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- 8771: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... play group that made him one of the partners, instead of giving him a lowly job like those he had in all the other play groups. It was probably because a fellow player recognized his great talent in writing. Shakespeare probably did not act in any plays after he joined Lord Chamberlain's company. In 1596, while Shakespeare was in London, his son Hamnet died. A year later, Shakespeare bought New ...
- 8772: Bubonic Plague
- ... According to Bartel, an internal cure was to "take garlic with, butter, a clove, two or three, according as it shall agree with their bodies" (54). Some doctors believed that "pure water mixed with a great deal of salt was a cure (Bartel 55). Royalty got into the cure game with "the King's Majesty's Excellent Receipt for the Plague" and "a drink for the plague prepared by Lord Bacon ...
- 8773: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... wisdom and power. Two final plays include a historical drama, Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen, a story of two noble friends for one woman. Hence, from a poor family, Shakespeare emerged as a great playwright. The odds were against him, but he rose to the occasion and wrote over 38 plays which made him famous throughout the world. He is still considered to be the best playwright that ever ...
- 8774: Assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar
- Assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar Caius Julius Caesar, a Roman consul, was a great leader and a terrible dictator. Many of his reforms were excellent, but he also was hungry for the power of Roman Dictator, which would give him absolute power for as long as he required it ...
- 8775: The Life of King David
- ... be talking about the life of King David. He was a man who went from being a giant slayer, to a king, to a man in exile and, then he went back to being a great man. As a boy, David was a shepherd. He took care of his father's sheep. He was a very courageous boy. When a wolf tried to steal a sheep, he didn't run, he ...
- 8776: Advertising Strategies
- ... beautiful person in the ad. An advertisement for Maalox antacid contained an elderly man. The page was divided in half with before and after pictures. The before picture had the man with a look of great pain on his face and he was groping his stomach. On the corner of this picture was an extended hand with Maalox, trying to give it to the man. The next picture, the after, displayed ...
- 8777: Saint Bernadette Soubirous
- ... him to feed his family properly. Bernadette left Lourdes one more time - in the summer of 1857, she returned to stay with Marie Aravant for a few months, working as a shepherdess. There was a great affection between the two. Bernadette celebrated her fourteenth birthday in Bartres, but there still had been no mention of her making her first Holy Communion; Marie Aravant tried to teach Bernadette about the Faith - but ...
- 8778: Siddhartha Gautama
- ... leave his family and community and become a Samana. As a Samana, he tries to destroy himself in may ways. He feels if he kills himself, with its passions and emotions, he will find the great secret. Siddhartha doesn't spend much time as Buddha, although he has an important revelation. He discovers he can't find peace by learning from a master. He finds the only way to have peace ...
- 8779: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... wealthy decent, Ferrar purchased the manor of Little Gidding, a village which had been discarded since the Black Death (a major outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century), a few miles off the Great North Road, and probably recommended by John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln whose palace was in the nearby village of Buckden. About thirty people along with Mary Ferrar (Ferrarsÿ mother) moved into the manor house. Nicholas ...
- 8780: Ty Cobb
- ... him its worst person. Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born December 18, 1886 in The Narrows, Georgia. His parents named him after the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, which stubbornly refused to surrender to Alexander the Great. From the very beginning, he took after the city and became one of baseball's most stubborn and hated men. The Georgia Peach, so-called, was a creature of extremes. Ty Cobb is, by bald ...
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