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    Biography Of Clara Barton

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    Levi Walker Renee Sager History 8 March 7‚ 2017 Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born to Sarah Stone and Stephen Barton on December 25‚ 1821 in Oxford‚ Massachusetts‚ youngest in her family. Clara’s siblings teased her because she unfortunately had a lisp. Clara grew up going to a Universalist church. Clara’s career started out working as a teacher in Bordentown‚ New Jersey until 1853‚ even starting her own school. In 1854 Clara went to Washington to work in the patent office. Clara requested and made

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    viewers‚ making them memorable and enjoyable. Using these skills as a Hollywood director/producer he brings to life‚ with storytelling‚ some of the most significant events in the world’s history‚ for instance slavery and the Second World War. Everybody understands‚ somewhat‚ these considerable events either from history books or their own research‚ but unless they lived it they essentially do not know the full extent. Spielberg as a director fills in some of the blanks that other sources might not give

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    John Street Biography

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    Rasjay Bettis John street John Franklin Street was born October 15‚ 1943 and was the 97th mayor of city of Philadelphia. He was first elected to a term beginning on January 3‚ 2000 and was re-elected in 2004. He Is a democrat and became mayor after having served 19 years in the Philadelphia city council‚ including seven years as its president before resigning as required under the Philadelphia city charter in order to run for mayor. During his terms john was radical who vociferously fought

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    Kara Walker: A Biography

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    itself with racism and a pulsating passion for violence. She is most known for her large murals consisting of cut out of paper silhouettes and representing racial and gender problems. Her works often touch such relevant problems as power‚ repression‚ history‚ race and sexuality. The Black Star of contemporary American art - this is exactly how they call Kara Walker. Is she a contemporary artist? She is‚ without a doubt‚ even though she actually paints in a retro style‚ showing us the American South

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    a Liverpool location for the first Indian company to be established in Britain. Within three years‚ he had resigned on ethical grounds. In 1859‚ he established his own cotton trading company‚ Naoroji & Co."Dadabhai Naoroji‚ 1825-1917"‚ Migration Histories. Later‚ he became professor of Gujarati at University College London.In 1867 Naoroji helped to establish the East India Association‚ one of the predecessor organizations of the Indian National Congress with the aim of putting across the Indian point

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    Anne Hutchinson Biography

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    The reason I picked this topic is because I admire Anne Hutchinson and the history of her life and I strongly believe in the rights of the individual to freedom of thought‚ freedom of speech‚ and the freedom to worship. She is a real hero because she faced adversity but she refused to betray her ideals or ethics no matter what the cost was. Anne Hutchinson‚ was born Anne Marbury‚ in Alford‚ Lincolnshire‚ England‚ in July‚ 1591‚ the daughter of Bridget Dryden and Francis Marbury

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    like to do research and used me anytime that something needs to be found for some program they were doing; i.e. downtown renovated with new streets and they wanted the history of downtown streets and businesses [our streets were brick]. Our church is having its 80th anniversary this coming week and was ‘volunteered‘ to do the history of the church and its pastors. Microfiche is not easy to read and the way they did newspapers years ago is so much different than now. I am taking marketing courses

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    Bill Brryson Biography

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    book first gives an introduction to truly emphasize how miraculous this particular combination of atoms (the universe). What’s even more remarkable is the fact that scientists are able to make astounding discoveries‚ which may seem inconceivable. History as we know it all started with a big bang some billions of years ago. During this time‚ almost all the matter that has ever existed and still exists was packed into an extremely dense

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    Rosa Parks Biography

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    Rosa Parks real name was Rosa Louise McCauley. She was born in Alabama in Tuskegee on February 14‚ 1913. Rosa Parks moved to Montgomery‚ Alabama when she was 11 and attended high school. She went to an laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She later dropped out of school when she was 16 to take care of her sick grandmother and eventually her long-term ill mother. Rosa got married to Raymond Parks when she was 19 years old. Raymond was self educated and was a continuing

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    John Adams Biography

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    Anudeep Nallan Chakravarthy Ms. Byrne U S history‚ Period1 24 December 2016 John Adams a leader The first vice president and the second president of America are John Adams. Adam is considered to be a founding father of America. John Adams was a leadership helped us win the support for the American Revolution and in formulating the Declaration of Independence (history). He was a well known as a leader of the American revolution because Adams became a very

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