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- 3901: Duke Ellington 2
- ... of the '60s were collaborations that found the maestro fitting in equally well with major musicians who had each incorporated some of Ellington's principles to a great degree in their own music. They were John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra, who would normally never even get into a sentence together, yet had in common their Ellington influence and experience.
- 3902: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... his promotion to first lieutenant, Dwight and Mamie were married. The young couple had their first son, Doud Dwight Eisenhower, died of scarlet fever at three years old. Later, the Eisenhowers had a second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower who later became an Army officer and diplomat (147, Richardson). In Eisenhower s commission, he directed tank training programs for officers and recruits at Camp Colt, located at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After World ...
- 3903: Earl Warren
- ... criticism and praise as a result of his judicial performances. Warren reached his last major case of the court in 1963 when he led the group responsible for the investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The commission found no evidence of a conspiracy, but did find out that there was only one assassin. On July 9, 1974, Warren died in Washington, DC.
- 3904: The Death Penalty
- ... can leave a prisoner conscious but paralyzed with pain, serving as a witness for his own demise." The following is an eye witness account of an Arizona gas chamber execution given by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "When the fumes enveloped Don's head he took a quick breath. A few seconds later, he looked again in my direction. His face was red and contorted as if he were attempting ...
- 3905: To Have Intellectual Freedom Or To Be Censored
- ... express his/her feelings and thoughts, as intellectual freedom is the basic freedom of human beings. If anyone doesnt have this freedom, he/she can not have any others. As the definition made by John B. Harer (1992:3) states, intellectual freedom is a complex conceptualizing of the human right to hold truths, ideas, opinions, and beliefs freely and without control and to express such thoughts so that innovation and ...
- 3906: Confederate States Naval Technological Advances
- ... most important piece of equipment left behind however was the USS Merrimac (Confederate Military History). Burned and scuttled by it's crew, the Merrimac was raised by the captors of Gosport. After seeing it., Commander John M. Brooke formed a plan for her (Confederate Military History). Immediately this plan was set to work, and after refitting her with oak two feet in thickness, and then covering that with two inches of ...
- 3907: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Boston on January 19, 1809, his parents, regular members of Federal street theater, named him Edgar Poe. Shortly before his mother's death in Richmond, Virginia on December 8, 1811, his father abandoned the family. John Allen, a wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond, brought Poe into the family (at his wife's request), and gave him the middle name Allen as a baptismal name, though he never formally adopted him. Even ...
- 3908: Eva Peron
- ... of 1974, in 1976 her body was returned to her family to be placed in a vault in Buenos Aires. BIOGRAPHY - EVA PERON Nicholas Fraser. W.W. Norton & Co. N.Y. 1984 - EVITA FIRST LADY John Barnes. Grove Press, inc. N.Y. 1978 - THE WOMAN WITH THE WHIP Maria Flores. Doubleday and Co. N.Y 1952. - EVA PERON, THE MYTHS OF A WOMAN J.M. Taylor. The University of Chicago Press ...
- 3909: Women and the Canadian Welfare State: The Decline of Social Welfare and Its Effects on Women
- ... breakdown and illegitimacy. Unless such problems are dealt with effectively, they fester, and grow, sapping the strength of society as a whole and extending their consequences in troubled families from one generation to the next. - John F. Kennedy Canadians, especially Canadian women, can no longer expect as much from their government; rights that were formerly guaranteed by our welfare state are no longer applicable and are quickly disappearing. Social spending has ...
- 3910: Affirmative Action
- Affirmative Action Affirmative action, the most heatedly debated topic of the civil rights movement, brings to the table many theories about its merit and effectiveness. "Affirmative action" was a phrase first coined by then-President John F. Kennedy. His intention was that "affirmative action" would ensure job applicants would be treated "without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin (Pasour 1)." Kennedy never implied preferential treatment would be given ...
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