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Manuel Noriega
Number of Words: 2123 / Number of Pages: 8
... importance does this have to Noriega and Panama? On January 1, 1959 Fidel Castro led a successful coup against the government in Cuba which at the time was controlled by Fulgencio Batista. By Castro taking control of the Cuban government, he placed communism within a close range of America. This was important because it was feared by most Americans that this takeover by Castro would lead a domino effect throughout Central America, and third world countries further extending the arm of Communism and the reach of the Soviet Union.
During the same time Castro took control of Cuba, Noriega was in the Per ...
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Satie, Erik
Number of Words: 355 / Number of Pages: 2
... Satie was a conscious eccentric and a determined enemy of all
establishments, including the musical. The comical titles that he attached to
his small piano pieces are characteristic of the Bohemian wit in the Paris of
his day. Irony and a deceptively childlike attitude, a dislike for pomposity of
all kinds, and an instinctive secretiveness were hallmarks of both the man and
his music. In 1916, Satie was befriended by Jean Cocteau and wrote the music
for a ballet, Parade, on which Pablo Picasso and Leonid Massine also
collaborated. By far the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh
s ...
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The Crime At Compiegne
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Margaret. These voices
exhorted her to help the Dauphin, later Charles VII, king of France,
recapture the city of Orleans and thereby win the Hundred Years' War
against England. Jeanne succeeded in convincing Charles and his board of
theologians that she had a divine mission to save France. Approving her
claims, she was granted a small detachment of troops to command. Dressed
in armor and carrying a white banner that represented God blessing the
French royal emblem, the fleur-de-lis, she led the French to a decisive
victory over the English at Orleans. ...
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Nicholas Romanov
Number of Words: 1520 / Number of Pages: 6
... Romanov empire. Nicholas II was brought up by his father Alexander III who didn’t believe that his son could take an intelligent interest in anything and therefore did not educate him in the business of state . The fact that his father who died at age 49 thought that he had many more years ahead of him may also be another factor behind Nicholas’ poor leadership of Russia .
Alexander who died in 1894 had left Russia with a society no longer controlled by tsarist rule and when Nicholas took the throne after his father’s death Russian society was not prepared to turn back . Nicholas II was 26 when his fa ...
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Salvador Dali
Number of Words: 395 / Number of Pages: 2
... movement in the 1920's and
has it's roots in Dadaism. These painters developed a dreamlike, or
hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly
realistic rendering. Some of Dali's better known paintings are:
"Persistence Of Memory" also know popularly as "Soft Watches" (1931), and
"The Sacrament Of The Last Supper" (1955). These Paintings have become part
of the definitive record of 20th Century art. Dali used many mediums to
illustrate his inspirations. His most popular of course are his paintings,
but he also used such media as jewelry, advertisements, beer-bottle designs, ...
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P. T. Barnum
Number of Words: 1945 / Number of Pages: 8
... Taylor, who was Barnum's grandfather, was one of the most notorious jokers in Bethel and also one of the richest men. His longest running joke would be on Barnum. At the boys cresting, he deeded Barnum a piece of land called Ivy Island. For years Barnum herd stories about what a lucky young man he was to be given Ivy Island At the age of ten he set out to see the island himself. Barnum soon found out Ivy Island was named for poisoned ivy. It was an Island in the middle of swamp just east of Bethel. Barnum then learned that he was the unknowing butt of jokes for ten years. Barnum learned from this ...
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Jane Adams
Number of Words: 764 / Number of Pages: 3
... and equality. He taught her tolerance, generosity, and strong work ethics which were all traits of his Quaker faith. He encouraged her to pursue higher education but not at the cost of losing her femininity and the prospect of marriage and motherhood. John Addams was Cedarville's most respected citizen. A prosperous miller, Jane would sometimes hangout at her father's flourmill where she would romp in the empty bins. The piles of bran and shorts were as good as sand to play in. He was also a local political leader who served for sixteen years as an Illinois state senator from 1854 -1870. A friend ...
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Robert E. Lee
Number of Words: 2629 / Number of Pages: 10
... Virginia. The next year his father received injuries in a Baltimore riot from which he never fully recovered and that also caused his leaving of Alexandria for a warmer climate. He died six years later at Cumberland Island, Georgia when Robert was only 12. Robert was forced to become the man of the family and cared for his mother and sisters because his father and elder brothers had left. Robert would stuff papers to block cracks in the carriage and go driving to help his mother get out during her failing health. Years later, when Robert left for West Point, Ann Lee wrote to a cousin, "How will I ev ...
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Robert Frost: Biography And Review
Number of Words: 712 / Number of Pages: 3
... more poetry. Frost would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move.
In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. Frost would establish himself quickly and would reap the awards of immediate success. In 1 ...
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Al Gore
Number of Words: 640 / Number of Pages: 3
... as an army reporter. When he returned to the States in 1971, he worked as a reporter at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions.
While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbilt’s law school. Just two years later, he began to campaign for the Democratic nomination for Tennessee’s Fourth District congressional seat. When he won the nomination over Stanley Rogers, it was a big enough success to predict his win in t ...
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