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- 6451: Colt: A Man and His Guns
- ... clothes. Science, adventures of an active life, and mechanics were all the favorite passions of young Colt. The adventures eventually led Colt into trouble. At the age of seventeen Colt was expelled form a preparatory school in Amherst, MA. During the years of 1830 - 1831 Colt voyaged to India.. It was during these years that Colt first conceived the idea of a revolving firearm. Some think it may have come from ...
- 6452: 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 ...
- 6453: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... Wallace from interfering with integration in the public schools of Birmingham, Tuskegee, and Mobile. Kennedy also asked Congress to pass a civil rights bill that would guarantee blacks the right to vote, to attend public school, to have equal access to jobs, and to have access to public accommodations. Kennedy told the American people, 8"Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promises … to act, to make ...
- 6454: Pablo Casals
- ... Doing this, he wrote the famous "El Pesebre" (The Manager), which is still listened to widely in Spain, even today. Casals wrote and preformed many other pieces of music that are commonly taught in music school in Spain, today. Being an ardent opponent of Fascism, Casals exiled himself from Spain. He did this in a protest against the regime of Frincisco Franco. For a time, he even stopped performing altogether. After ...
- 6455: John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
- ... of his early life and family exist, so it is difficult to pinpoint these influences. Rockefeller seemed to make his fortune with hardly any effort; a brief outline is appropriate. After dropping out of high school and serving a clerical apprenticeship, Rockefeller went into business, forming a produce house with one partner and $4,000 of capital between them. In its first year its gross income was $450,000, with a ...
- 6456: Ray Charles Robinson
- ... drowned. A few months later Charles got the disease that would make him go blind by the time he was seven. After he became totally blind at the age of seven, Charles went to a school for the blind in St. Augustine, Florida, where he learned to play the trumpet, the saxophone, the clarinet, and organ, though his preferred instrument is still the piano. When Charles was 15, his mother died ...
- 6457: Henry Ford: A Life in Brief
- ... Shortly after Henry turned thirteen, his mother died. Henry became very discontent with living on the farm but he stayed for another three years. When he was sixteen he finished his studies at the district school. Against his father's will, Henry moved to Detroit, ten miles away. In Detroit, Henry worked eleven hours a day at James Flower & Brothers' Machine Shop for only $2.50 a week. As this was ...
- 6458: Abigail Adams
- ... or making sure that his sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the help of her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship. Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson. Abigail ...
- 6459: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Escape
- ... while visiting him on one of his trips to ask him to come back home and negotiate with his math teacher to give him the four points he needed to pass math and graduate high school. This scene gives the reader a chance to fully understand the tension between Willy and Biff, and why things can never be the same. Throughout the play, the present has been full of misfortune for ...
- 6460: Autobiography on Ernest Hemingway
- Autobiography on Ernest Hemingway Earnest Miller Hemingway was borin in Oak Park Illinois. After graduating from high school, he got a job at a paper called "Kansas City Star". Hemingway continually tried to enter the military, but his defective eye, hindered this task. Hemingway had managed to get a job driving an American ...
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