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- 821: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... and rent the mill. On Lincoln's return from New Orleans, Offutt engaged him as clerk and handyman. By late July 1831, when Lincoln came back, New Salem was enjoying what proved to be a short-lived boom based on a local conviction that the Sangamon River would be made navigable for steamboats. For a time the village served as a trading center for the surrounding area and numbered among its ... as deputy surveyor, was appointed postmaster, and pieced out his income with odd jobs. The story of his romance with Ann Rutledge is rejected as a legend by most authorities, but he did have a short-lived love affair with Mary Owens. Illinois Legislator In 1834, Lincoln was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, and he was reelected in 1836, 1838, and 1840. Political alignments were in a state of ... ungainly, slightly stooped, with a seamed and rugged countenance and unruly hair, he wore a shabby old top hat, an ill-fitting frock coat and pantaloons, and unblacked boots. His genial manner and fund of stories won him a host of friends. Yet, notwithstanding his friendly ways, he had a certain natural dignity that discouraged familiarity and commanded respect. Return to Politics Lincoln took only a perfunctory part in the ...
- 822: Abraham Lincoln
- ... sources agree that Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a backwoods cabin in Hodgeville, Kentucky. In an interview during his campaign for the presidency in 1860 Lincoln described his adolescence as "the short and simple annals of the poor." (p 30). His father Thomas was a farmer who married Nancy Hanks, his mother, in 1806. Lincoln had one sister, Sarah, who was born in 1807. The Lincoln family ... broke up the engagement. Almost immediately thereafter, Lincoln began to feel terrible guilt and unhappiness over what he had done and what he then realized he had lost. He became so depressed that for a short time many of those around him feared that he was going to commit suicide. Until he longed for her so much that a spark wasreignited between the old lovers and they remarried. After receiving the ... great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876 "If one would know the greatness of Lincoln one should listen to the stories which are told about him in other parts of the world. I have been in wild places where one hears the name of America uttered with such mystery as if it were some heaven ...
- 823: Julius Caesar
- ... a Roman province. He took this opportunity to collect much needed money from silver mines and conquered tribes. Some of the tribes rebelled. The Romans, under Caesar's command, beat them back with their feared short swords and iron tipped javelins (Green 24). Pompey was finished defeating the pirates and also the modern day Turks. He was not rewarded for his victories because he had many enemies in the senate. Caesar ... fleeing into Gaul (Helvetti were a Germanic tribe). Caesar took quick action towards the outnumbering Helvetti and he forced them to leave. Caesar then turned to fight the Germans. His men were frightened at the stories they heard of the Germans; Caesar reassured them that under his command they would not fall to the Germans. The news of these battles soon reached Rome and Caesar was now as powerful, if not ... army and defeated them without much trouble. Caesar tried to spare as many opponents as he could because these men were his countrymen. Pompey decided to strike back. After 9 months both armies were desperately short of supplies and Pompey’s generals urged him to attack. Caesar was well outnumbered but his strategy spared many men from Pompey’s Calvary charge. Now Caesar sent his troops in. His word were “ ...
- 824: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... Electric Research Laboratory. The job gave him the storyline for his first novel Player Piano. In 1951, he resigned from his job at G.E to pursue a full time writing career. He wrote many short stories, which in 1969 were assembled into a collection called Welcome to the Monkey House. The next novel was Cat's Cradle in 1963, then The Sirens of the Titans and God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater ... some schools and libraries banned it from their shelves. He was one of the most popular authors of the late 60's (Reed 770). The experience in Dresden was the reason that Vonnegut started writing stories. He couldn't write about it until 1969 partly because he didn't have a publisher but also because it was too terrible to talk about it right after the war. All his books ...
- 825: Domus Aurea, Golden House Of N
- ... to notice from a distance because it is built into a hill. In fact, one could almost miss it if they did not see tall, barrel ceiling hallways. The building was shallow; two to three stories high, and made up of two wings, a west and an east (Grant 172). The west wing was thought to be the Place where Nero and Poppaea had their bedrooms, however it is difficult to ... hardly got to enjoy it. While the Domus Aurea was a great architectural work in their time, it had left a sort of bitter taste in their mouths that they wanted to avenge. After Otho short reign of protecting this monument, Vitellius became emperor for an equally short time but disliked the palace while he was in charge. It came down to the fact that the Domus Aurea was not objectionable in its splendor, but in it size and wasted space. The ...
