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- 1221: Frederick Douglass
- ... raids. After notified of the implementations Douglass decided to flee to Canada knowing that he stood little chance of a fair trial if he were captured and sent to Virginia. While in Canada, Douglass wrote letters in his own defense, justifying both his flight and his refusal to help Brown. Still fear of being arrested kept Douglass away. In November 1859, Douglass sailed to England again. He began a trip he ...
- 1222: Civil Rights
- ... Press Inc: Brookfield, CT. 1986 – this book is well organized and written but its content is not very substantive. It gives a nice biography but where this book really helped me was the speeches and letters. This book has many good excerpts from various writings and speeches of King. Darby, Jean- Martin Luther King, JR., Lerner Publications Company: Minneapolis , 1990 This was also a pretty decent book. It was also not ...
- 1223: Battle Of Bunker Hill
- ... mouthful of us (Here's to the Losers: page 2)." When the British forces were firmly established on the ground at the base of the hill they proceeded to charge. If you read the British letters and diaries, they expected to march up the hill and just scare the colonists away. The British Regulars advanced with bayonets fixed; many of their muskets were not even loaded. The British troops, wearing their ...
- 1224: Early America
- ... did not live like the pertains. They lived on plantations and didn't write plain style. They didn't even live that same way. They lived far away form each other. They were more into letters public reports, and the told details of their lives. They wrote about politics and put some excitement into how they wrote. William Byrd was a between the world being more widely and witty southerners and ...
- 1225: Slavery In America
- ... which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan. One person thought it would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan" as a parody of the fraternity names which always had three Greek alphabet letters in it. They created the Clan to be mischievous and to do it without anyone knowing who they were which accounts for their costumes and masks. They, like most whites, were upset that the black ...
- 1226: Underground Railroad
- ... is to this day very hard to describe. Traks were laid to aide the slaves to freedom. People talked in secrecy to make safe paths for the slaves to run on. These were the tracks. Letters were sent that had terminology or code for the balcks. A lot of the terms come from things found along railroads. This is because real railroads at this time were the newest thing and happened ...
- 1227: Slavery In America
- ... which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan. One person thought it would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan" as a parody of the fraternity names which always had three Greek alphabet letters in it. They created the Clan to be mischievous and to do it without anyone knowing who they were which accounts for their costumes and masks. They, like most whites, were upset that the black ...
- 1228: The Telescope
- ... progressively loses its power to accommodate, that is, to change its focus from faraway objects to nearby ones. This condition becomes noticeable for most people in their forties, when they can no longer focus on letters held at a comfortable distance from the eye. Magnifying glasses became common in the thirteenth century, but these are cumbersome, especially when one is writing. Craftsmen in Venice began to make small disks of glass ...
- 1229: New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
- ... closely associated with marijuana. He proceeded to search the purse to find a small amount of marijuana, a pipe, small empty plastic bags, a substantial amount of money all in one dollar bills, and two letters that implies that she is a dealer. Mr. Choplick notified her mother and the police and told her mother to take her to the police headquarters. A New Jersey juvenile court admitted the evidence, saying ...
- 1230: The Spread Of Christianity
- ... in Jerusalem and Caesarea, the apostle appealed to Caesar and was sent to Rome. When he arrived at Rome, he would preach to the Roman guards from his imprisoned room and would also write several letters to the churches in Asia Minor. As years went by, he was set free and still preached the gospel to people, but didn’t travel as much.
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