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- 321: Peyton Place
- ... Selena’s house drunk and coming on to her. One thing leads to another and she kills him, and her and Joey bury him in the sheep pen. Metalious based Selena’s sexual abuse on Jane Glenn, a local girl who confessed in 1947 to killing her father and burying him, with the help of her younger brother, in the barn. Her mother died ten years before, and she told police ...
- 322: History Of The Counterculture
- ... didn’t contain any photographs on file, nor did they “dig” the idea of journalists doing reports on the hippies. Ronald Reagan thought of the hippies as someone who “dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah” (Gitlin, 217). But with or without such outside influences, the hippies continued to pursue their “make love not war” and “free love” attitudes. No movement in our history defines a cultural ...
- 323: Irish Potato Famine
- ... in covering up their actions. The world has held different views to this day about the happenings in Ireland during 1845-1850, and will hold on to these thoughts for an indefinite amount of time. Jane Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde gave this thought on the Irish Genocide: "Let us not dare to forget the terrible death and suffering that occurred between 1845 and 1850. In fact we should indelibly fix ...
- 324: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... as it might, Israel cannot shake loose the impression among the Kurds that it helped lead Turkish commandos in Kenya to their charismatic leader. Ocalan himself said in a recent interview with the London-based Jane's Defense Weekly that he believed the Mossad was tracking his movements on behalf of Turkish intelligence. On October 13, OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Malka told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that ...
- 325: A Remarkable Woman Of The Earl
- ... fought for seven years in the Revolution under General George Washington. Hudsont Martin and Nancy Thorpe were married March 22nd, 1824. The following children were born to this union John, their only son, and daughters Jane, Mahalley, Margaret Ann, Nancy and Jennie. They were raised in Virginia. Margaret Ann's mother died in 1859 and her father in 1861. Margaret Ann was married to Andrew Jackson on December 16th, 1858. They ...
- 326: The 1960s
- ... and years to come. Works Sited Cavan, Sherry. Hippies Of The Haight. St.Louis: New Critics Press, Inc., 1972. Harris, Nathaniel. The Sixties. London: Macdonald Education Ltd., 1975. "Hippies" WorldBook Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Stern, Jane and Michael. Sixties People. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. This Fabulous Century. New York: Time-Life Books, 1970. Outline Thesis: During the 1960's a radical group called the Hippies shocked America with ...
- 327: Mark Twain
- By: terrance evans MARK TWAIN Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clemens. He was born in Florida, Missouri on Nov 30,1835, the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. Several years later, in 1839, the family moved to nearby Hannibal, where Clemens spent his boyhood years. Clemens boyhood dream was to become a steamboatman on the river. Clemens' newspaper career began while still ...
- 328: Andrew Jackson
- ... up". His mother wanted him to be a minister when he grew up. In the year 1781 Andrew’s mother died of cholera while comforting cousins. He was raised in the home of his aunt, Jane Crawford (internet) age of thirteen during the American Revolution he served as an orderly Colonel William Richardson Davie, carrying messages. Following a minor engagement, he and his brother were captured by the British. When Andrew ...
- 329: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... be given IQ (intelligence quotient) and achievement tests on a wide scale and sometimes were carefully grouped by ability and intelligence. Many of the spelling and reading books they used, foreshadowing the 1931 Dick and Jane readers, were based on "controlled" vocabularies. After the shock Americans felt when the Soviets launched the first space satellite (Sputnik) in 1957, criticism of the schools swelled into loud demands for renewed emphasis on content ...
- 330: Hippie Culture
- ... didn’t contain any photographs on file, nor did they "dig" the idea of journalists doing reports on the hippies. Ronald Reagan thought of the hippies as someone who "dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah" (qtd. in Gitlin 217). But with or without such outside influences, the hippies continued to pursue their "make love not war" and "free love" attitudes. No movement in our history defines ...
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