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- 3771: Mark Twain
- ... amazing use of satire and humor from the cruelty of mankind. The tale goes from farce to tragedy and then back again(Crolliers 80 ). Life on the Mississippi was an autobiographical novel about when he lived on the Mississippi River and was a steamboat pilot(Twain 127). Parts of this book were written before he had published Tom Sawyer but not published until after. Chapters IV through XVII were written during ...
- 3772: Marcus Garvey
- ... Garvey learnd at a young age about the differences between the races. Being one of the few Blacks on the island, Garvey often played with the children of his white neighbors. The little girl who lived next to the Garvey s home informed Marcus that she was being sent away to school in Scotland and that she was instructed by her parents never to write or try to get in touch ...
- 3773: Leslie Marmon Silko
- ... she is cared for by her grandmother and grandmother s boyfriend. While she is away at reform school her grandmother dies leaving her in the care of the man . This man was whom her grandmother lived with who the girl was not blood related. The man abuses her sexually and has for a long time. In addition she is taken advantage of by other men in the town. She is constantly ...
- 3774: Lizzie Borden 2
- ... first blow, and with death her heart had stopped pumping blood. The 200-pound victim lay sprawled out on the knees face down to be discovered two hours later. For 30 years Abby and Lizzie lived together under one roof, yet on the day of the murder Lizzie gave no indication that they ever got along. Deputy Marshal John Fleet testified that on the day Abby died he asked Lizzie "if ...
- 3775: Lizzie Borden
- ... he was an undertaker, he cut the feet off the corpses so that he could cram them into undersized coffins that he got cheap"(Meganet, 1998 ). Even though Andrew Borden was wealthy, the Borden family lived quite modestly in a narrow little house on Second Street. 's actual mother had died when Lizzie was just a young girl the age of two. Lizzie was born on Thursday, July 19th ,1860 in ...
- 3776: Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
- ... bearing, she never stopped loving Louis, even after she had been ruthlessly supplanted. She had four children by him, the first two of whom died soon after birth. Louise de La Valliere and the king lived happily and contentedly until 1667, when the scheming and unscrupulous Marquise de Montespan brought their idyll to an end". (Pancucci 48). The king loved Louise's children more than his own. The king, in fact ...
- 3777: Lewis Latimer
- ... working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. George Latimer disappeared shortly after the decision became known. Because he had no official papers to prove he was a free man, he possibly feared for his safety and that of ...
- 3778: Lewis And Clark
- ... exploration. Lewis was born to a Virginia planter family in 1774. His father, who had been an officer in the American Revolution, died when Lewis was five years old, and for a brief time he lived in Georgia when his mother moved there with her second husband. After assuming the management of his family's Virginia plantation, Lewis joined the state militia in 1794 to help put down the Whiskey Rebellion ...
- 3779: King Solomon
- ... his sea ventures, and in the construction of the magnificent temple at Jerusalem. One other note of wisdom comes from the Biblical story of two women struggling for the rights to a child. They both lived in the same house and both bore a child on the same day. When one mother lost her child, she claimed that the other child was hers. They went to Solomon to resolve the situation ...
- 3780: King Henry Viiii
- ... who had arranged the marriage. Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, was sent to the block for misconduct. In 1543 he married his sixth wife, the tactful and pious Catherine Parr. Catherine, who survived Henry, lived to marry her fourth husband. During Henry's reign the union of England and Wales was completed (1536). Ireland was made a kingdom (1541), and Henry became king of Ireland. His wars with Scotland and ...
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