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- 1631: Edgar Allan Poe 5
- ... home with her, and another family took his little sister Rosalie. Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was unwilling to commit himself. At that time people thought acting was immoral. John Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and ... and his poem would have won the poetry prize except that the judges decided not to award both prizes to the same contestant. The prize money was not important, but one of the judges, novelist John P. Kennedy, took an interest in Poe and befriended him by helping him sell a story to the new Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond. Poe joined the editorial staff of the magazine and soon became ...
- 1632: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Allans. His eccentric and creative young mind was not appreciated, especially by the dominant male of the family, his foster father. There can be little doubt that the tension between the proud, dour, forceful Scot (John Allan) and his sensitive, imaginative adopted son produced one of the greatest tragedies in the history of our literature. It is in any estimation of Poe s life impossible to overestimate the dominating influence of John Allan; their lives were intimately connected for more than thirty years - ending with Allan s death.24 Another tragedy occurred when Poe left the country on a trip. He later returned to America, only in ...
- 1633: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... Selma to Montgomery March served as a stimulus for the Voting Rights of 1965, which made it possible for Southern Negroes to register and vote with little difficulty. This march was led by King and John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It consisted of peaceful protesters who were viciously attacked by the police. They used tear gas, whips, clubs, and fire hoses on these innocent people. Over forty thousand ... Jr., Martin Luther (1968). Where Do We Go From Here Chaos or Community? Boston: Beacon Press Lawson, Steven L (1997, 1991) Running For Freedom The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Meier, August & Rudwick, Elliot & Bracey Jr., John (Ed) (1991). Black Protest In The Sixties New York: First Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc. Pinkney, Alphonso (1969) Black Americans Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc. http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm
- 1634: Daniel Boone
- ... the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina, a trek that took over a year. At nineteen or twenty he left his family home with a military expedition in the French and Indian War. There he met John Finley, a hunter who had seen some of the western wilds, who told him stories that set him dreaming. But Boone was not quite ready to pursue the explorer's life. Back home on his ... they were married. In 1767 Boone traveled into the edge of Kentucky and camped for the winter at Salt Spring near Prestonsburg. But the least explored parts were still farther west, beyond the Cumberlands, and John Finley persuaded him to go on a great adventure. On May 1, 1769, Boone, Finley, and four other men, started out. They passed Cumberland Gap and on the 7th of June, they set up camp ...
- 1635: Charles Dickens
- CHARLES DICKENS In 1812, one of the greatest writers of all time, according to many, was born to the name of Charles John Huffman Dickens. Charles Dickens' family was not well to do, and was a lower-middle class family with eight children, Charles being the second. He had a painful personal life from growing up all the ... He also had many great classics. Dickens is thought by many to be the greatest English novelist ever to have written a book. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens. When he was two years old, he and his family moved to London where Charles went to school. When he was twelve, he was taken out of school and sent to work ...
- 1636: Benjamin Franklin
- ... The next year, he signed the Treaty of Alliance with France, and the following year, he was chosen Minister to France. At age 76, Franklin negotiated a preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain along with John Adams and John Jay. He went back to France, and the next year he signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War. When he was in Paris, he was able to watch the world's first ...
- 1637: Australia
- ... are dotted with sphagnum moss bogs. Weeds introduced from outside Australia, such as wild turnip and hoary cress, compete with crops. Lantana, blackberries, bracken fern, and Paterson's curse overrun pastures. Cape tulip and Saint-John's-wort can poison livestock or taint food. Algae block drainage and smother plants. Only 5.3 percent of Australia's 2,966,200 square miles (7,682,300 square kilometers) is covered in forest ... University of Newcastle; College of Advanced Education; War Memorial Cultural Centre. Canberra-Queanbeyan (331,800). Capital of Australia; light industry; tourist trade; National Library of Australia; Australian National Gallery; Mount Stromlo Observatory; Church of St. John the Baptist; Australian War Memorial (see Canberra, Australia). Gold Coast-Tweed (326,900). Resort area includes such famous resorts as Surfers Paradise, Currumbin, Mermaid Beach, and Broadbeach; surfing; swimming; fishing; wildlife reserves. Wollongong (253,600 ...
- 1638: Ansel Adams
- ... went on numerous trips to take pictures of all the national parks in the United States. From 1936 to 1970, Ansel was the director of the Sierra Club, which presented him in 1963 with a John Muirn Award. In 1968 he was the recipient of the Conservation Service award of the Interior Department. In 1969 he was awarded for his photography the Progress Medal of the Photographic Society of America. Ansel published many portfolios and wrote many books which some include Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trial, Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley, Michael and Annie in the Yosemite Valley, Yosemite and the High Sierra, My Camera in Yosemite Valley, Camera and Lens, The Negative, The Print, Natural Light Photography, Born ...
- 1639: Andrew Jackson 2
- ... In 1824, the presidential election took place. Four candidates all from the same party were running against each other because during this time we became primarily a single party system. The candidates included Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford. Although Andrew Jackson proved to be the favorite, no one person gained a majority. Consequently, the election went to the House of Representatives. During this time Clay had withdrawn himself from the presidential race and had thrown his support towards Adams. After being elected, President John Quincy Adams appointed Henry Clay as the Secretary of State. This act by Adams and Clay enraged Jackson and his followers and became known as the corrupt bargain. This would haunt Adams for years. Jackson ...
- 1640: President Andrew Jackson
- ... had wanted to destroy Cherokee jurisdiction on it's land because gold had been found on it, and the state seeing the Indians as tenants on state land decided to "kick them out". Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no jurisdiction to interfere with the rights of the Cherokee and removal of them would violate treaties between them and the U.S. Government. However, Jackson, not liking these decisions was reported of saying "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." It seems to me like a slap in Justice Marshall's face, that Jackson was and always will be an Indian fighter. I think he ...
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