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- 2071: Ted Bundy
- ... anything about this. (Time Life) The older Ted got, it became more difficult to hide his family's identity and his secret mother. With this his mother moved to Washington where she met and married John Bundy. At the time Ted was four years old. He was adopted by John and his new parents had four children together. From the beginning Ted did well in school. His teachers complimented him on his good grades. But they also commented on Ted's inability to control his ...
- 2072: The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown
- ... draws from the literary tradition of Europe; The blending of voices tends to be less emotional. Three groups who popularized English rock in America after the Beatles were The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Elton John. They capitalized on the attitudes of the times which were sometimes tasteless and antiestablishment. The Rolling Stones and The Who eventually have an impact on punk and new wave. Elton John proves the lasting impact of a pianist and a vocalist. Chapter thirteen goes onto art and eclectic rock. Art rock is a term that defines music that either has higher pretentions than standard rock or ...
- 2073: James Earl Jones: A Voice in the Crowd
- ... Earl, moved away to the Mississippi Delta when he was an infant. Raised for the rest of his young life by his maternal grandparents, James Earl developed a close relationship with the Connollys. AMaggie and John Henry were always there, day by day, and they became for me, once and for all, my mama and my papa@ (18) . Less than three years later, the Connollys moved to Dublin Michigan where James ... Atkinson, Brooks.@The Pretender by Lionel Abel.@ New York Times 25 May 1960: 42:1. Barnes, Clive. White Hope: Tale of Modern Othello Opens in Capital.@ New York Times 14 Dec. 1967 58:1. Culhane, John. How james Earl Jones Found His Voice.@ Reader=s Digest Nov, 1994: 51-53. Funke, Lewis. Theatre: Fun and Frolic.@New York Times 3 Aug. 1961: 13:1 Theatre: Othello from the Park Festival Production ...
- 2074: Jackie Robinson
- ... 2). In 1963, while Robinson and King were going from church to church speaking they learned that an NAACP officer Medgar Evers was murdered (2). Shortly after the murder Robinson sent a letter to President John F. Kennedy asking him to give Martin Luther King secret service protection (3). Kennedy gave them the protection and later on August 28, 1963 Robinson took his family to see Martin Luther Kings famous I ... and he went back home to live with his family (4). At his old age Robinson had endured a lot of pain. Many of the close friends he had and family members had died including, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcom X who were all assassinated. Also his mother Mallie, Branch Rickey, and his son Jackie Junior who died in a car accident at the age of 24 (Hill ...
- 2075: Robert Penn Warren
- ... successful. During his college years at Vanderbilt, the sense of being physically maimed, as well as the fear sympathetic blindness in his remaining good eye became almost unbearable. At Vanderbilt University he met Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and others interested in poetry. As part of The Fugitives, a private group that met off campus, he delved deeply into poetry, and his first poems were published in their short ... from Vanderbilt in 1925, he took a Master's Degree from the University of California at Berkley. After visiting Yale University, he moved to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where he wrote his first book: John Brown: The Making of a Martyr in 1929. "Red" Warren, as he was known to his friends, married Emma Brescia in 1930, a marriage which ended in divorce 20 years later. In the last several ...
- 2076: Joel Poinsett
- Joel Poinsett In 1825 President John Quincy Adams appointed Joel Poinsett as the first U.S. minister to Mexico. His first assignment was to persuade the Mexican government to sell the U.S. the province of Texas, thus continuing the rapid ... following his own personal agenda in regards to acquiring Mexican territories, and beginning a war to do so. Unquestionably the most important domestic issue in the years prior to the American Civil War was slavery. John C. Calhoun recognized that, ...if the treaty ending the conflict was silent on the subject of slavery in the ceded territory, the North will oppose it, and if it should prohibit slavery the South would ...
- 2077: The Holocaust: Tragedy in the 20th Century
- ... many of their neighbors did. Fir example, some of the refugees were hiding in the homes of white people that they worked for in Sumner. Others were rescued by trains. A pair of white conductors, John and William Bryce led their train into the woods, taking any women and children. The mobs target were man and older boys. Taking one male might mean death for all of them. Another white man, John Wright, and his wife, took women and children under his roof. He was one of the few white men that called Rosewood home. He hid the women and children until the trained pulled up Saturday ...
- 2078: The Cold War
- ... to Cuba. The U.S threatened a quarantine and the Soviet Union withdrew the missles. The Cold War involved many important people but the main people involved were Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev. Joseph Stalin led his country through World War II, and was mostly responsible for splitting up Germany into its territories. Stalin was also responsible for creating the environment ... organize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to establish an Independent West Germany. Nikita Khruschev provoked the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. He was on the leading board when the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957. John F. Kennedy was responsible for the Bay of Pigs, and helped his country regain its dignity though the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy was also responsible for at least a few assassination attempts on Fidel Castro ...
- 2079: The New World
- ... land use and freedom, to religious rights. You can even say that from the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus, life in the Americas has been greatly altered by the Europeans. Works Cited Faragher, John Mack, et al. Out Of Many: A History Of The American People. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2000. Faragher, John Mack, et al. Out Of Many: A History Of The American People Documents Set. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2000. Calloway, Colin G. The World Turned Upside Down. New York: Boston, 1994. Franklin ...
- 2080: History of England
- ... So he was not in England very often. During his absence land was lost to France, but the goverment continued to function, collecting taxes to support him in his wars and to pay his ransom. John was forced to accept the Magna Carta in 1215 which was also known as the Great Charter. By this he admited his errrors and promised to respect English law. He died one year later. He lost Normandy in 1204, although at the time it seemed to be a disgrace, it left England free to develop without outside interference. John died in 1216 and the barons accepted his nine-year old son as King Henry III. They took control of the government and confirmed the Magna Carta, this took place in 1225. Henry also did ...
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