- 826: I Heard An Owl Call My Name
- ... Name "I Heard An Owl Call My Name" is a novel written by Margaret Craven, published in 1973. Margaret Craven was born in Helena, Montana and graduated from Stanford University. She started off with her short stories in a large number of American magazines. Some of these stories have been translated into other languages. "I Heard An Owl Call My Name" was her first complete novel. This story contains a lot of symbolic language. The setting takes place in Kingcome village, in ...
- 827: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... 1991. · Mahfouz, Naguib. Sugar Street. Trans. William Maynard Hutchins et al. Cairo, AUC Press, 1992. · "Mahfouz, the Nobel Lauriate" http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/daily/dam/970809/1997080905.html · Mikhail, Mona N. Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris. New York: New York University Press, 1992. · "Naguib Mahfouz-Biased to Grassroots (People & Facts)" http://www.sis.gov.eg/egyptinf/culture/html/nmahfouz.htm · Naguib Mahfouz's interview to "Majallat ... fate and life. A synthesis of religion, knowledge, and science is the ideal world that he aspires for. Mahfouz's writings can be divided into three phases In the thirties, he composed a couple of short stories dealing with the life of his own time and several works on the ancient history of his country. He translated an English text on ancient Egypt and wrote three historical novels depicting aspects of ...
- 828: The Gold Rush
- ... a large amount of sheep, cattle and horses. Ultimately, he became very successful. Itwas at this time that Sutters' life took an unusual turn that would affect all of America. There would be some happy stories, some sad stories, and tales of great journeys. There would be chaos among the most sophisticated of people. There would be a GOLD RUSH. After a great amount of success Sutter wanted more. He was soon due to ... the other small farmers were no match for the big who were able to extract more.They still had that "gold fever" of theirs so they decided to go search for gold elsewhere. Within a short period almost all the gold was extracted from California. So ended the "California Gold Rush."
- 829: A. A. Milne
- ... man behind all of your fun filled childhood adventured with Christopher Robin and his bear friend Pooh is Alan Alexander Milne, more commonly known as A. A. Milne. Besides his creation of Winnie the Pooh short story and poetry books he was a very accomplished man through out his whole life. He showed great affection to family members, friends, and to his wife and child. He was also dedicated to his ... insight’s into a child’s mind. This is what led him to writing children’s books later on in his life. He also wrote about sports but what made him most famous were his stories about a fictional family he created named the Rabbit’s. (WWW) The Rabbit’s were a middle class family that had different problems in each story. In the endings though, the problems were resolved and ... other stuffed animals. Dorothy would sit with Christopher and give them all names and personalities. (Collier, Nakamura 1688) Some animals that Christopher had were Pooh, Piglet, Tiger, Eeyore, Kanga, and Roo. The settings of the stories that made up Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner is the Hundred Acre Wood. (Berger 665) By the time Christopher was three years old A. A. was writing books about his ...
- 830: A.A. Milne
- ... man behind all of your fun filled childhood adventured with Christopher Robin and his bear friend Pooh is Alan Alexander Milne, more commonly known as A. A. Milne. Besides his creation of Winnie the Pooh short story and poetry books he was a very accomplished man through out his whole life. He showed great affection to family members, friends, and to his wife and child. He was also dedicated to his ... insight’s into a child’s mind. This is what led him to writing children’s books later on in his life. He also wrote about sports but what made him most famous were his stories about a fictional family he created named the Rabbit’s. (WWW) The Rabbit’s were a middle class family that had different problems in each story. In the endings though, the problems were resolved and ... other stuffed animals. Dorothy would sit with Christopher and give them all names and personalities. (Collier, Nakamura 1688) Some animals that Christopher had were Pooh, Piglet, Tiger, Eeyore, Kanga, and Roo. The settings of the stories that made up Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner is the Hundred Acre Wood. (Berger 665) By the time Christopher was three years old A. A. was writing books about his ...
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