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- 291: John F. Kennedy
- ... youngest person ever to be elected president. Also, He was the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20the century. He served in World War II on PT boat. He also helped to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis and started Peace of Corps to help 3rd world countries better them selves. Kennedy was assassinated before ... entered Harvard University in 1936. There he majored in government and international relations. At Harvard, he tried to explain in his senior thesis why Britain had not been ready for war. Kennedy began to send his paper to publishers, and it was accepted on his second try. Wilfrid Funk published it under the title Why England Slept. It became a bestseller ... and Nixon won 49.6 percent. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes to Nixon's 219. Kennedy was inaugurated on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he emphasized America's revolutionary heritage. "The same beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe," Kennedy said. "Let the word go forth from this time and place to ...
- 292: Herman Melville Defined
- ... third of eight children who lived in poverty throughout their late childhood. Melville grew up hearing tales of adventure, as his father was a world traveler and both his grandfathers’ Revolutionary War heroes. This prompted him to seek a brave, courageous life, and then put his experiences on paper. Allan Melville died when his son was only twelve. This forced Herman to ... life by gunshot. Still seeking financial comfort, Melville found a customhouse job. He continued to write, and composed and poem called Clarel. Melville also produced another poem despising the Civil War, called Battle Pieces. Hawthorne also despised the war, and was in total agreement with the piece. Nearing the end of his life, Melville finally combined his early adventure style ...
- 293: Obituary On George Washington
- ... militia. The British governor of Virginia sent him to the Ohio River on an important mission. Soon Major Washington was fighting in the first battles of the French and Indian War. The next year, he served as an aide to the British General Edward Braddock. In a fearful battle, George Washington escaped injury many times. Four bullets ripped through his coat ... under him. Later, he was made a colonel and led soldiers who defended Virginia's frontier in the Shenandoah Valley. Finally, after years of battles and a British victory, the war was over. About this time, Colonel Washington met a young woman named Martha Custis. Her husband had died, leaving her with two small children, Jacky, three years old, and Patsy ... at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The American Revolution had started and a military leader was needed. The Congress named George Washington Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. The Revolutionary War was long and difficult. General Washington did not have enough soldiers, guns, food or equipment. He had learned from the French and Indian War to make the most ...
- 294: Napolean
- ... drive the British fleet from the harbor, and the port fell. As a result Napoleon was promoted to brigadier general at the age of 24. In 1795 he saved the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. Also in 1796, Napoleon was made commander of the French army in Italy. He defeated four Austrian generals, each with superior numbers ... They guaranteed the rights and liberties won in the Revolution, including equality before the law and freedom of religion. In April 1803 Britain, provoked by Napoleon’s aggressive behavior, resumed war with France on the seas, two years later Russia and Austria joined the British in a new coalition. Napoleon then abandoned plans to invade England and turned his armies against ... brother Joseph king of Spain, awarding Naples to his brother-in-law, Joachim Murat. Joseph’s arrival in Spain touched off a rebellion there, which became known as the Peninsular War. Napoleon appeared briefly and scored victories, but after his departure the fighting continued for five years, with the British backing Spanish armies and guerrillas. The Peninsular War cost France ...
- 295: The Seminoles
- ... The ancestors of the Seminoles fought with words, weapons, and with their own blood to protect their world as they knew and understood it. In the end of the American Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States in 1784, white settlers moved south into the Spanish and English colonies. It became obvious that a war between white immigrants and Native Americans of the land would take place soon. The U.S. began a policy of taking or buying land from the Native tribes. By ...
- 296: The French Revolution
- ... radicals distrusted the king and wanted a republic. These were the causes of the French Revolution. Many peoples' lives were changed during this time. Peoples' ideas also changed. After the war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred. When Louis XVI and his wife fled to the Legislative Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for ... French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went along with Prussia and Austria in a war against France. With these five powerful nations fighting against France, the French were outnumbered and outmatched. This one war was very hard for France. This war caused many deaths at home due to starvation. At this point in the Revolution, some people thought that the Revolution had gone ...
- 297: John Paul Jones
- ... he fled to America and changed his name to John Paul Jones of which he was called for the rest of his life. He arrived in America just as the Revolutionary War was starting and joined the revolution effort. He was made a first lieutenant on an American ship and gradually, through his almost unbelievable successes, became captain of his own ship ... some sort of convoy heading toward Leith from London but as he gazed upon his prey he noticed that two of the ships had pendants hoisted, classifying them ships of war. All of the ships except the two that appeared to be armed headed for shore by some sand bars which would be hard for the Americans to attack, while ...
- 298: Albert Einstein 3
- ... significant prediction about the motion of the particles that are randomly distributed in a fluid. These predictions were later confirmed by experiments. The second paper on photoelectric effect, contained a revolutionary hypotheses concerning the nature of light. Einstein not only proposed that under certain circumstance's light can be considered as consisting of particles, but he also hypothesized that the energy ... a national event; photographers and reporters followed him everywhere. While regretting his loss of privacy, Einstein capitalized on his fame to further his own political and social views. During World War I he was one of a handful of German academics willing to publicly decry Germany s involvement in the war. After the war his continued on. Being supported by pacifist and Zionist goals made him the target of vicious attacks by anti-Semitic and right wing elements in Germany. ...
- 299: Development of Computers and Technology
- ... now W.W.II and Aiken had become a naval lieutenant, released to Harvard to help build the computer that was supposed to solve the Navy's obstacles. During the war, German scientists made impressive advances in computer design. In 1940 they even made a formal development proposal to Hitler, who rejected farther work on the scheme, thinking the war was already won. In Britain however, scientists succeeded in making a computer called Colossus, which helped in cracking supposedly unbreakable German radio codes. The Nazis unsuspectingly continued to use these codes throughout the war. As great as this accomplishment is, imagine the possibilities if the reverse had come true, and the Nazis had the computer technology and the British did not. In the ...
- 300: The French Revolution
- ... radicals distrusted the king and wanted a republic. These were the causes of the French Revolution. Many peoples' lives were changed during this time. Peoples' ideas also changed. After the war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred. When Louis XVI and his wife fled to the Legislative Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for ... French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went along with Prussia and Austria in a war against France. With these five powerful nations fighting against France, the French were outnumbered and outmatched. This one war was very hard for France. This war caused many deaths at home due to starvation. At this point in the Revolution, some people thought that the Revolution had gone ...
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