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- 671: Battle Of Bunker Hill
- ... in other ways as well. The Americans had proved to themselves, and the rest of the world that they could stand up to the British army in traditional warfare. And only a few days later, George Washington would lead a group of men up to Dorchester Heights, aiming their canons at the British, and then watched the Red Coats retreat from the hill. So even though the British had won the battle ... finance more work. The monument was finally dedicated on June 17, 1843 (68 years after the battle originally took place), and at the time Carol Mccabe says the monument had the national significance that the Washington Monument has today. Bibliography 1. McCabe, Carol. "Here's to the Losers" http://www.thehistorynet.com/HistoricTraveler/articles/1998/03986_text.htm 1998. The History Net 2. Unknown Word Count: 1985
- 672: Slavery in the Eyes of the South
- ... not believe that this equality applied to the slaves. This statement is supported in the Dred Scott decision. This is something that the Southern states would argue, that the men who built this nation like George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and John Marshall all had slaves. They would argue that men like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, defenders of American democracy, owned ... books, the rebelling American colonists were in some ways radicals for rebelling against England. It could be said that men like Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Alexander Hamilton Stephens were rebelling radicals just like Washington, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were 90 years earlier. But it was not the Confederates who were the radicals of the Civil War, instead it was the abolitionist northerners that were. In 1860, slavery was ...
- 673: Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a fine and strong man and should be viewed as such, along with other American heroes, such as Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. He truly believed in his philosophy till his death. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 19, 1929, to Albert and Martin Luther King Sr. He was the second child in the family, with ... The Lord created us all equal , and I'm going to see to that." Over the years King was involved in many famous boycotts and marches, but none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech that showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our country is changing, and helping to change South Africa. The key to all this success was Martin Luther ...
- 674: Molly Pitcher
- ... out to them. The second nickname they had for her was 'sergeant.' They often called her this because she held her head high and fought for her country and freedom. Molly received compliments from President George Washington for her bravery, lack of fear, and effort. In 1783 Molly's husband, John, was discharged from the army and Mary went back to being a regular housewife. Molly's husband died in 1789 and Molly remarried to a man named George McCauley. This marriage was very unhappy because he treated Molly as a servant rather than a wife. In 1822 the legislator of Pennsylvania awarded Molly $40 every year for the rest of her life ...
- 675: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... till its blood is red on the cruel bars" expresses rage the caged bird feels and the physical abuse the caged bird endures trying to escape. During this period in Dunbar's life, he met George Washington Carver in Dayton, James Whitcomb Riley in Indianapolis, and he became lifelong friends with Dr. H.A. Tobey, a Toledo psychiatrist. The major accomplishments of Paul Laurence Dunbar's life during 1872 to 1906 also ... some personal sacrifices and tribulations. He encountered rifts with his closest friends and associates, often the result of his business and artistic decisions. One such confrontation occurred when Dunbar decided to sell certain works to George Horace Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post and Harrison Smith Morris of Lippincott's, two longtime friends of Dunbar, to the dissatisfaction of his agent. Dunbar responded by explaining: Both are my personal friends ...
- 676: William Tecumseh Sherman
- ... under the command of Brigadier-General Daniel Tyler. His brigade, stationed at a stone bridge during the battle of First Manassas(Bull Run), was routed by devastating Confederate cannon fire. In August, 1861, Sherman and George H. Thomas were promoted to Brigadier General and were assigned to the Department of the Cumberland under the command of Brigadier-General Robert Anderson. Anderson was in command of Ft Sumter when P.T. Beauregard ... Cameron that if he had 60,000 men, he would drive the enemy out of Kentucky, and if he had 200,000 men, he would finish the war in that section. When Cameron returned to Washington, he reported that Sherman required 200,000 men. The report was given to newspapers and a cry of indignation arose from the public. Due to the pressure of the press on November 12, 1861, Brigadier ... began planning his March to the Sea. He kept his most seasoned veterans, 60,000 in all and sent the rest of the troops back to Nashville to be under the command of Major-General George Thomas. With four Corps of troops in two columns, in November 1864, Sherman began his infamous March to the Sea. Prior to leaving Atlanta, he set fire to munitions factories, railroad yards, clothing mills, ...
