Babe Ruth
.... children, but none of them survived to adulthood. Soon after Mamies birth his father opened his own tavern at 426 West Camden St. The family would later move into an apartment above the bar. George spent the first 7 years of his life running around the Bay area watching street fights and stealing from the shop keepers. It didn't take long before he was known well by local police. When he was 7, Kate and her husband finally decided they could no longer tend to the mischievous boy, and brought him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. Despite his crying and begging to be brought home, his custody was singed over to a group o .....
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Stalin And The Soviet Union
.... newspaper, radio, and text. Everything needed to support him, communism, or nationalism. Even religious statues were replaced with statues of Lenin and Stalin. Stalin had a major effect on history because he changed Russia into a communistic state. This changed Russian life completely.
Stalin because he had a major effect on world history. He turned Russia in to a complete communistic state. He also industrialized their agriculture and their manufacturing. Stalin was a cruel and harsh man. He didn’t care what he had to do, as long as he was ensured complete control and power. He has had a major effect on Russian and World .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... of which he later became president. This office he retained until 1895 when he undertook the direction of the Police Department of New York City. In 1897 he joined President McKinley's administration as assistant secretary of the Navy. While in this office he actively prepared for the Cuban War, which he saw was coming, and when it broke out in 1898, went to Cuba as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volunteer cavalry, which he himself had raised among the hunters and cowboys of the West. He won great fame as leader of these Rough-Riders.
Elected governor of the state of New York in 1898, he invested his two-year administratio .....
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Flo Hyman
.... and to the fight for equal opportunities for women in remembered by and honored with the Flo Hyman Memorial Award, given annually by the Women’s Sports Foundation to female athletes who capture Hyman’s “dignity, spirit, and commitment to excellence”. (Sports Illustrated 1986) Hyman was known for a lot of things. People mostly remember her for her awe-inspiring spiking abilities, her equally strong defensive skills and her personal integrity and charisma. Her great sportsmanship and athletic abilities earned her many awards and accomplishments. Hyman was an All-American at the University of Houston from 1974 through 1976. .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
.... almost equally swift decline. When he was defeated by the English at WaterLoo in 1815, Napoleon was made prisoner and taken to St. Helena, an isolated island in the south atlantic. WIth him were his jailers from Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and France, four companions to keep him company, a doctor to keep him well, and twelve servants.
At first, Napoleon tried to make the best of things, but in time he became bored and irratated. When he was called general, not emporer, he grew sick at heart. Napoleon tried to work and to dictate his memoirs, but ill health dogged his footsteps. His legs swelled. His energy flagged. He knew .....
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Hitler's Life
.... Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm.
The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers’ harsh words. At age 14 he ran away, never seeing his father again. That put Adolf , the next oldest boy, in his shoes.
At this time, the family sold the farm and moved to a small town of Lambach, Austria. The family would make many moves after that. This meant less chores and more free time to Adolf. Adolf attended a school in an old Catholic Benediction Monastery. The monastery was decorated with carved stones and wo .....
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James Earl Ray
.... Memphis on a conference trip. He had done the same thing before and he had also been televised while doing so. This visitation was different in the fact it would be his last. Martin Luther King Jr. did not retire and he did not give up his cause, he was killed, assassinated by the bullet of the man James Earl Ray. It is not entirely known whether or not this was a planned attack, a conspiracy, or just a spontaneous outburst of racial prejudice. However, Ray did submit a full confession to the court.
James Earl Ray was the age of 42 when his rifle was found near the scene of King's death. This had been unexpected of the ma .....
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Bob Marley
.... with few outside influences. The
movement was dominated by “Elders” with widely varying views. There was no
agreement on basic doctrine or scripture. The Holy Piby and the King James Bible were
used by various Elders, but were freely emended and “corrected” (Angelfire 3).
Reggae was at the height of its popularity during the Classical Period. Explicitly
religious lyrics were the norm. The famous “dreadlocks” were worn during this period.
Historical research suggests that the dreadlocks were popularized by a monastic
movement which opposed the unrestrained and potentially corrupting power of the Elders.
Dreadlocks continued .....
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
.... pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, in 1959, he became co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
King’s serious behavior and positive requests to a Christian relationship that will end discrimination between black and white people made a positive impression on whites outside the south. To protest against discrimination, King did marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. He boycotted buses in an effect to gain better treatment; but not end segregation. During his demonstrations, King was arrested and was sent to jail. National reactions to the bombing of King’s home .....
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Karl Marx
.... changed from law to philosophy. "Degeneration in a learned dressing gown with uncombed hair had replaced degeneration with a beer glass." (1 p2) Marx father obviously disapproved greatly.
Marx attached to the philosophy of G.W.F Hegel. He referred to the Phenomenology of mind as the true birthplace and secret to his philosophy.
Marx developed many insights throughout his work. Two very important insights include: economy as the chief form of human alienation, and the material force needed to liberate humanity from economics found in working class. Marx found that the material force needed to liberate humanity from its domi .....
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The Life Of Thomas Edison
.... Detroit while he waited for the return trip. One day the train Lurched and some chemicals were spilled, And his lab caught on fire. The conductor Threw Thomas and his chemicals off of the train. He then sold newspapers at stops along the railroad.
Thomas had tons of problems with his ears, when he was fifteen he tried to jump on a moving train and a conductor pulled him up by the ears. Thomas said he felt something snap in his head and soon lost much of his hearing. His loss of hearing could have been corrected by an operation but he said that his present condition could help him concentrate.
One Day Edison was selling new .....
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Malcolm X
.... in the nation of Islam. He assisted Elijah Muhammad by starting many new Muslim groups in the United States. In 1952 he returned to New York to become a minister of the important Harlem temple and in 1957 he organized the Muslim newspaper.
By the early 1960’s Islam had become nationally known. He was there most effective minister and spokesman. In 1964 Malcolm X broke completely with the nation of Islam and began building his own organization of Afro American Unity.
He made the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudia Arabia, to learn about the true Islam. When he had seen the friendship between pilgrims of all colors, Malcolm X ca .....
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