Lyndon Johnson
.... Lisagor, 151). Johnson took on the large role as president aboard the
presidential Air Force jet at Love Field, Dallas exactly ninety-nine minutes
after Kennedy died. Coincidentally becoming the second vice president with the
last name Johnson to succeed an assassinated president and nearly one hundred
years apart.(Hugh S. Sidey, 1-2 & Hans L. Trefousse, 1-2)
Within a short time after he became president, Johnson announced a
five hundred million-dollar budget cut and urged a strong civil rights bill.
Both of these were previously proposed by Kennedy. Also, he proposed a national
War on Poverty. This included creating n .....
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Marie Antoinette
.... XVI became the true King. People
were dying of starvation and most of the people were blaming it on the Queen
Mari Antquonette. On Oct, 5 during the French revolution, thousands of people
marched from Paris to Versailles (The Palace) to present there food demands to
the king. They some how forced the royal family to come with them back to Paris.
After spending months in the Parisian Palace as prisoners, the Queen and
King tried to escape to the eastern border. Unfortunately, they did not make it.
They were recognized and forced back. On August 10, 1972, revolutionaries
stormed the Palace of Tuileries and killed all of t .....
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
.... a
statue called the “Pieta,” showing the dead Jesus Christ in his mother's arms.
In 1501 Michelangelo returned to Florence, Italy to sculpt the famous nude
sculpture called the “David.” The “David” measures 18 feet tall, and is so
massive that it took 40 men to move it from Michelangelo's workshop(World Book
5016)
The second period of Michelangelo's career was based upon his
imagination. In 1505 Michelangelo was summoned by Pope Julius II to fabricate
his tomb. Michelangelo was so excited about making the tomb for the Pope that
he spent many months looking for the perfect piece of marble to make the tomb.
A short time aft .....
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Muhammad
.... Meccans responded with hostility to Muhammad's monotheism and
iconoclasm. As long as Abu Talib was alive Muhammad was protected by the Hashim,
even though that clan was the object of a boycott by other Quraysh after 616.
About 619, however, Abu Talib died, and the new clan leader was unwilling to
continue the protective arrangement. At about the same time Muhammad lost
another staunch supporter, his wife Khadijah. In the face of persecution and
curtailed freedom to preach, Muhammad and about 70 followers reached the
decision to sever their ties of blood kinship in Mecca and to move to Medina, a
city about 400 km (250 m .....
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Benito Mussolini
.... Liberals.
In October 1922 Mussolini secured permission from King Victor Emmanuel
lll to form a coalition government. In 1925-26, after a lengthy crisis with the
parliament following the killing of the Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, he
imposed a Totalarian Dictatorship. His Corperative State came to terms with
Italian Capitalism but abolished the free trade unions. In 1929 he ended
conflict with the church through the Lateran Treaty of 1929.
In the 1930's Mussolini turned to an aggressive foreign policy,
conquering Ethiopia(1935-36) and helping General Francisco Franco in the Spanish
Civil War. In 1936 he joined with Hi .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
.... to the
Empire. Another was a knew constitution, in this he presented to the public in
a plebiscite that required them either to accept fully his version or to allow
him to govern without the restrictions of a constitutions. This was a lose,
lose situation for the people. The support of the army was a major factor in
his successful dictatorship. Napoleon put the three consuls in charge of the
new executive branch in which he was the first consul.
Napoleon also introduced many foreign policies. One was the continental
system, this forbade the impotation of British goods into Europe. In th first
coalition, England join .....
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Nelson Mandela
.... his twenty-seven years in
prison, Nelson Mandela became a symbol of resistance to the white-dominated
country of South Africa throughout the world. After complex negotiation,
Mandela was finally released from prison by President F.W. deKlerk in February,
1990, after lifting the long ban on the ANC.
Mandela's release from prison marked the beginning of the end of
apartheid in South Africa when he once again became the head of the ANC. He
began the process to from a new constitution in South Africa which would allow
political power to the black majority. Finally in 1991 the South African
government repealed the laws .....
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Abigail Adams
.... her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long
lasting friendship.
Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she
learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to
read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson.
Abigail's father knew John Adams by working with him and she grew rather close
to him starting a wedding. This now made her name Abigail Adams. Their wedding
was held on October 25, 1764, a month before her twentieth birthday. John was a
lawyer and very often was not at home due to court cases he had to attend to.
When .....
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Robert Edward Lee
.... troops.
After the Mexican war Lee was assigned to Baltimore in 1848, he was to
supervise the construction of Fort Carrol for nearly four years.
In 1852 the United States military academy at West Point became Lees
home when he was appointed superintendent. During his three year stint he
raised acidemic standards, lengthened the program from four to five years, and
improved facilities.
In 1859 in Arlington, Texas Lee was given command of Federal forces
which were there to make sure Mexicans did not invade Texas. Then Lee was sent
to capture the abolitionist, John Brown at Harpers Ferry.
Then when war seemed impossibl .....
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John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model?
.... Canada because he cared for not only the English, but also the French and
Natives. One example is when he visited the Council House of the Six Nation
Indians near Brantford. Mr. Macdonald met more than thirty farmers and after
only thirty minutes of chatting with them he knew them all by name# . In another
instance, a guest of John A. Macdonald was so impressed with the hospitality he
received that he described him as "courteous in his social relations--a very
prince". In both cases he made those involved feel noticed and cared for.
The most prominent attribute that makes John A. Macdonald a good role model is
his honesty. In .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... the most famous Virginia families. Besides being born rich, Thomas
Jefferson, was well educated. He attended the College of William and Mary and
read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in
Virginia. He went into to the bar in 1767 and practiced until 1774, when the
courts were closed by the American Revolution.
He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and
doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton. He was
elected to the House of Burgesses, when he was 25, he served there from 1769 to
1774, proving himself to be an effective committeeman an .....
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Thomas P. O'Neill
.... Depression, arrived in congress from
Massachusetts in 1952 and "came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and '70s."
(Woodlief 4) He was a rampant liberal who "would usually vote yes on any bill
that helped people (he once voted to put money into an appropriations bill to
study knock knees)." (Gelzinas 6) When Reagan came into office in 1980 big
government began to feel the pinch and O'Neill's big hearted liberalism was on
the way out. In 1980, O'Neill was a target of a clever Republican ad campaign
that pictured him in a limo as a symbol of a bloated out of control congress.
The advertisement backfired and it sent O'Neill .....
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