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Riley King
... he lived alone, taking care of himself by working in cotton fields that were owned by the people who had employed his mother, this was the time of the Depression , and the period when he started learning the guitar. He worked as a disc jockey at the Memphis radio station WDIA in 1949, where he picked up the stage name "The Beale Street Blues Boy," He was influenced by jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as countless other blues musicians including T-Bone Walker. Among the many songs he eternalized, "The Thrill Is Gone" is perhaps his most enduring, he aslo won several Grammy's for that song and the albums "There Must Be a Better World Somewhere", ...
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John Wilkes Booth
... Asia
he went to a fortune teller a couple weeks before and the fortune teller
told him " Your life will be a short one and a victorious one at that. You
will accomplish most of everything you set your mind too. ( this might
sound a little bit weird, but she's a " fortune teller") This might have
set a tick in his psychotic mind that maybe he thought that he could do
anything he wanted to do. ( Dort, Aaron)
Francis Wilson, who wrote a biography of Booth in 1929, stated that
Booth opened his stage career in 1855 at the Charles Street Theatre in
Baltimore. He began performing on a regular basis two years later. Once
Booth started upon his acting career, he wanted ...
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Stonewall Jackson
... to the war zone in Mexico. There he first met Robert E. Lee. Jackson served at Veracruz, Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year.
In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. Jackson left the army in 1850 and became a math professor at Virginia Military Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good teacher of math. Many students mocked him and made fun of how religious he was. In 1853, he married Elinor Junkin, who died a year later. In 1857, he married Mary Anna Morrison.
Jackson joined the Confederacy and soon made his reputation as at the Fir ...
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Pocahontas
... girl cam up and put herself on his body as to say, "Kill me instead". Weather this is true or not, it doesn’t change the rest of her story. After the "saved’ him, Smith and the Indians became friendly for the following year. Smith stayed in Jamestown, and visited him frequently. She carried messages from her father, and other Indians carried food, fur, and then traded hatchets and trinkets.
After a while, Smith’s relationship with the Powhatas worsened. ’s visits started to lessen, and in 1806, Smith was injured, and had to go back to England.
went on with her life though, she married an Indian "Pryvate Captyne" named Kocoum in 1610. Alt ...
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Princess Diana 2
... in 1977 she left West Heath to continue schooling at Institute Alpin Videmanette in Switzerland. After finishing schooling, Diana got a job working as a part time kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico. On top of that, she also was a part time nanny who spent her time looking after a small child (“Diana” Internet).
On February 24, 1981 the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was announced (Delano 36). The couple later was married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The wedding ceremony attracted global television and radio audiences. It was estimated that around one thousand million people watched or he ...
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Nixon
... taken
care of from the goverments money.
B. Nixon believed that there should be health care for everyone,
employer mandates, pharmancy care, and preventive care.
III. Law Enforcement
A. Crime increased and drud use began to bloom.
B. Nixon believed that the judiciary had moved too far to the left.
IV. Nutrition and Human Needs
A. Nutrition and Health programs were needed to teach people about
thier human needs.
B. Nixon believed in being concerned with people's health and thinks
that programs like Meals on Wheels are good for teaching people about nutrition and
food.
V. Poverty
A. More and more people began to lose thier homes, causing pover ...
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Hubert H. Humphrey
... who help us see a better vision of
what we can become. Hubert Humphrey was such a man."
Humphrey begin his road to sucess at the 1948 Democratic national
convention. This where he spoke of Truman's Civil Rights proposals. This
lead to his election to the U.S. Senate that same year and gave him the
reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal. Humphrey had a good
Vice-Presidential term, he was known as the backbone to the Johnson
administration. He ran all foreign conflicts etc.. There was two Presidents
during this term, Johnson was the White colored type President and Humphrey
was the President that went and got things done, the blue colored worker,
he ...
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Hernan Cortes
... Velasquez cancelled his pay because of suspicion that Cortes would find himself independent and refuse to take order. Cortes took with him about 600 men, less than 20 horses, and 10 field pieces. Cortes sailed along the east coast of Yucatan and in March 1519 landed in Mexico. Cortes neutralized the town of Tabasco. The artillery, the ships, and especially the horses awed the natives. From these people of Tabasco Cortes learned about the Aztecs and their ruler Montezuma II.
Cortes took lots of captives one of which they baptized and renamed Marina. She became his lover and out of loyalty to him became his interpreter, Translator, Guide, and Counselor. Finding a bet ...
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Princess Diana 3
... in 1975.
Diana first went to Riddlesworth Hall, a preparatory school in Diss, Norfolk, and then in 1974 went to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent, as a boarder. Diana Had a talent for music as an accomplished pianist, dancing and domestic science. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico.
On February 24, 1981, it was officially announced that Dian ...
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Richard Lederer: His Works
... and bibliography
Richard Lederer was the kind of child who, almost as soon as he could talk, saw
a butterfly and cooed, "Oh, goody. A butterfly will flutter by." Even as a high-
school student, Richard knew that Elvis Presley, born three years before him,
would become immortal because he recognized that "Elvis Lives" is a two-word
anagram.
Richard Lederer entered Haverford College as a pre-medical student but soon
found that he was reading the chemistry books for their literary value. Mr.
Lederer became an English major and then attended Harvard Law School, where he
found that he read the law cases for their literary value. So rather than
fighting his verbivo ...
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