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- 6911: James Fenimore Cooper
- ... active duty. After Cooper's father passed in 1809, he received a nice inheritance. Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He decided to try his hand at writing as a career. Carefully modeling his work after Sir Walter Scott's successful Waverly Novels, he wrote his first novel in 1820 called Precaution. A domestic comedy set in England, lost money, but Cooper had ...
- 6912: Jennifer Lopez
- ... with the show for a while before making any attempt to move on. After a couple of seasons spent in Living Colors, Jennifer got her shot at acting when a co-worker, whose husband was writing and producing a pilot called South Central for Fox, suggested her for the part. Jennifer brought her television career to an end in 1993, with the role as a heroic Nurses on the line: The ...
- 6913: Jim Morrison
- ... drums. The Doors became a very successful band, recording fourteen albums altogether, not including bootleg recordings (Rocco 184). In 1971, the four Doors break up after Jim decides to move to Paris to pursue a writing career. Jim Morrison was intelligent, intimidating, sensitive, wild, just about everything a person could be rolled into one. In a publicity bio recorded by Elektra, Jim says, I’ve always been attracted to ideas that ...
- 6914: Joeseph McCarthy
- ... how many names McCarthy said he actually had. He later claimed that he had only said 57. Although, now there is substantial proof that he had actually said 205. This was the beggining of a personal witch hunt that lasted more than five years. Even though McCarthy never provided any solid evidence to back up his claims, in that particular time in political history, his accusations and subsequent investigations ended many ...
- 6915: John Adams
- ... Jackson men in his cabinet were openly disloyal" Any idea or policy Adams proposed was immediately opposed. "Yet Adams' schemes were derided or ignored. He had no party organization to back him. He lacked the personal magnetism to fire the national imagination and impose his will." Even with all this opposition Adams continued to work hard and serve his country. Serving his country meant not firing his political rivals if they ...
- 6916: John D. Rockefeller
- ... Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; Karamu House in Cleveland; and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. OTHER ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT In addition to creating these corporate philanthropies, Rockefeller continued to make personal donations. Among others whose activities received his financial support were various colleges and universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Spelman, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Vassar; theological schools; the Palisades Interstate Park Commission; San Francisco Earthquake ...
- 6917: John Hancock
- ... he was sent to another school, in which he might have met John Adams, with whom he struck up a casual acquaintance. Like all the other children in town, he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of ...
- 6918: Joseph Hyden
- ... palace built by Prince Nicholas. During this time, Haydn did not maintain his usual volume of symphony production, as he composed less than ten between 1766 and 1770. However, Haydn experienced a renewed interest in writing string quartets. He composed three groups of six quartets between 1771 and 1772, which he published with the opus Nos. 9, 17, and 20. Haydn's work underwent a transition between the years of 1768 ...
- 6919: Joseph Stalin
- ... In 1922, he became general secretary of the Party Central Committee, a position that he held until the day of his death. Stalin also occupied other key positions, which enabled him to build up enormous personal power in the government. This is a key point in Stalin’s life where he was enormously confident about himself which led him to do things that were no acceptable in today’s standard life ...
- 6920: Joseph Stalin
- ... 1953." under the horrible conditions at the Gulags. Every year Stalin, in his paranoia sent millions of people off to their deaths. "Russia’s War - Blood Upon the Snow" brought into view a more detailed, personal account of Stalin’s atrocities. People recalling memories they had of what it was like to live under Stalin’s paranoid rule. During his five-year plans to become a more industrialized nation, Stalin had ...
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