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- 1431: Laura Secord
- ... so Laura's father married someone else. A month later she got ill and died. Three years later he remarried a woman named Sarah Whiting. After Thomas Ingersoll became a young Republican and saw excessive violence in Massachusetts, he moved his family to Upper Canada. When Laura was eighteen they moved again to Bustling Port, which is near the Niagara River below the falls. After Laura had moved there she met ...
- 1432: George Orwell
- ... in Spain left two impressions, one of hope and one of despair in his mind. Firstly, that socialism was, even though impermanent, a possibility and secondly, that humanity would always seek dominance over others through violence and conflict. In 1938, Orwell became afflicted with tuberculosis and spent some time in Morocco. There, he wrote Coming Up For Air. When the war between England and Germany broke out he wanted to enlist ...
- 1433: George Bush
- ... 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army. Despite unprecedented popularity from this military and diplomatic triumph, Bush was unable to withstand discontent at home from a faltering economy, rising violence in inner cities, and continued high deficit spending. In 1992 he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat William Clinton.
- 1434: Eliot Ness
- ... to turn to the most powerful man in the city. In the spring Republican primary earlier that year candidates and party members were openly murdered and voters scared away. Hence Loesch needed Capone to prevent violence. Loesch later admitted "It turned out to be the squarest and most successful election day in forty years. There was not one complaint, not one election fraud and no threat of trouble all day." In ...
- 1435: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... escape the Allen household if for no other reason. The student life of the University was more social than academic. The young men drank too much, gambled too much, fought for the sheer enjoyment of violence, and rampaged over the campus at all hours. This was the worst possible environment for young Poe with his emotionally unstable temperament. He was unusually susceptible to alcohol; one mild drink sent him into a ...
- 1436: Don Cherry
- ... popular Hockey Night in Canada. Don's first controversial television interview came after the 1986/87 World Junior Championship game, in which Canada and the Soviets had an unbelievable brawl. Don condoned the on-ice violence, and that it what he believes in to this very day. Now it is almost as though every Saturday night, Don has something new and controversial to say. It is for this reason that large ...
- 1437: Charles Manson
- ... scribbled on the walls and the refrigerator in the victims blood. These brutal slayings demonstrate the evil in Mansons warped mind. He was able to convince normal human beings to commit unspeakable acts of violence the likes of which the world had never seen. In a sense, Manson molded his followers beliefs and values to represent his own. He had once again ordered his "Family" members to slay innocent people ...
- 1438: Boris Yeltsin
- ... clothes, and the corruption that has become very commonplace within "the ranks." Fourth would be the Russian space program, which has taken budget, cut after budget cut. Fifth and most recent is the resurgence of violence in Chechnya that has caused the invasion of Russian troops. Sixth are the poverty and crime levels of Russia that have grown exponentially. Boris Yeltsin did as much as any individual to bring about the ...
- 1439: Benito Mussolini
- ... March on Rome. Mussolini was immediately invited to form the Italian Government by King Victor Emmanuel III. Although Mussolini was given extraordinary powers to return order to Italy he governed constitutionally until 1924 after the violence of the 1924 elections resulting in the death of Socialist party deputy Giacomo Mattoetti. Mussolini moved to suspend constitutional government and establish a totalitarian regime. He proceeded in stages to establish a dictatorship by forbidding ...
- 1440: Wrestling With The American Culture
- Wrestling with the American Culture Wrestling on television today is a window into the basis of the American culture. It shows our need for violence and sex at an accessible arena. Its not extremely graphic but its what serves a wide variety of audiences. It reaches a wide range of people, everyone from 10-12 year olds and ...
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