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- 921: Colonel 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 ...
- 922: Clinton Impeachment
- ... Bill Clinton is one of the weirdest episodes in our political history. He is the only elected President of the United States ever to be resulted in the passage of impeachment (Johnson was not elected, Nixon resigned to prevent impeachment). The reason for his impeachment is that he lied under the oath during the testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, and to grand jury during Monica Lewinsky investigation. He ...
- 923: Charles Manson
- ... succeeded in gaining one of these followers, the first thing he did was to deprogram both their ego and their "hang ups," about conventional society. By "hang ups," he meant anything he did not like. Richard DeMargeno, a criminologist, believed Manson was able to control these people by replacing their father figures. "It wasn't a very difficult process. He was dealing with lonely insecure people in need of a father ...
- 924: Benjamin Franklin 3
- ... to America besides his diplomacy was the Declaration of Independence. Not only did Franklin help write this document, but he was also the oldest person to sign it. Franklin published an annual book called Poor Richard s Almanac. In this book Franklin included both important and useless information. Franklin predicted temperatures, told tales, included some of his favorite quotes, and had many fun facts published in this book. This is one ...
- 925: Ben Franklin 2
- ... for any shop. When he was twenty-two, Franklin had his own printing office in Philadelphia where his most famous publications came from. He had a newspaper called the Pennsylvania Gazette and his annual Poor Richard's Almanack. His new ideas for publishing, printing cartoons, illustrated news stories, and letters to the editor, set him aside from other printers of his time. Franklin also founded the first circulating library. It was ...
- 926: Arnold Schönberg
- ... an American citizen as of 1941. He began violin lessons when he was eight and almost immediately started to compose. Berlin was very important for Schönberg's further artistic development. In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular Liszt-scholarship as well as a, apprenticeship at the Stern conservatory. Before returning to Vienna in 1903, he composed the symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melisande" op 5, where the limits of ...
- 927: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... Colliers Encyclopedia. 1974 ed. Lania, Leo. Hemingway: A Pictorial Biography. New York: The Viking Press, 1961. Madden, David. A Pocketful of Prose, Vintage Short Fiction. Vol. 2. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1996. Tames, Richard. The 1920s. New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1991. White, William. By-line: Ernest Hemingway; Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967. Word Count: 2278
- 928: Ben Franklin
- ... and Paris began using them" (Fleming 17). Some of the new electricity related words conceived by Franklin included the condenser, conductor, electric shock, positive and negative electricity, and plus and minus charges. He wrote Poor Richard's Almanack in 1732 to explain the practical application of electricity. Both Harvard and Yale gave Franklin honorary degrees of Master of Arts even though his formal education ended in the second grade. After Franklin ...
- 929: The Son Of Sam And Terror Of N
- ... the mind of a twenty-three-year-old pudgy Jewish man. The demon was a six thousand-year-old spirit, which communicated to him through his neighbor, Sam Carr's Labrador retriever. (Reicher 1996) Born Richard David Falco but better known now as the Son of Sam or the .44 Caliber killer had no real sense of identity from birth. The result of an affair between his mother and her married ...
- 930: The Life And Times Of The Man
- ... York. Pelta, Kathy. Alexander Graham Bell. 1989 Silver Burdett Press, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. St. George, Judith. Dear Dr. Bell…Your Friend Helen Keller. 1992 The Putnam & Grosset Group, New York, New York. Tames, Richard. Alexander Graham Bell. 1990 Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, New York. Word Count: 1940
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