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- 1281: Marilyn Monroe
- ... usually thinks off the seductive all-American sex goddess who captured the world with her woman-childlike charm. Yet not many know her as the illegitimate child who endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse, and years in foster home and orphanages. Most people dont realize that her disrupted loveless childhood may been the main reason to her early death. Norma Jeane Bakers father, Edward Mortenson, had ...
- 1282: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... the War on Poverty. Johnson was especially skillful in securing a strong Civil Rights Act in 1964. In the years to come it proved to be a vital source of legal authority against racial and sexual discrimination. In 1964 the Republicans nominated Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona as their presidential nominee. Goldwater was an extreme conservative in domestic policy and an advocate of strong military action to protect American interests ...
- 1283: Rosa Parks
- ... when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This resulted in a boycott of the bus system by blacks, with Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the movement. In spite of harassment the boycott continued, and in 1956 segregated seating was challenged in a federal law suit. Parks' personal history has been lost in the retelling of the event. Prior to her arrest, Mrs. Parks had a ...
- 1284: Peter The Great 2
- ... Their education and their information about ways of life, science, and Western institutions were always of great interest for Peter. He was attracted and enjoyed the company of foreigners mostly because of the greater social, sexual, and intellectual freedom. He recognized his own drives and energy among the ambitious and adventurous foreigners who came to Russia. During his time spent in the company of foreigners he acquired mechanical skills and accumulated ...
- 1285: Nadine Gordimer
- ... She reveals the effects of alienation of races on society in an unsentimental manner and unique narrative style. In her first novels she studies the master-servant relations characteristic of South African life, spiritual and sexual paranoia of colonialism, and the political responsibilities of privileged white South Africans.
- 1286: Mozart 2
- ... third and last da Ponte opera was Cosν fan tutte (Women are all the same), commissioned by Emperor Joseph II and produced at Vienna's Burgtheater in 1790. Its cynical treatment of the theme of sexual infidelity may have been responsible for its relative lack of success with the Viennese, who responded with such enthusiasm to the comedy of Figaro. Mozart wrote two more operas: the opera seria La clemenza di ...
- 1287: Marilyn Monroe
- ... live in nurse, but she was just a friend of a friend and not a registered nurse. In 1962, the press started rumbling with talk about me and President Kennedy. Although we did have one sexual encounter, I would hardly call us lovers. In fact we only saw each other four times, the last being the immortalized birthday in Madison Square Gardens. That was all. I never had any relationship with ...
- 1288: Massai Warriors- National Geographic Report
- ... over a four-day period. This event is known as Eunoto. It is a very rigorous, very challenging, and almost an inhumane ceremony. Eunoto involves the slaying of a lion, the skinning of a buffalo, sexual intercourse with prepuburtal and uncircumcised young girls, the erection of a new building for each young man involved, and very often, the hysterical trance of a young man, during which he may attempt to slay ...
- 1289: John Lennon
- ... performance art pieces - bed-ins, happenings, full-page ads declaring "War Is Over!" - to spread their message of peace. During the early Seventies Lennon fought the U.S. government to avoid deportation - a campaign of harassment by Nixon-era conservatives that was overturned by the courts in 1975 - and came to love his adopted city of New York. Then there were those five quiet years when Lennon chose to lay low ...
- 1290: Jack The Ripper
- ... for syphilis. The disease supposedly caused Eddy to go insane and commit the Whitechapel murders. The killings, which Stowell claimed were committed by Prince Eddy, were to be in retaliation for contracting syphilis contracted during sexual activities. The murders started, according to Stowell, as Eddy s infected brain started to deteriorate. None of this can be proven since Stowell died shortly after publishing his theories and burned his papers. Dr. Gulls ...
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