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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948)
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990.
served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993 - 2001), under President Bill Clinton.
During...
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- had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. founded the Fasci di...
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- Many readers, critics and scholars have seen how similar Shakespeare's and Marlowe works are. Because of their similarities some have thought that Shakespeare's work was really written by Marlowe due to the lack of education of Shakespeare while others think that Shakespeare was the true writer of...
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- South-Africa was settled by Dutch speaking whites, the boers, in the seventeenth century. Later they were followed by the British, who they several times fought against to keep the power. In 1948 the white people felt that the bladks threatened their position, so the national party, that has formed...
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- MacArthur was the General of the Pacific fleet Navy during WWII. He led a southern attack against Japan that began just above Australia and eventually captured every Japanese occupied islands except the mainland.?At the outset of the War, MacArthur was in command of the US forces in the...
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- Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, but Gandhi was a passive and peaceful preacher of morals, ethics, and beliefs. He was an outsider who ended British rule over India without striking a blow. Moreover, Gandhi was not skillful with any...
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He was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from the Union he was made a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He fought in the first and...
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- was a musical composer of the late 17th and early
18th centuries. He was one of the greatest composers of all time. He was born
in Eisenach, Thuringia, in 1685. He spent his life in music and was known for
his ability in that subject.
At age 15, Bach got his first job as a court musician at...
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- What I researched on there weren't a lot of things I could find on him. The things I found were very interesting, things like his personal life and his career. His personal life wasn't bad nor was his career. Many people love Shakespeare's plays. When reading or watching his...
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- Pathway Home Articles Vampire Facts Who Is? John George Haigh?
Who Is? John George Haigh?
The Acid Bath Vampire
In the halls of vampiric crime, few names stand out like that of John George Haigh. Half a century ago, England's newspapers screamed, "Vampire!" The trial of "The Acid Bath...
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- was a Captain of industry. He gave away most of his fortune and gave a lot back. Even though he didnt treat his workers the best he
and John D. Rockefeller were captains of industries. They helped America become what it is today. They developed company's and...
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- is considered to be one of the most influential people in the history of music. He took the initiative to stand up and speak for an entire generation. He sung about freedom, peace and solutions to the world's problems. Many of the people of this generation lived vicariously through him and his...
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Albert Camus est n' en 1913, ' Mondovi, en Alg'rie. Son p're, simple ouvrier agricole, meurt en 1914, lors de la Bataille de la Marne. C'est ' Alger, dans le quartier populaire de Belcourt, qu'Albert Camus passe son enfance et son adolescence, sous le double signe, qu'il...
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- He was born 1732 and he died in1799. seems today a figure
larger than life itself'..almost as he was when he was a familiar person in the
halls, homes, shops, and bars of 18th-century city Williamsburg. On Duke of
Gloucester Street, in the Raleigh Tavern's Apollo Room, or the Governor's...
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On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish descent,...
