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- 1451: Winston Churchill
- ... now detested him) joined the government in 1915. After a period of active military service in France, he was re-elected in the Parliment. He became minister of munitions under the prime minister David Lloyd George. He subsequently served as secretary of state for war and air and for the colonies and helped negotiate the treaty that created the Irish Free State. But he lost both his office and his seat in Parliament when Lloyd George's coalition government fell in 1922. Over the next year or two, Churchill gradually moved back into alliance with the Conservatives. He used to remark with a mischievous twinkle, "Any fool can rat, but I ...
- 1452: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... now detested him) joined the government in 1915. After a period of active military service in France, he was re- elected in the Parliament. He became minister of munitions under the prime minister David Lloyd George. He then served as secretary of state for war and air, and for the colonies. Churchill helped negotiate the treaty that created the Irish Free State. But despite all this he lost both his office and his seat in Parliament when Lloyd George's coalition government fell in 1922. Over the next year or two, Churchill gradually moved back into alliance with the Conservatives. He frequently remarked, "Any fool can rat, but I flatter myself that it takes ...
- 1453: Jane Austen: Her Life and Work
- ... England. Her father was a Reverend for the church, while her mother was born in to an "aristocratic family." (Tucker, pg. 6) Jane was the seventh of eight children. Her five older brothers, James (1765), George (1766), Edward (1768), Henry (1771), and Francis (1774) all became well known men of their time, with good connections, which was very important in that time. Austen also had one younger brother, Charles, who was ... asked Jane to marry him, she turned down the others. It is possible that Jane fell in love with a clergy man, but he had died before their "friendship could develop." (Southam, pg. 14) As George Tucker wrote, it can be assumed by reading the surviving letters, Jane was a flirtatious girl. An occasionally sharp-tounged girl who matured into a compassionate, but critically objective woman of genius. (Pg. 3) Sir ...
- 1454: William Henry Gates III
- ... Bill Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered ... in the age of Standard Oil has risen once again to haunt us. As a rule, disputes such as this are amicably settled by lobbyists. Astoundingly, however, Bill Gates had not a single lobbyist in Washington. Absorbed in his work, it seems, he had neglected to devote any attention to lobbying activities. Then, too, his is such a new industry that it simply hadn't had time to hire lobbyists and ...
- 1455: Nathan McCall
- ... life a try life on the other side of the fence. Since then he has used words to convey his anger and his message: race itself does not make people violent. A columnist from The Washington Post, McCall told a sparse crowd in Colton Chapel last Thursday that America is experiencing a serious crisis in race relations. McCall has been on tour for two years promoting his book Makes Me Wanna ... are to survive in American corporations. Middle-class Blacks, says McCall, are dissatisfied just as much as the poor and disenfranchised Blacks. These are the men who participated in October's Million Man March in Washington. "The minute I heard about it I didn't care who spearheaded it. It spoke to my soul. White America was astounded because it was a peaceful gathering," McCall said. He added, "Those Black men ...
- 1456: Important People in History
- ... for food. Louis Leykey believed that apes, gorillas and chimps could lead to a greater understanding of earlier human lives. When he passed away and Mary retired, their son, Richard took over their research. Murdock, George - Anthropologist and Sociologist (1897- 1985) Murdock studied the societies of the world. He believed that all the societies shared many similar characteristics. He had a different approach than other researchers. They focused on the factors ... simple skills that are required to cope in their environment. As children go on, they need to have experiences to help them understand the behaviour of people and how they interact with one another. Mead, George Herbert - Professor of Philosophy (1930s) He theorized that children use their imaginations to play out the interactions they might have with people. Mead's process of socialization involves three stages. The first one is the ...
- 1457: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... demonstrations- which forced white leaders to negotiate an end to some forms of segregation in Birmingham- encouraged many Americans to support national legislation against segregation. King and other black leaders organized the 1963 March on Washington, a massive protest in Washington, D.C., for jobs and civil rights. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. The speech and the march created the political ...
- 1458: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... over 42 of his works have been based upon or turned into Hollywood movies which have included stars like Jack Nicholson (The Shining), John Travolta (Carrie), and Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption). Works Cited Beaham , George . Stephen King Companion , The . Kansas City : Universal Press Syndicate Company , 1995 . Beaham , George . Stephen King Story, The : A Literary Profile . Kansas City : Universal Press Syndicate Company , 1992 . King , Stephen . Body , The in Different Seasons . New York : Viking Penguin Inc ., 1982 . King , Stephen . Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption in ...
- 1459: President Gerald Ford
- ... done no matter what is the cost. Ford by no doubt turned the government around by fixing the duplicities of Vietnam, the deceptions of Watergate, and a general loss in confidence within elected leaders in Washington. He didn't accomplish this by being special, or rich, or using special abilities or people. He was just a regular guy who changed the country. He was best know to be decent, honest, hard ... millions of Americans for the Good. Bibliography 1. Prodigy "Ford, Gerald" Grolier Encyclopedia 1992, pp. 1-3 2. Hartmann, Robert T. Palace Politics New York - Robert T. Hartmann Press 1980 3. Carter, Douglas "Power in Washington" Newsweek, November 21, 1966 pp. 29 4. Bumann, Joan and Patterson, John 40 President's Facts Ohio, Willowsip Press 1981
- 1460: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... over 42 of his works have been based upon or turned into Hollywood movies which have included stars like Jack Nicholson (The Shining), John Travolta (Carrie), and Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption). Works Cited Beaham , George . Stephen King Companion , The Kansas City : Universal Press Syndicate Company, 1995 . Beaham , George . Stephen King Story, The : A Literary Profile . Kansas City : Universal Press Syndicate Company , 1992 . King , Stephen . "Body , The in Different Seasons . New York : Viking Penguin Inc ., 1982 . King , Stephen . "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" in ...
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