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- 2561: The Life of Deadheads and Music of the Grateful Dead
- ... the Billboard charts In the end, mainstream American society has made him a hero by honoring him this past autumn with the prestigious Kennedy Center Award presented at the base of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. President Bill Clinton and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sang his praises. Bob Dylan has met the Establishment, and he is it (Lyman 12/8/97). Dylan's passage from counterculture, through ...
- 2562: Oliver North
- ... Vietnam, he was assigned to counterinsurgency operations in which he met General Singlaub and General Secord, then lieutenant colonels. After coming back from Vietnam, he served as a planner in the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. After being promoted to Major in the Marine Corps, North led a detachment of Marines who were to assist the rescuers of the aborted mission to free U.S. hostages in Tehran. A ...
- 2563: Magic Johnson
- ... rebounder in all most every game. Earvin had became close friends with Reggie Chastine, Everetts point guard. Reggie was one year ahead of Earvin and he was five foot six. (Haskins, p.11) Coach George Fox was a good coach and an excellent teacher. He taught Earvin to always work on his fundamentals. Earvins freshman year they were picked to finish last. After a game, Fred Stabley Jr., a ...
- 2564: Rock Music
- ... videos. This new sensation was a good way to sell music to the people. Heavy metal bands were greatly pushed by videos, but most helped were the popular performers like Michael Jackson, Prince and Boy George. The influence of British bands of punk, disco, reggae and pop-rock was still big in the U.S. Rock scene. At the same time, there of nostalgia to return to the older pre rock ...
- 2565: 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 ...
- 2566: Jimi Hendrix
- ... drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old. In these three years the sound of rock changed greatly, and Hendrix's guitar playing was a major influence. Jimi was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942. As a young boy, whenever the chance came, Jimi would try to play along with his R & B records. However, music was not his life long dream. At first, the army ...
- 2567: Jimi Hendrix
- ... crafted into an articulate and fluid emotional vocabulary. And though he was on the scene as a solo artist for less than five years, Hendrix is credited for having a profound effect on everyone from George Clinton and Miles Davis to guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan and Vernon Reid. Born Johnny Allen Hendrix on November 27, 1942, Hendrix's father, James "Al" Hendrix, later changed his son's name to James Marshall ...
- 2568: Michelangelo, Renaissance Man
- ... Basilica, are among the city's most notable images. His dome for St. Peter's became the symbol of authority as well as the model for domes all over the Western World; the Capital in Washington, D.C. is derived from it. Michelangelo was the last great man of Italy's golden age of art. He worked with many of the leaders of his time, the popes and the rulers of ...
- 2569: The Boston Massacre
- ... mind that the colonists were in. Since the end of the Seven Years War against the French, the British had gone into a great burden of debt. England finally confronted the matter when it appointed George Greenville to Prime Minister in 1763. Facing a debt that had nearly doubled since 1754, from 73 million pounds to 137 million pounds, Greenville had to find new ways to gain funds without taxing the ...
- 2570: Id, Ego, and the Superego
- ... understand "cause and effect" and are able to see other's point of view. The fourth is the formal operational stage; children are able to abstract thought, to image, to fantasize beyond reality. According to George H. Mead, self is shaped not at birth but developed during the growth of social experience. Using the communication of symbol, imaging the opponent's situation, taking other people's role, we can social and ...
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