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The Death Of John F. Kennedy
... controversial issues dealing with the assassination. One is whether Oswald could have fired the three shots in the time allotted and if the nearly whole bullet, which was the Warren Commission Exhibit #399 could have passed through the President, out his neck and then causing all of Governor Connally’s wounds. This bullet was found on the stretcher in the Parkland Hospital. (Compton’s Encyclopedia).
IN 1964 and 1978, The Warren Commission and the House Select Committee did the best they could with photographic and computer technology. With the scientific advances we had since then give us such better enhancements of the film taken. There is one film that is far th ...
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Shakespeare
... small game. 's poems and plays show his love of nature which comes from his childhood. In 1582 married Anne Hathaway of a neighboring village. She was 26 and he was 18 and the time. They had three children. Susana was their first and then they had twins, Hamnet and Judith. William's son Hamnet died and his two daughters got married. In London, 's career took off. He was a leading member of a very popular acting company in London called "The Lord Chamberlain's Men". This company depended on admission from their audience and got just that from 's plays. By 1594 six of his plays had been produced. During 's life, there were two monarchs ...
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Prince William
... be mentioned and a description of Eton College will be included. The public can often obtain as much information on a famous person's life as they want and because of this abundance of information, 's life will be detailed along with his influences in his life like Princess Diana, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, and Alexandria "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke. "History-to-History" will include another member of the royal family born in 1066 named William I "the Conqueror," who was as famous during his ruling period as much as is in the 1990s. This essay will cover the above topics. of Whales is second in line of inheritance to the British throne after Prince Ch ...
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Adolf Hitler
... his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never
showed any originality or creative imagination. To fullfil his dream he had
moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located.
He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he
tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In
fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and
gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The
rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply
to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. Dur ...
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Sir Isaac Newton
... worked their way slowly up the "social ladder". The Newton’s were one of the few families to prosper in Lincolnshire (Westfall 1). At the age of three Isaac’s life would take a drastic turn. When Isaac was three his mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried to the Reverend Barnabas Smith (Internet-newtonia). Isaac and the Reverend never got along and the Reverend would not have a child that was not his living with him. Isaac stayed with his grandparents when his mother went to live with the Reverend in North Witham. His maternal grandmother raised Isaac until he was ten. It is believed that his mother’s second marriage and her leaving caused many problems for Isa ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright
... People started to look
and beleive in his work after they saw his first commision, which was Moore-
Dugal house.
Wright was born in the year 1867 on the date June 8th, in Richland Center,
Wisconsin. His name was to be Frank Lincoln Wright, the name was Franks great
grandfathers name. His mother thought it would be a tradition if the name
stayed in the family, and that it did.
Wright studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin. He thought that the
school was the pits in architecture from 1885-1886. He did not lead the coolest
life there but infact that of a nerd. After school he moved to Chiago in 1887.
Worked and studied with Joesph Lyman Silsbee as a ...
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal
... of Islam remains unparalleled. In his writings, he addressed and exhorted people, particularly the youth, to stand up and boldly face life's challenges. The central theme and main source of his message was the Qur'an.
Iqbal considered the Qur'an not only as a book of religion (in the traditional sense) but also a source of foundational principles upon which the infrastructure of an organization must be built as a coherent system of life. According to Iqbal, this system of life when implemented as a living force is ISLAM. Because it is based on permanent (absolute) values given in the Qur'an, this system provides perfect harmony, balance, and stability in the soc ...
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The Life Story Of Nikita Khrushchev
... was not before this loquacious and personable man had employed his keen
and incisive mind toward making many gains for and improvements in
twentieth-century Russia.
To truly understand how humble and common his beginnings were, one must
understand the situation in Russia toward the end of the nineteenth century.
Serfdom had only recently been abolished, and, as a result, there was a
severe shortage of land and widespread poverty and illiteracy. Only the
strongest and cleverest were able to make a living from their new-found
freedom; most just struggled to survive. It was among this majority, on
April 17, 1894, that Nikita Sergeievich Khrushchev was bor ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
... after only 17 months of marriage.
In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and started to lecture. Then in 1836, he helped to start the Transcendental Club. The Transcendental Club was formed for authors that were part of this historical movement. Emerson was a big part of this and practically initiated the entire club. As we know he was already a major part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn't win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciat ...
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Jules Verne
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years while continuing to practice law. He was appointed as the Secretary of the
Theatre Lyrique in Paris. He made some letters to his mother commenting on his
shabby clothes compared to the clothes poets there. He started to become a very
busy people.
Verne was married on January 10, 1857 to Honorine de Viane. He only had 1
child, a boy named Michel, who was born on August 3, 1861. Verne also had 2
stepdaughters, Valentine, and Suzanne. Michel grew up to be a very disobedient
child. Verne tried many means of stopping this delinquency. He put Michel in
jail in an attempt to stop the "madness". He was really unhappy over his son's
behavior problem. Late 1879 ...
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