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- 6261: Adolf Hitler
- ... he wanted so therefore he was not living the life he needed. As a reaction of his early life he couldn’t keep up with his schooling and he ended up dropping out of art school. Hitler was an aggravated person. He was looking for a job where he was the boss and everyone would look to him for guidance. In his involvement in World War 1, he separated people into ...
- 6262: John F Kenendy
- ... to some children.He had been President for little more than 1000 days.It was 12:30 in the afternoon as the motorcade rolled on a man,on the sixth floor window of a Texas School Book Depository aimed his Sniper rifle and fired.John Kennedy was hit first in the throat,second shattered his skull.Governor Connally was shot in the back on the third shot but was not fatal ...
- 6263: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... was a demanding one; he had to compose cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conduct the choirs, oversee the musical activities of numerous churches, and teach Latin in the St. Thomas choir school. He had to get along with the Leipzig church authorities, which proved to be difficult. But he persisted, polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds ...
- 6264: Adolf Hitler
- ... he considered inferior human beings. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, the son of a minor customs official and a peasant girl. A poor student, he never completed high school. He applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but was rejected for lack of talent. Staying in Vienna until 1913, he lived first on an orphan's pension, later on small ...
- 6265: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... years later his mother remarried and moved to a nearby village, leaving Isaac in the care of his maternal grandmother. Upon the death of his stepfather in 1656, Newton's mother removed him from grammar school in Grantham in hopes of training him to manage her now much enlarged estate, but even then Newton's interests ran more toward books and mathematical diversions. His family decided that he should be prepared ...
- 6266: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... right. Mark Twain did a great job in his novel, by writing a book with morals meant to improve society, without detriment to the quality of the work, or using the too often used Sunday school bible story method of expressing ones morals onto another. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have many points to be admired. Mark Twain wrote a great story of adventure after adventure. He included nature's importance ...
- 6267: Martin Luther King Jr. 3
- ... in organizing SCLC. Shuttlesworth believed that the Birmingham police commissioner, Eugene Bull Connor, would meet protesters with violence. In May 1963 King and his SCLC staff escalated antisegregation marches in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join. Hundreds of singing children filled the streets of downtown Birmingham, angering Connor, who sent police officers with attack dogs and firefighters with high-pressure water hoses against the marchers. Scenes of young ...
- 6268: Saint John of the Cross
- ... Spirit as our guide to a life of spirituality. John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes in 1542 to a poor family of Spanish nobility. When John was a boy, he attended a school for poor children, gaining a basic education, and the opportunity to learn skills from local craftsmen. When he was 17, John began to work at the Plague Hospital de la Concepcion, and its founder offered ...
- 6269: Michelangelo
- ... Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens and shortly thereafter was invited into the household of Lorenzo de Medici. He became acquainted with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Politian, who were frequent visitors. Michelangelo produced ...
- 6270: Michelangeo - Renaissance Man
- ... several generations been small-scale bankers in Florence; his father failed to maintain this status. He had only occasional government jobs. At an early age his father recognized his intelligence and sent him to the school of a master, who taught grammar. His mind however, was on art not his studies. Painters and sculptors at work fascinated Michelangelo. He made friends with a student who encouraged him to follow his own ...
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