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- 1461: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... that horrified himself. When young Leo would kill people in war, challenge men to duels with the purpose of killing them. Through a ten year period all Leo did was lie, steal, drink, turn to violence, and murder. He claimed himself that, There was not a crime I did not commit..Thus I lived for ten years. His actions when younger, made Leo mentally ill later on in life, and caused ...
- 1462: Edgar Allan Poe 5
- ... 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 ...
- 1463: Eisenhower 2
- ... pressure on the world to eliminate racism in all forms. After World War Two African Americans began to insist on the freedoms that they were being asked to defend. After the war, black veterans braved violence in many Southern states to challenge Jim Crow restrictions on voting, while the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, fortified a sevenfold wartime increase in membership, filed a series of lawsuits to invalidate forced ...
- 1464: Essay On The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- ... other? The shear absence of any respect for Africans or mankind in general, makes those certain slaveholders the worst humans on this earth. As a young child, Frederick Douglass was introduced to the acts of violence towards the slaves including the all too common whippings. He says, I have often been awakened at the down of day by the most heart-rendering shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he ...
- 1465: 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 ...
- 1466: Comparison Of Marcus Garvey And David Duke
- ... views. Duke felt that the black race and white race should not be inter-mixed. He said of Klan philosophy Specifically we re totally opposed to integration. We think integration has only caused hatred and violence between races. We think races should be separated... (Sims 168) Duke was an intelligent young man who read lots of books, magazines, and gathers various information. His father was racist and so was Duke. Duke ...
- 1467: Charles Manson
- ... scribbled on the walls and the refrigerator in the victims' blood. These brutal slayings demonstrate the evil in Manson's 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 ...
- 1468: Bob Marley
- ... by Marley: ³ One bright morning when my work is over I will fly homeΉ² Marley was a great ambassador to the world preaching unity and justice for all. He wanted everyone to get along without violence. Not many people can measure the importance of Bob Marley to his people of Jamaica. He gave them an identity and a way to express. Them self.Bob Marley was a great man who was ...
- 1469: 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 ...
- 1470: Al Capone 2
- ... on his life from a rival gang, he struck back with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on February 14, 1929 (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia © 1996, 1997 Compton's NewMedia). It may be the greatest violence that ever occured during the Chicago gang era, as seven members of "Bugsy" Moran's mob were killed with machine- guns by Capone's mob posing as police officers (URL:http://user.capone/life/story ...
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