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- 1551: Comparison of Macbeth and Jack (of Lord of the Flies)
- ... king of Scotland after having the conversation with the three witches. Fourthly, they both became more cruel as they gained more power. After Jack formed his own group and set up a camp on Castle Rock, he became more cruel than before. For Macbeth, he hesitated six times before killing Duncan. But when he planned to kill Banquo and Macduff's family, he didn't hesitated and killed them without regret ...
- 1552: David Edding's Pawn of Prophecy
- ... that is required is will power and a single word. The author calls this phenomenon "the will and the word". There is no such thing as magic. If you want, for example, to move a rock, you merely will it to happen and channel your will through a word, like "move". The stronger your will power, the more powerful the feats you can perform are. Pawn of Prophecy is an entertaining ...
- 1553: Andy Warhol
- ... Campbell's Soup. These commercial items and the faces of celebrities can be taken as comments on the banality, harshness, and ambiguity of American culture according to Warhol. In 1965 he started working with a rock band called "The Velvet Underground" formed by Lou Reed and John Cale. Andy introduced them to the model and movie star Nico and she sang on their debut album in 1967 called "The Velvet Underground ...
- 1554: Jean Toomer
- ... all the dialogue in Holiday. A few "important" white people thought Cane was an extraordinary work. At a time when the best (or popular) novelists, poets, and publishers had fame not unlike the movie and rock stars of today, Waldo Frank, said, "[Cane ] is a harbinger of the South's literary maturity... And, as the initial work of a man of 27, it is a harbinger of a literary force of ...
- 1555: Alexander Hamilton
- ... the allegations seriously Hamiltons honor was deeply hurt. After this Hamilton was very depressed. Once he was declined for a diplomatic job in France because Washington said he was needed at headquarters Hamilton hit rock bottom. After a few months of depression Hamilton quickly began to feel better when he met the love of his life Elizabeth Schuyler. The Schyuler family was one of the wealthy Dutch dynasties of New ...
- 1556: Benedict Arnold
- ... the Kennebec in a bateaux, and the rest continued along on foot (Encarta). By September 23rd, they had arrived at Fort Western. They continued marching to Fort Halifax in Winslow, where today there is a rock in Lithgow Street, marking where they stopped. Continuing, they reached Ticonic Falls in Waterville, and on October 3rd reached Skowhegan Falls. They went on to Caruntunk Falls in Solon on October 8th, and on October ...
- 1557: Bob Marley
- ... asked Chris if the band could get a record deal. For the first time a reggae band had access to the best recording facilities and they were treated in much the same way as a rock group. The Wailers made their first reggae album Catch A Fire. The band made successful tours in the United Kingdom and the United States. The follow up album at Island was Burnin. It included some ...
- 1558: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... had been replaced by the skilled manipulator of the masses. On October 13, 1930, dressed in their brown shirts, the elected Nazi deputies marched in unison into the Reichstag and took their seats. When the roll call was taken, each one shouted, "Present! Heil Hitler!" They had no intention of cooperating with the democratic government, knowing it was to their advantage to let things get worse in Germany, thus increasing the ...
- 1559: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... equal" educational institutions were allowable under the constitution. The ruling was quickly tested in September 1957 when Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas called in the national guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School. Eisenhower, despite little inclination towards promoting integration, sent in federal troops to protect the students. That same year Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since the Reconstruction. The bill, which ...
- 1560: The Period of Ramses II
- ... promotion of the Egyptian beliefs and religion. The buildings and architecture during the time of Ramses II were astounding. Ramses II, was one of the greatest builders of the New Kingdom, he created the gigantic rock-cut temple of Abϋ Simbel in Nubia to the South. The Abϋ Simbel was said to have been, Hewn into the mountainside, with four colossal figures of the king in front, it was saved between ...
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