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King Henry IV
674 Words - 3 Pages.... in the "Merciless" Parliament of 1388, Henry regained the favor of the King and in 1390 departed on the Crusade to Lithuania and then to Jerusalem. Visiting the kings of Bohemia and Hungary and the Archduke of Austria and then Venice in 1392-1393, he went only as far as Rhodes and then returned to England as a popular hero. He soon entered the government; he served on the Council while Richard was absent in Ireland in 1395 and for his efforts was made Duke of Hereford in 1397.
Henry soon quarreled with the Duke of Norfolk, each accusing the other of arranging the murder of the Duke of Gloucester and calling for a trial by battle. Both men were banished from t ....
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Rutherford B. Hayes
1103 Words - 5 Pages.... Florida, and Louisiana were disputed due to the protest that blacks were not given the equal chance to go to the polls and vote. Congress created and electoral commission, which carefully decided that Hayes would receive all twenty votes. Facing the possibility that the country would be left without a president, both parties were considering taking the office by force. In spite of all the conflict, a deal was finally struck. Republicans made a secret deal with Democrats in congress, who agreed not to dispute the Hayes victory in exchange for a promise to withdraw federal troops from the south and end reconstruction . Hayes made good on the deal. He swiftly ended Re ....
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Woman Of The Year: 1953-Queen Elizabeth II
954 Words - 4 Pages.... on August 21, 1930, when she was 4 years old in Glamis Castle.
Her grandparents were George V and Queen Mary, and Lord and Lady Strathmore.
Elizabeth and her sister were homed schooled. She was taught by Miss
Marion Crawford, a young Scottish woman. At the age of 5, she usually woke up
at 6 a.m. and went out for riding lessons. After that, they had lunch, lessons
in French, voice and piano. In the afternoon she would play in the garden,
usually with her sister and Miss Crawford. She became heiress to the throne at
the age of ten. She had to learn court etiquette and diplomatic practice from
her grandmother, Queen Mary. She studied the geography and history of the
C ....
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Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1783 Words - 7 Pages.... edge instincts, swarthiness, and love for beautiful young women earned him the nick name " Black Jack". Janet, who was sixteen years younger than Jack was not as beautiful as he was handsome. Janet did not possess a showgirl prettiness but she was said to have possessed an interesting look. She was petite and had a somewhat animated look to her. Her nose and chin were long and pointed. When Jackie was born it was happily noted that Jackie looked like Jack Bouvier. (Birmingham)
Though Janet Lee’s family was well off, they were not members of the esteemed highest social caste as were the Bouviers. Janet lived her life with a constant sense of unease because of ....
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The Writing Of Edgar Allan Poe
390 Words - 2 Pages.... of what is really happening in the story.
Most of Poe’s stories deal with what is happening in the mind of the characters. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is compelled to kill and then is forced to confess because of his conscience. Poe also made use of the idea that if you destroy one part of yourself, then you will wholly be destroyed. In “William Wilson” the hero, by killing his conscience (in the story it is his double), destroys himself. In “The Cask of the Amontillado” the reason for murder is revenge. The Critical Survey of Short Fiction states that some of Poe’s stories deal with bewitching female characters (Magill 2103-2109). He ....
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Maya Angelou 2
781 Words - 3 Pages.... career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs ....
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The Life Of Thomas Edison
442 Words - 2 Pages.... experiments. When he was ten, he built a laboratory in his basement, and labeled every single bottle poison.
When he was twelve, he sold newspapers and candy on the Grand Trunk Railway. The train traveled from Port Huron to Detroit and then back again. He also Printed a newspaper, "The Weekly Herald" He spent the entire paycheck on Books and Chemicals for his lab. After a year on the job he was given permission to set up his lab in the baggage car of the train. He did his experiment in Detroit while he waited for the return trip. One day the train Lurched and some chemicals were spilled, And his lab caught on fire. The conductor Threw Thomas and his chemicals off of the ....
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Sandro Botticelli
621 Words - 3 Pages.... 1470 he had his own workshop, where he spent most of his time producing pieces for the Medici family. It was through the Medici family that Botticelli was influenced by Christian Neoplatonism, which exemplified Christian views. From this point Botticelli developed such works as the Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap.
The painting, which is quite simple in nature, depicts nothing more than the bust of a teenage boy with a red hat on. The boy is uniquely outlined on each side with the right side of his body gently fading into a black backdrop and the left having a sharp and precise line separating him from the black. As the viewer may notice, the young man does not pose any f ....
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