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- 1001: William Wells Brown
- ... nights he was traveling while trying to reach Canada. In this book, he discusses how he was self-educated. He would bribe white children with sugar candy to teach him how to read and understand letters. Clotel, or The President's Daughter follows this young slave through life. She experiences first hand the pain of slavery, everything from the cruelties of her master to losing her own daughter to the slave ...
- 1002: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... t well, either. One of his children was near death, his wife was sick, and a month later, his mother, his greatest supporter, died. In May, 1840, due to his constant bouts of depression and letters of complaint, Mackenzie was pardoned and let out of prison. He hadn t even served one full year in jail! Upon his freedom, Mackenzie started making new editions of the Gazette. The new editions criticized ...
- 1003: William Bradford
- ... wrote Of Plymouth Plantation, recording the history of the Plymouth Colony, and the calamities that led up to their leaving England for Holland, and later to New England. He also recorded some of the important letters he wrote and received in a letter-book, which still partially exists. William Bradford s letter-book was despoiled during the Revolutionary War, and was later discovered in Nova Scotia in the 1790s, ironically, being ...
- 1004: Reinhold Niebuhr
- ... in 1944 helped to found the Liberal Party in New York State. He received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 and was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on June 1, 1971. Niebuhr indicated his overriding interest in what has been called theological anthropology, a concern with the nature of man as a contact point for religion and society, in such ...
- 1005: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... College and pursue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters he wrote at that time expressed lots of feelings and emotions that he had. But after two short years of marriage, Ellen died of tuberculosis. Suddenly, the one true person he had in his life ...
- 1006: Robert E. Lee
- ... bedroom. Below, Mary listened as he paced the floor above, then heard a mild thump as he fell to his knees in prayer. Below, she also prayed (Kelly 41). Hours later he showed her two letters he had written. In one he resigned his commission in the United States Army. In the other, he expressed personal thoughts to General Scott. Later, his wife would write: "My husband has wept tears of ...
- 1007: Prophet Muhammad
- ... in those 10 years of peace between the two factors, they could spread the word of Islam further out to other countries. In these 10 years, more people throughout other countries embraced Islam. Prophet sent letters to several kings and rulers (including the two superpowers - Byzantines and Persians) inviting them to Islam. Negus, the king of Abyssinia, and the Ruler of Bahrain accepted Islam, and Emperor Heraclius acknowledged Muhammad s Prophethood ...
- 1008: Nostradamus
- ... prophetic verses of 4 lines. These verses are called quatrains. Nostradamus wrote 10 Centuries, which are commonly numbered by roman numerals I to X. (Flanagan WWW) Nostradamus left his predictions in the form of several letters, almost 1000 4-line verses called quatrains (the Centuries), and a collection of 6-line verses called sixains. The prophesies are not sequential by date. Some interesting coincidences have been observed between the quatrain number ...
- 1009: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... One evident interpretation of this passage is that Hawthorne found refuge in Sophia's buoyant faith, a needed counterbalance to his own "dark questionings". This passage, as well as numerous others, closely mirrors the love letters that Hawthorne wrote to Sophia through out their relationship (Kaul 163 - 165). In an attempt to probe the mysteries concerning what fueled Hawthorne's writing style, I believe Hawthorne suffered from a complex in his ...
- 1010: Mccarthyism
- ... two years. La Follette was a Republican, and so was McCarthy, so the real race would be for the primary. Joe's campaign used lots of money, along with a dash of luck. He sent letters and postcards to almost everyone in Wisconsin, made half a dozen speeches a day, and attacked La Follette ruthlessly. Luck happened to be on his side when his opponent chose to sit on his laurels ...
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