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- 7351: Kerouac
- ... everything. That s reason is enough o read it (23). Deck s statement is true, the book is a pleasure to read. Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922. Kerouac went to school in New York City and afterward served in World War II. After the war Kerouac became a wanderer, traveling through the United States and Mexico. Kerouac s wandering and experiences are what created the subject ...
- 7352: Joseph Stalin 2
- ... leader of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. Although Stalin s reign in power did not begin immediately his contribution to government began in 1912, and from then on he slowly rose to the high chain of command. Stalin s long and troublesome road to absolute power had many steps that marked important events in the Soviet Union s condition but they did not always improve the life of his ...
- 7353: Joseph Kennedy
- ... Kennedy, a local politician and successful businessman, and his wife Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy. His parents wanted only the best for young Joe. In 1901 Joe was enrolled in Boston Latin, and elite boys catholic school. He was a very popular student there as president of his class, colonel on the drill team, a baseball player, and valedictorian. The next step for Joe was Harvard. There things were different; he was ...
- 7354: John Paul Jones
- ... and a passion to sail something. Whether it was a leaf as a child or a bit of wood blown by a small paper sail, John Paul was a seaman from birth. He attended Kirkbean School but spent much of his time at the small port of Carsethorn on the Solway Firth. As he grew up others often found him teaching his playmates to maneuver their little boats to mimic a ...
- 7355: John Dryden
- ... question to whether or not he was raised in a strict Puritan environment. His father was a country gentleman of moderate fortune. He was given the opportunity by his father to be educated at Westminster School and at the University of Cambridge. Around 1657 he went to London as a clerk to the chamberlain to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The death of Cromwell in 1659 inspired Dryden to write his ...
- 7356: John Dalton 3
- ... was a very big deal considering there were only 215 English men that could even read. He was always interested in mathematics and in science. When John reached the age of twelve he opened a school of his own. This was a problem with the Daltons because he was often threatened and beat up. Around 1790 he finished an eleven volume classified botanical collection. He became a well known person in ...
- 7357: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Brandenburg Concertos
- ... 18 as a violinist in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took a job as an organist at a church in Arnstadt (1703-1707). Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians for example, the church choir rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age of ...
- 7358: Joesph Stalin
- ... a force to revolt against the Czar. Stalin was arrested six times from 1902 to 1913. Stalin frequently attended Bolshevik party secret meetings. At these meetings is where Stalin befriended Lenin and they each had high regard for each other. Because of this friendship Lenin had Stalin workon the Revolution of 1917. Stalin was responsible for the murder of many in the bloody October 1917 revolution. In 1922 Stalin became Lenins ...
- 7359: Jfk Alliance
- ... in the hemisphere. He did not want the program to intertwine with the troubles that would involve Cuba. President Kennedy also recognized that within the poor Latin American countries, illiteracy, inadequate housing, unfair land distribution, high inflation, lack of schools and sanitation opened doors to communism. Kennedy had long considered political turmoil in Latin America a threat to the security of the United States. He feared that the many revolutionary movements ...
- 7360: James Watt
- ... new condenser didn t work efficiently and the cylinder wasn t shaped right resulting in a leaking cylinder allowing steam to escape. Soon Roebuck began to retire but at the same time Matthew Boulton left school to join his father in the family business. Boulton was only seventeen at the time. Eventually his father died and Matthew took over the business. Roebuck was also communicating with Boulton as to Watt s ...
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