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- 891: Jackson, Andrew
- ... take 50 years, but they finally elected a people's president by the name of Andrew Jackson. How is it that our country could evolve from smart thinking, and strong willed plantation owners, such as; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. To mere farmers and soldiers, such as; Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor. The years from 1828-1848 are known has the Jacksonian Era, a revolution where the "common man" overthrew the noble. In those ...
- 892: Jack Kevorkian
- ... days before (Filene 134). ³Another critic said, If anything the clandestine administration of a lethal injection in the back end of a rusty van mocks the very phrase, death with dignityΉ² (Filene 134). In 1992, Washington state initiative 119 asked the public to vote on a referendum that would make physician-assisted suicide illegal in Washington for at least a three year period. The initiative failed to pass by a slim margin (Hamel 128). In a poll in 1991, 72 percent of the public approved of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's actions ... Death. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. Hendin, Herbert. Suicide in America. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995. Larson, Edward. A Different Death. Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1998. Uhlman, Michael. Last Rights. Washington D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1998. Wolfson, Adam. ³Killing of the Dying.² The Public Interest Spring 1998: 56.
- 893: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... the late 1950s and early 1960s has its origins in American's economic interests and its anticommunist policies in the region. The same man who had helped formulate American containment policy towards the Soviet threat, George Kennan, in 1950 spoke to US Chiefs of Mission in Rio de Janeiro about Latin America. He said that American policy had several purposes in the region, . . . to protect the vital supplies of raw materials ... and Company, 1990. The New York Times. 16 April to 22 April, 1961. New York: The New York Times, 1961. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cuba. Map, 22 by 52 cm, No. 502988 1-77. Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1977. Vandenbroucke, Lucien S. "Anatomy of a Failure: The Decision to Land at the Bay of Pigs." Political Science Quarterly, Volume 99, Number 3, Fall 1984.
- 894: Issac Asimov
- ... a nursemaid to a wealthy family. The little girl that owns him loves him a lot, although her mother doesn t trust the robot, which is named Robbie. The mother says, You listen to me George. I won t have my daughter entrusted to a machine and I don t care how clever it is. It has no soul, and no one knows what it may be thinking. A child just isn't made to be guarded by a thing of metal. (I, robot p.9). George her husband has no choice but to get rid of Robbie. This example proves that Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer or the age. (Carl Sagan, Cornell University Astronomer) This also proves that I suspect ... giants, the late Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clark, influenced the generation that propelled us into space and landed us on the moon, Greenberg said. New generations will be more influenced by movies, like the George Lucas epics. (Newsday Volume 112, Number 18 P.3) One such person that was influenced by Asimov was Casey Cowell; About 20 years ago a man named Casey Cowell started his small company. He ...
- 895: Articles of Confederation
- ... however, immediately started writing a new constitution. Fifty-five delegates representing 12 states attended at least part of the sessions. Thirty-four of them were lawyers; most of the others were planters or merchants. Although George Washington, who presided, was 55, and John Dickinson was 54, Benjamin Franklin 81, and Roger Shermen 66, most of the delegates were young men in their 20s and 30s. Noticeable absent were the revolutionary leaders of ...
- 896: Hemingway
- ... champagne from Paris, Chinese foods from London, codfish from Madrid. She hired a shooting booth, fireworks specialist, flamenco dancers, waiters, barmen and cooks from all over the world. Guests included General C.T. Lanham from Washington, Ernest's old Paris pals, Italian Royalty and the Maharajah of Behar. The party went twenty-four hours strait, from noon of July 21st to noon July 22nd. Seeking a calm place to recuperate and ... month of December he was given electroshock therapy. In January of 1961, Ernest was released. At first all seemed well again. He had even managed to write a few coherent words for the jacket of George Plimpton's new book: On April 23rd, Ernest Hemingway tried to take his life for the first time. He had tried to put a shotgun to his head. It had failed the first time but ...
- 897: The Central Intelligence Agency
- ... in the United States. Some think the history of espionage goes back to prehistoric times. The bible tells of Moses sending spies into Canaan. Frederick the Great of Prussia is credited with originating organized espionage. George Washington's spies obtained intelligence and information during the Revolutionary war (World Book Multimedia) The CIA's original job was primarily intelligence gathering, but when Communism started to spread, the National Security Council directed that the ...
- 898: The Future of the GOP
- ... these types of men, sinners and liars, Democrats, representing our nation with negative overtones to the rest of the world. If you, the voters in this country, keep putting these types of people there in Washington to represent you, a dismal and depressing future lies ahead in the not so far off distance. A future filled with overtly excessive government spending, bad policy, and unnecessary social programs. According to the Consolidated ... glorious well-being? Well, my friends, allow me to introduce to you men such as Mr. J.C. Watt, an aspiring young Congressman with a good head on his shoulders. There are others such as George and Jeb Bush, Colin Powelle, and our very own, Steve Goldsmith, but this still leaves us dwindling in the distant future. That is why organizations such as the Young Republicans are molding the future leaders ...
- 899: Edward Gein
- Edward Theodore was born on August 27, 1906, to Augusta and George Gein in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Eddie was the 2nd of two children. Eddie's mother was a fanatically religious women, who was determined to raise the boys according to her strict moral code. Eddie's ... mother repeatedly warned her sons of the immorality and looseness of women, hoping to discourage any sexual desires the boys might have. ( In the Beginning) Augusta was a domineering and hard woman, while her husband George, was a weak man and an alcoholic. George had no say in the raising o the boys. Agusta began a grocery business in La Crosse the year Eddie was born, so she could save enough money to move away from the sinners ...
- 900: No-Calorie Powder May Substitute for Food's Fat
- No-Calorie Powder May Substitute for Food's Fat George E. Inglett of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biopolymer Research Unit in Peoria III invented a no-calorie fat substitute called Z-Trim. It is a mix of crushed fibers made from the ... on his new substitute. "I wouldn't expect Z-Trim to have the same kinds of problems as olestra," says Margo Wootan, a senior scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C. "Fiber is already found in our diet, while olestra is a synthetic chemical. There is also concern for the "microbial stability" of foods containing Z-Trim. "Whenever you remove the lipid material and ...
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