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- 1441: Joshua Larwence Chamberlin
- ... fall of 1865, but both would die before their first birthdays. By this time, however, critical national issues overshadowed personal concerns and sorrows. The issue of slavery, and its westward expansion, caused emotional debate and violence for decades. The 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States signaled to many Southerners a new unpleasant way of life. One by one, eleven Southern states eventually seceded and declared themselves ...
- 1442: Walt Whitman 2
- ... South became more frequent. One poem written by Whitman, O Captain, My Captain was written in retrospect to the death of one of our nation s greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln (Whitman, 2). This act of violence was just an outcome of the war. A young man by the name of John Wilkes Booth killed one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States after the war just as ...
- 1443: Rutherford Hayes
- ... so as to promote the truest and best interests of the whole country". At the beginning of his administration, Hayes had set out his southern policy very clearly. He wanted to eliminate political acts of violence against blacks. He insisted, and believed, that white southerners would adhere to the tenets of the Civil War Amendments. He insisted that the federal government had a responsibility to provide aid for education and public ...
- 1444: Rocky Marciano
- ... from foreign imports had combined to produce mass unemployment and fierce union rivalries. At one point, over half of Brockton's factories had closed down, and President Franklin Roosevelt personally intervened to control threats of violence. Meanwhile, Rocky's father, Pierino - who was not as established as the unionized immigrants who had long preceded him to Brockton - struggled to hold on to a non-union job at the local Stacey Adams ...
- 1445: Pompey
- ... entered Rome in triumph, but encountered opposition from the Senate. Pompey then formed an alliance, commonly called the First Triumvirate, with Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus. The career of Pompeius opened in fraud and violence. It was instigated, in war and peace, through illegality and treachery. Pompey was a great general, but a bad politician. Pompey helped to end the slave revolt of Spartacus in 72 BC. Because of his ...
- 1446: Pitikwahanapiwiyin (poundmaker)
- ... middle of the month over 2,000 people had gathered. The Thirst Dance celebration was disrupted by the North-West Mounted Police pursuing an Indian accused of assaulting the farm instructor on an adjacent reserve. Violence between the Indian bands and the 90-man police force was averted by the peacekeeping efforts of Pitikwahanapiwiyin and Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear). When news of the Mιtis success at Duck Lake reached the Poundmaker reserve ...
- 1447: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... him to create the 11 by 25 foot masterpiece which he named "Guernica". This large mural was, without doubt, the greatest of all creations made by Picasso in his lifetime. It depicted war through anger, violence and death using the tragedy of the bullfight. The critic Jean Cassous stated, "it overflows with fullness and presence, with signs and cries." During World War 2, Picasso was forbidden to exhibit his work after ...
- 1448: Nelson Manndela
- ... maximum security prison. While in prison he rejected many offers to be released if he would recognize Transkei and agree to settle there. He also rejected an offer of release on condition that he renounce violence. Released on February 11, 1990, Mandela plunged wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference ...
- 1449: Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
- ... and society. Another act was the Suppression of Communism Act. This act called for all communists to be brought to trial. The police could arrest anyone they believed were trying to overthrow the government by violence and communist ways. Lastly, the government put bans on individuals who were becoming to involved in the struggle and finally the government banned the ANC and all other liberation groups. This ban now made freedom ...
- 1450: Neil Simon
- ... of the evils of "demon liquor" and its effect on the family. Firstly, Nellie felt that alcohol primarily affected women and children as they suffered directly from excessive drinking on the part of males. Domestic violence, physical and emotional abuse, and profanity caused turmoil in family life when alcohol was not effectively controlled. It was also argued that women who abused alcohol may have done so as a result of being ...
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