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- 1231: Benedict Arnold
- ... Militia. General George Washington had his favorites, which Arnold was among the very few. (Macks 118) So, Benedict Arnold was sent on a infernal 500 mile march to Maine by Washington also known as "The Rock". (Macks 72, 118) There, he met up with General Richard Montgomery. (Macks 72) The relentless Benedict Arnold and only about fifty percent of his original soldiers made it to the St. Lawrence River where they ...
- 1232: Teddy Roosevelt
- ... light of the current catastrophe, Roosevelt wanted to reassure the nation that not all was lost, that the anarchists would not overthrow the government, and that the country would go on. He sought not to rock the boat, but promised to pick up the mantle where McKinley had left it. As part of carrying on Roosevelt left the cabinet which McKinley had selected in place and followed through with many other ...
- 1233: Richard M. Nixon
- ... leadership in government. He encouraged them to consider entering public office, and he certainly helped turn Nixons thoughts in that direction. In 1934 Nixon graduated from Whittier College after four years on the honor roll. He applied for a scholarship to a new law school, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and asked several of his professors to write to Duke, recommending him for a scholarship. Thanks to one ...
- 1234: Naval Battles
- ... to the building of the USS Monitor, the USS New Ironsides was built. "It was the strongest ship ever built by the Northern Navy" (Lavy 4). Wooden ships were now obsolete. Ironclad ships began to roll out of ship yards more often than their wooden counterparts. "The invention of ironclads in the Civil War set examples for the future of ship building in the United States" (Lavy 5). The ironclads were ...
- 1235: Puritans And Witches - Natural
- ... Devil was on the mind of the Puritans as much as was God. Life in the New World was a harsh challenge with overwhelming obstacles rising up against them every day. Long, bitterly cold winters, rock-filled farmland, disease, and political unrest made it seem that the Puritans were engaged in a battle of epic proportions. No wonder they felt close to the Day of Reckoning; the day when sin's ...
- 1236: AZTECS
- ... the mythical place of origin(Aztecs of Lost Civilization). Huizilopochtli, the god of war, told the Aztecs to leave Azatlan and wander until they saw an eagle perched on a cactus growing out of a rock and eating a snake(Los Aztecas). The Aztecs traveled many years to find the legend and finally found it while at Lake Texcoco. Lake Texcoco was ruled by the Toltecs between the 10th and 11th ...
- 1237: Amelia Earhart
- ... be awaken. Amelia began to realize that her father was a drunkard as well as to neighbors and friends around them. In 1914 Amy and the girls left Edwin after he was fired from The Rock Island RR, and went to live with friends in Chicago. After visiting her sister in 1917 at a college preparatory school in Canada, Amelia decided to train as a nurses aid in Toronto and served ...
- 1238: A New Generation
- ... satisfied the people in 1969, when two American astronauts tackled the task and waled on the moon. The Civil Rights movement has been an opening for years. President Eisenhower dealt with an issue in Little Rock, Arkansas, which required federal troops to address a segregation in schools. Yet, Burner believes that Kennedy's civil rights had a "tone which was superior to that of the Eisenhower years" (Burner 126). Kennedy supported ...
- 1239: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... in the highest position of great Americans along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the twentieth century has seen him fade. His presidency has been almost universally condemned, and he is consistently ranked second to rock bottom Warren G. Harding in polls of historians to rate the presidents. Although his military reputation has declined as well, it nevertheless continues to win him a steady following. Even his most faithful admirers, however ...
- 1240: Nikola Tesla
- ... convinced that no motor could be devised for an alternating current system, making the use of AC a waste of time. After all, if the current reverses direction 60 times a second, the motor will rock back and forth and never get anywhere. "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he ...
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