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- 1301: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... his family. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the ... U.S. Senate, winning the Democratic Party primary by only 87 votes. In 1953 he won the job of Senate Democratic leader. The next year he was easily re-elected as senator and returned to Washington as majority leader, a post he held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. In the late 1950s, Johnson began to think seriously of running for the presidency in 1960 ...
- 1302: Kuwait
- ... Capone. The geography of the city helped promote and import alcohol from Canada, thus aiding the Mafia in their growth. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre made the tension against Capone’s South side, to George "Bugs" Moran’s North side known to the world, ultimately decimating Moran’s men. As Capone made his presence known in Florida, seven of Moran’s men were slaughtered inside a warehouse. Frank Gusenburg, one ... which were corrupted politicians. His rivals were lethal, but so was he. Charles Luciano, also referred to as Lucky Luciano. Luciano was as notorious Capone. He is credited with founding the Syndicate in the 1930s. George "Bugs" Moran was a lieutenant under O’Banion. His own men fell victim to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In my opinion, the rise of the Mafia has shaped our culture. The darkness and ...
- 1303: Ku Klux Klan 4
- ... Klan. This time was supposedly the highest number of Klan members ever. (Ingalls, 24-25) One of the greatest Klan strengths came in 1925 when Klan members from all directions poured into the nations capitol Washington DC on August 8th, 1925 a mammoth parade began. At the head the Imperial Wizard Hirem Wesley Evans, and 40,000 Klan members followed in their robes and hoods, but no masks. 200,000 friendly spectators lined the parade and applauded as the Klan made their way to a rally at the Washington Monument. The impressive demonstration was intended to show the Invisible Empire never lost any of its strengths. (Ingalls 63-64) Even though the parade was grander then expected, it could not conceal the fact that ...
- 1304: Iran Before And After The Revo
- ... could be happy, but it was all a waste. What good is dying, when your death results in something completely opposite of your beliefs? People in Iran absolutely hate this government and the protests in Washington D.C. show that people are ready for a real change this time. Officers in Iran are confronting women for showing a little bit of hair from the head or wearing too much make-up ... human is perfect. The beginning of the end is near for this so called democracy in Iran. Hopefully a compromise can be made before anymore lives are lost. Works Cited: IRAN TIMES : Newspaper published in Washington D.C. Various Articles Used : Nov 23, 1999 - Dec 18, 199 - Feb 6, 2000 TBS: DOCUMENTARY: IRAN SINCE REVOLUTION (Not sure of exact title) 1999 ENCARTA ENCYCLOPEDIA 1997 : IRAN
- 1305: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... first application to the hauling of heavy loads along a railway. His locomotive carried 10 tons about 91/2 miles. He is considered by many to be the real inventor of the steam locomotive whereas GEORGE STEVENSONS first locomotive The BULCHER was first demonstrated in July 1814. His ROCKET of 1829 achieved 29 miles per hour. This is another great symbol of the Industrial Revolution and was the starting point of ... scientist was asked to recommend a safe way of lighting mines. He invented the DAVY LAMP, * SEE DIA 4 a safety lamp that used gauze around the flame. At the same time another mining engineer GEORGE STEVENSON developed the GEORDIE LAMP which worked just as well. Explosions still happened sometimes ignited by the spark from a pick or shovel. Another development was the use of ventilation shafts to expel the stale ...
- 1306: History Of Asia
- ... one of the Big Five powers and held a seat on the Council of the League of Nations. Japan had secured economic success during WWI. Japan had large textile factories, submarines, and fleets. At the Washington Naval Conference Japan was angered at its ratio of ships. It blamed the outcome on the U.S. Japan did however agree to withdraw from Shantung, and from Siberia. The Great Depression ate away at ... 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The Pacific War could have been avoided if Japan and the United States had more open lines of communication. Japan made a lot of its foreign policy decision after the Washington Naval Conference that didn’t improve her standing with United States or Britain. Mao tse-deng was leader and revolutionary strategist of the Chinese Communist revolution. Growing up Mao had witnessed first hand experience of ...
- 1307: Developement Of Europe
- ... parliamentary institutions that were well established and the influential “best circles” were not plotting to restore an authoritarian monarchy. However, these two countries did have their share of political problems. In Britain, for example, Lloyd George was replaced as prime minister by the Labour Party candidate Ramsey MacDonald. Postwar boom and burst and continuing strife in Ireland weakened George while the belief that Labour could better promote international understanding strengthened MacDonald, the first Labour prime minister, who also lost to Conservative Stanley Baldwin a few months later. In France, the conservative Right and moderate ...
- 1308: David Garrick
- ... of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 1961 Cole, Toby and Chinoy,Helen Krich. Actors on Acting. Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1949. Le Brun, Charles. : Method to Learn to Design the Passions. Trans. John Williams. London. 1734 Stone, George Winchester and George M. Kahrl. David Garrick: A Critical Biography. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Annotated Knight, Joseph. David Garrick. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd., 1894 Straub, Kristina. Sexual Suspects: 18th Century players and Sexual ...
- 1309: Civil War: Northern Attitudes
- ... that had started the war and was going to make blacks equal to whites. In the 1864 presidential election Lincoln again failed to carry Delaware, one of only three states that preferred his opponent, General George B. McClellan. Illinois An overwhelming majority of Illinoisans supported the Lincoln Administration in the Civil War. The fighting never reached Illinois, but more than 250,000 men from the state served in the Union Army ... extension of slavery. More than 90,000 Michigan men served in the Union Army and Navy during the Civil War, and a woman, Sarah Emma Edmonds, disguised as a man, fought with the Union forces. George Armstrong Custer, whose home was at Monroe, was the state’s most famous Union cavalryman. A Michigan regiment captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia, where he fled following the collapse of the Southern armies ...
- 1310: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... Charleston is conjectural, as none of his correspondence from the early war years has survived, but the likely date is late 1861 or early 1862. Whilden's Confederate service records in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. commence with his enlistment in 1864, but Miss Hard's reminiscence may be correct that her Great Uncle Charles "enlisted a number of times, but when he had an [epileptic] attack would be ... of CharlesE. Whilden, 1st Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina, War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives, Washington, D.C. 4. Fairfax Downey, The Color-Bearers (Mattituck, NY: J. M. Carroll & Company, 1984). 5. William D. Matter, If it Takes All Summer, the Battle of Spotsylvania (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press ...
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