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- 3821: Michael Collins
- ... They won 73 seats, compared with 6 for the IPP. Michael Collins was elected unopposed for the South Cork constituency. On 21 January 1919, Sinn Fein's newly elected candidates assembled in Dublin's Mansion House to form the first national assembly in over a century. This day also marked the beginning of the War of Independence, when a group of Volunteers shot dead two policemen at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary ...
- 3822: Maurice Sendak
- ... shows his parents trying to get him to stop acting silly, and perhaps go out with them for the day. He refuses with his recurring line and stays home. A lion shows up at his house to eat him, and of course Pierre states that he does not care. The lion swallows Pierre, and upon his parent's return Pierre is still saying "I don't care" from the lion's ...
- 3823: Mark Twain 2
- ... Palmyra in order to find work on the county seat. On his voyage home he found himself in a devastating snowstorm which left him ill with pneumonia. He stayed at his friend Dr.Grant s house, ill and jaded, where he rested and grew weak. He died on March 24, 1847 at the age of 48 (Kaplan 112-125). Samuel was eleven years old when his father passed away. He was ...
- 3824: Marcus Garvey
- ... Council, In his campaign, he called for self-government In Jamaica, a minimum-wage law, land and judicial reform, the promotion of local industry, and the creation of both a national university and an opera house. Most of Garvey's followers, however, did not have the necessary voting qualifications, and he was thus soundly defeated at the polls. Nevertheless, he continued to struggle for a political foothold in Jamaica and, ultimately ...
- 3825: Lewis Latimer
- ... a "Renaissance Man" who painted, played the flute, wrote poetry and plays. Active in the Unitarian Church, Latimer found time to teach mechanical engineering, drawing and English to new immigrants at the Henry Street Settlement House. He had remained extremely patriotic, participating as an officer of the famed Civil War Veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). In addition, he supported the civil rights activities of his era. On ...
- 3826: King Henry Iv
- ... daughter and coheiress of Humphrey, the last Earl of Hereford. They had four sons and two daughters before her death at the age of 24, in 1394. As the Earl of Darby, Henry entered the House of Lords in 1385. In 1387 he supported his uncle Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, in his opposition to Richard II. (Gloucester was also Richard s uncle, and Henry was the King s First cousin.) While ...
- 3827: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... is a story about a woman awakening to her own needs. The main character, Edna, learns to be her self and to do whatever she feels like doing. Because she is different from the average house-lady and unwilling to force her self into that role, Edna tries to escape the typical female existence by awakening to the idea that life and the world are hers as well as a man ...
- 3828: King William I
- ... partial-birth abortion law for example. Now I support a woman's right to abort her child but, in my opinion, this goes too far. This method of "contraception" was overwhelmingly opposed by both the House and Senate, both Republican controlled. The Republicans did everything in their power to defeat this bill. However, along come Bubba and all of a sudden women have the right to have this atrocity performed on ...
- 3829: Jon Woo
- ... guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded. Most of the movie is very dark as the subject matter is. Nicholas Cage is all alone in the movie, but on the other ...
- 3830: John Kennedy
- ... John's early work began with being a correspondent for The Chicago Herald American and International News Service. He became bored with this job and decided to represent the Eleventh Massachusetts Congressional District in the House of Representatives. John Kennedy won the Man of the Year Award awarded by the Unites States Chamber of Congress. In he 1952 he became a part of the US Senate. While John was there, he ...
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