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- 2071: Malcolm X
- ... lunatic asylum and forced him to live with his grown-up half-sister in Boston. Arriving as a 'hick from the sticks', Malcolm picked up the nickname "homeboy" because he was so unused to the big city's ways. However, he soon got hip to urban life and quickly got himself a job as shoeshine boy at the Roseland Ballroom. In those days most blacks, if they could get work at ...
- 2072: Alexander Hamilton
- ... of Hugh Knox advised Hamilton on the spiritual world. Hamilton came to know Knox shortly after his mother had died. Knox had a great part in the life of Hamilton. He thought Hamilton to dream big dreams and to never give up. Knox took Hamilton in and taught him all about the humanities and sciences. When Hamilton could get away from the store he would indulge himself into the massive library ...
- 2073: Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
- ... decided to divorce. After he divorced Hadely He married four other times, to Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh. In 1953 he went on a safari with Mary, and he was in heaven hunting big game. Though Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for ...
- 2074: Al Gore For President
- ... is high quality and low cost. He also has some changes to make on our health insurance benefits. All children and parents will receive health insurance, small businesses will receive the same rate as the big businesses, and there will be prescription drug benefits for all that are eligible. Al Gore aims to insure fifteen million uninsured people in the United States. Some of the new benefits will include, letting people ...
- 2075: Socrates
- ... was never very rich, but he never excepted money for his great teachings, but he would except food and other offerings similar to that. He was alone with his ideas and never really had a big influence in his life. His main method of living was always asking why. He went through out his life saying that an unexamined life is not worth living and he was precisely right. During his ...
- 2076: Bob Marley
- ... was born, his father left his mother. A couple of years later Bob and his mother moved to Trench Town because his mother was looking for a job. Bob loved the fast life in the big city, as well as the music of Fats Dominon and Ray Charles. Not much later Bob got his nickname Tuff Gong. Meanwhile Jamaican musicians were working on their own style of music. They invented ska ...
- 2077: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... time. He invested part of the fortune he had inherited from his father in a cattle ranch in Wyoming, expecting to remain in the West for many years. He became a passionate hunter, especially of big game, and an ardent believer in the wild outdoor life, which brought him health and strength. In 1886 Roosevelt returned to New York, married his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow in London, and once more plunged ...
- 2078: Babe Ruth
- ... very upset by this. Their home was in Sudbury, Mass. which meant George would only be able to visit when he was playing in Boston. Helen was getting tired of being home in such a big house by her self. So in an effort to relieve Helen of her loneliness, in 1921 George adopted a baby daughter, whom they named Dorothy. She brought much happiness to the couple, but unlike George ...
- 2079: Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
- ... I really got a problem/ I don't know how to tell you,/ but, ah, I killed somebody." Jim later goes on to say how he is not fearful of being caught "It's no big deal, ya know,/ I don't think anybody will find out about it.". Although Jim seams to be confident about getting away with his crime, he still feels a need to blame himself. As a ...
- 2080: Albert Einstein
- ... part of his discoveries was the equation: E= mc2. After publishing these theories Einstein was promoted at his office. He remained at the Patents Office for another two years, but his name was becoming too big among the scientific community. In 1908, Einstein began teaching party time at the University of Berne, and the following year, at the age of thirty, he became employed full time by Zurich University. Einstein was ...
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