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William FaulknerBiography on was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897 and then moved to Oxford, Mississippi with his family at the age of 5. Most of the novels written by take place in the area in which he himself was born and raised. He renames Oxford and calls this place Jefferson, ...
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Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side Of A Golden GirlIt is May 1971, and Jessica Savitch, a twenty-three-year-old, ambitious, blond, is on her way to Houston, Texas. She has been hired to be a reporter for KHOU T.V., a CBS affiliate. On her first day, she tags along with reporter Judd McIlvain and announces her plans for the future. "My plans ...
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Changing Attitudes Of Ferhat AbbasIntroduction
Ferhat Abbas believed in the peaceful solution and that the French are
willing to co-operate with the Algerians. With this co-operation, he thought, it
was possible for all to live together. He was brought up and thought to believe
in democracy and parliament, to look for these in a ...
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Roberto Baggiowas born on February 18, 1967 to his mother Matilde and his father Fiorindo, in the small Italian town of Caldogno which is located north of the city of Vicenza. His brothers and sisters are Gianna, Walter, Carla, Giorgio, Anna Maria, Nadia, and Eddy. Roberto had much freedom as a child. His ...
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Frederick DouglassBorn into slavery, lived to become one of the
most influential figures in African American history. As a young man and a
slave in Maryland, was recognized as a bright young man
by both blacks and whites. During his life as a slave in Baltimore he
learned to read and write and passed his ...
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Charles LindberghThe flight of Charles A. Lindbergh was actually three phases. The preflight that was step of obtaining the plane, the arrangements of sponsors, and making a list of land marks. Probably the most important phase out of all was the actual flight from New York to Paris, France. The final phase ...
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David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76, carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". ...
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Saint Francis Of Assissi1. Birth
Saint Francis was born Giovanni Bernadone in either 1181 or 1182 in the
Italian hill town of Assisi. His parents, Pietro and Pica, were members of the
rather well-to-do merchant class of the town. Pioetro Bernadone was away in
France when his son was born. On his return, he had the ...
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Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada, was once described as
"A French Canadian proud of his identity and culture, yet a biting critic
of French-Canadian society, determined to destroy its mythology and
illusions". He has also been identified as "A staunch, upholder of
provincial autonomy holding the ...
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Pierre De Fermatwas born in the year 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomages, France. Mr. Fermat\'s education began in 1631. He was home schooled. Mr. Fermat was a single man through his life. , like many mathematicians of the early 17th century, found solutions to the four major problems that created a form of math called ...
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Hank Williams Jr.Hank Williams, Jr. was meant to be a superstar from the day he was born.
His father, the legendary Hank Williams, and mother, Audrey Sheppard, both
played an intricate part in his early stardom. Hank had to overcome many
obstacles in his life including escaping from his father's shadow and a ...
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George W. BushPolitics have been the family business for more than one family in the United States. The familiar family of several generations is the Kennedy family who remains in the political spotlight for fifty-three years and running. As Elizabeth Dole attempts to gain the Republican nomination for the ...
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Biography Of Carolyn ChuteCarolyn Chute has had many disappointments throughout her life, but now she is doing something about it. She connects with people similar to her through her novels and through her organizations. She also connects to people who have not felt her pain, because in her novels every word expresses ...
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Babe Ruth 2“Your simply incorrigible” replied Babe’s wife. For years, the great baseball player “Babe Ruth” has been called this, Yet despite these remarks Babe also possessed a humble heart towards children. Then on the other hand Babe possessed the attribute of being brutal ...
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Lizzie BordenIt is best described by the closing arguments for \'s defense, made by her attorney, George D. Robinson:
The case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime forover on hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew ...
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Nicholas: The Last TsarIn his book, The Last Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky describes a very interesting viewpoint of the life and death of Nicholas Alexandrovich, the last Russian Tsar. Radzinsky\'s illustration of this ill-fated monarch follows the diaries of Nicholas from their beginning on March 1, 1881, to the final entry ...
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Marilyn MansonThe first signs of was in 1989 in Southern Florida, when Manson, then a Ohio-born photojournalism major, and Daisy, then a guitarist who had been through five bands, came together and formed a band. Their names were changed to and Daisy Berkowitz. The names would come from different tabloid TV ...
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George Frideric Handel, certainly one of the founding fathers of music, introduced new types of music and affected the many composers who followed him. Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, a town in Germany. He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained in law. Handel ...
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Gertrude Stein“I know I am” (Burnett 51). This response form was given in answer to the question “You think you are a genius?” posed to her by the French artist Henri Matisse. This was the epitome of Stein.
Born in 1876, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Gertrude was the fifth child, and youngest, to Daniel and ...
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Reformation Of Government Thro"...A little rebellion now and then is a good thing...It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." Thomas Jefferson
Thoreau, a transcendentalist from the mid 19th century and Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights movement leader of a century later both believed the necessity ...
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DianaPrincess In a changing world like ours today there is many uncertainties. There is one thing we are sure about, that's our own pass. When you look back at your life are you gonna see yourself as a leader or a follower? There is one woman from the last century, one that sticks out, to have been a ...
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Edgar Allan Poewas a bizarre and often scary writer. People throughout
history have often wondered why his writings were so fantastically different and
unusual. They were not the result of a diseased mind, as some think. Rather
they came from a tense and miserable life. was not a happy man.
He was a victim ...
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The Life And Work Of Edgar Allen PoeThe life of Poe is the most melodramatic of any of the major American
writers of his generation. In Poe's poems, like his tales, his characters
are tortured by nameless fears and longings. In both form and content
Poe's early poetry is typically Romantic although of an unusually limited
range. ...
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Leonhard Euler, (born April 15, 1707, died Sept. 18, 1783), was the most
prolific mathematician in history. His 866 books and articles represent about
one third of the entire body of research on mathematics, theoretical physics,
and engineering mechanics published between 1726 and 1800. In pure mathematics,
he ...
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Rosalind Franklin lived during an exciting and turbulent era both socially and scientifically. Upon passing the admission examination for Cambridge University in 1938, at fifteen, Franklin was was informed by her affluent family that she would not recieve financial support. Franklin¡¯s father disapproved of ...
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