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- 941: Stalin As A Continuation Of Le
- ... and using the first Five Year Plan. Lenin and Stalin were of the same personality. Both were extreme activists with an obsession with violence. This quote from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, by Richard Pipes (pp. 104) describes the character of both Lenin and Stalin: "He knew of only two categories of men: friend and enemy-those who follwed him, and all the rest." The two agreed on the ...
- 942: Stephen Hawking
- ... not know how smart he was until his second year of college. He and his friends were assigned thirteen honors questions in the area of electricity and magnetism. It took his friends, Derek, Gordan, and Richard, a week to complete two and a half of the problems. Hawking did the first ten in three hours, he did not complete the others because he said he did not have enough time. Once ...
- 943: 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 ...
- 944: 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 ...
- 945: George Wallace
- ... of 1972, at a campaign rally in Laurel, Maryland things turned for the worse. While participating in a final round of hand shaking with the crowd. A frustrated Arthur Bremer, who also tried to assassinate, Nixon set his sights on Wallace. Bremer stalked Wallace for weeks trying to get a chance to shoot him. From a range no more than three feet away, the assassin shot Wallace 3 times, severing his ...
- 946: George Lucas Biography And Wor
- ... technobrat, a cold, mechanical filmmaker devoid of warmth and humor(1, 101). He offered the movie, American Graffiti, to United Artists, whose president suggested a two-picture deal (the other being Star Wars). Lucas had Richard Walters, a classmate at USC, write the film with Gary Kurtz as producer. After he read the script, Lucas was disappointed. He then had Bill Huyck and Gloria Katz, close friends, write another script. Finally ...
- 947: Greatness Of LBJ
- ... his break into politics because a man by the name Welly Hopkins. After hearing the speech, Hopkins felt Johnson was a bright man and appointed him manager of his campaign. Later he recommended him to Richard Kleberg, who was a federal representative for the state of Texas. This was his passage into Washington. As secretary for Kleberg, he did most of the work and worked his way on up the government ...
- 948: Mark Twain
- ... 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 ...
- 949: Magic Johnson
- ... we all should be. His courage to speak out and help others deal with AIDS and HIV is amazing. From June Bug to Magic, Earvin Johnson Jr. will always be a great man. Bibliography Brenner, Richard J. Jordan*Johnson. New York: East End Publishing, 1989 Haskins, James. Sports Great Magic Johnson Revised and Expanded. Springfield:Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1992 Lovitt, Chip. Magic Johnson. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1991 Johnson, Earvin Magic ...
- 950: 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 ...
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