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- 1891: Marquise de Pompadour
- ... Antoinette to the title of Marquise de Pompadour and installed her in lavish apartments in Versailles as his "official" mistress. She remained there until her death in 1764, although she had long since ceased performing sexual favors for the king. Marquise de Pompadour played an important part in the politics of Louis's reign. She kept her influence long after the king's love for her had cooled. Pompadour served the ...
- 1892: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... 3 Lewis brilliantly defended his statement of natural law's existence. Two arguments, which argue for relativity, posted against him are the "herd" instincts or genetic inborn in us ( i.e. motherly love, survival or sexual impulses) and that which is taught socially or learned. Historically, these to interpretations of human behavior have clashed, however, he suggest that "reason" is above both. He clarifies his position by classifying impulses as separate ...
- 1893: The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
- ... Tupac's #1 attribute. In the midst of a role in the movie "Above the Rim" and a Platnum album "Me against the world," Tupac's rising career was snagged. He was brought up on sexual assault charges by a woman he met at a nightclub. Hours before Tupac would be found guilty, Tupac was robbed at gun point by men whose intent and purpose is still uncertain. Tupac was eventually ...
- 1894: Andrew Jackson: Indian Fighter
- ... little effect until the election of President Andrew Jackson, a longtime supporter of Indian removal. Although the Supreme Court declared Congress's 1830 Indian removal bill unconstitutional ( Worcester v. Georgia, 1832), the national and state harassment continued, culminating in the rounding up of the Cherokee by troops in 1838(Encarta CD). The Cherokee were forced to abandon their property, livestock, and ancestral burial grounds and move to camps in Tennessee. From ...
- 1895: The Life of Malcolm X
- ... Little also had three children by a first wife: Ella, Earl, and Mary. Because of the father's advocacy for Garvey's movement, the Ku Klux Klan terrorized the whole family. To avoid any more harassment by these white racists, Little had to migrate with his family to Lansing, Michigan. It did not help. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm's father and laid him on a railway track, claiming ...
- 1896: Oral Roberts
- ... on the stage and ran back and forth shouting he was healed.. Oral’s dad, Ellis Roberts, was a preacher and evangelist for a Pentecostal Holiness church. He was against such things as infidelity, evolutionism, sexual recreation, drinking alcohol and dancing. Tobacco, jewelry, tea, coffee, transparent female garments, polygamy and theological liberalism were also amongst the vices of his father. Oral believes that his upbringing prepared him for the moment of ...
- 1897: Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- ... and hiding the truth without being up-front, using stories of ancient myths in German and Latin to convey his apathy. Eliot throughout this whole poems loves to mock and scorn his ex- wife. “Her sexual desire he could not satisfy and whose love he cannot return.” - T.S. Eliot’s Waste land. Page 98 by: James E. Miller. Jr. He uses many sexually explicit gestures in the writing because that ...
- 1898: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... had three children by a first wife: Ella, Earl, and Mary. Because of the father’s advocacy for Garvey’s movement, the whole family was terrorised by the Ku Klux Klan. To avoid any more harassment by these white racists, Little had to migrate with his family to Lansing, Michigan. It did not help. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father and laid him on a railway track, claiming ...
- 1899: Alexander the Great
- ... example, killed his friend Clitus in a drunken fury. He later regretted this act deeply. He himself, in his life had a few wives and a few children. He was also reported to have had sexual relations with his close friend Hephaestion, who was a man.
- 1900: The Life of King David
- ... the roof of his palace and he saw Bathsheba bathing on her roof. Instead of turning away from his sinful thoughts, he had her called to his chamber where he lay with her, and had sexual intercourse. David didn't think before he acted and he got Bathsheba pregnant. He had no idea how to get out of the predicament he was in. David summoned Bathsheba's husband Uriah back from ...
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