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- 901: Martin Luther King Jr. 7
- ... December 1st, 1955, women from the NAACP got really brave and refused to give up her seat for a white passenger. Her name was Rosa Parks and she got arrested. After she got arrested, Edgar Nixon took a bus protest. By this time Martin and his people are angry. So on August 1963, over 200,000 people marched with white and black to obtain civil rights. Martin Luther King was the ...
- 902: Manuel Noriega
- ... the El Salvador rebels. America was now involved secretly in the facilitating of a war against all communist movements in Central America. America was now forming a New Vietnam . In a view best described by Richard Barnett in which he separates American political interests from nationalist movements, Barnett feels it is impossible to have a strategy where you are treating local revolutions as part of a worldwide conspiracy . If so he ...
- 903: Modern American History
- ... then, Franklin was a ripe 81 years old, in the twilight years of his life. During his youth, he was an important author, contributing to one of the first papers, and also writing the Poor Richard s Alamack. His autobiography is also a very important work to this day. Franklin was also an important scientist of his time. His personality influenced many of the leaders of the baby American government. This ...
- 904: Mark Twain 2
- ... Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster 1966 Long, Hudson E. and J.R. Lemaster. The New Mark Twain Handbook. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc. 1985 Lyttle, Richard B. Mark Twain: The Man and His Adventures. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company 1994 MiningCo. Research. Mark Twain- Home Page Online. Internet 1999 Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography. New York: Harper and Brothers ...
- 905: Mark Mcgwire Vs. Sammy Sosa
- ... use of such a drug is legal, according to the governing body of that sport. Fortunately for Mark McGwire, use of Androstenedione does not violate any rules of Major League Baseball. While critics such as Richard Griffin, Toronto Star Baseball Columnist, argue that Andro is a "testosterone-producing product that is banned in the NFL, Olympics, and NCAA," they fail to mention that neither the NHL nor the NBA has banned ...
- 906: Louis Leakey
- ... the 1960s Leakey had established himself at the top of his field and with all of his finds he certainly became one of the greatest archaeologists ever. And although Louis died in 1972, his son Richard Leakey has carried on his father and mother's work.
- 907: John Lennon
- ... pieces - bed-ins, happenings, full-page ads declaring "War Is Over!" - to spread their message of peace. During the early Seventies Lennon fought the U.S. government to avoid deportation - a campaign of harassment by Nixon-era conservatives that was overturned by the courts in 1975 - and came to love his adopted city of New York. Then there were those five quiet years when Lennon chose to lay low and raise ...
- 908: John Keats
- ... mainly reflected on his poetry. His father died when he was eight and his mother died when he was fourteen. After his mother died, his maternal grandmother granted two London merchants, John Rowland Sandell and Richard Abbey, guardianship. Abbey played a major roll in the development of Keats, as Sandell only played a minor one. These circumstances drew him extremely close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister ...
- 909: Jimi Hendrix
- ... of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at that time, led him to play with many R&B singers from the time, such as Little Richard, King Curtis, Joey Dee and the Starliters, the Isley Brothers, and many others (Murray 38-42). The development of his own style of music, which would later be displayed at various stages of its evolution ...
- 910: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... the more impressive considering his short life (Web Museum 4). The life of Raphael Sanzio stands alone in the spotlight; just as his masterpieces single him out in the world of art. Works Cited Cook, Richard, and de Vecchi. The Complete Works of Raphael. New York: Harry Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1966. Fischel, Oskar. Raphael. London: Spring Books, 1964. Web Museum. Paris. Raphael. June 11, 1996, 1-4. World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago ...
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