboard music for clavier and for organ is of equal importance and includes the collection of 48 preludes and fugues known as THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, the GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, and the FRENCH and ENGLISH SUITES. Of his organ music, the most important examples are the choral preludes. He also wrote chamber music and songs. Two important works written in the later years illustrate the principles and potential ...
- 2067: Robert E. Lee
- ... was thrown in debtors jail many times for not paying on time. He was introduced to war early in his life; his brother Sydney had shown him a cannon ball and told him about the revolution. Mrs. Lee's stepson was old enough to claim the mansion where they lived that his dead mother had gave to him in his will. The Lee's left to live in Alexandria. Lee was ...
- 2068: Marco Polo
- ... man named Rustichello from Persia, who was a writer of romances(Stefoff 21). To pass the time, Marco dictated his observations about Asia to Rustichello, who, in writing them down, probably employed the Italianized Old French that was the language of medieval romances. Their book was soon circulating, since Marco remained in prison only a year or so, very likely gaining his freedom when the Venetians and Genoese made peace in ...
- 2069: Galileo Galilei
- ... the doctrine of Copernicus. It had been argued against the said system that, if it were true, the inferior planets, Venus and Mercury, between the earth and the sun, should in the course of their revolution exhibit phases like those of the moon, and, these being invisible to the naked eye, Copernicus had to change the false explanation that these planets were transparent and the sun's rays passed through them ...
- 2070: General Denis Sassou Nguesso and The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict
- ... in the last stages of the war by the appearance of MiG-21s in the service of Sassou's militia. Congo's position as Africa's fourth-largest oil producer, with vast untapped reserves, means French and US oil companies also took a keen interest in developments, regional observers say. The mediation effort Reluctant to become involved, but anxious to contain the crisis, the international community finally agreed a peacekeeping plan ...
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