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- 7291: Walt Whitman 2
- ... to the people of the South. It brought in people called carpet baggers, and scalowags who would buy the property of many of the large plantations, and then he would raise the tax price so high on it, that it would make it almost impossible to live there anymore. It ruinded the lives of many of the Southerners. At the same time, there were many black people that were trying to ...
- 7292: Woodrow Wilson
- ... once again recovered, an inspiration to the 2.5 million stroke victims in the U.S. who must cope with their assorted disabilities. During his first term, President Wilson suffered from serious headaches accompanied by high blood pressure. The headaches became particularly bad at the time of the Lusitania sinking by a German U-boat in l915. Were they just tension headaches, or perhaps neurological symptoms? He was re-elected to ...
- 7293: William Wells Brown
- ... of steward in which he was able to help many a fugitive to freedom. In the year of his escape, he married a former slave who was now free and had two daughters. Profiting from school instruction and help from friends, he acquired considerable knowledge of the fundamentals of English. In the North he soon learned to speak the English language so fluently that he could easily present the claim of ...
- 7294: William Penn And The Quakers
- William Penn and the Quakers Penn was born in London on October 24, 1644, the son of Admiral Sir William Penn. Despite high social position and an excellent education, he shocked his upper-class associates by his conversion to the beliefs of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, then a persecuted sect. He used his inherited wealth and ...
- 7295: William Mackenzie King
- ... he achieved his role of being our Prime Minister. William Mackenzie King was the grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie, was born in Kitchener (then they called it berlin) on Dec. 17, 1874 he went to school and Studied hard and got his B.A. in law and also got a degree from the University of Toronto, and also studied at the University of Chicago and Harvard University. William Also became a ...
- 7296: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... and his mother were said to gone through great hardship, having to move off of Daniel s land. After moving to Dundee, William, who went by the names Willie or Lyon, entered the Dundee Parish School at the age of five, with the help of a bursary. At fifteen, he was the youngest member of the commercial newsroom of the local newspaper. He also belonged to a scientific society, where he ...
- 7297: Rupert Mccall
- ... to express his emotions though his poetry with a warm and compelling simplicity. He has the ability to combine passion with humor in his poetry which captures the hearts of all true Australian s, from school kids to sports fans and blue-collar workers to businessmen. When reading Rupert s poetry it s easy to get caught up in the emotion, patriotism and true aussie pride that he has of this ...
- 7298: William Butler Yeats
- ... than satisfactory. The conflict between Art and Nature, Youth and Old Age, and Body and Soul, remain unresolved. Art is itself but a reflection of human existence. It is not an end in itself. Among School Children. This poem is about man s existence, and the various methods used by man to give meaning to life. Man uses various roles to define himself - lover, philosopher, worshipper, parent. Yeats questions the purpose ...
- 7299: Vladimir Ilyich
- ... now Ulyanovsk). Organizer of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and founder of the Soviet state, he continued the revolutionary teaching of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Born in the family of a public-school inspector. His elder brother Alexander, a member of the "People's Freedom" movement, was sentenced to death in 1887 for participation in preparations for an assassination attempt on the Tsar. In 1887 Lenin finished gymnasium ...
- 7300: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... such and argument Gauguin decided to leave for the night. Vincent secretly followed him and threatened him with a knife. Van Gogh returned home afterwards. At home, holding the razor in one hand, he started high at the back end of the ear, and downward so that the lower part of his left ear was chopped off. He then wrapped the ear in a cloth and gave it as a "present ...
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