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- 7381: Fredrick Douglass 4
- ... back. Later Frederick wrote, "At that moment from whence came the spirit I don't know - I resolved to fight." (Adler). From that point on he never lost sight of his freedom. Frederick started a school for blacks that met secretly at night, and with five other slaves he began to plan his first escape. Unfortunately just before the escape date in 1836, one of the conspirators was caught and turned ...
- 7382: Fidel Castro 2
- ... refuse to handle the crude petroleum that the Cubans were receiving from the Soviet Union. The companies such as Shell and Standard Oil had been buying crude from their own plants in Venezuela at a high cost. The Cuban government demanded that the refineries process the crude they were receiving from Russia at a much cheaper price. These refineries refused at the U.S. advice stating that there were no provisions ...
- 7383: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... equipment (2). Many events from Fitzgerald's early life appear in The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school, who moves to New York after the war. Like Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury, and falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a ...
- 7384: Frank Sinatra
- ... singing performance in From Here to Eternity. He also won an Oscar award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1953 movie From Here to Eternity. He also appeared in classic films like, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Manchurian Candidate and Ocean's 11, which teamed him with the other members of the "Rat Pack," which included Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra recorded with the big ...
- 7385: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... the architecture, will be seen on the exterior and it echoes the similar look for the interior. The texture of the materials shows the patterns of ornamentation. It enhances the solidity of the architecture. Hillside school (Fig. 2), reveals the combination with geometric shapes and linear construction that creates a transition with the fluent shape of the natural environment. The integration with linear and flowing shapes makes the architecture to look ...
- 7386: Fredrick Douglass
- ... Anti-Slavery Standard (Douglass, 366). In Frederick Douglass, William S McFeely writes that Douglass sees what he is to become in Garrison. For most of the next 10 years, Douglass was associated with the Garrisonian school of the antislavery movement. Garrison was a pacifist who believed that only through moral persuasion could slavery end, he attempted through his writings to educate slaveholders about the evils of the system they supported. He ...
- 7387: Fray Junipero Serra
- Miquel Joseph Serra was born and baptized on November 24, 1713 in Petra, a farming village on the island of Mallorca, Spain. As a child he attended a Franciscan elementary school. At the age of fifteen, Serra left home to enter the Franciscan University in Palma to study philosophy. When Serra was sixteen, he decided to join the Franciscan Order. After years of preparation and careful ...
- 7388: Francisco Pizarro
- ... his men seized the Inca emperor, and the Spaniards slaughtered 2,000 Indians. Atahuallpa offered as ransom to fill with gold a room 17 by 22 feet (5 by 7 meters) to a point as high as a man could reach and to fill it twice over with silver. Pizarro accepted the ransom. Soon afterward, however, he had Atahuallpa executed. Pizarro then marched to Cuzco and set up Manco, Atahuallpa's ...
- 7389: Francios Rabelias
- ... a monastery of the Franciscan order at Fontenay-le-Comte 1525 Passes to the Benedictine Order with the hope that he can pursue more freely his humanistic studies. 1530 September 17-- Rablelais registers at the school of medicine of the University of Montpellier. 1531 April 17 to June 24 gives lectures on Hippocrates and Galen. Towards the end of the years goes to Lyons. 1532 Publication of Pantagruel and the Pantagrueline ...
- 7390: Emily Dickinson 6
- ... close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ) for only a year ...
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