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- 451: Paul McCartney: Six Feet Under?
- ... the people. The wax figures of the early Beatles show them facing Paul, who is facing forward into a grave. (Saki) Each Beatle is holding an instrument, John, a brass french horn, George, a brass flute, Ringo, a brass trumpet, and Paul, a black Cor Angelis clarinet. The flowers spell out "Beatles", and there is a left-handed bass guitar with ... supposed to be buried. In the song, "Lady Madonna," the lyrics say the newspapers that day of the accident were recalled: ...Wednesday papers didn't come... At the end of "Revolution," some of the all rights sound just like Paul died, and occasionally a background vocal dubs in that phrase. The song "You Know My Name, Look Up the Number," cites ... being buried. Ringo laments Paul's accident in the song "Don't Pass Me By": you were in a car crash and you lost your head (the lyrics say hair)... "Revolution #9" is the spookiest of any of the songs mentioned. ..his voice was low and his eye was high and his eyes were closed...*Paul* died...my fingers are ...
- 452: Engineering
- ... with civil engineering provide society with a better standard of living. Mechanical engineering evolved many centuries after civil engineering. It’s roots are imbedded with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Mechanical engineering is a direct offshoot of the Industrial Revolution. With inventions of machines such as the steam engine and the locomotive, there became a need for an advanced field to develop and produce new and complex machines. The newest ... invented a machine in 1642 that added and subtracted without outside assistance. Later, a German mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz, enabled multiplication on Pascal’s machine. In the early 19th century a French inventor, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, devised a loom that was a specialized type of computer. His machine punched cards to program patterns that made woven fabrics by the loom. His ...
- 453: Benedict Arnold
- ... the world was not enough for him. His deceit, ego and selfishness controlled him even when he was in his deathbed. Benedict Arnold was a deceitful man ever since the French and Indian War. He deserted the army when he received a letter from his sister, Hannah, saying that Benedict’s mother was sick. He hitchhiked to his home in Norwich ... slipped away? It was somebody else’s fault, not mine!” (23). He said this last sentence repeatedly as if he needed to convince himself. At the beginning of the American Revolution, George Washington offered a post to Benedict Arnold. He thought to himself, “Washington is wise and fair; no man in America is more beloved and respected. This will be my ...
- 454: Thomas Edison and His Inventions
- ... stylus. In December 1877 Edison unveiled the tinfoil phonograph, which replaced the strip of paper wrapped in tinfoil. Many people would not believe what they were hearing including a leading French scientist who declared it to be a trick device of a ventriloquist. The public’s amazement was quickly followed by universal approval. Edison became famous all around the world and ... American in the world. When he died he was the venerated and mourned as the man who, more than any other, had laid the basis for the technological and social revolution of the modern electrical world.
- 455: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in Virginia. He went into to the bar in 1767 and practiced until 1774, when the courts were closed by the American Revolution. He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton. He was elected to the ... secretary of state from 1790 to 1793, Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, defeated the movement for commercial discrimination against Britain, which Jefferson liked. Jefferson's policy was not pro-French, but it seemed anti-British. Hamilton was distinctly pro-British. By late 1792 or 1793 the opponents of Hamiltonianism (I hope I used a real word) constituted a fairly definite ...
- 456: Les Mis
- ... have Marius, no one should be able to. So she wrote him a false letter telling him to meet Cosette when in actuality he was simply being led into the French revolution. Yet when the barrel of a gun was pointed towards Marius, it was Eponine who placed her hand over the end, sending the bullet through her and out of her ...
- 457: Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad
- ... 1700s, hundreds of enslaved Africans and Native Americans sought refuge in Spanish Florida which accorded them liberty. This act indeed posed a threat t o White settlers in nearby British, French, Danish, and Dutch territories. African runaways often lived and intermarried with Native American groups such as the Creeks and Muscogee who provided them protection. Eventually this group of peoples became ... were usually planned and/or led by radicals and bondsmen such as Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, and John Brown. Inspired in part by the success of the Haitian Revolution, the number of revolts that occurred in the United States from 1790 to 1865 was small compared to other slave societies in the Western Hemisphere. Though these revolts were generally ...
- 458: Music In The Romantic Period
- ... named with descriptive titles and or complied to literary programs like paintings that attempted to illustrate stories. Romanticism can be thought of as a subconscious rebellion against the increasing Industrial Revolution and machines taking over work which some believed threatened mankind's dignity. Artists got their inspiration in stories of distant lands and times. They would also turn to nature, examining ... the slightly opposing ideas of nationalism and the universal brotherhood of man, longing for political and social freedom. The music represented the period of time that saw the American and French Revolutions, then the joining of Germany and Italy, and the abolition of slavery in the United States. The Romantic Era spawned the popular idea people have of a composer being ...
- 459: THe Life and Work of John Keats
- ... great sensual beauty and with a unique passion for details. In his lifetime he was not associated with the senior poets who began the movement at the time of the French Revolution. He was unlucky in the respect he didn't, fit into the older, respected group based on his age, nor in the younger group, for he was neither a lord ...
- 460: Biography of Aaron Montgomery Ward
- Biography of Aaron Montgomery Ward Aaron Montgomery Ward was born on February 17, 1844, in Chatham, New Jersey, to a family whose ancestors had served as officers in the French and Indian Wars as well as in the American Revolution. He was named after General G. Aaron Montgomery Ward, a general in George Wahington's Army. When Aaron was nine, his father, Sylvester Ward, moved the family to Niles, Michigan ...
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