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Edgar Allan Poe 3
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2967.... the Revolutionary Army with clothing (Krutch 20).
On December 8, 1811, Elizabeth Poe died of tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-four. "The image of his mother's young, still, white face was to haunt Edgar for the rest of his life" (Wright 30). When Edgar’s father was plagued with tuberculosis, he was taken into the home of John, a prosperous Richmond merchant, and Francis Allan. This is how Edgar received the middle name Allan. Mrs. Allan loved Edgar, but the story seemed different with John. Although the relationship between John and Edgar appeared bitter, Joh .....
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John A. MacDonald
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 419.... the 1860's, he worked in support of the Confederation, he made up an agreement called the British North American Act which was an agreement to united the five provinces in the Maritimes. After this he was appointed Prime Minister of Canada and then won the federal election the next year in 1867 for the Conservative Party. He wanted to build a strong nation so he began the Intercolonial Railway in 1871 that ran from Halifax to the Pacific Coast, and included Canada's two new provinces Manitoba and British Columbia and the North West Territories. It is because of him that we hav .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1020.... amends, Gandhi established an organized campaign of
noncooperation. Through India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who
refused to rise even when beaten by the police. He declared he would go to jail
even die before obeying anti-Asian Law. Gandhi was arrested, but the British
were soon forced to release him. Economic independence for India, involving the
complete boycott of British goods, was made a result of Gandhi's self-ruling
movement. The economic aspects of the movement were serious, for the
exploitation of Indian villagers by British industrialists has r .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 947.... Christoph continued his younger brother’s education on the organ, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job as organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other .....
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Levi Strauss
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 816.... store. In 1853 he returned to New York upon hearing gold had been discovered in California. He persuaded his two brothers to provide him with a supply of silk, cloth, and a few luxury items, which he planned to sell in San Francisco. He also took a supply of canvas, which he intended to use to make tents, and wagon covers to sell to prospectors who were crossing the continent. In January of 1853 Levi became a United States citizen, and by March of the same year he arrived in San Francisco, by the time he landed, Levi had sold all his goods to passengers on the ship exce .....
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Muhammad
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 801.... publicly, Muhammad began to proclaim his message: that there is
but one God and that Muhammad is his messenger sent to warn people of the
Judgment Day and to remind them of God's goodness.
The Meccans responded with hostility to Muhammad's monotheism and
iconoclasm. As long as Abu Talib was alive Muhammad was protected by the Hashim,
even though that clan was the object of a boycott by other Quraysh after 616.
About 619, however, Abu Talib died, and the new clan leader was unwilling to
continue the protective arrangement. At about the same time Muhammad lost
another staunch su .....
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Bede The Venerable
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 512.... His works were on almost every major subject then known, and
made him one of the most learned and prolific authors that England has ever
had(Brown, 1). Much of Bede's work was done in Latin, but he is the first
known writer of English prose. All of his work in the English vernacular
has since been lost, but he is still considered the "Father of English
Writing" and also "The Father of English History."
Bede's ultimate piece of work was his Ecclesiastical History of the
English People. This book described in detail the first authoritative
history of Christian origins in .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1114.... then, went to
Neffe who himself started composing at the age of 12.
In the late 1700's, Beethoven began to suffer from early symptoms of
deafness, and by 1802, Beethoven was convinced that the condition was not only
permanent but was getting much worse. The cause of his deafness is still
uncertain (Comptons, 1). He was determined to prove that deafness was not a
handicap to him (Thompson, 25). Beethoven's deafness started to be noticeable,
and by 1818 Beethoven was completely deaf (Schmit, 28).
In the year of 1812, Beethoven fell in love with the "Eternally
Beloved." N .....
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