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Kansas Nebraska Act Abraham Lincoln
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Commission On Human Rights Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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Early 1900 Women And Men
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The Nobel Prize And Its First Laureates
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The Assassination Of President Mckinley
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Verdi Verdi's Opera
328 wordsVerdi, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901), was an Italian operatic composer. He was raised as a duchy. He was born on October 10, 1813, in Roncole. Verdi first studied music in the town of Busseto. In 1832 Verdi was rejected to study with the Milan Conservatory because of his age. He became the pupil of composer Vincenzo Latina. Then returned to Busseto in 1833 as conductor. At the age of 25 Verdi again went to Milan. His first opera, Oberto, was produced at La Scala with some success in 1839. His next work...
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Red River Transportation Company
352 wordsJames Jarome Hill was born near Rockwood, Ontario in 1838. A boyhood accident that blinded him in one eye dashed his early dreams of becoming a doctor. He was forced to go to work at an early age due to the death of his father. At the age of 16, Hill went to St. Paul, Minnesota and took a job with a steamboat company. At the age of 25, he became an agent for the Northwestern Packet Company and organized the Red River Transportation Company five years later. The Red River Transportation Company w...
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Ford Motor Company Miles An Hour
1,365 wordsIn the first hundred years of active life, it has been described as a menace ands a blessing, a blight and a godsend, as a savior of our countryside and cities, and as their curse, as socially divisive and the greatest social leveler. It has been worshipped and reviled, celebrated and scorned. " The automobile is an invention that has had a tremendous impact on society. The automobile has taken diverse segments of the American population; farmers, small town residents and urban dwellers and give...
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One Of Picasso Picasso And Braque
1,291 wordsPablo Picasso was considered the greatest artist of the 20 th century because of his unique styles and techniques. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881 to a professor of art named Jose Ruiz Blanco and his wife Maria Picasso Lopez. Because of his fathers' occupation, Picasso's talent was quickly noticed and appreciated. Don Jose, an art teacher, moved Picasso and his family to La Coruna and then to Barcelona where he was Picasso's instructor at the fine arts academy....
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U S Congress U S President
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U S Government Fidel Castro
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Good And Bad Kitty Hawk
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Joan Of Arc Man And Superman
985 wordsGeorge Bernard Shaw was an iconoclastic writer and speaker who embraced many subjects that his peers had not yet dared to embrace. He is considered to be the best and most significant playwright since William Shakespeare. His life and career were focused mainly on social reform. Bernard was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were mother Lucinda Elizabeth Gay and father George Carr Shaw. His father and grandfather were both alcoholics. His mother was from Carlow. She was a musi...
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Harry S Truman President Of The United States
968 words1. Harry S. Truman Biography 1. Date of Birth &# 038; Birth Place Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. 2. Childhood John A. Truman sold and bought livestock form a lot adjacent to their house when Harry was first born. When Harry was ten months old the Truman's sold their house and stockton to move to Harrisonville, Missouri. From Harrisonville they moved to Belton, then to Grandview, and finally settled in Independence, Missouri when Harry Truman was six years old. Presid...
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Commission On Human Rights Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
2,829 wordsRunning Head: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN Influential Women Delmy E Gooch Sociology and Philosophy of Gender Summer Evening Introduction There have been many women that have changed and shaped the role of women today. They opened the doors of opportunity for future women and made many contributions to our society. Some of these accomplishments have gone unnoticed. The reason that I chose to discuss the influential women of the past and present was because they are the ones that have given me a future. The...
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One Of Picasso Picasso And Braque
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Caged Bird Sings
1,579 wordsPaul Laurence Dunbar by English 102 August 4, 1995 Outline Thesis: The major accomplishments of Paul Laurence Dunbar's life during 1872 to 1938 label him as being an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. I. Introduction II. American poet A. Literary English B. Dialect poet 1. Oak and Ivy 2. Majors and Minors 3. Lyrics of Lowly Life 4. Lyrics of the Hearthside 5. Sympathy III. Short story writer A. Folks from Dixie (1898) B. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900) C. The Heart ...
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James Hamilton Muir Glasgow In 1901 People
786 wordsWorkshop of the world Glasgow in 1901 James Hamilton Muir 328 pp, White Cockade One of the most vivid descriptions of Glasgow in 1901 is provided by the poet Edwin Muir in Scottish Journey. Plucked from Orkney, his childhood Eden, at the age of 14, Muir found it a slum-covered hell, inhabited by people whose faces bear the knowledge of the slums within them. Even the well-to-do, in Muir's eyes, felt stained by the surrounding filth, as if harbouring a secret knowledge of living in a lavatory. So...
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Prime Minister Legislative Assembly
648 wordsSir, Edmund Barton (1849 - 1920) Edmund Barton was born to his parents William and Mary Barton on the 18 th of January 1849 in Glebe, Sydney, in New South Wales. Barton attended Sydney Grammar School and he won many scholarships. He studied law at Sydney University and he received first class honors. He got a masters degree by the age of 21. He practiced as a barrister in 1871. Edmund married a lady called Jean Mason Ross and had 2 daughters and 4 sons. In 1879 Edmund Barton was voted into Legis...
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