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- 361: Polygamy
- ... Wilford Wood ruff's Journal 7 {28 Dec 18880} : 615-21) 1881 Jan 19, Wilford Woodruff submitted a revelation promising the Apocalypse and God's interventions into the affairs of the saints, to church president John Taylor and the Twelve. Wilford was asked to draw up the list of enemies and to write the prayer of damnation , which he did, which contained 400 names of the enemies of the church. The ... in the mission field, away from Utah politics, in five editions (Swedish, German, and Danish) of the Doctrine and Covenants printed in Salt Lake City and Europe. (Salt Lake City, 1882 Revelation Given Through President John Taylor At Salt Lake City, Utah Territory ... Salt Slake City, 1882, Abraham H. Cannon, Journal 5 Apr. 1884; A. C. Lambert, The published editions of the Book of DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS of the Church of ... and was "sustained by the supreme court of the territory four years later." Approximately 2,000 eligible Idaho voters were denied the opportunity of voting and holding office. (Larson, pp. 112-113.) 1885 February 1, John Taylor went into the "underground..," and for a number of years Church leaders directed the affairs of the Church from "hiding places known only to a few trusted individuals.," (Smith. p. 470.) 1886 January ...
- 362: John Maynard Keynes
- John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is regarded as the father of modern Macroeconomics. Keynes was the son of an eminent English economists, Jon Neville Keynes, ho was a lecturer in economics and logic at Cambridge University. John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England and educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. There Keynes was educated on mathematics and probability theory, but he chose the field of economics to pursue. He ...
- 363: John Wilkes Booth
- John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth assassinated president Abraham Lincoln at Fords theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Booth was born near Bel Air, MD. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, and his brother Edwin Booth were famous actors, and John himself was one of the most promising performers of the time. He entered Lincolns private box and shot him in the head during the play our American Cousin. At first, Booth organized a ...
- 364: A Book Report on Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"
- ... presumed dead. He then threatens Bernard with exile to Iceland because Bernard is a nonconformist: he doesn't gobble up pleasure in his leisure time like an infant. At the Reservation, Bernard and Lenina meet John, a handsome young Savage who, Bernard soon realizes, is the son of the Director. Clearly, the woman the Director had taken to the Reservation long ago had become pregnant as the result of an accident that the citizens of Utopia would consider obscene. John has a fantasy picture of the Utopia from his mother's tales and a knowledge of Shakespeare that he mistakes for a guide to reality. Bernard gets permission from the Controller to bring John and Linda, his mother, back to London. The Director had called a public meeting to announce Bernard's exile, but by greeting the Director as lover and father, Linda and John turn him into ...
- 365: Leadership Ability of Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
- Leadership Ability of Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson The quality of leadership can be defined as one's ability to appeal to and sense the needs, wants, and feelings of one's constituency. A leader must also be innovative enough ... also have good decision making skills under all circumstances, and must maintain credibility to his or her constituents. The political candidates during the 1960s each reflected different levels of this quality of leadership. Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, for example, had vastly different levels of leadership ability. RFK was able to sense what his constituents wanted, and he had innovative social programs which appealed to many of his constituents. LBJ ... young JFK seemed to have done no wrong, and the nation was still in shock from his untimely death. Johnson, like any good leader, used this opportunity to introduce social legislation in the memory of Kennedy, namely the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Kennedy had not been able to get passed. This was one instance in which LBJ was able to accurately read the emotions of the people, and ...
- 366: Charles Dickens 5
- ... sharp social criticism and acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined. (Encarta, 1998) Charles Dickens was born on Friday, February 7, 1812 at No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth. His father, John Dickens, was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. In 1814 John was transferred to Somerset House in London. In 1817 John moved his family to Chatham and worked in the naval dockyard. It was here, at Chatham in the Medway Valley, that Charles experienced his happiest childhood memories. John was transferred back to the London ...
- 367: Abigail Adams
- ... health. So, she learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson. Abigail's father knew John Adams by working with him and she grew rather close to him starting a wedding. This now made her name Abigail Adams. Their wedding was held on October 25, 1764, a month before her twentieth birthday. John was a lawyer and very often was not at home due to court cases he had to attend to. When Abigail was pregnant with her first son, John was only at home for eight out of the nine months. The baby was born on a hot day on the morning of July 14, 1765. The baby's name was 'Abigail', but was ...
- 368: Martin Luther And John Calvin Moses
- ... to encourage the Protestants. The Protestants not only disagreed with the Catholic Church about their religion, but they also disagreed amongst themselves. Two of the more prominent Protestants of the time were Martin Luther and John Calvin, whose views sometimes coincided, and sometimes did not. Martin Luther was one of the first Protestants, and it could be said that he was the father of the Reformation. Luther's views on the ... way into Heaven didn't seem to make any sense to Luther, since then the rich could do whatever sinful acts they wished and then simply pay the Church some money and get into Heaven. John Calvin, another Protestant that came after Martin Luther, also had some contradicting views. Luther and Calvin had some major political disagreements. Unlike Luther, Calvin believed that the State and Church should be united. This would ... were one of the chosen few, and place themselves above the "sinful" others who were not predestined to go to Heaven as they. Even though they disagreed on many issues of religion, Martin Luther and John Calvin did indeed agree on some issues. Calvin, like Luther, believed in a simplified church, though I think Calvin may have been a bit extreme. They both believed that only two sacraments were necessary: ...
- 369: Cats Cradle
- ... promise I made to my father. I'm glad I made that promise; I just read a delightfully funny and deep tale about the end of the world. The book begins with a writer named John researching for his book about the day the atomic bomb was dropped. He talks with Newt, son of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, the creator of the atomic bomb. He then goes to Illium, the town where the Hoenikkers grew up, and there he learns of ice-nine, one splinter of which could freeze all the oceans of the world. John soon discovers that Frank, the other son of Felix, is on a small island called San Lorenzo. He goes there to research more for his book. On the plane he meets Newt in person, who turns out to be a midget, and the Crosbys, a married couple. John reads a book the Crosbys give him on the plane all about the religion of Bokononism and it's customs. One custom is Bokomaru, touching the souls of feet together to grow closer. He ...
- 370: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... weaver's apprentice from Hingham, England, who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1637. From him the line of descent came down through Mordecai Lincoln of Hingham and of Scituate, Mass.; Mordecai of Berks county, Pa.; John of Berks county and of Rockingham county, Va.; and Abraham, the grandfather of the president, who moved from Virginia to Kentucky about 1782, settled near Hughes Station, east of Louisville, and was killed in an ... at 19 helped take a flatboat cargo to New Orleans. There he encountered a manner of living wholly unknown to him. Soon after he returned, his father decided to move to Illinois, where a relative, John Hanks, had preceded him. On March 1, 1830, the family set out with all their possessions loaded on three wagons. Their new home was located on the north bank of the Sangamon River, west of ... snow they had ever known, accompanied by subzero temperatures. In the spring the family backtracked eastward to Coles county, Ill. But this time Abraham did not accompany them, for during the winter he, his stepbrother John D. Johnston, and his cousin John Hanks had agreed to take another cargo to New Orleans for a trader, Denton Offutt. A new life was opening for young Lincoln. Henceforth he could make his ...
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