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Harry S. Truman
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 641

.... appointed chairmen of a special Senate committee that was in charge of investigating the inefficiency and corruption in World War 2 military spending programs. He did his job in that committee so well, he was then thought of very highly throughout the Democratic Party. So much, that he replaced Henry A. Wallace for vice-president in the 1944 presidential election. His running mate, Franklin Roosevelt was running for his fourth term as president. They won that election and was now the Vice President of the United States, for 82 days. On April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt .....


Peter The Great 3
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1975

.... hate, due to the dusky rooms, the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Nataliašs brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infrequently, where Peter and Ivan sat on their double throne, flanked .....


Crazy Horse
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2730

.... the western plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation was divided into seven tribes: Oglala's, Brule', Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and the Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The Hunkpatila was one band of the Oglala's (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of all times came from this band. His name was Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of 1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy man, and his mother a sister of a Brule' warrior, Spotted Tail. As the boy grew older his ha .....


Al Capone
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1257

.... other boys his age, earned pocket money by running errands for Johnny Torrio. Over time, Torrio came to trust the young Capone and gave him more to do. Meantime, young Al learned by observing the wealthy successful respected racketeer and the people in his organization. In 1909, Torrio moved to Chicago and young Al fell under other influences. At this point in his life, nobody would ever have believed that Al would go on to be the criminal czar that he ultimately became. For approximately six years he worked faithfully at exceptionally boring jobs, first at a munitions fac .....


Mickey Mantle
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 925

.... he could. He just could not stay away from the game of baseball. The one sport that Mickey did not want anything to do with was swimming. The reason why was because swimming almost cost him hislifeOnce him and his friends were swimming in a river,and they were not supposed to, and a lady came and seen them, and his friends left him on a raft and he could not swim, and he fell off and almost drowned.Mickey did not like school . He looked forward to recess andafter school. Baseball was a big thing in Oklahoma. Everyone went to watch the kids play (Falkner 30). Mantle was .....


Francesco Redi
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 533

.... those scientific theories. From this Aristotlian support, he conducted his spontaneous generation experiments. Unfortunately, Redi died on March 1st in Pisa, Italy at the age in seventy-two. This was a grand age for the period at which he lived. Spontaneous generation "is the ability of living organisms can originate in nonliving matter independently of other living matter.(Webster's)" This was popular belief before the seventeenth century. People saw dead organisms decay but couldn't understand how. They believed that microorganisms were able to appear on dead organis .....


Charles Dickens
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 713

.... of the family. This job lasted only a few months, but for Dickens, it felt like an eternity. Until he was fifteen, he attended school off and on, and then dropped out. In 1934, after studying shorthand for 18 months, Dickens got a job as a newspaper reporter for the Evening Chronicle. Two years later, Dickens had his first work published named Sketches by Boz, which consisted of his works from the Evening Chronicle and Monthly Magazine. The 24 year old Charles Dickens then married Catherine Hogarth. Later that year, and clear through the next, Dickens had monthly writ .....


Nelson Mandela
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 251

.... of South Africa. Nelson Mandela gave a speech Sestember 21, 1953. The quotation was adapted from an article by Jawaharlal Nehru: There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountainouss of our desires. Growing Up Nelson had a tribal name Rolihlahla. Rolihlahla means one who brings trouble on his self. He grew up in Transku territy of South Africa. Qunu, the valleyhe grew p in, is surrounded by hills that are covered with grass. Nelso .....



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