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- 1741: Crucifixion and Jesus
- ... Traditionally, this had been considered a spear wound to the heart through the right side of the chest. The Crucifixion of Jesus After the whipping and the mocking, at about 9 AM on a Friday (John 19), the Roman soldiers took Jesus and the two thieves to be crucified. Jesus apparently was so weakened by the severe punishment that he could not carry the patibulum from the city to the site ... crucifixion site. (Luke 23:26-27) Here, Jesus' clothes, except for a linen loincloth, were removed. He then was offered a drink of wine mixed with myrrh, gall, but, after tasting it, refused the drink. (John 19: 28-30) Finally, Jesus and the two thieves were crucified. The titulus was attached above Jesus' head. The soldiers and the civilian crowd taunted Jesus throughout His. Christ spoke several times from the cross ... and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Rather, one of the soldiers pierced his side, probably with an infantry spear, and produced a sudden flow of blood and water. (John 19:33-34) Later that day, Jesus' body was taken down from the cross and placed in a tomb, where He rose three days later.
- 1742: The Night of the Hunter: The Preacher
- The Night of the Hunter: The Preacher When describing the preacher, John says, “His name is Harry Powell. But the names of his fingers are E and V and O and L and E and T and A and H and that story he tells about one ... Powell does not want anyone to know he stole a car and he can substantiate his lie because he knows things about Ben from being in the same cell. As a result, the people (except John) do not suspect Preacher to be the malicious murderer that he is. The preacher also tells people that Ben told him that he threw the ten-thousand dollars he stole into the river. Harper actually never leaked his secret and even stuffed a sock in his mouth to keep himself from telling. This lie made practically everyone believe the money was gone and no one (except John) anticipated the preacher's greedy plan to steal it. In addition, Powell also lied after he killed Willa. This time his lie was intended to conceal an act rather than a motive. He said ...
- 1743: Coca Cola
- ... as an insignificant one-man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is M. Douglas Ivester. Without societies help, Coca-Cola could not have become over a 50 billion-dollar business. Keogh, Donald R., (1987, May). “Three A’s Spell Global Success” Journey, pp. 5-11. Coca-Cola was invented by Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist. He concocted the formula in a three-legged brass kettle in his backyard on May 8, 1886. He mixed a combination of lime, cinnamon, coca leaves, and the seeds of a ... as a never and brain tonic and a medical elixir. Coca-Cola was named by Frank Robinson, one of Pemberton’s close friends; he also penned the famous Coca-Cola logo in unique script. Dr. John Pemberton sold a portion of the Coca-Cola Company to Asa Candler, after Pemberton’s death the remainder was sold to Candler. Pemberton was forced to sell because he was in a state of ...
- 1744: Coca Cola And Its Evolution
- ... as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is Roberto Goizueta. Without societies help, Coca-Cola could not have become over a 50 billion dollar business. Coca-Cola was invented by Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist. Dr. Pemberton concocted the formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard on May 8, 1886. He mixed a combination of lime, cinnamon, coca leaves, and the seeds of ... friends, Frank Robinson also penned the famous Coca-Cola logo and it's unique script. In addition to the early history of acquiring its name, the Coca-Cola Company traded several hands. While living, Dr. John Pemberton sold a portion of the Coca-Cola company to Asa Candler, then after Pemberton's death, Candler bought the remaining portion of the company. Candler acquired the whole company for only $2,300 ...
- 1745: Birmingham, Alabama and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... hymns." (p.163) For a seven-day period in May 1963, the nation was exposed to these and similar pictures (some of which appear in the book). Reports of the incidents in Birmingham moved President John F. Kennedy to remark that "the civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln." (p. 164) A biography of a man and the times in which he ...
