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Bob Marley
Number of Words: 2214 / Number of Pages: 9
... as the Classical Period of Rastafari.
Rastafari was a local Jamaican religious movement with few outside influences. The
movement was dominated by “Elders” with widely varying views. There was no
agreement on basic doctrine or scripture. The Holy Piby and the King James Bible were
used by various Elders, but were freely emended and “corrected” (Angelfire 3).
Reggae was at the height of its popularity during the Classical Period. Explicitly
religious lyrics were the norm. The famous “dreadlocks” were worn during this period.
Historical research suggests that the dreadlocks were popularized by a ...
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Aaron Burr Jr.
Number of Words: 3343 / Number of Pages: 13
... as a member of the New York state assembly, attorney general of New York, and United States senator. In the presidential election of 1800, he received the same number of electoral votes as Thomas Jefferson, but the tie was broken in the House of Representatives in Jefferson's favor, and Burr became vice-president.
Four years later, on July 11, 1804, in the historic duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, Burr mortally wounded his professional rival and political enemy, Alexander Hamilton Thereafter came his errant political adventures in the West, his trial for treason, and his acquittal.
Burr's chief co ...
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Becket
Number of Words: 475 / Number of Pages: 2
... the church and the kingdom, but Henry II does not like the fact that becomes a militant defender of the church against royal encroachment and a champion of the papal ideology of ecclesiastical supremacy over the lay world. The disagreement of each other's ideas triggers the collapse of their friendship.
The obliteration of and Henry's friendship happened in many ways. When their ideas clash, they realize how much they actually hate each other. They try to settle out their differences for royal and church laws at the Constitutions of Clarendon and various other open council meetings, but to no a ...
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Thomas Edison And His Inventions
Number of Words: 1437 / Number of Pages: 6
... the carbon-button transmitter that is still used today in telephone speakers and microphones.
Many of Thomas Edison’s inventions including the carbon transmitter were in response to demands for new products and improvements. In 1877, he achieved his most unique discovery, the phonograph. During the summer of 1877 Edison was attempting to devise for the automatic telegraph a machine that would transcribe a signals as they were received into a form of the human voice so that they could then be delivered as telegraph messages. Some researchers had theorized that each sound, if it could be graphica ...
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Diaghilev
Number of Words: 1192 / Number of Pages: 5
... joined a circle of famour writers and painters, led by the Russian painters Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. During this time, did succeed and indeed felt he had finnaly found his place in life. He founded AND edited a progressive art journal – "Mir Iskusstva" ( The World of Art) from 1899 – 1904. In 1899, as a project, became the artistic adviser to the Imperial Theatres in Moscow, where he produced and co-produced several operas and ballets. It was then that he decided what he really wanted to do and after completing his term with the Imperial Theatres and the printing o ...
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William Mackenzie King
Number of Words: 645 / Number of Pages: 3
... as the member for Prince Albert, following a by- Election on Feb.15, 1926. William’s government was shaken in 1926 by the Revelation that the Customs Department was tainted with corruption and incompetence. King William was also interested in labour coincided with an expansion in manufacturing and a concern elations. King also acted as a conciliator in a number of strikes, his major legislative Achievement being the industrial dispute investigation in the Act of 1907, which delayed Strikes, or lockouts in public utilities or mines until a conciliation board achieved a settlement or publis ...
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Eisenhower 2
Number of Words: 2426 / Number of Pages: 9
... doing since July of 1941-even before that. To Eisenhower the political game was a new experience, but all the demands of the presidency were very familiar. As Supreme Allied commander and Army Chief of Staff, Eisenhower developed beliefs and ways of doing things that would shape his presidency. During the months between his election and his inauguration, Eisenhower carefully organized an administration that reflected his style of leadership, and his assessment of the needs of the nation.
Eisenhower took a view towards dealing with congress that many of his predecessors didn't. Many of the presidents ...
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Frank Sinatra
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... reporter After achieving his goal to be a journalist, Frank had another passion to strive for, singing. In his spare time, Sinatra appeared in on Major Bowes Amateur Hour, which was a popular radio talent show back in the day. Frank had never been taught to sing he taught himself. He was a natural. So the head of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour promoted Frank. For $25 a week he sang, waited tables, was the master of ceremonies, and a comedian at The Rustic Cabin. In 1939 a man by the name of Harry James discovered Frank while visiting The Rustic Cabin. He immediately signed Frank to sing for his new ...
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William Faulkner
Number of Words: 1277 / Number of Pages: 5
... Falkner. He was born in 1825.
He was a legendary figure in Northern Mississippi. Many details of his life
have shown up in Faulkner's writings. He was twice acquitted of murder charges.
He was a believer in severe discipline and was a colonel of a group of raiders
of the Civil War. He began as a poor youngster trying to take care of his
widowed mother, but ending his career as the owner of a railroad and a member of
the state legislature. He was killed by his former railroad partner shortly
after he had defeated the other for a seat in the legislature. There is a
statue of William C. Falkner faci ...
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Cleopatra - Queen Of Egypt
Number of Words: 158 / Number of Pages: 1
... lived most of her life in Alexandra with her brother
Ptolemy. Cleopatra married her brother Ptolemy, because they wanted to
rule Egypt together. They did for quite some time. But it all changed
when Ptolemy got sick and died. After the death of Ptolemy she found a
great emperor who she then fell in love with, and then married. She then
became "a woman of great ambition, intelligence, vigor, and fascination."
That's when she gained both the love and the political and military
support of first Julius Caesar and then Mark Antony. Because she was a
Ptolemy, Cleopatra had a negative effect on E ...
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