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kind regard for those things that were based solely within the theoretical approach of superstition or folly. Why would people wa...

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

compensated, perhaps over compensated, with his dogmatic embrace of the philosophy of the Third Reich. However, these early expe...

Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...

her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...

was unsure of this decision and wrote to her half-brother in England, asking his advice. He told her, "The navy would cut him and ...

what makes this figure historically significant and worth studying, he/she will want to note how after the death of Caesar, there ...

district has a very controversial policies about test results that are aimed at reducing social promotions. This article discusses...

are always too many grasping for it here, who have interest and he has none" (Johnson, 2005; 15). Thus his mother decided he would...

(Jens Laugesen biography, 2005). Some of the terms used by the media to describe him include "slick," "urban," "hot," and "cuttin...

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

the company extraordinary profits. However, by this point, the success of the company was an American legacy. By the early 1890s...

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

owe their existence to Moses. Additionally, he built the eleven parkways that run through the city and out towards the suburban co...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

are many examples throughout his career of conflicts which transpired and his apparent effortless handling of them. The Life of ...

and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

for President, 2004). Kerrys upbringing as a member of a vocal family and his time at Yale served him when he returned from Viet...

a great deal bout chemistry in relationship to making glass. "Another influence in Dmitris life was his sister Olgas husband, Bess...

at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real Silence Do...

officer during the war (Biography of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 2003). Maholy-Nagy was severely wounded in 1917, and it was during his ...