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Edgar Allan Poe 5
Number of Words: 1064 / Number of Pages: 4
... Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was
unwilling to commit himself. At that time people thought acting was
immoral. John Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor
parents as a questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he
was busy accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and
in time came to be proud of Edgar's good looks and intelligence.
When Edgar was six years old, Mr. Allen's business took him to Scotland,
the country from which he had come originally. The family stayed in
Scotland and England for five years.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... America and one in Africa, each lasting many months). Had he not become President, he would be remembered for his contributions in both of these fields.
In between these busy enterprises, he found time to ranch in the West, hunt on several continents, raise a family of six rambunctious children, read a remarkable number of books (often one a day), write more than thirty-five himself, and develop an extraordinary network of friends and contacts, which he maintained mostly by mail, writing well over 150,000 letters.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential achievements are impressive. In foreign affairs h ...
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of Words: 238 / Number of Pages: 1
... moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping
stories and making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the
Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he taught himself law and
became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to
his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery
prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate.
Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a
log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family
farm. He had less t ...
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
Number of Words: 2727 / Number of Pages: 10
... mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who
had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha,
Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before
running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery
store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana,
where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to
the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had
a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his childhood being sent
from one place to another, and trouble alway ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris, Wolfgang published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). In 1768 he composed his first opera, La Finta Semplice, for Vienna, but intrigues prevented its performance, and it was first presented a year later at Salzburg. In 1769-70, Leopold and Wolfgang undertook a tour through Italy, where, in Rome, Wolfgang wrote down Allegri' ...
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Louis Armstrong
Number of Words: 301 / Number of Pages: 2
... groups, generally consisting of six to eight- musician groups ( Hot Five, Six, & Seven) through the thirties and forties, his fame only hampered by the fact that the best venues were generally reserved for white musicians.
In his later years, Armstrong remained a good trumpet player. As his health declined, he began to rely more upon his singing than his trumpet playing. He became known to a generation as a singer and an entertainer rather than as a trumpet player.Armstrong defined jazz in many ways, helped create scat, tactfully dealt with racism, and has influenced many musicians. ...
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Jacques Louis David
Number of Words: 2109 / Number of Pages: 8
... of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success. David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780 and worked as court painter to the king.
As a powerful republican David, upon being elected to the revolutionary Convention, voted for the king's death and for the dissolution of the Académie royale both in France and in Rome. In his paintings of the Revolution's ma ...
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Harry S. Truman
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed.
In June 1945 Truman witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations, hopefully established to preserve peace.
Thus far, he had followed his predecessor's policies, but he soon developed his own. He presented to Congress a 21-point program, proposing the expansion of Social Security, a full-employment program, a permanent Fair Employm ...
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A Memorable Experience In Photography
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... picture was a snapshot of a courageous man in
the act of falling(Capa18). His own special talents and course of world
happenings, led him into a role as a professional photographer of
war(Images of War20). To really admire and understand Capa, you must have
a fascination for dramatic and emotional pictures of war. There probably
has been thousands who admire the work he does. Well you can include me
in that group of thousands. Capa puts into perspective in just one
photograph, something my grandfather will never forget. The Bombing of
Pearl Harbor. The photograph that brings back these memorie ...
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Henry Ford
Number of Words: 396 / Number of Pages: 2
... T was getting old. His newer cars received moderate sales. Henry’s son, Edsel was named president in 1919, but Henry remained in control. When Edsel died in 1943, Henry resumed presidency. Two years later he handed the presidency over to his grandson, II. died on April 7, 1947. My two affiliations for are: He made cars, and he was wealthy.
It took a lot of work and time for Henry to be able to make cars. It all started when he started working in a machine shop at 16 and the three jobs following that were all related to cars or engines. Ford had to beat the competition which were General Motors ...
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