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- 741: Nathanial Hawthorne
- ... of witchcraft,and condemned them to their deaths. Nathanial was embaressed by this and changed the spelling of his last name from Hathorne to Hawthorne. Alot of his family history, life experiences and where he lived influenced his writing greatly. Hawthorne had a cousin, Susannah Ingersoll. When he was young, in Salem, he would frequently visit her in her mansion, she lived there alone. The house had a secret staircase and once had seven gables. This house, Nathanial visited in his youth, was his inspiration for the house in his book " The House Of The Seven Gables ...
- 742: Life In Victorian England
- ... they had to let their shirts wipe off the dirt while they would only wash their face and neck. People at that time believed that people in the lower class were the kindest people that lived but also the poorest. Life in Victorian England among the middle class was more relaxed than in the lower class. People in the middle class had many more advantages than the people in the lower ... of cleanliness, healthy sanitary arrangements, neighborly communication between children and grown up people, and the possibility of being overlooked altogether while the disadvantage was the lack of privacy. Most of the other upper class people lived in the industrial towns where long rows of houses were put up. The long rows of houses were put up for private profit. The characterization of life in the lower class to the upper class ...
- 743: Russia In 1910
- ... these problems. Russia would not have existed by 1920 were it not for Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the only man capable of saving the failing nation. Russia in 1910 was a very backwards country. Peasants who lived in absolute poverty made up the vast majority of Russia’s population. Russia had a version of the futile system and it had ended 49 years earlier, but in effect it meant that peasants now ... Russia was floundering, and Lenin was the totally committed visionary that it took to bring it back from the brink. He laid the foundation for what eventually became a world super power, and had he lived longer, Russia could have been even stronger. It is no wonder Lenin became a Russian national hero.
- 744: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... of state, seven of whom served longer than ten years and nine who declared themselves Presidents/Emperors for life and twenty-nine of these leaders had been assassinated or overthrown. The new era was short lived however, for on September 30th, 1991, history repeated its cycle once more as there occurred a military coup under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Rauol Cedras which overthrew the popularly elected civilian government of President ... especially afraid of reprisals by the mob led by Aristide due to their role in the numerous murders of his followers and the three attempts on Aristide's life. Haiti's 'second independence' was short-lived however, as Aristide was only in power from February 7th , 1991, to September 29th , 1991. Lt. Gen. Rauol Cedras led a military coup which installed itself on September 30th of that year. The coup successfully ...
- 745: Im The King Of The Castle
- ... church and went in, he knelt down and said to God he was sorry. Suddenly someone said he wasn't supposed to pray there. It was a boy named Anthony Fielding, he knew that Charles lived with the Hoopers. They went to a Fielding's house, they saw a cow calving on the farm of Fielding. When he went home Helena told him that Edmund would come home tomorrow. Chapter 15 ... Charles tried to keep secret. Charles and Joseph go to London to buy a new school-uniform. They travelled 1st class to London. Joseph told Charles a lot of facts about London, Charles replied "We lived in London". When they came home Charles saw that Edmund was playing with his model. He was very angry to Joseph and Helena, Joseph struck him across the cheek. Charles walked to Edmund who didn ...
- 746: Triceratops Hottidus: “Horrible Three-horned Face”
- ... pointed tail, a bulky body, column-like legs with hoof-like claws, and a bony neck frill rimmed with bony bumps. It had a parrot-like beak, many cheek teeth, and powerful jaws. WHEN TRICERATOPS LIVED: Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, The Age of Reptiles . It was among the last of the dinosaur species evolve before the Cretaceous ...
- 747: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... love for art. Hitler moved to Vienna to attend the Academy of Arts but he failed his entrance examination. In 1908 his mother died. After her death Hitler returned to Vienna, where for some time lived quite well. While living in Vienna lived of the money left to him by his parents and also government grants issued to him for being classified as a orphan student. But these financial resources were soon exhausted and he drifted through various ...
- 748: Jack Kerouac-On The Road
- ... brings joy to the road wearied travelers. Everything feels like heaven to them as they try to experience it all at once and achieve that great high that can only come from a life well lived. Sal becomes feverish with dysentery and is left behind by Sal who insists, amidst his madness, that he must return to the wife he divorced and remarry her. Sal Paradise is scarcely aware of what ... a lot of the slang terms and such were period lines. But through contrext clues one can easily decipher it. It was like a history book the period time. A period you may not have lived during but could get the feeling of riding the rails with the bums, climbing in a semi with a trucker, attending clubs, listening to the swing and bop pour out of bars. This was the ...
- 749: Little Women
- ... and moderate in everything they did so that there were no disputes amongst the inhabitants and thus, no need for police officers, courts, or jails. The aging process in Shangri-La was prolonged; most people lived well beyond one-hundred years. This was due to the lack of stress and anxiety in Shangri-La, and also due to a special herb that grew there. The four people who were kidnapped, Hugh ... the pressures of modern society. Therefore, Mallison had to somehow prove to Conway that everything they had been told was false and that Shangri-La was a hoax. Mallison seduced Lo-Tsen, a woman who lived in Shangri-La, to leave with them and to tell Conway that everything Chang said was a lie. She also said that the people in the village think that Chang and the other lamas are ...
- 750: Longfellows Optimism In Writin
- ... Wadsworth Longfellow, after his wife’s death, had an optimistic view on life in the poem, “A Psalm of Life”. The second stanza seems to say that life is here and it must be lived. It is real and not just some dream. Line five supports this with the hopeful exclamation that “Life is real! Life is earnest!” In the next line he says “And the grave ... on. He feel there is an afterlife and we are here forever in spirit. But what we do with our time on earth is what makes us eternal because we are remembered for how we lived our lives. (Lines 5-8, pg. 302) In the fifth stanza Longfellow advises the reader to fight and to be active rather than sitting around in a passive way. We are told to “trust ...
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