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Ray BradburyAmerican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920, the third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. In the fall of 1926 's family moved from Waukegan, Illinois to Tucson, Arizona, ...
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Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)Paul Revere was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born on
January 1,1735. Little did he know that he would become a great
silversmith and a very famous person. Paul was the second child out of 12
other children. He was also the eldest son. He got a wonderful reputation
at a very young age. ...
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Davy Crockett, the celebrated hero, warrior and backwoods statesman, was born August 17, 1786 in a small cabin on the banks of Nolichucky River, near the mouth of Limestone Creek, which today lies about three and a half miles off 11-E Highway near Limestone, Tennessee.
David \"Davy\" Crockett was the fifth of ...
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Biography Of Charles DickensThere is something about Charles Dickens' imaginative power that defies
explanation in purely biographical terms. Nevertheless, his biography shows the
source of that power and is the best place to begin to define it.
The second child of John and Elizabeth Dickens, Charles was born on
February 7, ...
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Norman Rockwell BioNorman Rockwell was one of America’s greatest illustrators of this century who made many significant contributions to the field of graphic design with his works that promoted patriotic unity, conveyed the national scene, and often time just evoked or inspired emotions in his audiences. ...
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Pitikwahanapiwiyin (poundmaker)Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker)
Pitikwahanapiwiyin emerged as a political leader during the tumultuous years surrounding the extension of the treaty system and the influx of settlers into present-day Saskatchewan. Pitikwahanapiwiyin was recognized as a skilled orator and leader of his people by ...
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Eileen GrayWhen one talks or thinks of architecture, or the architects, there is a great gender gap, and due to these gaps, some women do not acquire the acknowledgement that is rightfully theirs. As one of the finest architects, designers, and artist of the 20th century, was and still has not been given ...
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Samuel ClemensThe Life of A.K.A. Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain, the distinguished novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American Literature. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, in 1835, To John Marshall ...
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PocahontasWho really was ? Was she like the Indian girl in the Disney movie, who saved her reservation? Yes and no. She was an Indian of the Algonquian Indians. Her father was Powhatan, the chief. Her original name, however was in fact, Matoaka. But mean "playful, frolicsome little girl" and so ...
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Biography Of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and
poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No
other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in
so many ...
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Constantine The GreatFlavius Valerius Constantinus, also known as , was the first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity. He was educated in the imperial court of Rome and pursued to succeed his father. In 305 A.D., his father became the emperor of the Western Empire. But, when he died in 306 A.D., British troops ...
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Sophocles In 495 B.C. there was a child born about a mile outside of Athens. This child was to be named . He was a boy whose father was a wealthy merchant. He now had the opportunity to enjoy all of life\'s greatest expectations in the Greek empire. Being that he was from a wealthy family, he had ...
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Dickinson Vs. WhitmanAfter receiving five years of schooling, Walt Whitman spent four
years learning the printing trade; Emily Dickinson returned home after
receiving schooling to be with her family and never really had a job. Walt
Whitman spent most of his time observing people and New York City.
Dickinson rarely ...
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neillwas a very talented man and was very
fortunate in having the writing skill he did. Eugene was a man of the
theater, he was born in it, lived in it, worked in it and wrote in it.
(Henry, �Eugene O'Neill�, p.157.) O'Neill is referred to as the most
important twentieth century writer, not ...
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Edward ViiPeaceful yet popular and very well respected, plays an influential part in bringing Great Britain, France, and Russia together in 1907 into the Triple Entente. One of the most wittiest and inventive satirist’s writers in England is a journalist most noted for his fiction pieces, known as ...
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Malcolm XThe year was 1925, and someone special was born. His birth name was Malcolm Little, however there were big things in store for this child. Born in Omaha, Nebraska. The seventh of eleven children born to Earl Little, an organizer for Marcus Garvey�s "back-to-Africa" movement (Compton�s ...
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Stefan EdbergThe tennisplayer is nowadays a legend in his sport. I met him
myself in France in 1987. I was 8 years old. He and the other members of the
Swedish Daviscup team were playing the Daviscup against France. However, before
the training I met them in the lobby of their hotel in Fr�jus. My father ...
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Igor Stravinskyis considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to ...
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Jane AddamsCritical Essay - , Twenty Years at Hull-House
The argument Addams makes that "educational matters are more democratic in their political than in their social aspect" (197), I believe she is referring to the long struggle between the teachers and the Chicago School Board. The Chicago School Board ...
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Mark TwainA onetime printer and Mississippi River boat pilot, became one of America's greatest authors. His 'Tom Sawyer', 'Huckleberry Finn', and 'Life on the Mississippi' rank high on any list of great American books. (Compton's Concise Encyclopedia)
was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on Nov. 30, 1835, in ...
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Baron De Montesquieuwas a French philosopher who lived around the late 1600’s and early 1700’s. This was before the French Revolution. He believed strongly in Thomas Locke, who was another French philosopher. Montesquieu also wrote many books that greatly influenced the society he was in at that time. ...
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Sir Anton DolinDancer and choreographer Anton Dolin has been called �one of the most colorful and vital figures in modern ballet.� As a member of internationally known ballet companies or as director of his own troupes, this British-born artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton ...
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Catherine The GreatCatherine II, or , empress of Russia (1762-96), did
much to transform Russia into a modern country. Originally named Sophie
Fredericke Augusta, she was born in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), on May
2, 1729, the daughter of the German prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. At the age of
15 she went to Russia to ...
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Flo HymanIn the early 1980�s sports had a major impact on people�s lives. There were many great athletes: Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player; Wayne Gretsky, the greatest hockey player; and Joe Montana, the greatest football player of all time. At this point in time women were beginning to come ...
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Jane Adams Even as a little girl in the serene community of Cedarville, in northern Illinois, Jane Addams was \"busy with the old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot.\"(Pg.47 Ch.1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: ...
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