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- 1841: The Work of Robert Frost
- ... keeps on turning up fresh evidence against itself. And yet we cannot miss the always electric presence of opposition--two things or persons staring at each other across some kind of wall. Frost has no interest in doors that do not lock, in friends who do not know they are enemies too, or in enemies who do not know how to pretend they are friends, and even believe it as far ...
- 1842: The Biography of Kurt Donald Cobain
- ... near Aberdeen, Washington. His mother was Wendy and his father was Donald Cobain. Kurt was born on February 20, 1967. Kurt died on April 5,1994. Kurt was bright and receptive boy who had an interest in music from the early age of two. He had a Mickey mouse drum set that he beated night and day, Kurt's aunt Mary gave him his first guitar lesson , found that he couldn ...
- 1843: The Work of John Collier
- ... woman to the young man is everything. He will go to all limits to have her care about him. With this potion the old man says "She will care intensely. You will be her sole interest in life." this is when the young man says "That is love." we can see here how desperate of a dream to have the love of this woman is to him (Collier 48). When the ...
- 1844: Alfred Nobel
- ... Baroness Bertha von Suttner of Austria, whose peace congresses in Rome and Berne he had supported financially. While he had been concerned about the peace problem long before he met her, she undoubtedly stimulated his interest in it still further. In 1905 Baroness von Suttner won the Peace Prize. A question often asked is, “Why was Norway picked to award the Peace Prize?” Nobel himself gave no reason. It should be ...
- 1845: Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
- ... and younger sister Sophia (Derleth 1) in genteel poverty (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show interest writing, and he wrote his first essay, "The Seasons," at the tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy (Derleth 4). In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard University ...
- 1846: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... Christmas the jaundice returned and John had to drop out of school. Before the next school year began, he told his father he wanted to go to Harvard("JFK" 98). On campus, young people took interest in politics, social changes, and events in Europe. The United States was pulling out of the Great Depression. Hitler's Nazi Germany followed aggressive territorial expansion in Europe. It was at this time that John ...
- 1847: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... the United States renewed popularity in Latin America. On June 3, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, Kennedy and Khrushchev met and reviewed relationships between the United States and the USSR, as well as other questions of interest to the two states. Two incidents contributed to hostility at the meeting. The first was the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane in Soviet air space, and the second was the failed Bay ...
- 1848: Daniel Webster
- ... With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Webster decided to back the high-tariff bill of that year to help the small new manufacturing businesses grow. Angry southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Carolina's John C ...
- 1849: John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
- ... Laura Celestia Spelman, a girl who was strikingly similar to his mother, which is never a good sign; and when he decided to go into business, he borrowed $1000 from his father- at ten percent interest. Ten percent was well above the going rate; Rockefeller's father essentially loansharked his son. Rockefeller was apparently disturbed by his childhood; he absorbed his cutthroat business techniques from his shyster father, and at some ...
- 1850: Abigail Adams
- Abigail Adams Abigail Adams was a unique women because she had an education and an interest in politics. She learned how to read and write and enjoyed poems most. She was also very resourceful by helping her husband on difficult problems. Abigail was born on November 11 on the Julian calendar ...
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