Biography Of William Shakespeare
.... at school, his boyhood was
probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it
was known to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several
large fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live.
Stratford also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the
opportunity to hunt and trap small game. The River Avon which ran through
the town allowed him to fish also. Shakespeare's' poems and plays show
his love of nature and rural life which reflects his childhood.
On November 28, 1582, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway of the
neighboring village of Shottery. She was tw .....
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Autobiography Of Thomas Jefferson
.... 1739. with Jane Randolph, of the age of 19. daur of Isham
Randolph one of the seven sons of that name & family settled at Dungeoness
in Goochld. They trace their pedigree far back in England & Scotland, to
which let every one ascribe the faith & merit he chooses.
My father's education had been quite neglected; but being of a strong mind,
sound judgment and eager after information, he read much and improved
himself insomuch that he was chosen with Joshua Fry professor of Mathem. in
W. & M. college to continue the boundary line between Virginia & N.
Caroline which had been begun by Colo Byrd, and was afterwards employed
with the sa .....
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Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
.... intellectual prowess led some political opponents to dismiss
him as a visionary, but he was remarkably successful in politics. As leader
of the opposition to the Federalist policies of Alexander Hamilton and John
Adams, Jefferson was put forward by his supporters to run against Adams in
the election of 1796 to succeed George Washington as president. He lost
that contest but four years later defeated Adams to preside over the first
transfer of political power from one party to another in the history of the
young Republic. In his inaugural address in 1801, he set the ship of state
on a republican course based on faith in majorit .....
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Booker T. Washington: Fighter For The Black Man
.... tobacco plantation. His only true
relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father was
probably the white son of one of the neighbors, though it is not known for
sure. Washington spent his childhood years on the plantation, but since he
was so young he never had to do the heavy work. He did the small jobs, such
as carrying water to the field hands and taking corn to the local mill for
grinding. This hard work at an early age instilled in him the values he
would teach for the rest of his life. When the Civil War ended in April of
1863, Washington and his mom were set free. Unlike most of the other sla .....
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Eli Whitney
.... and populated by well educated,
happy workers,Whitneyville. He also affected the industrial development of
the United States , in manufacturing muskets but most of whitney's own
guns parts do not in fact interchange. Nevertheless, Eli Whitney is a
figure whose history is fascinating, and whose impact in New Haven can not
be overstated. He translated the concept of interchangeable parts into a
manufacturing system, giving birth to the Americanmass-production concept.
Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make the
South prosperous and make its inventor rich. He set to work at once and
within days had drawn .....
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Terry Redlin: A Biography
.... Donor by the
Minnesota waterfowl Association.
Five years ago, Redlin completed his largest painting yet. He
painted a picture of “America the Beautiful”. He did eight paintings in
which he painted from the West to Present day. The paintings have been
showcased by many magazines, private collectors, and also in Museums.
Terry Redlin receives the most satisfaction from his work. His
donation of $20 million dollars set a record for all-time art sales for
wetland preservation projects. He has also estimated that he has donated
another $4 million dollars to other nonprofit organizations.
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Biography Of James Polk (11th President)
.... on the ninth ballot.
Even before he could take office, Congress passed a joint
resolution offering annexation to Texas. In so doing they took away the
possibility of Polk having a war with Mexico, which soon served diplomatic
relations.
After trying to negotiate boundaries with Mexico and Canada wanting
to extend the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans proved
useless, congress declared war and, despite much northern opposition,
supported the military operations. American forces won repeated victories
and occupied Mexico City. Finally, in 1848, Mexico ceded New Mexico and
California in return for $15,000, .....
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Julius Caesar Biography
.... as a criminal lawyer. In 75 BC he went
to Rhodes for more education and was once again captured by pirates, who
asked the usual tariff. Caesar demanded it doubled and threatened to kill
them. After the ransom was paid, he defeated the bandits and had them
crucified.
After continuing his studies, they were quickly interrupted when
Mithridates of Pontus attacked Asia Minor in 74 BC. Caesar raised a small
army and defended some towns giving time for Commander Lucullus to also
raise an army and defeat them. Now Caesar was a war hero and returned to
Rome in 73 BC. His career as a general and politician had begun.
In 68, Caesar .....
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Christopher Columbus
.... this was not Asia. Columbus first landed on the island of Navidad,
and ended up coming back to this New World 3 more times. He never landed on
the main land of America, but he keeped on exploring the coasts of America,
looking for an opening to get to Asia. Unfortunatly, he never found it
because there was and is none.
Columbus' attitude to all of this was pretty positive. Columbus'
attitude was negative at some times, like when Queen Isabella thought that
his price was too high, and when he had to wait for years and years to go
to Asia, but he keeped his hopes up and believed that some day he'd be able
to go to Asia.
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Mohandas Gandhi And His Life
.... became sick.
He was forced to take care of him. To cope with is problems he started to
smoke shoplift and eat meat.
In 1887 he started collage at the University of Bombay. He did not
like it there and decided to go to England and become a barrister and
return for a job like his fathers. When he arrived in England he joined the
University Collage. He had a bad time switching cultures, and one of the
most difficult obstacles to overcome was that he was a vegetarian. After
finding a vegetarian restaurant, he felt more accepted. He then followed to
join vegetarian society. This was one of the major turning points in
Gandhi's life; i .....
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Biography Of Roger Maris
.... press was there to ask him questions about "The Race." As a result of
this he started to lose his hair faster than normal and he smoked more then
he normally did.
I admire Roger Maris because even though the press bothered him all
the time he did not buckle under all the pressure. He remained cool and
just waited out all the hard times. In the end everything worked out for
the better.
This book is a great inspiration to young people. When Roger was
young kids told him that he was not any good and some of his teachers told
him that he would not amount to anything. But he proved them wrong and
went on to become one of t .....
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Nevil Shute
.... During this time he began to write under the Christian
name Nevil Shute, because he feared that his reputation as a fiction writer
would hinder his engineering career (Internet). Through the next many
years, up until World War II, Nevil Shute published many more books. Shute
then moved to Australia in 1949, to concentrate on his writings. During
his years through both world Wars, his experiences greatly influenced his
writings. His statement, ”…to write something which could make me forget
that there was such a thing as war,” demonstrates how much the wars'
actions and aftermath reflected upon him (Shute, An Old Captivity .....
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