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- 1241: J.P. Morgan
- ... a distinctly favorable impression. After Morgan's death in 1913, he was tributed in a great fashion by the same reporters that once scolded him for his greed. Tributes centered on his "rugged honesty and rock-ribbed integrity." Theodore Roosevelt praised his "sincerity and truthfulness." Others called him and uncrowned monarch and the "embodiment of the heroic age in American industrial history." It is without doubt that J.P. Morgan was ...
- 1242: Early Colonies
- ... not want to move south because of their Puritan beliefs. They thought that everything was predestined, and that they must have landed on this rocky place for a reason. They moved slightly north to Plymouth Rock in order to survive more comfortably. Also because of their Puritan beliefs, they had good relations with the Native Americans. Their pacifist nature led the Indians to help with their crops. In thanks, the Pilgrims ...
- 1243: Black Soldiers In The Union Ar
- ... by Lincoln and in fact looked down upon. However, this began to happen throughout many of the Union Armies and became so prevalent that Lincoln could not ignore it(1). Lincoln was caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand the reality was obvious that the war was not going to end and that the Union Armies needed more man power. On the other, Lincoln knew that the ...
- 1244: Battle Of Bunker Hill
- ... the monument began to be constructed. It took this long to complete since the funding came from donations. The monument was slowly made from the granite taken from nearby Quincy. Even this close supply of rock did not keep the costs down. In order to finish the project, in 1839 the association had to sell ten acres of the land it had bought for the memorial in order to finance more ...
- 1245: U-2 Incident
- ... the Cold War. Eisenhower saw the Cold War in stark moral terms: "This is a war of light against darkness, freedom against slavery, Godliness against atheism." But the President refused to undertake an effort to "roll back" Soviet gains in the years after WW II. Early in his administration he embraced a policy of containment as the cornerstone of his administration's Soviet policy. Eisenhower rejected the notion of a "fortress ...
- 1246: The Trail Of Tears
- ... declared in September 6, 1839. Their culture was bred here along their new way of life. John Ross who was elected by the Cherokee as the President of the Cherokee nation in 1827 continues his roll in the land, shared with another seventy tribes. They had opened up schools in the Indian Territory to continue their education for their children. The first Cherokee school opened in 1801 when the people were ...
- 1247: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... still ended on a positive note, despite their refusal. In 1956, Eisenhower ran and won again in the presidential election. During his second term, he used federal troops to enforce school desegregation in the Little Rock Central High School incident. That same year he signed a Civil Rights Act. He signed yet another in 1960. The President was a strong believer in the Civil Rights movement throughout his term, writing once ...
- 1248: Beer
- ... lack of liquids safe for human consumption prevented long-range voyages over the oceans until recently. Christopher Columbus made his journey to the New World with wine on board, and the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock only because their beer provisions ran out. (Vallee 81) Evidence arguing against the widespread use of water can be found in the examination of both the Bible and Greek texts. In both versions of the ...
- 1249: Pyramids
- ... more subsidiary pyramids used for the burials of members of the royal family. To the south of the Great Pyramid near Khafre's valley temple lies the Great Sphinx. Carved out of a knoll of rock, the Sphinx has the facial features of King Khafre, but the body of a recumbent lion; it is approximately 240 feet long and 66 feet high. The sphinx guards Khafu's vallytemple and causeway. Around ...
- 1250: South Africa
- ... over South Africa. Four Years earlier a man named Nelson Mandela became a lawyer, and joined the A.N.C. so he could help the salvaging African people. Even though he played a very important roll in Apartheid, colonialism, and their human rights, that still didn't stop the Europeans from torturing them for the next 46 years. Nelson Mandela was a nice man, but in 1956 Mandela went on trial ...
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