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- 871: Woodrow Wilson
- ... president is not the usual route to such an office (from being a zoology professor at the University of Washington, Dixie Lee Ray went on to become governor--but her stepping stones were positions as Nixon's chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Assistant Secretary of State, not the presidency of the university!). From the governorship, Wilson began his successful campaign for president of the United States. He won the ...
- 872: William Wallace
- ... either murder or wound the few friends that accompanied Selby. He ran to his uncles house and was hidden from the clutches of the English. From here William fled and joined another uncle, Sir Richard Wallace and stayed with him until April 1292. After living with this uncle for quite some time he yet again encountered Englishmen. This time it was five English soldiers passing by as he was fishing ...
- 873: William Wallace
- ... either murder or wound the few friends that accompanied Selby. He ran to his uncles house and was hidden from the clutches of the English. From here William fled and joined another uncle, Sir Richard Wallace and stayed with him until April 1292. After living with this uncle for quite some time he yet again encountered Englishmen. This time it was five English soldiers passing by as he was fishing ...
- 874: Stephon Marbury
- ... toward its phenoms. The starmakers ballyhooed former playground legend Dwayne (Pearl) Washington, who never lived up to his precious nickname while playing at Syracuse, and struggling St. John's guard Felipe Lopez, who sat for Richard Avedon's camera while still in high school, only to turn their backs on both when they turned out to be anything short of great. This fear of being ridiculed back at home frightened him ...
- 875: Sir Thomas More
- ... is still given chances to escape death throughout the trial, but chooses not to because of his strong religious beliefs. Cromwell asks "Sir Thomas you stand upon your silence" More answers "I do" to this. Richard Rich is used as convicting evidence against More, and he is found guilty. More realizes that there is nor his wits or wisdom of the law can help him, the court is relentless to condemn ...
- 876: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... Newton. 6 November 99 . Newton. 6 November 99 . Newtonia. 1999 . Serway, Raymond. Principles of Physics. Orlando: Harcourt Brace College, 1998. 86. The New American Encyclopedia. 12vols. New York: Books Inc, 1971. 891, 892, 1930. Westfall, Richard S. The Life of Isaac Newton. New York. Cambridge University Press. 1993. 1-18. Wilson, Fred L. "Newton." History of Science. Rochester Institute of Technology. 20 October 1999 .
- 877: Shakespeare
- ... more frequently than those of any other coexistent writer. It was known that he risked losing royal favor only once, in 1599, when his company performed "the play of the deposing and killing of King Richard II" at the request of a group of conspirators against Elizabeth. They were led by Elizabeth's unsuccessful court favorite, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and by the earl of Southampton. In the later ...
- 878: Rosa Parks
- ... in a white seat in a bus. To protest the unfair treatment and to show their strengh, they decided to stage a one- day boycott of the city's buses on the coming Monday. As Nixon said, " The only way to make the power structure do away with segregation is to take some money out of their pockets," and considering that 70 percent or more of the Montgomery bus riders were ...
- 879: Oliver North
- ... bargain that the Iranians were proposing. The National Security Council Chief John Poindexter assigned North to head this operation. North began to raise money for this operation by using political fundraisers Carl R. Channell and Richard R. Miller to raise millions of dollars from wealthy Americans. These funds were run through a network of corporations and Swiss bank accounts put at North's disposal. More than $47 million flowed through these ...
- 880: Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
- ... been to give final proof that Penkovsky was real. Another supporting piece of information is the kind of information was both timely and the exact kind needed. A third point of evidence is in 1971 Richard Helms who was the director of the CIA at the time made a statement indicating that there were several persons in the Soviet government aided the Americans during the Cuban missile crisis (Knightly 326, 327 ...
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