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- 1291: Sir Francis Bacon
- ... writers suggested that Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays, but this theory is discounted by most scholars. Bibliography: World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1962. Volume B Pp. 18. Wegman, Richard J., Medical and Health Encyclopedia, New York: Ferguson Publishing Company, 1992, Pp. 491-492.
- 1292: Grover Cleveland
- ... two terms that did not directly follow each other. He also was the first President who was elected after the Civil War. Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name was Richard Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughter of a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth child in a family of four brothers and five sisters. Grover Cleveland's family let a ...
- 1293: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... having a baby. In Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants the man wants his sweetheart to have an abortion so that they can continue as they once lived. In To Have and Have Not, Richard Gordon took his wife to "that dirty aborting horror". Catherine's death, in A Farewell to Arms, saves the author's hero from the hell of a complicated life. ENDNOTES . Peter Buckley, Ernest, The Dial ...
- 1294: Thornton Wilder
- ... no playwright or author seems more surely to have been born to the vocation of writer. BIBLIOGRAPHY American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Ed. Leonard Unger. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Goldstone, Richard H. Thornton Wilder: An Intimate Portrait. New York: E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1975. Masters of Modern Drama. Ed. Haskell M. Block and Robert G. Shedd. New York: Random House, 1962. Papajewski, Helmut. Thornton Wilder ...
- 1295: World War I
- ... never ratified by the U.S., nor did it ever join the League of Nations. Post war Communist hysteria suddenly swept through the country as a result of the Communist takeover in Russia. Attorney General Richard Palmer ordered mass arrests of anarchists and Socialists, and from November 1919 to January 1920, over 6,000 people were arrested. The red scare however, faded almost as quickly as it arose. Palmer's loss ...
- 1296: Is Saddam Satan?
- ... running Iraq until a new leader could be found. There is also no guarantee that a successor to Saddam would be less hostile to U.S. interests.Saddamism without Saddam is a real possibility, says Richard Haass (Kramer 37). The new Iraqi leader would be free from sanctions as everyone will want to give the new guy a chance, thereby giving him time to rebuild his country and military and again ...
- 1297: Exploration of the New World
- ... established England as a great naval power and "cleared the way for English colonization of America."(pg.43) England's final motivation for colonization still included its sense of national greatness which was promoted by Richard Hakluyt: "to extend the reformed religion, to expand trade, to supply England's needs from her own dominions, to provide bases in case of war with Spain, to enlarge the queen's revenues and navy ...
- 1298: October Crisis/War Measures Act
- ... the watch of the government. The only option the F.L.Q. had, was to act in secret. On the morning of October 5 1970, two armed men kidnapped the Senior British Trade Commissioner, James Richard Cross, from his home in Westmount, Montreal. (Des, 186) They soon identified themselves through communiques delivered to radio stations, as members of the F.L.Q. (Des, 186) Conditions for the release of James Cross ...
- 1299: History of England
- ... He was opposed by Thomas Becket, his former chancellor, who King Henry had made archbishop. His anger at Becket led to his murder. His empire included half of France and lordship over Ireland and Scotland. Richard I, the Lion-Hearted, was busy fighting in the Crusades. So he was not in England very often. During his absence land was lost to France, but the goverment continued to function, collecting taxes to ...
- 1300: The Elizabethan Age
- ... first of the playhouses was simply called the Theatre. It was located in the northern region of the river in Shoreditch. James Burbage, the father of one of the greatest actors in Shakespeare's company, Richard Burbage, built it. The plays that Shakespeare wrote before 1597 were performed there. The next playhouse, Henry Canman's Curtain, was built directly adjacent to the Theatre. It was used by famous clown and singer ...
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