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- 2201: Abraham Lincoln
- ... of the United States (The Illinois State Bank). Abraham later married on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926. Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871. In February ...
- 2202: Rachel Carson
- ... pesticides. Still uncertain that her works would have any significant effect on people, Carson became involved in another, more intriguing case. Residents of Long Islands Nassau and Suffolk counties, including Archibald Roosevelt and ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy, were suing to exclude their lands from government DDT spraying. Because of lack of sufficient evidence that hazardous pesticides harmed the environment, no action was taken. Carson saw this as an unfair ruling ...
- 2203: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... death spurs rush at retail; biz talk turns to bands unreleased work. Billboard April 23 1994. Pg. 9 Schoenberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York, London: WW Norton & CO., 1981 Seidenberg, Robert, The Day the Demons Won. Entertainment Weekly April 7 1995. Pg. 108
- 2204: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- ... is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Science Digest ) Arthur has won many prestigious awards, including the UNESCO Kalinga Prize, The Franklin Institute gold medal, the Robert S. Ball award, and the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award. An interesting fact is that Clarke proposed a belt of communication satellites, and now they exist. He also helped make the idea of space travel ...
- 2205: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... Winston, 1968. Hensley, Jeannine, ed. The Works of Anne Bradstreet, Boston: Harvard University Press, 1967. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England, 4th ed. New York: New York University Press, 1970. Spiller, Robert E., W. Thorp, T.H. Johnson, H.S. Canby and R.M. Ludwig, Literarty History of the United States, 3rd. ed. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1963. Stanford, Ann. Anne Bradstreet: The Wordly Puritan. New ...
- 2206: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... two actual scenes of violence. Psycho is a film that takes place more in the mind of the viewer than on the screen. The movie is based on a novel with the same name by Robert Bloch, which was a fictionalization of a real event in Wisconsin (Bowers 1393). Marion Crane is the first character that is really introduced. She is upset because her and her boyfriend Sam can not get ...
- 2207: Thomas P. O'Neill
- ... a student got him with a question. A student at Boston College, Tip's alma matter, said, "Sen. O'Neill you have told the public about your many briefings of the war by General Westmoreland, Robert McNamara, the CIA, and even President Johnson but have you ever considered hearing the briefings of the other side?" This hit Tip head on. He decided to get a good look on the other side ...
- 2208: Thomas Jefferson
- ... parliamentary authority over the colonies, recognizing no tie with the mother country except the king. When he was a member of the Continental Congress (1775-1776), Jefferson was chosen together with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingstone and Roger Sherman in 1776 to draft the Declaration of Independence . He wrote the declaration almost all by himself and was amended by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin . Jefferson left Congress in 1776 and ...
- 2209: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... Clifford M. Hardin was named the new secretary of agriculture; Walter J. Hickel, secretary of the interior; Maurice H. Stans, secretary of commerce; George P. Shultz, secretary of labor; John A. Volpe, secretary of transportation. Robert H. Finch was designated to head the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; George Romney, Housing and Urban Development. John N. Mitchell was appointed attorney general; Winton M. Blount, postmaster general. The first changes in ...
- 2210: Lester Pearson
- ... Corps. He was Private Pearson in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. This took him to numerous foreign countries from 1915-1917. When he returned he went to Oxford University under the guidance of the poet Robert Graves. When he graduated he enrolled for the assignment of the Royal Flying Corps. He then began taking flight training but as fate would have it he was hit by a London Transport Bus. He ...
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