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- 171: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... a referendum on the League. Republican Warren G. Harding, who had established a reputation as an opponent of the League, won in a landslide. In December 1920, Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919. The former president and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whom he married in 1915, after the death of his first wife, continued to make ...
- 172: William Faulkner
- ... Faulkner. Valuable studies began in 1946, and now there is hardly a critical or scholarly journal that has failed to devote article after article to Faulkner. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950. Faulkner, accompanied by his daughter, went to Sweden. Many other awards followed, including Pulitzer prizes for The Town and The Reivers. Faulkner visited European countries, especially France ...
- 173: Werner Heisenberg
- ... wrote many important books including, Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory, Cosmic Radiation, Physics and Philosophy, and Introduction to the Unified Theory of Elementary Particles. In 1932 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in Quantum Mechanics. With the Nazi's in power, and World War two on the horizon it was inevitable that his German heritage would ...
- 174: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... He did so that if any of those countries posed a threat we could just invade them and do what we wanted to the government. In 1902 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and the Japanese to the Portsmouth Conference. In 1909 after he secured Taft's nomination he left the office. After he left the office ...
- 175: Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
- ... Japan. He invited the Russian and Japanese governments to send peace commissioners to America where a peace treaty was sighned in 1905. The following year the president was awarded the nobel peace prize. People had wanted a canal connectiong the Atlantic and Pacific for hundreds of years. A French company, which went bankrupt, had started the pro ject. The company sold ...
- 176: Martin Luther King
- ... the voter-registration procedures. Whites previously discriminated Blacks from voting if they were illiterate, but the Act forbade this. M.L.'s success was acknowledged when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in the same year. A tragic day struck on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.. He was planning to participate in a Poor People's March to Washington. While ...
- 177: Overview of the 60`s
- ... lead another march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The four-day, 54-mile march started on the afternoon of Sunday, March 21, 1965, with some 3500 marchers led by two nobel prizewinners, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. And ralph bunche, then u.n. Under secretary for special political affairs. in the march, whites, negroes, clergymen and beatniks, old and young ...
- 178: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toward the end, Ernest started to travel again, but almost the way that someone does who knows that he will soon die. He suddenly started becoming paranoid ...
- 179: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... and Russia. In 1905 the Japanese disavowed interest in the Philippines, and Roosevelt secretly recognized Japan's sovereignty in Korea. That same year, in an action that earned Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize, he mediated the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Then, in 1907, he forced the San Francisco school board to rescind an order segregating Japanese schoolchildren in return ...
- 180: Solidarity in Poland
- ... was falling fast and new nations with new identities were to come about. Works Cited 1. Bratman, Fred. "A triumph of moral force; Walesa discomforts the Communists by winning a Nobel Prize." Time 17 Oct. 1983: 50-51. 2. Brechler, John and Jorgen Pedersen. "Poland: The Resistance." Newsweek 4 Jan. 1982: 12-19 3. Laba, Roman. The Roots of Solidarity Princeton ...
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