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- 4251: Evita Peron
- ... to disaster relief. Evita was present on the big night, and she wanted to meet the colonel. Peron had risen quickly in the government and had accomplished a major coup with the unions, essentially taking control of them. But Evita probably knew nothing of this. Not political in the conventional sense, she was attracted instead by the colonel's dashing figure and his aura of power. They talked for hours and ...
- 4252: Ernest Miller 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 ...
- 4253: Emily Dickinson
- ... Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality. Life according to Emily is brief and the people living out their lives have little control. In this short life That only lasts an hour, How much, how little, Is within out power! However non-religious she may appear and however insignificant she believes life to be she does however show ...
- 4254: HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
- ... country. Bewildered, he remained in the army, stationed in Munich. In the political and economic tempest that swept defeated Germany, Munich became a storm center. Officers of the beaten Reichswehr (German army) conspired to win control of Germany. They maintained "informers," one of whom was Adolf Hitler. He was assigned to report on "subversive activities" in Munich's political parties. This political spying was the turning point of Hitler's life ...
- 4255: Events leading to the American Revolution
- ... subjects in America without their consent ...." The continental congress had presented it's colonial rights. These rights enable the colonies to be more autonomous with exception to those several states who are under the british control. One important element of the document, is the idea of taxation without representation; the said that raising taxes without consent was illegal and that the commercial benefits of the colony should be shared within the ...
- 4256: Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent into Metaphorical Hell
- ... against imperial power. The Whites, or Cerchi, were not of noble lineage, but had made a vast fortune trading and wished to become a part of the aristocracy, they wished to remain independent of all control, papal or imperial. After a particularly violent skirmish the leaders of both parties were exiled in order to provide peace, however, Pope Boniface VIII helped the leaders of the Black return. These Blacks seized power ...
- 4257: Bill Clinton and His Many Problems
- ... during Clintons presidential period. This is especially a problem for the blacks that live in the high- unemployment-ghettos. This brings us to another big problem in the American society; the violence. In US the control with weapons is very loose, and everybody can walk into a gunshop and buy their own weapon. Because of that there are a lot of guns, and the criminals are defiantly not afraid of using ...
- 4258: Karl Marx
- ... workers." Bakunin organized sections of the International for an attack on the "dictatorship" of Marx and the General Council. Marx didn't have the support of a right wing and feared that he would lose control to Bakunin. However, he was successful at expelling the Bakuninists from the International and shortly, the International died out in New York. During the next decade of his life, his last few years, Marx was ...
- 4259: Rebellion Of Company Rule In 1857 In India
- ... army and Bengal army by 1815, and several others followed suit. In the 1850's, many soldiers from the Bengal army were alienated and lost some of their pay and prestige. There were rumors of gun cartridges being greased with animal fat from cows and pigs, which came as an insult to the integrity of the some of the soldiers. The Hindus and Muslims were offended at this attempt to pollute ...
- 4260: Coco Chanel
- ... who rejected her past to have the life she deserved and desired. After Gabrielle ChanelΉs death, her fashion house, salons, and studio were left idle for a decade. By 1983, Karl Lagerfeld had taken control of the House of Chanel as the design consultant (75). He opened a second Parisian boutique at 42 avenue Montaigne and launched ChanelΉs legacy into a new era. In the history of the twentieth ...
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