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History Of Willian Shakespeare
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 703.... older then William when they wed. His wife Anne was the daughter of Richard Hathaway. Richard was a substantial Warwickshire
farmer. He had a spacious house and owned large amounts of farm land. Anne's father Richard called her Agnes which was interchangeably in the sixteenth century. The Hathaway farm house has now become known to the tourist industry as "Anne Hathaway's cottage." William and his wife Anne had three children. Susanna was born on May 26, 1583. The other two children, Judith and Hamnet were twins, born in 1585. Susanna married Doctor John Hall in .....
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Martin Luther: A Biography Of Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 770.... As professor of biblical exegesis at Wittenberg (1512--46), he began to preach the doctrine of salvation by faith rather than works; and on 31 October 1517 drew up a list of 95 theses on indulgences denying the pope any right to forgive sins, and nailed them on the church door at Wittenberg. Tetzel retreated from Saxony to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, where he published a set of counter-theses and burnt Luther's. The Wittenberg students retaliated by burning Tetzel's, and in 1518 Luther was joined in his views by Melanchthon.
The pope, Leo X, at first took little no .....
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Gandhi
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 777.... actually wanted to give over control to the Indians. A lot of questions remained such as why the change now? Also, since Britain was just starting to recover from World War II, would this issue just be pushed aside until their own affairs are looked after? Ghandi was hopeful yet a bit sceptical.(Attenborough) "Those of us who had been hammering on the doors of the India Office for years past had an impression of a great change of attitude. Up to 1945, she had felt that the attitude of official Britain was: ‘of course, we are ready to bring the Congress leaders(or more likely .....
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Richard Nixon
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 564.... age 39, to be his running mate.
As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Suprem .....
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Dickinson Vs. Whitman
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1219.... The
rhyme in the poetry by Whitman is drastically different from the poetry written
by Dickinson, because Whitman didn't use any rhyme.
Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Mass, and Walt Whitman grew up in
New York City, New York; this is one way that these poets' lives differ. The
main people that influenced Emily Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily
Bronte. Walt Whitman was influenced by many people, some of which were: Elias
Hicks, James Macpherson and William Shakespeare. Whitman read many book reviews
by many people; from these, he realized Emerson wa .....
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Dr Daniel J. Boorstin
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 785.... of the National Museum of American History and the Librarian of
Congress Emeritus. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and has
practiced law. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has
been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he
received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to
American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.
Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial
Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National
Experience, which won the Parkman P .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 588.... school teacher of math and physics.
Two years later, he acquired a post at the Swiss patent office in Bern.
While he was employed there from 1902 to 1909, he completed an extraordinary
range of publications in theoretical physics. Most parts of there were written
in his spare time. In 1905 he submitted one of his many scientific papers to the
University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree. In 1908 he sent another
scientific paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there.
In 1914 Einstein returned to Germany but did not reapply for citizens .....
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Washington Irving
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 613.... It was out of school where his real interests developed. His interests were more into reading books of adventure and travel. He was very good at writing, though. He loved the theater. His fascination with the arts grew and was encouraged by one of her sister's boyfriends (Myers 64). His interests in the arts and in the theater were obvious in his works.
Irving did not wish to go to college. Though he had great interests in the theater and the arts, his father expected each of his sons to support himself, so Washington decided to be an apprentice in a law office. His employer w .....
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