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591: Franklin Delino Roosevelt: ... s funeral in Washington, at 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon, America’s radios broadcast empty air. Telephones went dead, not even a dial tone. And Tele machines ceased their chatter, then slowly typed out seven letters s i l e n c e. Over One hundred thirty five thousand people visit the little white house each year in Warm Springs.

592: Martin Luther King's Life: ... From this the civil rights movement would began. From there victory a new found pride that the African Americans discovered from Martin Luther King Jr. After a month Dr.King started receiving hundreds of hate letters and telephone calls threatening him and his family lives. Finally, the threats became reality while Dr.King was at the mass meeting he received a notice that his home had been bombed. He rushed home ...

593: The Wright Brothers: ... the postal service established an overnight express mail service. “By the mid-1980s all categories of domestic air-eligible mail transported exceeded 76 billion pieces, which equaled about 9 million metric tons.” (“Airmail”) Before airmail letters and packages were extremely hard to send and one could never be confident that they would every arrive at their destination. Yet now, thanks to the Wright Brothers we have the luxury of confidence that ...

594: Anne Moody: ... demand their own rights as Americans. During Moody’s participation in the Movement, she did not gain much support from her family. Her mother wrote her about the dangers of her participation, but soon the letters will cease to be written. Her family feared for Moody’s life as well as those of her brothers and sisters. People who knew Moody back home could be killed or beaten for her actions ...

595: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin: ... be his own boss. That day would come. In 1730, Franklin married Deborah Read, who was the daughter of the first Philadelphia landlady. Read was not nearly so well educated as her husband. In old letters that she had written to him, there are many misspellings and improper punctuation marks. They were a very happy couple despite their differences. They eventually had two boys and one girl. One of the boys ...

596: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not: ... story, has several walls of his own to break out of. In his final grasp at communication, the narrator invites the reading that Bartleby's life, and the story that presents it, are like dead letters that will never reach those that would profit from them. He leaves us with the words, "Ah Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" In "Bartleby, the Scrivener", Melville tries to relate to the reader and explain his declining ...

597: Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros?: ... Bergerac is a hero. After Christian dies and through all the visits to Roxane and after all the agony his heart has gone through, Cyrano never tells Roxane that it was he who wrote the letters and he who loved her so deeply and that Christian was a fool and how could she love a fool for so long and not know. I commend him for keeping his mouth shut. Most ...

598: Catherine The Great: Empress Of All Russia: ... development of underpopulated regions by inviting foreign settlers such as the Volga Germans, and she founded new towns (Odessa, for example) and enterprises on the Black Sea. Herself a prolific writer, Catherine patronized arts and letters, permitted the establishment of private printing presses, and relaxed censorship rules. Under her guidance the University of Moscow and the Academy of Sciences became internationally recognized centers of learning; she also increased the number of ...

599: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not: ... story, has several walls of his own to break out of. In his final grasp at communication, the narrator invites the reading that Bartleby's life, and the story that presents it, are like dead letters that will never reach those that would profit from them. He leaves us with the words, "Ah Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" In "Bartleby, the Scrivener", Melville tries to relate to the reader and explain his declining ...

600: Karl Marx: ... critiques other social ideas of the modern day. The final and fourth part discussed the differences between his political issues as apposed to those of the other oppositonal parties. This part ends in bold capital letters "WORKINGMEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" The days of November 1850 fall almost exactly in the middle of Marx's life and they represent, not only externally, an important turning point in his life's work ...

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