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- 4701: Hemingway and His Writing Style
- ... people around him, not only a few select members of the distinguished, but with the whole community. The organization of this community is stated with great eloquence in the quotation from one of the poet John Donnes sermons upon the death of a close friend. This is the quotation from which the book takes its title: No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe, every man is a peece ...
- 4702: Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile
- ... nevertheless plain for all to see. Domestically Ramses II reigned supreme, his authority unchallenged. By his energy and determination Pharaoh Ramsey proved to be one of the greatest rulers of his time. BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE Romer, John: Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs. Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston, 1984. pp.177 New York, New York. Velikovsky, Immanuel: Ramses II and His Time: Another Volume in the Ages in Chaos series ...
- 4703: Agatha Christie
- ... states that: "Christie lays her tantalizing plots so precisely and drops her false leads so cunningly that few, if any, readers could guess the identity of the villain." (C.L.C., Vol. 6, p. 110). John Heidenry recalls how he became wrapped up in the "least likely person" device and how confused he became: On page 35 in one of Christie's mysteries, I had guessed the identity of the murderer ...
- 4704: 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 ...
- 4705: Henry Kissinger
- ... at Harvard University and taught there from 1954 until 1969, (Kissinger 95). Kissinger, a master at power politics (his critics would often call him Machiavelli. In reply he would respond, Thank you.), he helped presidents Kennedy and Johnson as a consultant on nuclear policy. It is through this background, and his Nuclear Weapons policy that gained him status as an expert in the field (Kissinger 67) that he was appointed to ...
- 4706: 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 ...
- 4707: Emerson
- ... things that had to do with literature which was not really interesting to them. His early life was not a happy one. He lived in poverty, sickness, and frustration. On April 26, 1807, his brother John Clarke died. His father then died on May 12, 1811 and left his mother to take care of the children alone. One of his brothers died of a mental illness in 1834. Another one died ...
- 4708: Presdent James Abram Garfield
- ... leading candidate was "Blaine of Maine," who was labeled "half-breed" Republican. Garfield went to the convention in Chicago as head of the Ohio delegation to put forward the name of Ohio's favorite son, John Sherman. Conkling's fiery speech nominating Grant was followed by a storm of applause. Garfield's speech nominating Sherman was also well received. Before he had finished, a shout interrupted, "We want Garfield!" The voting ...
- 4709: Rosa Lee Parks
- ... role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. After her husband died she left Alabama and went to Detroit in 1957. From 1967 to 1988 she worked on the Detroit Staff of John Conyers Jr. a democratic member of the U.S House of Representatives. She then began a Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. Its purpose is to motivate and direct youth to achieve their ...
- 4710: The Gold Rush
- ... is a great amount of gold even the most responsible people might just leave their homes, and business.They will run and crawl just to put their fingertips in the all mighty rock. In 1839 John Augustus Sutter migrated from Switzerland into California. While in California, Sutter met a Spanish Governor who believed Sutter was a European noble. For this reason Sutter was able to persuade the governor to give him ...
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