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Senator Joeseph McCarthy - Lif
Words: 806 - Pages: 3.... There he ran and won the judgeship for the Tenth District of the Wisconsin Curcuit Court.
In 1942, Joe enlisted in the Marine Corps even though he was exempt for the draft due to his public position. In his first two years as a lieutenant, he went on many flying missions, broke his leg on a ship during a party and gained a lot of attention from the press along the way. Although later he claimed that his injured leg was caused by ten pounds of sharpnel that he was carrying at the time. There is also a dispute about exactly how many flying missions he actually went on.
Sometime in 1944, McCarthy attempted to beat Alexander Wiley for .....
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Ignatius Of Antioch
Words: 631 - Pages: 3.... of the Church and with the Christian life. In all of them he showed his deep wisdom and love of God.
"I am the wheat of God. I must be ground by the teeth of wild beasts to become the pure bread of Christ."
In these words, Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch, pleaded with his influential friends in Rome not to interfere with his impending martyrdom. Thus on December 20 in the year 107, Ignatius was escorted from the Roman galley that had taken nine years to deliver its prisoner from Antioch to Rome and was brought to the Flavian Amphitheater, the Coliseum, where at the conclusion of the Roman festival he was fed to the lions.
Ign .....
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Robert Schumann
Words: 1296 - Pages: 5.... He bought an
expensive Streicher grand piano for his son, and soon four-handed arrangements
of the classics were heard in the Schumann home. With a friend named Friedrich
Piltzing, another pupil of Kuntzch's, Robert started to explore Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven.
As a child, Schumann took part in several concerts at the Zwickau Lyceum.
He once played Moscheles' Alexander March variations, which demanded
considerable dexterity.
At the public Lyceum Robert was active as both pianist and public
speaker. When he was fourteen, Kuntzsch decided that his pupil had progressed
beyond the point where he could give further help, and declined to t .....
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Bootleggers Boy
Words: 1475 - Pages: 6.... there so his dad could work on ships during the war. When the war ended he moved back to Crossett, Barry just finished the third grade. His dad went through many jobs but didn’t gain any money. Then he decided to go to Louisiana and buy a few cases of whiskey. He brought the cases back to the dry county of Crossett and made a good profit. After this he became a bootlegger. Barry grew up as a poor kid and didn’t have electricity or running water until his senior in college. He attended the University of Arkansas to play football. He was more homesick than he thought he would, but quickly adjusted. He played for four .....
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Julias Caesar
Words: 1413 - Pages: 6.... Although Caesar was not harmed, he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Refusing that order, he found it prudent to leave Rome. He did not return to the city until 78BC, after Sulla's resignation.
Caesar was now 22 years old. Unable to gain office, he left Rome again and went to Rhodes, where he studied rhetoric; he returned to Rome in 73 BC, a very persuasive speaker. The year before, while still absent, he had been elected to the pontificate, an important college of Roman priests.
In 71 BC Pompey the Great, who had earned his epithet in service under Sulla, returned to Rome, having defeated the rebellious Populares general Sert .....
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Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
Words: 1486 - Pages: 6.... and the revealed. Natural theology is
the knowledge of God which we can get from the study of nature and the
creatures of God. Convincing proof is given of the existence of God but nothing
more. Anything else must come from revealed theology. Science and philosophy
have felt the need to justify themselves to laymen. The belief that nature is
something to be vexed and tortured to the compliance of man will not satisfy
man nor laymen. Natural science finds its proper method when the 'scientist'
puts Nature to the question, tortures her by experiment and wrings from her
answers to his questions. The House of Solomon is directly related to these .....
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Words: 2869 - Pages: 11.... opened in July, he had won seven primary victories. His
most important had been in West Virginia, where he proved that a Roman
Catholic could win in a predominantly Protestant state.
When the convention opened, it appeared that Kennedy’s only serious
challenge for the nomination would come from the Senate majority leader,
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. However, Johnson was strong only among
Southern delegates. Kennedy won the nomination on the first ballot and then
persuaded Johnson to become his running mate.
Two weeks later the Republicans nominated Vice President Richard Nixon for
president and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was amba .....
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Martin Luther King's Life
Words: 1596 - Pages: 6.... a Baptist minister at the age of 17. Graduating from Crozer Theological Seminary as class president in 1951, he then did postgraduate work at Boston University. King's studies at Crozer and Boston led him to explore the works of the Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose ideas became the core of his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Alabama. They were married in June 1953, and the following year an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was only 26 years when he led his first protest, The Montgomery Bus Boycott. .....
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Abraham Lincoln 4
Words: 2402 - Pages: 9.... on the Sangamon River, where he split rails and clerked in a store. He gained the respect of his fellow townspeople, including the so-called Clary Grove boys, who had challenged him to physical combat, and was elected captain of his company in the Black Hawk War (1832). Returning from the war, he began an unsuccessful venture in shopkeeping that ended when his partner died. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster but had to supplement his income with surveying and various other jobs. At the same time he began to study law. That he gradually paid off his and his deceased partner's debts firmly established his reputation for honesty. The story of .....
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Princess Diana
Words: 808 - Pages: 3.... overwhelming support for Diana, rather then Mother Teresa.
was at the peak of her controversial, compassionate, and challenging life. A radical in the Royal family, Diana was able to come to terms with the fact that she is no different then you and I. This may seem like a feeble task, but to a princess, it is a task accomplished by few. Diana broke all traditions embellished into the minds of the modern day royals. She showed her two young sons love and compassion in public, never before done by a member of the royal family. Diana touched the publics heart by indulging in every day activities, in order to recognize with the public. .....
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