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- 4671: Christopher Marlowe
- ... Microsoft Encarta). Although Marlowe was considered the most important dramatist, prior to Shakespeare, his entire career as a playwright lasted only six years. Marlowe was born on February 6th, 1564 in Canterbury, England. His father, John Marlowe, was a shoemaker and tanner. His mother, Catherine Research) After receiving his BA in 1584, he became known as Dominus Marlowe(. At age twenty-one, his motto was That which nourishes me, destroys me ...
- 4672: Columbus 2
- ... returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 Columbus got a plan to sail west from the Canary Islands to the Indies (now East Indies) and the island kingdom of Cipangu (modern day Japan). When King John II declined Columbus s Enterprises to the Indies he decided to go to the Spanish monarch. Columbus traveled to Cordoba, in 1488 he and his mistress had another son. Columbus presented his plan to King ...
- 4673: Cesar E. Chavez
- ... against stickers. Across the nation, other rich and powerful groups, college students and general public consumers saw the injustice of the treatment of field workers and supported their grape boycott. Public officials such as Robert Kennedy, religious leaders and ordinary citizens from all over the United States flocked to California to march in support of the farm workers. (Project, p.2) By 1970, most table grape growers came to terms with ...
- 4674: Life of Charles Robert Darwin
- ... Unlike his younger brother, he liked the idea. Charles and Erasmus found a place to stay together in Edinburgh. Charles and his brother were well like in Scotland. Their friends included Sir Walter Scott, and John Audobon. Charles did not enjoy school. He proclaimed the lectures boring and time consuming. When in class he had to watch an operation, he left before it was over. The next year of college Charles ...
- 4675: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Union, meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, requested Roosevelt to call another international conference to continue the work begun at The Hague in 1899. Roosevelt responded immediately, and in the autumn of 1904 Secretary of State John Hay invited the powers to meet at The Hague. Russia, however, refused to participate in a conference while engaged in hostilities with Japan. After the peace of 1905, the matter was placed in the hands ...
- 4676: Charles Darwin
- ... had dropped out of medical school and attended University of Cambridge to prepare to become a cler-gyman of the Church of England. There he met two stellar figures, Adam Sedg-wick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a naturalist. Henslow not only helped build Darwin s self-confidence, but also taught his student to be a meticulous and painstaking observer of natural phenomena and collector of specimens. After Char-les ...
- 4677: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... colored girl who passed for white. The story brings out a problem that many Chesnutt's contemporary writers and politicians tried to cope with - the issue of racial identity. By introducing racially mixed characters like John and Rena Walden, Chesnutt advocates the right of mixed races to be accepted on equal terms with whites. In order to support his family, Chesnutt was forced to reopen his court reporting business which he ...
- 4678: Booker T. Washington
- ... banks, has not been trodden without contact with thorns and thistles." This famous speeh placed Washington in the national spot light as the leader of his race. Declarated free, Booker and his mother and brother John journeyed several hundred miles from the plantation in Franklin County, Virginia to Malden in West Virginia where they joined his step father who worked in the salt furnaces and coal mines. Booker had to workin ...
- 4679: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... for all to enjoy. This shows that through her own personal experiences, Harriet Beecher Stowe was able to write novels that dealt with familiar situations leading to their in - depth descriptions and success. Bibliography Clendenning, John. "Stowe, Harriet Beecher." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1994 ed. De Torres, Joseph. Personal Interview. May 16, 1998. Faber, Doris. Love and Rivalry. New York: The Viking Press, 1983. Hedrick, Joan D. Boston Book Review. March ...
- 4680: Robert Schumann
- ... W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1973. Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 6th Edition. London: MacMillan Publishers Limited. 1980. Slonimsky, Nicolas. Bakers Dictionary of Music NewYork: Schirmer Books. 1977. Stanley, John. Classical Music. The Readers Digest Association, Inc.1994.
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