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Doc Holliday Confederate Army
1,758 wordsDoc Holliday: A man in search of normality. John Henry Holliday, perhaps one of the most legendary gunfighters of the west, lived in reality a life built on necessity and simply followed it and made due with the blows that were dealt to him. Born August 14, 1851 to Alice and Henry Holliday, John Henry Holliday entered the world already at a disadvantage with a serious birth defect. The defect known as a cleft palate and a partially cleft lip, basically made suckling his mothers breast impossible...
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Robert E Lee Parke Custis
1,826 wordsIntroduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history and his birth, through his college years, military experience and his work in later life to his death...
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The Fairy Queen By Edmund Spenser
2,528 wordsEdmund Spencer was born in 1552 to a poor family. He went to Cambridge and received his Masters Degree in 1576. By 1578, he was serving as secretary to Bishop John Young in Kent. The landscape there is frequently mentioned in The Shepherdess Calendar. The Shepherdess Calendar served as propaganda for the Leicester position on the Queens proposed marriage with Duc d Alencon. Spencer and his friends, Philip Sidney, Edward Dyer, and Full Grenville formed a literary group called the Areopagus. Spens...
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The Fairy Queen By Edmund Spenser
2,731 wordsThe Fairy Queen by Edmund Spenser Edmund Spencer was born in 1552 to a poor family. He went to Cambridge and received his Masters Degree in 1576. By 1578, he was serving as secretary to Bishop John Young in Kent. The landscape there is frequently mentioned in The Shepherdess Calendar. The Shepherdess Calendar served as propaganda for the Leicester position on the Queens proposed marriage with Duc d Alencon. Spencer and his friends, Philip Sidney, Edward Dyer, and Full Grenville formed a literary...
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Christopher Marlowe Queen Elizabeth
1,553 wordsQueen Elizabeth I Many people were skeptical if Elizabeth I could overcome the problems that were inherent in becoming the new queen of England. However insurmountable the problems were, she was able to overcome them and establish a stable and secure government and was capable of achieving financial stability throughout the country. Queen Elizabeth was an extremely private person, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one- not even her closest, most trusted advisors. The reign of Q...
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