Nathanial Hawthorne
.... Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with
Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut
to live in, in this new puritan settlement. Maule was a hard working but
obscure man, who was stubborn and protected what was his. His rival arrived
at the settlement about 30 to 40 years after Maule had been there. Colonel
Pyncheon, an ambicious and determined man, had a high position in the town.
It was said that Colonel Pyncheon was very much for the execution of those
who practiced witchcraft, and it was also said that he very strongly sought
the condemnation of Matthew Maule for b .....
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Jim Henson, A Gentle Genius
.... Washington and he became fascinated
by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the
University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to
perform with puppets on a children’s show. That job didn’t last long, but
within a few months later he was puppeteering for the local NBC affiliate.
Soon he had his own five minute program called Sam and Friends. He
produced Sam and Friends for six years. Assisting him was fellow student
Jane Nebel, whom he married in 1959. Success from the show brought him
nationwide fame. He was soon making guest appearances on The Steve Allen
Show, The Jack Paar Show, .....
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Captain Kidd
.... Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April
1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned
the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly
purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City.
There he tried to persuade the colonial governor of New York, the Earl of
Bellomont, of his innocence. Bellomont, however send Kidd to England for
trial
In May 1701 Captain Kidd was found guilty of murder of a mutinous sailor
and of five counts of piracy. There was evidence concerning two of the
piracy cases that was suppressed at the trial and some observers later
questioned .....
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Hitler's Legacy Still Haunts The World
.... nations felt the same about them. As
a result the fascists signed a treaty known as the Triple Alliance. This
treaty was pushed by Hitler and wouldn’t have happened without him. With
Hitler’s help Fascism united world wide.
Hitler’s government was considered a fascist regime. Hitler’s
government was actually much more than that. It was essential to Hitler
for himself and his beliefs to have total authority. He eliminated anyone
or any group who stood in his way. He singled out the Jewish people and
blamed all of Germany’s previous hardships on them. He built hundreds of
concentration camps throughout the countries .....
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
.... boat. He wrote of these years
in 'Life on the Mississippi'.
The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada
and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began
using the pen name Mark Twain. It is an old river term meaning two fathoms,
or 12 feet, of water depth.
In 1864 he went to California. The next year he wrote his 'Jumping
Frog' story, which ran in many newspapers. He was sent to the Sandwich
Islands (now Hawaii) as a roving reporter, and on his return he began
lecturing. He was soon on a tour of the Mediterranean and the Holy Land.
From this came 'The Innocents Abroad' .....
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Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
.... , JAP (J. Alfred Prufrock) is writing a letter to
his honey, the girl he is in love with. In this poem Eliot uses a lot of
visual imagery, he is very good with his adjectives and brings such a happy
correlation of thought into a grim reality he would call his “Waste Land”.
He talks of how :
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo. - TLSJAP stanza 13 and 14
It has been my thought that this may signify his “type”. Eliot, again was
an intellectual and then so he would most likely hang out where the smart
people were and get away from:
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurant with o .....
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Rembrandt
.... painted or sketched his own image. Rembrandt painted or sketched
over fifty portraits just of himself! During the next few years three of
his four children died as babies, and in 1642 his wife died. Rembrandt made
most of his etchings during the 1630’s and 1640’s. His landscape paintings
are depiction’s of the land around him. One of Rembrandt’s most famous
paintings was known as 'The Night Watch', painted in 1642. It depicts a
group of city guardsmen waiting the command to fall in line. In the
foreground are two men, one in bright yellow, the other guardsmen is in
black. In the center of the painting is a little girl dressed in y .....
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Henry VIII's Divorce From Catherine Of Aragon
.... their
friend. Catherine of Aragon came into Henrys life as a sister-in-
law. She was married to Arthur, Henry's brother. Arthur soon died after
their marriage and Catherine was left a widow. Two years after his death,
Catherine soon realized her love for Prince Henry. Although a few years
younger than she, Henry still found it in his heart to love her back. The
two planned on getting married, but there were obstacles, very difficult
ones, that stood in their way. In 1502, Henry decided to marry her.
Everyone agreed with the marriage except the Archbishop of Canterbury,
William Warham. Because of this disagreement, Henry arr .....
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Joan Of Arc
.... She continued fighting the enemy in
other locations along the Loire ( Paine 211). Fear of troops under her
leadership was so formidable that when she approached Lord Talbot's army
at Patay, most of the English troops and Commander Sir John Fastolfe fled
the battlefield ( Nolan 69). Although Lord Talbot stood his ground, he
lost the battle and was captured along with a hundred English noblemen and
lost 1800 of his soldiers.
Charles VII was crowned king of France on July 17, 1429 in Reims
Cathedral. At the coronation, Joan was given a place of honor next to the
king. Later, she was ennobled for her services to the country.
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George Washington
.... of
the thirteen states in the Confederation. After Hanson, there were more
before Washington. There was Elias Boudinot, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henery
and Cyrus Griffin.
At the age of 17, Washington began traveling across rivers,
mountains and Indian trails to remote parts of Virginia. He learned to
survive in the wilderness. When Washington was 20, his brother Lawrence
died and Washington became the owner of Mount Vernon. At the age of 21, he
fought heroically in the French and Indian War which raged in Canada. He
began his military career in late 1752 as an adjutant for the Virginia
Military. After that he became a British offi .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
.... impressed on their
children that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever
benefits the family received from the country they were told, must be
returned by performing some service for the country(Anderson 12). The
Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and their sisters, Eunice, Jean,
Patricia, Rosemary, and Kathleen. Joe, Jr., was a significant figure in
young John's life as he was the figure for most of John's admiration. His
older brother was much bigger and stronger than John and took it upon
himself to be John's coach and protector. John's childhood was full of
sports, fun and activity. This all ended when J .....
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Ernest Hemingway And A Farewell To Arms
.... This arrangement
was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting
Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and
never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned
and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from
appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it
appeared in the Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he
couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to
tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that .....
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