- 1746: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- ... Creative Arts Award (1965); a Medal of Honor from the National Arts Club (1975); the $11,000 Commonwealth Award (1981); and an honorary doctorate from Harvard University (1982). He was honored by President Carter at Kennedy Center in 1979, and named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 1981. In addition to kudos from critics, Williams held for many years the attention of audiences in America ... 429 entries for Edward Albee. 3) According to critic Alan Sinfield, "EngLit" (his term for scholars attached to the new critical movement), "traditionally, has never had reason to see any homosexuality" (61). He reports that John Crowe Ransom, possibly the most influential scholar in the new critical movement, accepted for publication a poem from Robert Duncan and then, discovering the poet was gay, withdrew his acceptance. "Ransom thought homosexuals such as ...
- 1747: Guy Fawkes
- ... oppressive anti-Catholic laws being applied by James I. The originator of the scheme was Robert Catesby, a country gentleman of Warwickshire. First he took his cousin Thomas Winter and his friends Thomas Percy and John Wright into his confidence, along with Guy Fawkes, a soldier of fortune. They in turn drew other Roman Catholic gentlemen into the plot, among them Sir Everard Digby, John Grant, Ambrose Rokewood, Francis Tresham, Thomas Winter’s brother Robert, and John Wright’s brother Christopher(Infoplease.com 1). The conspirators discovered a vault directly beneath the House of Lords. They rented this cellar and stored in it 36 barrels of gunpowder. In the final arrangement, ...
- 1748: Robert E. Lee
- ... New York harbor, where he took charge of building fortifications. When war broke out between the United States and Mexico in 1846, the army sent Lee to Texas to serve as assistant engineer under General John E. Wool. All his superior officers, including General Winfield Scott, were impressed with Lee. Early in the war, Lee supervised the construction of bridges for Wool's march toward the Mexican border. He then did ... of time, mostly because of his wife who was becoming weaker and weaker every minute. Lee came home to see her as often as possible. He happened to be in Washington at the time of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, and was sent there to arrest Brown and restore order. He did this very quickly and returned to his regiment in Texas. When Texas seceded from the ... and became Lee's most trusted subordinate. Jackson was so devoted to Lee that he said he would follow him into a battle blindfolded. With Jackson's help, Lee won a major victory over General John Pope in the second Battle of Bull Run, in August, 1862 (Nolan 89). He was then free to invade Maryland. Unfortunately, McClellan intercepted a battle order which a Confederate staff officer had carelessly lost. ...
- 1749: Freedom In The United States
- ... the government when he printed up a copy of the colony's charter. He was charged with seditious libel and spent more than a year in prison. A more famous incident was the trial of John Peter Zenger which established the principle of a free press. In his newspaper he published satirical ballads regarding William Cosby, the unpopular governor, and his council. His media was described "as having in them many ... immediately pardoned. The next attack on the First Amendment occurred in 1835. President Andrew Jackson proposed a law that would prohibit the use of mail for "incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." John C. Calhoun of South Carolina led a special committee that opposed the proposal on grounds that it conflicted with the First Amendment. The proposal was defeated because it was a form of censorship. The next ... librarians to resign and the closing of libraries. On the morning of December 16, 1965, thirteen year old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove ...
- 1750: Popes
- ... s action, not good works. Erasmus's beliefs supported and aided many of the Protestant sects beginnings. As far back as the fourteenth century church doctrine was being challenged. One of the earliest reformers was John Wycliff during the early fourteenth century. Wycliff identified the Catholic church as "the anti-Christ". Wycliff and his followers, the Lollards, met an untimely death for their heresy. John Hus, fifteenth century Bohemian reformer, was also killed for his preachings against the church. Both of these men appeared in the wrong place and at the wrong time to be able to be much of ... the number of sacraments from seven to two. The only two sacraments Luther retained were baptism and the Eucharist; however, Luther favored the idea of consubstantiation instead of transubstantation during the Eucharist. Luther's follower, John Calvin, was the second generation of church reformers. Like Luther, Calvin also believed in salvation by faith alone; however, Calvin placed more emphasis on God's omnipotence and man's insignificance. Calvin also became ...
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