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- 1871: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- ... government to reconcile and mediate with them in order to avoid civil disorder or unrest. The Premier of Quebec at the time, Maurice Duplessis, found it almost impossible to appease the needs of each diverse interest group and faction rising within the province and ultimately buckled underneath the increasing pressure. Many Francophones believed that they were being discriminated and treated unfairly due to the British North American Act which failed to ...
- 1872: Neil Armstrong
- ... The launch was successful. Because of problems with the spacecraft control system, the crew was forced to undock after approximately thirty minutes. The spacecraft-target vehicle combination had begun to encounter increasing yaw and roll rates. The crew regained control of their spacecraft by using the reentry control system, which prompted and early landing in a secondary landing area in the Pacific after 10 hours, 41 minutes, and 26 seconds. No ...
- 1873: Robert E. Lee
- ... with his death on October 12, 1870. Hogg relates the intervening years in an extremely interesting fashion, providing many fascinating and detailed pieces of information. The story is presented in a way that keeps the interest of the reader, and is not boring, even when giving statistics of the various campaigns that Lee undertook. The book appeals not just to Lee fans, but to all history students. The pages are filled ...
- 1874: John Adams
- ... a publisher (DeCarolis, 1995). Jefferson was not accused of being a dictator for such non-democratic actions. Adams was neither dictatorial in his conduct, or imperial in his policies. He appeared to have had the interest of the common people at heart. The conflict with France, the high taxes needed to keep the army and navy operating, and the poor legislative faux pas Congress made during period time, all cast a ...
- 1875: 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 ...
- 1876: Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
- ... be caused by insufficient air, which was thought to be carried by the veins to the brain and limbs. In Joints the use of the so-called Hippocratis bench is described for treaating dislocations. Also interest are Wounds in the Head, Women's Diseases, and Dismembering of the Feotus in the Womb.
- 1877: Biography of William Hearst
- ... Service in 1909 to help reporting for all the publications. Because he started out in comics, he led the industry in making color comics in newspapers. Other contributions included banner headlines and editorials serving the interest of consumers. In the 1920's, he became involved with radio broadcasting and in the 1940's entered into television broadcasting. Hearst Metrotone News produced movie newsreels. William became known as "The Chief." He contributed ...
- 1878: Herbert George Wells
- ... of the future were apocalyptic, even terrifying, and he found the prospect of disturbing his readers very satisfying" (H. G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays: 3). After the turn of the century, Wells's interest in the future became much more positive. In 1905 he wrote his first famous Utopian fantasy, A Modern Utopia. Wells's new Utopian style of writing brought to the surface one of his long felt ...
- 1879: George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
- ... English Themes The author George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an alcoholic father and an undomestic mother. He developed an interest in literature, music and painting at a very early age, but was never enabled to go to university. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice and during he stay there he started writing ...
- 1880: Robert Penn Warren
- ... achievement in American poetry can hardly be equaled in either quantity or quality. In his earlier years, during which, he was an admirer of innovators such as T.S. Elliot and by the revival of interest in seventeenth century poetry. In these years, he produced the best adaptations of the Metaphysical style of any of his contemporaries. One perceptive critic said that, "Warren's own life, his own story, would become ...
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