.... he planned a revolt and on July 26, 1953 his forces tried to take the military barracks outside Santiago. The weakness of his plan was that it mostly relied on the people of Cuba rallying to his cause on their own after his attack. Fidel, his brother Raul, and coconspirator Abel Santamatia split into three sections. Abel and Raul took up positions in nearby buildings. The whole plan failed though when Fidel's section was attacked by a timed patrol. The soldiers retreated as many of them were cut down by soldiers with let's just say "very large weapons." Fidel escaped into the wooded mountains of the Sierra Maestra. Patrols were launched around Santiago and Abel Santam ....

.... a great work of art. Later that year Degas was accepted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied under a student of Ingres's. Degas was very insistent that Impressionist artists should have an exhibition to show off their art work. He founded the Societe Anonyme des Artistes. They held exhibitions and published a journal. He was the main founder of these exhibitions that were later known as Salons. At these Salons, artists such as Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Manet, and Degas himself would display their best works of art for criticism. At the Salons Degas's work, like everyone else's wasn't looked upon highly. Most people didn't realize how great these arti ....

.... arrival, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, and later on July 1st of 1916, they got married. In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, he was promoted to captain, and he was assigned to training duty at Fort Oglethorpe and also Fort Leavenworth as an instructor in officer courses. In 1918 he commanded 6,000 men at Tank Training Center at Camp Colt, near Getttysburg, Pennsylvania and was promoted to temporary major and then lieutenant colonel when he commanded the Tank Brigade at Camp Meade. Even though he never went overseas, he was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his work. After the war he was reverted to rank of captain and soon after, he advanced to major a ....

.... where he would be a school teacher along with two other jobs he held as a mill worker and a newspaper reporter. Then in 1895 Frost married Elinor White whom he had been co-valedictorians with in high school. Then between 1897 and 1899 Frost felt the need to go back to college he attended Harvard as a special student only to leave without a degree. Over the next ten years he would write more poetry. Frost would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of in ....

.... the son of General Yuan Chia-san, because of the stature he held as a child. Tu-ch’en was a member of the Yuan clan, and his father was a “prominent military leader who was fighting the rebels,” at this time he was still not affected by modern thought and ideas, actually none of the members of the clan had either ( Ch’en, Yuan Shih-k’ai, p 1). By entering the family Shih-k’ai would take the clan name of Yuan and also gain the advantage of being in a very influential military family. All of this would help him later in his military career. In 1886, Shih-k’ai would be taken to begin preparing for his career in the civil service. China had been using exams ....

.... Texas house of Representatives. Johnson's mother was Rebekah Baines Johnson. Johnson had a background in government and also in the Baptist church. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, on a farm near Stonewall Texas. He was the oldest of five children. He had three sisters and a brother. When Lyndon was five, the family moved to Johnson City. To help earn money he shined shoes in the town’s only barber shop, and herded goats for the local ranchers. He finished high school in 1924 and with a group of friends he worked his way to California. He earned money doing odd jobs, but he barely made enough to feed himself. After awhile he became severely homesick an ....

.... you were elected, and once you were elected you could do no wrong, you were just short of divinity here on earth. What followed this election, was usually prosperity, power and the like, and those who had these things were assumed to be elect...almost a way to make yourself elect...? This didn't last long as people continued to become more open minded...for America was giving them the freedom to do this, along with many other freedoms. Thomas Jefferson, America's 3rd president, and an accomplished one at that. Jefferson helped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence. He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana Purchase for 15 Mi ....

.... work after he visited Venice in late 1499 and March of 1500. However, Hieronymus Bosch also greatly influenced his work. Bosch was also in Venice at this time, and has presented several demons done in a style similar to that of Bosch in several of his paintings. Both use minimal or sketchy underdrawings to preserve the atmosphere and colors of the painting. Their brushstrokes are quick and delicate, and highlights on details, such as metals and fabric, are wispy. No signed and dated works of exist, and few original paintings by have survived the ages, however, he had a sweeping effect on the style of the masters to come. His better-known works include Laura, La V ....