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- 4151: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... manufacturers were prosecuting him for violating the Selden patent. Selden, who was a patent attorney, had aquired a patent in 1895 for producing "a safe, simple, and cheap road locomotive, light in weight, easy to control, posseessed of sufficient power to overcome ordinary inclination." Meanwhile, Selden did nothing about producing such a vehicle, but the other inventors who produced cars formed an association and acquired a license to use the Selden ...
- 4152: Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side of a Golden Girl
- ... thing that they have in common is Chewy, their dog. To add to it, in November, 1978, she gets a live feed of footage shot by a crew who have been gunned down. She loses control on air and mutters the word "unbelievable." This devastates her, and when she goes home she turns to drugs once more to take her mind off of the incident. That month, she is named NBC ...
- 4153: Kelly Flinn Biography
- ... in trouble with the Air Force years later. (pg. 9) When Kelly was 15, she went to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. She found out how much she loved space and the challenge and the control she experienced. After Space Camp, she knew what she had to do and how to do it. She was going to go to the Air Force Academy and learn how to fly. She spent the ...
- 4154: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and ...
- 4155: The Life of Malcolm X
- ... before his silence was lifted, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam to form the Muslim Mosque, Inc. on March 1964. He began to advocate a more pragmatic Black Nationalism and said that blacks should control the politics within their own community and, through his speeches, encouraged his followers to make changes by voting. At the height of his power Malcolm X was one of black America's most powerful voices ...
- 4156: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and ...
- 4157: Caesar
- ... After forming the Triumvirate, Caesar obtained a reduction of the Asian tax contracts for Crassus, land for Pompeys veterans, and Caesar received the governorships of Illyricum, Cisalpine Gaul, and Transalpine Gaul. Caesar was also given control of a large army, which he used to take over Gaul. He gained a lot of strength from the Gallic Wars, which lasted from 58 to 51 BC. Caesar had a couple of wives. His ...
- 4158: Sister Helen Prejean
- ... the government does not have a right to take the lives of citizens. In her book she explains that she doesn’t want revenge taken, “Especially by the government—which can’t be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill” (21). Even though she would experience all of the anger, the feelings of deprivation, sorrow ...
- 4159: The Life and Rule of Cleopatra
- ... her sister Arsinoe. Although they had taken away her powers, Cleopatra was determined to win them back she amassed an army at Egypt’s border. Around this time Pompey was vying with Julius Caesar for control of the Roman Empire. After losing the battle of Pharsalos, he sailed to Alexandria, pursued by Caesar, to seek Ptolemy’s protection. But his advisors thought it would be safer to side with Caesar, and ...
- 4160: Benedict Arnold
- ... pay of £20,000 for the surrender of West Point to the British. Arnold had rejoined the army with the consent of George Washington himself and he stationed Arnold at West Point and gave him control of it as well. The two men finally met in secrecy along the banks of the Hudson River on September 21-22, 1780. After the plan for the surrender of West Point was complete, André ...
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