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- 1301: Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
- ... of the play (Proctor, Martha Corey, and Rebecca Nurse) hanged on the same day. They three were actually hung on different days and Margo Burns also points out that the only person who recited the Lords prayer was the Rev. George Burroughs, which caused a commotion in the community because witches were thought to be unable to recite the prayer without faltering. In addition, probably the largest of misconceptions about ...
- 1302: African-Americans In The Civil War
- ... The boys talk to them fearful and treat them most any way and yet they cant talk two minutes but tears come to their eyes and they throw their arms up and praise de Lord for de coming of de Lincoln soldiers." Deeply entrenched in the institution of slavery, the black population responded by playing an important role in the Civil War. This role began years before the actual fighting ...
- 1303: Walt Whitman
- ... which was dramatized. Like all Whitman's major poems, "Song of Myself" contained symbols. For example, in the poem he described grass as a symbol of life "the babe of vegetation," "the handkerchief of the Lord." Whitman praised God and nature. He exposed his gentle nature to his fellow man, and in doing so expressed his love of the world. This was a love he grew up with and carried with ...
- 1304: Pocahontas
- ... still uncertain with what the white man wanted. Soon after Smith had left Jamestown the Indian trouble got worse. Not many Englishmen understood the language of the Indians. Some thought all would be lost; until Lord De La Warr thought about abducting some Indian children and taking them to England to learn the ways of the English. This ideal didnt go over well with the other members of the council ...
- 1305: Was Colonial Culture Uniquely
- "Was Colonial Culture Uniquely American?" "There were never, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel." Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son, February 22nd, 1748. Colonial culture was uniquely American simply because of the unique factors associated with the development of the colonies. Never before had the conditions that tempered ...
- 1306: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... a civil war with the Hohenstaufen princes, who refused to accept him as emperor. The Hohenstaufen Kings At Lothair's death the princes avoided his powerful Welf son-in-law and heir, Henry the Proud, lord of Bavaria and Saxony. Instead, they chose Conrad Hohenstaufen. Civil war erupted again, this time between the weak but charming Conrad III and the Welf dukes Henry the Proud and his son Henry the Lion ...
- 1307: Atomic Bomb
- ... On July 25, 1945 in his diary entry Truman wrote, " We met at 11:00 A.M today. That is Stalin, Churchill, and the U.S. President. But I had a most important session with Lord Mountbattan and General Marshall before than. We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphates Valley Era, after Noah and his ...
- 1308: Ancient Summerian Mythology
- ... to contend with Gilgamesh and absorb his energies. However, Enkidu was no match for Gilgamesh. Instead he became his faithful companion. Enkidu is like the rational type while Gilgamesh acts bold and fearless. O my Lord, you may go on if you choose into this land, but I will go back to the city, I will tell the lady mother all your glorious deeds till she shouts for joy; and then ...
- 1309: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... eventful declarations in history was given in 1863 as President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by confederates. That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any States or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be ...
- 1310: A Hero Among Men, A Man Among
- ... less versed in classical literature recognize the larger-than-life character, if not the specific details of this legend. It is with these associations in mind that one approaches the poetic monologue Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson, hwoever, presents the reader with a man rather than a hero. The Ulysses of his imagination is restless rather than self-satisfied and irresponsible and selfish rather than altruistic. This Ulysses harbors unrepentant ...
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