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- 2071: Jim Henson, a Gentle Genius
- ... great success with children. Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to perform with puppets on a childrens ...
- 2072: Milestones In Communication
- ... the Pony Express were ruined financially. The Telegraph Samuel F.B. Morse, an artist turned inventor, is credited with building the first commercially practical telegraph. Morse's first line opened in 1844; it stretched from Washington to Baltimore and was soon extended to New Jersey. Some enterprising individuals used the telegraph to communicate lottery results to New York, where hefty sums were won before people caught on to this new form ...
- 2073: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... many influencial people throughout the past 1,000 years, but FDR was a natural born leader. Roosevelt was one of only four U.S. Presidents on the list, only behind the likes of Jefferson and Washington. In his time of great despair, FDR was elected to his fourth term in order to guide one of the most powerful countries to economic and political stability. A month or so before FDR passed ...
- 2074: Review of Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is an instruction manual for princes and kings. After he wrote The Prince many believed that not following this guide would lead to a king or prince's downfall. King George III of Great Britain did not follow Machiavelli's manual and thus caused the breakdown of his empire. The Prince, is one of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and ...
- 2075: My Lai: The Event, The Trial,
- ... had set forth for the mission were to avenge the lives of the soldiers lost over the past months, and meet the Army's demand for "body count," which was what the commanders in Saigon Washington used to evaluate the war's progress (background.html). If only they would have paid as close attention to how badly we had suffered as they did to the enemy's losses. Shortly following a ...
- 2076: The Nomination of Andrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... who were pro-British in the war of 1812). His goal was achieved at Horseshoe Bend in March of 1814. Eventually he forced All Indians from the area. His victory's impressed some people in Washington and Jackson was put in command of the defense of New Orleans. This show of American strength made Americans feel proud after a war filled with military defeats. Jackson was given the nickname "Old Hickory ...
- 2077: Abraham Lincoln
- ... also agitated John Wilkes Booth to be-gin first to abduct Lincoln, and then to kill him. On April 14,1865, Lincoln went to attend a movie, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. There Booth entered the presidential box and shot Abraham, who sadly died the next morning at 7:22. Lincoln achieved saving the Union and freeing the slaves. He was a great president and ...
- 2078: Rachel Carson
- ... your personal letter to me that started it all. In it you told what had happened and your feelings about the prospect of a new and bigger spraying and begged me to find someone in Washington who cold help. It was the task of finding that someone that I realized I must write the book. Planning her next book, Carson took the initiative to research the background evidence of the dangers ...
- 2079: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... his association with John Brown might threaten him. He returned after several months, and aided in Abraham Lincoln's campaign for president. Frederick Douglass had many other achievements, mainly political, before dying in 1895, in Washington, D. C. Frederick Douglass's life as a slave had the greatest impact on his writings. Through slavery, Douglass was able to develop the necessary emotion and experiences for him to become a successful abolitionist ...
- 2080: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... Liszt was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of the rock band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he was eight years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was ...
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