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- 2251: 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 ...
- 2252: The Life of Sylvia Plath
- ... possibly a response to Anne Sexton's "My Friend, My Friend." It was as if Plath was commenting that her writing skills were just a bit better than Sexton's. Sexton frequently would express to Robert Lowell in his poetry class her dissatisfaction with Plath's writing. She said that Plath "dodges the point in her poetry and hadn't yet found the form that belonged to her." The competitive nature ...
- 2253: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... anyone (Parsekian 1). She gave him three children: Stephani Jane (1924), Thomas Carr (1925), and Rachel (1931) (Magill 1: 172). Benet has always been a popular person by large. He was more widely read than Frost, Eliot, and many classical writers. Every lecture hall and poetry workshop wanted him as a guest and his books sold tens of thousands (Griffith 11). In July 1929, John Brown's Body won the Pulitzer ...
- 2254: Joan of Arc
- ... come with her to see the governor so she asked her cousin, Durand Laxart. He, at first, was skeptical about it, but then he soon came to Joan's side. When she told the governor, Robert de Baudricourt, he said she was a fool and she should go home. But after some time of waiting, Baudri-court let her go, under his protection, to the Dauphin with male clothing, a sword ...
- 2255: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... five nuns exiled from Germany. His superior expressed his wish that someone would write a poem about it. Hopkins having his motive wrote his first major work. He sent his poem to long time friend Robert Bridges who was put off by the poem and called it ''presumptuous juggelry.'' But Hopkins stood his ground, knowing he had something of worth. His poem brought together his own conversion and the chiefs nun ...
- 2256: George Washington
- ... destroyed colonial-era armies. Lawrence died in 1752, and the Mount Vernon estate passed by stages into George's hands until he inherited it in 1761. Washington also succeeded to Lawrence's militia office. Governor Robert Dinwiddie first appointed him assistant for the southern district of the colony's militia, but soon conferred on him Lawrence's assistantcy for the Northern Neck and Eastern Shore. So it happened that in 1753 ...
- 2257: Biography of Bob Marley
- ... Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, a pioneer of Jamaican reggae music. Considered one of the greatest artists of the genre, he was the first Jamaican reggae performer to achieve significant international stardom. He was born Robert Nesta Marley in Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann, Jamaica. Marley was learning the welding trade in Kingston when he formed his first harmony group, the Rudeboys, in 1961. The group later became known as the Wailers ...
- 2258: Thornton Wilder
- ... Ed. Leonard Unger. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Goldstone, Richard H. Thornton Wilder: An Intimate Portrait. New York: E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1975. Masters of Modern Drama. Ed. Haskell M. Block and Robert G. Shedd. New York: Random House, 1962. Papajewski, Helmut. Thornton Wilder. New York: Frederick Ungar Pub. Co., 1965. Wilder, Thornton. "The Skin of Our Teeth." Three Plays. New York: Harper & Row, 1957.
- 2259: The Zhou Dynasty
- ... History if Chinese Civilizations. USA: Janovich College Publishers, 1989. Maspero. Henri. China in Antiquity. Paris: University of Massachusetts Press, 1965. Wright, Arthur F. The Unification of China. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1978. Temple, Robert. The Genius of China. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. Loewe, Michael. The Cambridge History of China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Elvin, Mark. Cultural Atlas of China. USA: Facts on File, Inc., 1983 ...
- 2260: The Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project
- ... were three major research and production sites for the project. The first was Los Alamos, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. This is where the actual weapon would be designed. The head of this site was Julius Robert Oppenheimer; this caused a small uproar because of past involvement in pro communists activities. The second site for the Manhattan Project was in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At this site, scientist and laborers were separating ...
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