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- 4871: James A. Garfield
- ... sought a firm policy of Reconstruction for the South. In 1880, he was elected to the United States Senate. At the Republican Convention in 1880, he failed to win the Presidential nomination for his friend, John Sherman, but became the "dark horse" nominee on the 36th ballot. In November 1880, he became the 20th President, winning with a 10,000 vote margain over the Democratic challenger, General Winfield Scott Hancock. As ...
- 4872: Golda Meir
- ... book, there was an introduction written by Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr.. He was a Professor of History at Harvard University for many years. He served in the White House as a special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. In the book Golda Meir, all of the possible subjects that I could think of, were covered without any problems. While reading this book, I could not find any subjects that I even ...
- 4873: George Washington
- ... the public mind." Historians credit Washington's conduct of the office with the preservation of the national union under the American Constitution. Washington issued his farewell address on September 7, 1796, and was succeeded by John Adams the following March 4. His last official act was to pardon the participants in the Whiskey Rebellion. When relations with France soured in 1798, his Country once more turned to Washington for his service ...
- 4874: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... his finances, along with his constant obsession of gaining extreme wealth. Fitzgerald later went to Princeton University, where writing and football were his main interests. It was there that he met friends Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. Fitzgerald was too small to play football so he joined a fraternity called the triangle club, the second most prestigious cliche on campus, football being first. After Princeton, Fitzgerald was quoted as saying ...
- 4875: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... Roosevelt had always been an active man determined to work to the end. At the age of 60, on January 6, 1919, he died of an embolism at his home while still working. Bibliography Hunt, John Gabriel. The Essential Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Gramercy, 1994. Miller, Nathan. Theodore Roosevelt, a Life. New York: William Morrow, 1992. Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Ballantine, 1979. Lorant, Stefan. "Life and ...
- 4876: Thomas Paine: Propaganda and Persuasion
- ... troops had a profound effect upon their morale which lead to a victory at Trenton. George Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware River ultimately became a turning point in the war. As noted by John Keane in his book, Tom Paine: a Political Life, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world. Thomas Paine used propaganda methods to induce a desire for freedom in the ...
- 4877: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- The Life and Works of Samual Clemens I. Biography Samual Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835, and died in 1910. Twain's father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens was twelve his father passed away. After his fathers death Samual Clemens left school to find work ...
- 4878: The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great
- ... closest, and it was from them that he invited scholars to aid him in his work of education. A scholar named Grimbald came from St. Omer to preside over his new abbey at Winchester; and John the Old Saxon, was brought from the abbey of Corbey to rule a monastery and school that Alfred's gratitude for his deliverance from the wars with the Danes raised in the marshes of Athelney ...
- 4879: Andy Worhal
- ... events for their face value, as everyday occurrences. "When you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesnt really have and effect." As in the "Jackies," images of the recently assassinated President Kennedys grieving widow, were repeated to reinforce the obsessive ways that our thoughts keep returning to a tragedy, and "stress the flash of fame these little known(suicides) victims achieve in death. This can be ...
- 4880: Herman Melville
- ... publishes battle pieces. Gets job in customs. 1867 Malcom melville dies from a suicidal gunshot to the head. 1876 publishes clarel. 1885 retires from customs. 1886 stanwix melville dies after a long illness. 1888 publishes john marr and other sailors in a private edition of 25 copies. 1891 completes draft of billy budd which was not published until 1924. Sepember 28: dies. 1924 Billy Budd is Published. Accomplishments 1) Wrote the ...
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