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- 6841: Richard Nixon
- ... success and his comeback after being defeated for President in 1960 and for Governor of California in 1962. Born in California in 1913, Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law. In 1940, he married Patricia Ryan; they had two daughters, Patricia (Tricia) and Julie. During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. On ...
- 6842: Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
- ... Born September 7, 1963, Eric "Eazy-E" Wright's early reputation on the streets of Compton, California, was a hustler eager to apply his street knowledge to his legitimate game. He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, but refused that to interrupt his success. In the late `80's he turned to rap music. Along with Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, and M.C. Ren established the ...
- 6843: Emily Jane Bronte
- ... know about her comes from her sister, Charlotte, who is another well known author. From what is known, it would appear that Emily led an ordinary life of a nineteenth century female. She attended boarding school and learned domestic skills at home. In other ways her life was unusual and even eccentric, contributing to the originality of her great novel. Emily Jane Bront was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton ...
- 6844: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... Japan's sovereignty in Korea. That same year, in an action that earned Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize, he mediated the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Then, in 1907, he forced the San Francisco school board to rescind an order segregating Japanese schoolchildren in return for a Japanese curb on emigration of peasants and laborers to the United States. This was called the famous "Gentleman's Agreement." Roosevelt believed that ...
- 6845: Snow Falling on Cedars
- ... to view each character in their youth, a time when racism, prejudice and adult issues were not heeded. Kabuo and Carl are depicted as friends, they lived on the same property and attended the same school. "Is Kabuo home ? ". The two often spent time together "Look at this, Kabuo loaned it to me". Kabuo had lent Carl a bamboo fishing rod made by his father. Though this friendship was condemned by ...
- 6846: Herman Melville: His Life and Works
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ...
- 6847: Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky
- ... telling them that “We have to be there for the American people.”. This is a way of showing his loyalty to the American people. He is a loving father, and is currently putting Chelsea through school. He supports her in every way a father can. This shows the young person that he is a loving father and they can look up to him for that. Finally, everybody complains about our President ...
- 6848: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... New Deal, designed to counter the Great Depression of the 1930s. He also led the nation through most of its participation in the global struggle of World War II. Roosevelt attended a high-class high school and later graduated from Harvard in 1903. He quickly gained recognition by his leadership of upstate New York Democrats in a fight against Tammany Hall's nominee for the U.S. Senate. At the 1912 ...
- 6849: Frederick Douglass
- ... expanded his view of the struggle for human rights. He spoke in favor of Irish home rule and eventually would speak on behalf of the landless European peasantry, women's suffrage, prison reform, free public school education and universal peace. In 1846 he wrote to Garrison, "I cannot allow myself to be insensitive to the wrongs and sufferings of any part of the great family of man." Douglass would eventually split ...
- 6850: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- ... s father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens was twelve his father passed away. After his fathers death Samual Clemens left school to find work, and boy did he find it. Before his father's death Clemens was apprenticed to his brother Orion, who ran the Missouri Courier, which was a country paper. In 1853 Clemens set ...
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