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- 6301: Twain
- ... a constant smile. A smile that sometime conceled his readiness to bash institutions that he disagreed with. That was Mark Twain. A man, not a legend. ³The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education,² Mark Twain, 1885. 4
- 6302: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... 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 ...
- 6303: My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
- ... in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899 but nobody really knows for sure and that is how I am going to keep it. I grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. I attended school through the sixth grade and got too sick of it. I received my nickname Scarface during these years as a result of a knife attack from the brother of an ugly girl I had insulted ...
- 6304: Martin Luther: A Biography of Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- Martin Luther: A Biography of Martin Luther (1483-1546) Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, the son of Hans Luther, who worked in the copper mines, and his wife Margarethe. He went to school at Magdeburg and Eisenach, and entered the University of Erfurt in 1501, graduating with a BA in 1502 and an MA in 1505. His father wished him to be a lawyer, but Luther was drawn ...
- 6305: Amiri Baraka
- ... Baraka then grew in notority when he won the Obie, awarded by the Village Voice newspaper, an off-Broadway award, for his play, Dutchman. With his new found reputation, Baraka opened the Black Arts Repertory School in 1964. The institution became one of the most influential theatre/schools within the BAM and brought music, art, poetry and drama to the street corners of Harlem. It was during this time that Baraka ...
- 6306: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... for her may have stemmed from her kindness toward him at a time when he felt more "tolerated than desired, suffered rather than sought." (James A. Harrison, p.xiii vol.7) He was at a school in Richmond, Va. where, compared to the other boys, he was genetically lower class. It did not matter that he had more mental or physical prowess than them, he simply did not have the genealogy ...
- 6307: Manuel Noriega
- ... throughout Central America, and third world countries further extending the arm of Communism and the reach of the Soviet Union. During the same time Castro took control of Cuba, Noriega was in the Peruvian military school. America fearing that these third world military schools would be a breeding ground for future communist leaders, implanted many agents to keep watch over them. One of these recruitment s would be Manuel Noriega. America ...
- 6308: The John Scopes Trial
- ... Liberties Union agreed to help teachers. Once the ACLU heard of Scopes' trouble, they decided to pursue this as a test case. A local engineer recommended that the ACLU help Scopes. Scopes was arrested in school and sent to a appear before a grand jury. Three-time Democratic Presidential candidate and religious fundamentalist, William Jennings Bryan, was sent to work for the prosecution with A.T. Stewart. Clarence Seward Darrow, a ...
- 6309: Marilyn Monroe
- ... and I took a job folding parachutes. Photographers came to take pictures of us to send to the soldiers. One, David Conover, took a particular interest in me, and directed me to Snively's Modeling School. From there I met Anarι de Dienes. He and I took many photo trips together, and Jim was rightly jealous, so he filed for divorce. I signed for a year's contract (twenty-six months ...
- 6310: Prescribed Burning
- ... this forest burned 50,000 acres naturally before fire suppression." He also reports good chemistry between his fire folks and the community on prescribed burns: help from local volunteer firefighters, field trips by a high-school biology class, and locals who now understand why the process is desirable and accept it. * Angeles National Forest, California: A prescribed maintenance burn on a firebreak just east of Altadena in the San Gabriel foothills ...
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