- 677: Myth or Reality, Today's Perception on Monsters
- ... whether there may be more to the Sasquatch legend than some blurry film footage and a few giant footprints. The evidence consists of two tufts of hair, each withabout a dozen individual strands, recovered in Washington State after a recent sighting. "This is the first time that I'm aware of that anybody will be able to do any DNA extractions on Bigfoot," said Frank Poirier, chairman of Anthropology. "I don ... science requires some wild goose chases from time to time." The hair that is being tested was from creatures reportedly observed at a distance of about 100 feet in a dence, dark forest. If the Washington hair samples turn out to be from an unknown primate, it will be compared with hair samples reputed to be from the ancient Chinese "wildman", a human-like primate that was investigated in Asia. There ... the truth, suggestion of the monster's existence makes Loch Ness one of Scotland's top tourist attractions. One of the more famous sightings of the monster occured on July 22, 1933. Mr. and Mrs. George Spicer of London were driving along the Loch Ness Lakeshore Road returning from a holiday in Northern Scotland when their car nearly struck a huge, black long-necked creature. The "prehistoric animal," as Mr. ...
- 678: Preserving Flowers
- ... Call No.: SB415.N44 1985 Post, Kenneth. FLORIST CROP PRODUCTION AND MARKETING. NY: Orange Judd Publishing, 1949. NAL Call No.: 96.04.P84 [Out of Print] Reilly, Ann. PARK'S SUCCESS WITH SEEDS. Greenwood, SC: George W. Park Seed Company, 1978. NAL Call No.: SB117.R46 Salinger, John P. COMMERCIAL FLOWER GROWING. Wellington, New Zealand: Butterworths Horticultural Books, 1985. (ISBN 0-409-70150-5). NAL Call No.: SB406.S34 Strider, David ... Beltsville, MD: National Agricultural Library, 1988. NAL Call No.: aZ5071.N3 Whitmore, Susan C. and Henry Gilbert. MARKETING OF FLORICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. BIBLIOGRAPHIES & LITERATURE OF AGRICULTURE series no. 66. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, l989. NAL Call No.: aZ5076.A1U54 JOURNALS -------- BULLETIN. PENNSYLVANIA FLOWER GROWERS. Pennsylvania Flower Growers, 12 Cavalier Drive, Ambler, PA 19002. (215) 646-7550. 8x/yr. (ISSN 0031-448x). NAL Call ... Society of American Florists, 1601 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. (703) 836-8700. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Agricultural Information and Marketing Services, Room 4649, South Building, 14th & Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250. (202) 447-7103 or (800) FAS-AIMS. Wholesale Florists & Florist Suppliers of America. 5313 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22207. (703) 241-1100. November 1989 Prepared by: Carol Kopolow Librarian Reference Branch ...
- 679: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... out the jug. Mr. Holmes looks at it, and then he fires up all of a sudden and yells: "'Flash out a stream of blood-red wine! For I would drink to other days.' "By George, I was getting kind of worked up. I don't deny it, I was getting kind of worked up. I turns to Mr. Holmes, and says I, 'Looky here, my fat friend, I'm a ... dressed until he leaves it home. Why, when I left home yesterday they trotted out a plug-hat for me to wear. "You must wear it," they told me; "why, just think of going to Washington without a plug-hat!" But I said no; I would wear a derby or nothing. Why, I believe I could walk along the streets of New York-I never do- but still I think I ... her modification of the Highland costume? Sir, women have been soldiers, women have been painters, women have been poets. As long as language lives the name of Cleopatra will live. And not because she conquered George III.- but because she wrote those divine lines: "Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so." The story of the world is adorned with the names of illustrious ones ...
- 680: The Library Of Congress
- ... capitol. The collection, which stared out small at 740 volumes, slowly increased to over 3,000 volumes by 1814. That year, though, the British along with the capitol burned those books during the assault on Washington. To rapidly replace the collection, Thomas Jefferson offered his personal library to congress at no cost, describing the nature of his books like so: "I do not know that it contains any branch of science ... Streets was serving as the temporary Capitol, and a room on its third floor became the new location of the Library of Congress. Here Jefferson's books were received and organized by Librarian of Congress George Watterston. On February 18, 1817, Library Committee chairman Eligius Fromentin, a senator from Louisiana, introduced a resolution advocating a separate building for the Library, but it failed. In late 1818, however, funds were appropriated to ... 1935 brought the total specification of finances to cover $8 million. The simple classical building was intentional, fundamentally, as a useful and well-organized book stack "encircled with work spaces." It was designed by the Washington architectural organization of Pierson & Wilson with Alexander Buel Trowbridge as a consulting designer. The contract was completed by June 24, 1938, but the structure was not ready for use until December 2, 1938. The ...
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