Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
.... rate than whites.
While Malcolm was in jail, he was well known to the guards. One
time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he forgot his
number. The guards beat the hell out of him and sent him to the darkroom.
In the darkroom he met Brother Baines. Baines was a man everyone respected
including the guards. He was know as the real man and gave speeches about
Islam. Malcolm didn't want to listen to him at first, but Baines's cool
style helped Malcolm realize that Islam is for him and that the white man
is the devil.
During his time in prison, Malcolm read widely and developed an
interest in the Nation of Isla .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
.... from the world around him.
At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany,
geology, animals (specifically birds), the motion of water, and shadows
(About Leonardo).
At the age of 17, in about 1469, Leonardo was apprenticed as a
garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading Florentine
painter and sculptor of his day. In Verrocchio’s workshop Leonardo was
introduced to many techniques, from the painting of altarpieces and panel
pictures to the creation of large sculptural projects in marble and bronze.
In 1472 he was accepted in the painter’s guild of Florence, and
worked there for about s .....
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Abraham Lincoln
.... and died in 1926.
Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived
from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871.
In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in
the Northeast, when he addressed a rally at Cooper Union in New York. He
was now well-known to be a presidential candidate. At the Republican
National Conven-tion, in Chicago, Lincoln won the nomination and went on
to win the presidential election.
Lincoln's victory in that election changed the future of the United
States. It also agitated John Wilkes Booth to be-gin first to abduct
Li .....
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Biography Of Genghis Khan
.... you have no
companions but your shadow" Grolier Encyclopedia. (1995) CD ROM
This quote was to mean to Genghis, don¹t put to much trust in anyone,
trust no one but yourself and if you must go your own way then do so. In
1206, Genghis Khan proclaimed the ruler of Mongolia. Genghis was a very
respected leader. Like other leaders he knew what his people wanted. They
want everything that is good and nothing that is bad. Genghis knew he
could not promise this so instead he pledged to share both the sweet and
the bitter of life. Genghis did not want to end up being poisoned like his
father so instead he made alliances, and a .....
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The Works And Influence Of Christopher Marlowe
.... career as a playwright. All of his plays were believed to be written
between 1587 and 1593. His works include Tamburlaine, parts one and two,
the Jew of Malta, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Queen
of Carthage, and the Massacre at Paris. He also wrote the great poems, Hero
and Leander and the Passionate Sherherd”(“Christopher Marlowe(1564- 1593)”
par. 3,4).
“In the plays that he wrote, he established blank verse as the
predominant form in English Drama”(“Marlowe Christopher”, Encarta, par. 3).
Shakespeare also wrote in this form and his plays are very similar to
Marlowe’s. Some people believe that becau .....
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Albert Einstein
.... and he often marveled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when
he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through
the school's strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of
teaching led to his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these
differences that caused Einstein to search for knowledge at home. .....
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Michael Jackson
.... for the charity. The Foundation is
established in response to a series of kidnappings which had been occurring
in Atlanta, a charity album is released in 1984 "Let’s beat it" with the
money raised being donated to the Music and Entertainment Industries own
charity , the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia and Cancer Research.
Later on that year President Reagan presents a Special Achievement
Award to Michael in a garden ceremony at the White House in recognition of
his contributing to the nation’s advertising campaign aimed at discouraging
young people from drinking and driving, "drinking and driving can kill a
friendship," sa .....
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The Nomination Of Andrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
.... faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791
to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal
mistake in her prior divorce in 1794. Jackson served as delegate to Tenn.
in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from
1796-97). He was elected senator in 1797, but financial problems forced him
to resign and return to Tennessee in less than a year. Later he served as a
Tennessee superior court judge for six years starting in 1798. In 1804 he
retired from the bench and moved to Nashville and devoted time to business
ventures and his plantation. At this time his political career lo .....
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Van Gogh
.... other people, and felt lost and forsaken.
Then, in 1880, at age 27, he became obsessed with art. The intensity
he had for religion, he now focused on art. His early drawings were crude
but strong and full of feeling: "It is a hard and a difficult struggle to
learn to draw well... I have worked like a slave ...." His first
paintings had been still lifes and scenes of peasants at work. "That
which fills my head and heart must be expressed in drawings and in
pictures...I'm in a rage of work."
In 1881, he moved to Etten. He very much liked pictures of peasant
life and labor. Jean-Francois Millet was the first to pai .....
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Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
.... and Japan.
He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-
1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo
Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost
him still more support in the rest of the world. His biggest mistake,
however, was the decision to enter the Second World War. On 10 June 1940,
Germany had been at war with Britain and France since the previous
September, but Italy was still at peace, and had little reason to fear that
any of the other powers would attack it. Germany was on the verge of
winning the Battle of France, and France was likel .....
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JFK: The Death Of A Conspiracy
.... clothing to check
the body for other wounds. While Dr. Perry began the tracheostomy, Dr.
Jenkins recalled, that Mrs. Kennedy was circling the room with something “
cupped” in her hands. As Mrs. Kennedy passed by, she nudged Jenkins with
her elbow and handed him “a large chunk o! f her husband's brain.” Dr.
Jenkins took the brain matter and handed it to a nurse (Breo 2806). The
Parkland Hospital staff worked for twenty-five minutes on the President to
no avail. Dr. Clark, who arrived in the trauma room at 12:50 p.m.,
pronounced the President dead at 1:00 p.m. (2804,6).
The President’s body was then wrapped in sheets, pla .....
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Frederick Douglass
.... Whenever he could he attended
abolitionist meetings. In October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery
convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd
Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Douglass
also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls,
in 1848, and wrote three autobiographies: An American Slave, My Bondage and
My Freedom , and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He was
internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable
worker for justice and equal opp .....
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