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Wyatt Earp
365 Words - 2 Pages.... Later, he became a stagecoach driver and traveled to Los Angeles, Ca and Prescott, Arizona. Wyatt also hunted buffalo for so me time. There are rumors that it was during this tiem that Wyatt met Bat Masterson.
In 1876 he became chief deputy marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, a lawless frontier town. Within a year, having brought relative peace to Dodge City, he moved on to Deadwood in the Dakota Territoy.
In the fall of 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Earp a ....
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Orson Welles
937 Words - 4 Pages.... Orson with gifts and virtually
took over the direction of his life, to such an extent that Orson called him
'Dadda'. When Orson was four, his father moved his family to Chicago, possibly
to get away from Bernstein's attentions. This plan failed when Bernstein almost
immediately followed them. Through Bernstein who was always forcing him to
perform, and through his mother musical talents, the young Orson quickly came
into contact with Chicago's musical society and walked on in the Chicago Opera's
production of 'Samson and Delilah', then in a more important role of Butterfly's
love-child Trouble in 'Madame Butterfly'. He also got a temporary job dressed
up as a rabbit ....
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
378 Words - 2 Pages.... His mother died in
Paris, on July 1778. he was rejected by Weber and the neglect from his
girlfriends made Mozart's trip in Paris the most miserable moments in his life.
The success of Mozart's opera, "Idomeneo re di Creta," influenced the
archbishop of Salzburg to invite Mozart to his palace at Vienna. His
exploitation to the people of the court forced Mozart to leave! In 1782 Mozart
married Constanze Weber, Aloysia's sister. Poverty and illness endangered the
family until Mozart's death. While Mozart was working on the "Magic Flute" in
1791 an emissary requested a requiem mass written by Mozart but he never got to
finish this because he died. He supposedly died o ....
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Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
475 Words - 2 Pages.... is now a national figure. In 1957, his stepfather, a postal worker, adopted him as his own son.
Reverend Jackson finished tenth in his high school class and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King a ....
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Jim Thorpe
661 Words - 3 Pages.... make something of himself, for he cannot do it here." 1 Thorpe began his athletic career at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian Industrial School. As story goes, Glenn Warner, the coach of the Carlisle football school, made Jim try out for the football team by the means of a test. Thorpe was instructed to carry the ball from one end zone to the other end zone while the whole first-string football out to tackle him. He caught the punted ball and returned it with ease, not once but twice. Warner came up to Jim and told him it was suppose to be a tackling drill. Jim replied, "Nobody tackles Jim." 2 From this point on he led this small time school to national fame in ....
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Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
2826 Words - 11 Pages.... these various and complex inquiries one must start at the beginning.
Oleg Penkovsky was born in a small town on the 23rd of April in 1919. By 1939 he had graduated from a Soviet military school and had been part of a group called Komosomol, meaning "young communists." He also went to war serving as a unit commander of an artillery unit. Penkovsky was decorated four times during his 1939-1940 tour of duty. After that tour he was injured and spent most of his time doing various assignments that took him between Moscow and the Ukrainian front for the rest of the Second World War. When the war was over, Penkovsky attended two military academies. One of the academi ....
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
3080 Words - 12 Pages.... His original nationality was Cursican-Italian. In 1779 Napoleon went to school at Brienne in France. There he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as his fellow classmates, and very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. ....
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Roy Lichtenstein
864 Words - 4 Pages.... State and kept teaching there until 1951. He then taught at New York State University College, Oswego from 1957 until 1961 when he transferred and began teaching at Douglas College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ he stopped teaching there in 1963. Later that year Roy moved to New York where he was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format painting for the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York. This year he also had his first one-man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cleveland in 1963 also. Other exhibiti ....
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