Harriet Beecher Stowe
.... This allowed the two sisters to form an everlasting, inseparable bond.
As Harriet grew older, Catharine was busy devoting her life to the education of women because at the time they were merely thought only good enough to be wives and housekeepers. Catharine’s hard and enduring work paid off because she eventually founded a school in Hartford, Connecticut. It was at this seminary that Harriet received her formal education. Oddly enough she did not attend college, but ended up becoming a teacher at her alma mater (Hedrick, BBR March 95).
In 1833, Lyman Beecher became the President of the Lane Theological Seminar .....
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Joseph Stalin
.... He started as the distributor of propaganda.(Red Tsar) This is the start of Stalin’s political career.
Stalin had many political jobs that helped him to assume the position of dictator. In 1902 Stalin was arrested and spent one year in prison and then was exiled to Siberia. He escaped the prison camp two years later. In 1902-1913 Stalin was arrested eight times was exiled seven and escaped six. The only time the government could hold him in exile was his last time which he served completely from 1913 to 1917.(Red Tsar) In 1903 Stalin joined the Marxist movement when it split in 1903, he sided with the more radical Bol .....
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Biography On Mario Lemieux
.... his kids grow. I talk about what Mario did off the ice including meeting with celebrities and even the president. Also I mention Mario's last game and some of his feelings.
My fourth, longest and last chapter is "The Memories". In this section I use a lot of statistics and quotations describing some of Mario's most memorable moments, and his amazing skill, from his rookie season to his last game. In my final chapter I don't just talk about what he did on the ice but off the ice also. I talk about things like how Mario felt in the locker room after winning the Stanley Cup and during award ceremonies.
In my writings I use a .....
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Andrew Carnegie
.... Development by George S. Bobinski shows the impact of his philanthropy and the reaction it received.
Andrew Carnegie lived by his philosophy that “The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced.” He not only wrote these words, but lived by them. “Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself...Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind...” Carnegie said. Therefore, he put his fortune into education and free access to information through donating gifts to the world- the building of public libraries.
For the most part, Andrew Carnegie’s gifts of librar .....
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Raymond Mary Kolbe
.... taught Church History at a seminary in Cracow in 1919. Although the Whiskey priest’s history was not crimeless like Father Kolbe’s, he still taught mass proceedings and baptism.
After being diagnosed with tuberculosis and surviving a near fatal heart attack, Maximilian was determined to organize the first group of the Militia outside of Italy. The phenomenal growth of this apostolate between 1927 and 1929 led to the foundation of Niepokalanow near Warsaw. The name “Niepokalanow” means “City of the Immaculate”, and was completely self supported, equipped with a seminary, a mission house, a printing establishment, and a radi .....
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Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
.... he is today. His grandfather, who could not read, sent him to a Catholic school run by a group of White nuns that was established for poor Black youth. He later became one of the first Blacks at his all-white Catholic high school. His first premonition was to enter the priesthood but declined after a fellow seminarian student exclaimed, “ Good I hope the SOB dies” following the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. He came to realize he could never escape being Black. While enrolled at Holy Cross College, the first in his family to attend college, he became an activist. He became interested in the Black Panther Party; he a .....
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Michael Jordan
.... records, including a career record for highest points per game average in a regular season;31.5; Bulls' all-time leading scorer and third all-time leading scorer in the NBA with 29,277 points; set NBA record with 23 consecutive points against Atlanta in 1987; and a career record for scoring average in the All-Star Game, 21.3.
But more important than the records and the victories, Jordan had a charm, class and a nice guy image that made him bigger-much bigger-than basketball. His name and face are recognzed immediately all over the globe. It seems everyone-not just basketball fans-love Michael Jordan.The basketball man branched o .....
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Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
.... Virginia abolish the slave trade and assure religious freedom, but he did not achieve this. He was not very successful in organizing Virginian resistance to the British military operations there and would come under criticism for his lack of leadership. Returning to the Continental Congress in 1783, Jefferson drafted the policy organizing the Northwest Territory and secured the adoption of the decimal system of coinage. He was sent to France in 1784 with Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams to negotiate commercial treaties and the next year succeeded Franklin as ambassador there. In 1789 George Washington appointed Jefferson secretar .....
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Bob Dylan
.... the expressive possibilities of rock.Composing over 100's of songs, performing worldwide including Woodstock 1969, following his own path and believing in his own causes, Dylan has become an idol, young artists everywhere can admire.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth Minnesota to Beatrice and Abraham Zimmerman, Dylan was soon to move to Hibbing in 1947. It, like many other small towns felt the optimism, prosperity, and conformism that followed WWII. Hibbing became more directly touched by national events with the onset of radio, movies and television. By the mid 1950's it, too, felt the social tensions th .....
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Pablo Picasso
.... of the French painter Paul Gauguin and the symbolist painters called the Nabis. The themes of the French painters Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as the style of the latter, exerted the strongest influence. Picasso's Blue Room (1901, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) reflects the work of both these painters and, at the same time, shows his maturity toward the Blue Period, so called because various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few years. Expressing human misery, the paintings portray blind figures, beggars, alcoholics, and prostitutes, their somewhat elongated bodies reminiscent of works by .....
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The Life Of Beethoven
.... worth listing to". Beethoven also met Count Ferdinand Waldstein while in Vienna, who became his lifelong friend and helped him in his career. Beethoven's mother died in 1787. Five years later he left Bonn permanently and went back to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn and later with Antonio Salieri.
Beethoven's first public appearance in Vienna was on March 29, 1795 as a soloist in one of his piano concerti it was called Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat. Soon Beetho-ven was treated with just as much royalty and nobility as Hydan and Mozart were. They paid him for his works, but they knew and liked him as a friend. Beethoven comp .....
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Durga Puja
.... worshippers of goddess Durga; he used to worship her image during spring and the act is known as Basanti puja. But Shree Rama, before rescuing Seeta from Ravana, in haste worshipped her in the Autumn and act is called Akal Bodhan (Untimely Worship). However over the years, this Akal Bodhan has become the major festival of Bengal.
Though the sojourn of the goddesss on earth is only of four days, but seven days before the puja, from the day of Mahalaya (October 12, 1996) starts Devipaksha; on this very day people prays for their 'passed away' relatives and take holy dip in the river Ganga - the act is called Tarpan.
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