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- 2281: Maya Angelou
- ... and set out to become a professional dancer. spent her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance, and. studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King ...
- 2282: Alexander The Great And His Impact On Greek Civilization
- ... had a great influence on the empire due to the unity that it brought in a political, educational and religious sense. Although the territory that he expanded did not remain the cultural achievements he made lived on (Microsoft Encarta 3). One of the cities that Alexander founded, Alexandria was a great seaport in Egypt on the Nile River. Alexandria became the capital of Egypt, with a population of three hundred thousand ...
- 2283: Jedediah Hotchkiss
- ... valley. Few know that a battle was fought here in the local town of Waynesboro. This battle may not have been the turning point of the war, but it was very important to those who lived here and fought here. First and for most I have to start with the source. I have to tell about the man who documented the entire battle. A young man by the name of . Hotchkiss ...
- 2284: Benito Mussolini's Rise And Fall To Power
- ... proclaimed that the people of Italy were a "mediocre race of good-for-nothings only capable of singing and eating ice cream," and he expressed sickly happiness when Naples was bombed by the Allies. He lived for almost two years after his arrest. He participated in a series of bizarre and humiliating experiences before finally coming to a gruesome end. Mussolini died on a clear spring day in April 1945. Allies ...
- 2285: Hitler - A Man Of Too Much Power
- ... on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Between 1909 and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914. Hitler enlisted in ...
- 2286: Twain
- ... late 1800¹s but would go back when his wife fell ill in 1903. She died a year later in Italy. Twain began to crave the country, moving to Connecticut where two of his daughters lived. After the death of his daughter Jean in 1909, Twain fell ill. He developed heart trouble. He decided to go to Bermuda, where he died just as a sunset of a beautiful spring day was ...
- 2287: Ulysses S. Grant And Robert E. Lee
- ... his community prospered. As the natio's horizons expanded, so would his. These people saw their fate in terms of the natio's own destiny. Grant fought to keep the Union together because everything he lived for was dependent on the nation's growth. He saw succession as an effort to cut the ground out from under his feet. These different political and social ideologies sent our nation into war to ...
- 2288: Terry Fox
- ... that were strong and showed much determination throughout his life. After graduating from high school with honours, Terrance Stanley Fox attended Simon Fraser University in Burnabe, British Columbia where he took interest in kinesiology. Terry lived along with his supportive family on a small ranch-like home. Rolly Fox was an encouraging father to Terry and always sought the best for his son, as well did his mother, Betty. Little did ...
- 2289: Ivan The Terrible
- ... The Boyars refused. Ivan was astonished and furious. To save his wife and son, Ivan made a bargain with God. Ivan said he would take pilgrimages to different Monasteries if God let him live. Ivan lived and went on a pilgrimage. On one of his pilgrimages to the North of Russia, Dimitri drowned. This is Scar Number Three: The Death of Dimitri. It shocked Ivan that his son would die while ...
- 2290: The Life Of Henry Ford
- ... friends built a dam to supply water power to the wheel, which turned the broom handle, and the broom handle turned the coffee grinder. However, the dam they built flooded a man's basement who lived nearby and they had to destroy it. Henry's father was one of the first men in his community to own a mowing machine and a reaper. He believed that machines saved time and money ...
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