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- 4651: With Malice Toward None
- ... President Lincoln insisted on attending an evening performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater. Since General Grant was expected to attend the play with President Lincoln, the President's attendance was highly publicized. John Wilkes Booth, a staunch Southern supporter, was a well known and popular actor who felt it necessary to redeem the lost cause of the Confederacy. He had previously planned to kidnap President Lincoln, but when ...
- 4652: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... teacher, Helmholtz is appalled to find that Jim Donnini, a juvenile delinquent from the streets of Chicago, has been vandalizing Lincoln High School. Filled with compassion and desperation Helmholtz offers him his most prized possession, John Philip Sousa'a trumpet. When the boy initially shows no interest, Helmholtz hammers the instrument against a coat tree and mutter that "Life is no damn good" ; and only then does Donnini show any interest ...
- 4653: Internation Monetary Fund
- ... scale by all nations in establishing an innovative monetary system and an international institution to monitor it. Fortunately, in a happy coincidence, two bold and original thinkers, Harry Dexter White in the United States and John Maynard Keynes in the United Kingdom, put forward almost simultaneously in the early 1940s proposals for just such a system, to be supervised not by occasional international meetings but by a permanent cooperative organization. The ...
- 4654: The Crucible - Film Review
- ... known fact that the Puritans judged their lives by how faithful they were to God, and by how pure they were. This is also shown in The Crucible. For example, Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor, who had an affair with Abigail, says to him, "The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you." In this quote, she is referring to the affair, and how he can not forgive himself ...
- 4655: Ireland, Land Of Two Countries
- ... of Ireland to be ruled from Great Britain. In 1920 the Government Act of Ireland, which came into effect the following year confirmed that the six counties of Northern Ireland would be ruled from London. (John Vincent) In 1921 after the North was to be ruled from Great Britain, a civil war broke out in the southern 26 counties, between those who were willing to accept the settlement and those who ...
- 4656: Irish Potato Famine
- ... men, women and children were "carefully, prudently, and peacefully" slain by the English government. They died of hunger in the midst of abundance "which their own hands created. In 1861in the Last Conquest of Ireland, John Mitchel wrote: "The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine." Why did the rest of the world accept this? The truth of the matter is they were led to believe ...
- 4657: Italian Renaissance Vs.
- ... a literary movement that occurred during the Renaissance. Although it was understood to be the same thing throughout Europe, the Italians and the northerners conceived it differently. Some of the more important northern humanists include John Calvin, Thomas More in England, and Erasmus of Rotterdam. The Christian humanism of the north is easily distinguished with the “pagan” humanism of Italy. In the north, humanists studied the Hebrew and Greek texts of ...
- 4658: K.k.k.
- ... Alice Shroeder. She was a prominent citizen in the area and held many titles including Grand Tribunal, Past Excellent Commander, Past Grand Klaiff, Grand Officer and Past Kleagle. Other members of the KKK organization included John C. Shroeder, Claude Parr, and B.C. Pond. Robert Anderson's scrapbook contains many interesting clippings, poems, and pictures from Klan activities throughout the country. The cover is decorated with an American flag with the ...
- 4659: Killer Angels 3
- ... battle that made America’s future. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg in Killer Angels, uses the facts of the battle as seen through the eyes of Generals Joshua Chamberlain, Robert E. Lee, John Buford, and James Longstreet. The Men were fighting against their own family and friends. These men were fighting for their morals and ideals, they were dying to win an unseen reward. Men were so blinded ...
- 4660: Kosovo 3
- ... un protectorado internacional”. Diario El País de Madrid, pp.: 6 WESTENDORP, Carlos. 9 de mayo de 1999. “La OTAN, falta de liderazgo político, ha cometido errores”. Diario El País de Madrid, pp.: 4 Entrevista a John Chipman. Director del Instituto Internacional de Estudios Estratégicos. PRADOS, Luis. 16 de mayo de 1999. “Democracia y Guerra”. Diario el País de Madrid, pp.: 15 – 16. CEBRIÁN, Juan Luis. 23 de mayo de 1999. “A ...
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