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- 431: The Writing Of The Constitutio
- ... prescribing the rules by which they make their decisions . The nation's founders , fifty-five men , met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to write a new constitution and to form a new government. George Washington was elected chairman of the convention.The founders were all very well-educated. Over half the delegates had collage degrees, which was rare in the North American continent at that time. They also had experience ... held high offices in state governments , including three who were governors. The founders believed in the idea that the purpose of government was the protection of individual life, liberty and property. Following the election of George Washington as president of the convention, Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented a draft of a new constitution .The Virginia Plan proposed a two house legislature. A lower house directly elected by the people ...
- 432: Paul Revere
- ... the first official seal used for the colonies as well as the seal still used by Massachusetts today. During this same time one of Reveres friends from back in Boston was caught red Handed by George Washington holding criminal correspondence with the enemy, Dr.Church. By November of 1776 the Americans were in desperate need of Gunpowder so they turned to Paul Revere. Paul made powder in his mill until 1779 when ... his family return to North square. As a dentist it is Reveres duty to identify dead bodies, on of which is his friend from the masons, Joseph Warren. Later that year it is said that George Washington himself asked Revere to go out to Castle Island to fix the cannon. This was a great honor. But with honor comes sadness and on May 26th his mother passed at aged 73. ...
- 433: Articles Of Confederation DBQ
- ... want to give up any powers to Congress. While Congress could not get the states to agree upon a tariff, they did not even have the power to tax the states. Joseph Jones' letter to George Washington points out that Congress did not have power to demand a tax, only suggest one. Jones indicates that if the Confederation cannot collect taxes, it cannot pay its creditors, and it cannot pay its army ... He explains in a speech to Congress that he was unable to obtain the rights to the Mississippi, and in fact the Confederation never was able to procure those rights. John Jay's letter to George Washington speaks of crisis and revolution, probably referring to Shay's Rebellion, the first major uprising against the Confederation. The rebellion was crushed, but it showed the discontentment of the popular masses. The letter ...
- 434: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... brief "Negro Period" , Picasso painted landscapes and still lives (at La Rue-des-Bois, where he spent the summer of 1908) marked by the influence of Paul Cezanne. It was these landscapes and those of George Braques that originated the style that, in 1908 was called "cubism". In the summer of 1910, Picasso worked with George Braque, creating geometric paintings which called the viewers attention to the painted surface itself. In that same year (1910), Picasso's works were exhibited at the Photo-Secession Gallery in New York City. In 1911 ... Cleveland Museum of Art). Saltimbanque and Rose Period: "Woman in a Chemise" (c. 1905; Tate Gallery, London); "Woman with a fan" (1905; Averell Harriman Collection, New York); "Family of Saltimbanques" (1905; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C); "La Toilette" (1906; Albright-knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York); "Self Portrait with a Palette" 1906; Philadelphia Museum of Art); "Gertrude Stein"( 1906; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Negro Period: " ...
- 435: Valley Forge
- ... Although, it was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. It was here that the Continental army was desperately against the ropes tired from the battle, bloody, beaten, and just about ready to quit. Even George Washington, at one point, said "If the army does not get help soon, in all likelihood, it will disband." Early into the six-month encampment, the soldiers were riddled with disease and famine. Death was a ... in. By April, Baron Von Stuebon , a mercenary who was not really a baron, began to magically transform threadbare troops into a powerful fighting force. Also in April, the Conway Cabral, a plot to remove George Washington from power, was extinguished permanently. May brought news of the French alliance, and with it the French military and financial support. On June 19, 1778, exactly six months after they first arrived, a ...
- 436: Abraham Lincoln
- ... the first draft law in U.S. history. In early July the Union won two major battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In 1864 Lincoln nominated Ulysses S. Grant as the first full lieutenant general since George Washington. Grant assumed his role as General-in-Chief of Union armies. Lincoln received the Republican nomination on June 8th to run for a 2nd term as President. Andrew Johnson was his Vice-presidential running mate. On November 8th he easily defeated Democrat George B. McClellan in the Presidential election. The Lincolns attended the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater on April 14th, and Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at about 10:15 P. ...
- 437: Big Bang
- ... where an increase in the entropy of the universe would be apparent. On May 9, 1931, Lemaξtre published his theory of the universe in the journal Nature and it was met with general skepticism (Parker). George Gamow expounded on Lemaξtre's work, using recent discoveries in quantum theory. Lemaξtre formulated his model based on the theory that a giant nucleus began to entropy, breaking down into individual constituents. Gamow believed that ... seven seperate points of frequency obtained by COBE fir the theoretical blackbody spectrum perfectly! Observation had accurately confirmed what Big bang cosmology had long ago predicted. This finding proved to be the easy part (Parker). George Smoot and his colleagues also from Cal Berkeley took three arduous years to sort through the billions of bits of data that the DMR provided. His announcement on the 23rd of April, 1992 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington,D.C. said it best: "English dosen't have enough superlatives...to convey the story [of the results] , we have observed...15 billion year old fossils that we think were created at the birth ...
- 438: Hostile Takeover of the New World
- ... regulations hit Native fishermen in the Northwest particularly hard .In the 1960s; Indian activists staged fish-ins to publicize the situation. Eventually the case was taken to court. In United States v. The State of Washington (1974), Judge George Bolt reaffirmed the rights of Northwest tribes to harvest fish under the provisions of the 1854 Treaty of medicine Creek without interference by the State of Washington. The Boldt Decision restored a measure of Indian control over their environment and natural resource use. (Lewis, 3) By 1900, whites actively competed with Indians for the scarce Western resource, water. In 1908, the ...
- 439: P. T. Barnum
- ... In 1835, against Charity's wishes, Barnum used every penny they had to buy the contract of an elderly slave named Joice Heth. She was being exhibited as the 161-year-old former nurse to George Washington. As crazy as the fib was the public loved it. Heth earned him a sizeable profit before her death, the next year. Barnum had an autopsy done and found out Heth was only 80 years ... which he named Lyndincraught. Today Lyndincraught is a public park with a statue of P. T. Barnum. In 1861 Tom Thumb went back to touring on his own. He found a replacement named General Commodore George Washington Morrison Nut. He was exhibited at the museum. Nut and Thumb fought over a new person, Lavinia Warren, who was another midget. Thumb won her and they were married December 10th 1863 with ...
- 440: Ben Franklin
- ... humor and gift for compromise often helped to prevent bitter disputes (#2). Franklin's final public pronouncements urged ratification of the Constitution and approved the inauguration of the new federal government under his admired friend George Washington. He wrote friends in France that "we are making Experiments in Politicks," but that American "affairs mend daily and are getting into good order very fast." Thus, cheerful and optimistic as always, Benjamin Franklin died ... humor and gift for compromise often helped to prevent bitter disputes (#2). Franklin's final public pronouncements urged ratification of the Constitution and approved the inauguration of the new federal government under his admired friend George Washington. He wrote friends in France that "we are making Experiments in Politicks," but that American "affairs mend daily and are getting into good order very fast." Thus, cheerful and optimistic as always, Benjamin ...
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