Jackie Robinson
.... to play baseball. Even with all these things going on he still stole home 19 times. He was a graceful fielder, timely hitter, and aggressive base runner. His contributions won the Dodgers new fans, increased attendance at games, and helped make the Dodgers a very competitive team in baseball.
Robinson retired after the 1956 season rather than get traded to another team. He finished his career with a .311 batting average. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, the first black to receive the honor.
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Bruce Lee
.... He refused and had to fight one of their gradmasters in order to continue teaching. He won the fight, but was discouraged at the time it took him, so he decided to device his own style of martial arts. He called it Jeet Kune Do or"the way of the intercepting fist".This style of fighting resembled many styles due to the fact that it incorporated many techniques from many styles of martial arts from throughout the world. Even fencing, the art of sword play was tied into this style to teach a different way of using the fist in order to intercept the attack instead of blocking it.
Through this system Bruce Lee taught no .....
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Gandhi And His Views
.... The Indian citizens for example, had payments which the less fortunate had to give to the landlords. Refusing to leave the district as the court demanded, and ready to suffer the penalty no matter what it was, proved Gandhi was capable of anything and truly believed in his causes. Gandhi had been released and settled to help the peasants. Gandhi popularity and distinction increased as India found their national hero.
Gandhi’s pacifist ways were evident to all, enemies as well as his supporters. Gandhi’s voice of peace and tranquillity without words of anger or strategies of the army was admired by his followers. He believed in .....
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Rosa Lee Parks
.... and put in jail for sitting in the front of the bus. Four days after, the black people of Montgomery and the people from other races organized and promoted a boycott of the city bus line. For 381 days blacks walked or arrange their own rides throughout the city rather than taking the bus. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , appointed spokesperson for the boycott talked about the importance of nonviolence by all participants. Thousands of courageous people joined togethe to demand equal rights for all.
The boycott ended on December 21, 1956 after the U.S Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional Rosa Lee Parks an .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
.... won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job as organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians, for example, the church choir, rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he became involved in some hot disputes during his short stay. In 1707, at the age of twenty-two, Bach was tired of the lo .....
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Julius Caesar
.... of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter's return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter memory that long survived.
Caesar left Rome for the province of Asia on the condition that he divorce his wife because Sulla would only allow him to leave on that condition. When he heard the news that Sulla had been killed he returned to Rome. He studied rhetoric under the distinguished teacher Molon.
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Tina Turner
.... could be a very violent and controlling person. She knew it would take some risks, including her career, but she had to get out of that situation even though it could have cost her her life.
She left Ike with only 36 cents and a gas card; she lived in poverty and was totally removed from the music scene with out Ike’s guidance. Tina was strong and only in a matter of time did she come back with her international hit album hit, “Private Dancer”. Tina is now very successful, and content with her life. She wrote a book, and even had a hit movie. She showed the world the benefits of removing yourself from an abusive relationship.
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John Gough
.... Dalton
Mr. John Gough was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman who taught Dalton almost every thing you possibly could have needed to acquire the brilliance that John Dalton had. Dalton really flourished with Mr. Gough and they were very good friends during this period of learning for Dalton.
Any further research can be found on John Gough on my reference to this subject.
Resume of John Dalton
Date of Birth: 6 September 1766
Place of Birth: Cockermouth, England
1772-1777 Attended Quaker School at Pardshow Hall
1778-1780 Opened a school in Eaglesfiel .....
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Julius Caesar And Mussolini: The End Justifies Any Means
.... Fascism spread into the countryside, and the Black-Shirt militia won support from landownersand attacked peasant leagues and socialist groups. Fascism shed its republicanism and won sympathy from the army and the king, King Victor Emmanuel III.
Mussolini threatened to march on to Rome, but King Victor Emmanuel III invited Mussolini to form a coalition goverment, like the triumvirate with Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, and Lepidus in The Tradegy of Julius Caesar. This coalition transformed the country into a single party (totalitarian regime). In this coalition, Mussolini preserved capitalism and expanded socialism, like .....
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A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
.... Franklin learned to read which opened the door to further education for him. Since he was only a fair writer and had very poor mathematical skills, he worked to tutor himself at home.
Benjamin Franklin was a determined young man. As a boy, he taught himself to be a very good writer. He also learned basic algebra and geometry, navigation, grammar, logic, and natural and physical science. He partially mastered French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. He was soon to be named the best educated man in the country. When he was 12-years-old, he was apprentice to his brother in printing. Benjamin's brother founded the second .....
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Michelangelo
.... acquainted with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Angelo Poliziano, who were frequent visitors. Michelangelo produced at least two relief sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the (both 1489-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence), which show that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age.
His patron Lorenzo died in 1492; two years later Michelangelo fled Florence, when the Medici were temporarily expelled. He settled for a time in Bologna, where in 1494 and 1495 he executed several for the Arca (Shrine) di San Domenico in the Church of San Domenico.
First Roman Sojourn
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
.... and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society.
The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but were thwarted by the Munich police. Hitler was
Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve power legally, and after a series of ev .....
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