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- 1351: Athens And Sparta
- ... taken away at the age of seven , they were sent to military school. If a child was not strong , he/she was left on a cliff to die of exposure. In the military school they lived in barracks. They were taught survival skills , the endurance of pain , discipline , and toughness at the school. They were given little food and were encouraged to steal. If they were caught stealing they would get ... then women of other city-states. They were able to move from place to place , do the shopping , and control the house. They also had a lot of freedom from their husbands because their husbands lived in barracks. Most of the time the Spartan women worked on fields and were medics to the injured Spartan soldiers. They were considered as mothers to all Spartan soldiers (Connolly 260). This is how the ...
- 1352: John Coltrane
- ... performed in a show with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. As a result of Coltrane's impressive performance, he landed his first big gig with the Dizzy Gillespie band. Despite his first big gig, Coltrane lived his next few years in depression, drugs, and alcohol; however, he gathered the strength to seek rehabilitation. He later converted to Islam and got his life together. In 1950-1951, he continued to work with ... two drummers – incredibly insofar as Coltrane already had, in Elvin Jones, the most overpowering drummer in jazz. The addition of Rashied Ali to the drum corps, in November of 1965, made for a short-lived collaboration or, rather, competition between Jones and Ali; a disgruntled Jones left the Coltrane band in March of 1966 to join Duke Ellington's. But it was the culmination of Coltrane's search for the ...
- 1353: Fifth Business Character Foils Of Dunstan Ramsay And Percy S
- ... values spiritual things, while Percy values only material things. Percy is impressed by and yearns for money, while Dunstan could care less about it. Dunstan explains his lack of desire for materialistic things: Where Boy lived high, I lived - well, not low, but in the way congenial to myself. I thought twenty-four dollars was plenty for a ready-made suit, and four dollars a criminal price for a pair of shoes. I changed ...
- 1354: Fifth Business - Character Foils Of Dunstan Ramsay And Percy
- ... values spiritual things, while Percy values only material things. Percy is impressed by and yearns for money, while Dunstan could care less about it. Dunstan explains his lack of desire for materialistic things: Where Boy lived high, I lived - well, not low, but in the way congenial to myself. I thought twenty-four dollars was plenty for a ready-made suit, and four dollars a criminal price for a pair of shoes. I changed ...
- 1355: Ernest Hemingway 4
- ... who rarely wavered in his adherence to the highest standards of artistic probity. He also significantly influenced twentieth century writing on all levels through his pronouncements and the principles of professionalism which he introduced and lived. Hemingway was also a night-club roisterer, a slick and chromatically unreal advertisement in the rotogravures, unfairly good copy for the gossip columnists, public brawler and braggart, and the batter d. wreck d old man ... the same word or phrase through a series of shifting meanings and inflections (Lesniak 192). Ernest believed that if he could see himself clear and whole, his vision might be useful to others who also lived in his world. However, in order to project those metaphors cleanly, he had to subject the total techniques of his writings to the natural rhythms of his own personality (Rovit 165). Hemingway loved to play ...
- 1356: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. His parents were touring actors and both died before he was three years old. After this, he was taken into the home of John Allan, a prosperous merchant who lived in Richmond, Virginia.1 When he was six, he studied in England for five years. Not much else is known about his childhood, except that it was uneventful. In 1826, when Poe was seventeen years ... of the moon that Poe's tales take place-or in the middle of terrific storms lit up by lurid flashes of lightning.” None of Poe's characters could ever be normal, since they lived in this bizarre world. All of his heroes are usually alone, and if they are not crazy, they are on their way to becoming so rapidly. This leads one to wonder, just how lucid Poe ...
- 1357: Apartheid In South Africa 2
- ... bantustan, is the size of Brighton, yet has over two million people in it. Blacks were told to regard these desolate and unfertile areas as their 'homelands'. Over half of the black South African population lived, not in these batustans, but in the white areas of the country for cheap labor. Nonwhites had to live in shantytowns, while the whites lived comfortably. KEY GROUPS AND FIGURES AWB the AWB (Afrikaans for Afrikaaners Resistance Movement) are an extreme right wing group who seek the formation of a Volkstaat. A Volkstaat would be entirely made up of Afrikaaners ...
- 1358: America The Great
- ... Iraq were soon beaten into submission. America, though, has not always been so brave and powerful. While JFK was in office he involved our country in a war with Cuba. This war, however, was short lived. The Bay of Pigs, as it was named, was a single battle, when JFK pulled out of the war. It is believed that if we had continued with the war, Fidel Castro would have submitted ... in Israel and Palestine. He has seen attacks on our country from its own citizens and other countries including Iran and Libya. He retaliated only after an attack from Libya, but the retaliation was short-lived. Mr. Clinton's threats to Iraq have been brushed of as worthless. He has to spend more time preparing for trial than he can on riding the world of terrorists. President Clinton and other democrats ...
- 1359: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Virginia history, and also very rich also. Peter and Jane Jefferson moved to Goochland county, because Peter had just gotten 400 acres of land there. was born in the log cabin in which the family lived. was the third child out of four brother and six sisters. Two years after Thomas was born, William Randolph, a cousin of Mrs. Jefferson and a close friend of the family, died. His will requested ... called her) shared her husband's love of music and played the harpsichord and piano. The marriage was happy, except Mrs. Jefferson's ill health. Of their six children, only two, both of them girls, lived to maturity. Martha Jefferson died in 1782. The death of his wife had a profound effect on Jefferson and probably influenced his return to politics, which had considered leaving. On June 21, 1775, Jefferson took ...
- 1360: Benjamin Franklin Was A Man Of Many Accomplishments
- ... road of a busy street in the city of Philadelphia. He made suggestion to reduce carriages getting stuck in the mud and to reduce the fog like cloud of dust from chocking the people who lived in the city. Other ideas to improve yourself, improve your community were to clean up the dirty streets of downtown Philadelphia (Meltzer 97), to hire a full time police force to reduce theft of the ... on the Constitution. On March 4, 1789 the constitution became the, “fundamental law of the nation” (Meltzer 226-270). At 11:00 P.M. on the 17 of April, 1790, Benjamin Franklin died. He lived to exactly eighty-four years and three months. He was buried in the Christ Church Burial Ground. His funeral was the biggest event ever in Philadelphia. 200,000 people came to his funeral (Meltzer 271 ...
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