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Biographies Essays
Louise Brooks And The Flapper Era
Louise Brooks and The Flapper Era
Anonymous
The flapper era was the time of the worship of youth (pandorasbox/flapper). Flappers were women of the Jazz Age. They had measurements of pre-adolescent boys, with no waistline, n...
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Killa Y
In his many careers as a printer, moralist, essayist, civic leader, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and philosopher, Benjamin Franklin Became both a spokesman and a model for the national...
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Unknown
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas was born on July 19, 1834, at 8 rue Saint-George's in Paris. His father, Auguste, a banker, was French, and his mother, Célestine, an American from New Orleans. The family na...
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
eric de compiegne
The seeds of Hitler's rise to power were planted following the outcome of the First World War. With Germany's defeat, many German men returned to Germany feeling betrayed by their country and ...
Louis XIV, The Sun King
Louis XIV, The Sun King
Unknown
Louis XIV was only four years old when he succeeded his father to the French throne. Often uncared for, he nearly drowned because no one was watching him as he played near a pond. This began ...
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Bruno
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in a place called Trier in Prussia. Marx attended the university of Bonn and later the university at Berlin, where he studied in law, while majoring in history and philosop...
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Unknown
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a...
Andy Worhal
Andy Worhal
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Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy fi...
Andrew Carnegie On The Gospel Of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie on the Gospel of Wealth
Unknown
Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835. His father, Will, was a weaver and a follower of Chartism, a popular movement of the British working class that call...
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Unknown
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man's work, everyo...
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
Anonymous
William Carlos Williams was born September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, N.J. His father had emigrated from Birmingham, England, and his mother from Puerto Rico. He was admitted in 1902 to the me...
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
mtxflip@aol.com
Martin Luther lived from 1483-1546. Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben in the province of Saxony. His protestant view of Christianity started what was called the Protestant Reform...
Mackenzie King The Greatest Prime Minister Of Canada
Mackenzie King" The Greatest Prime Minister of Canada
Barlow Moore
The greatest Prime Minister of Canada was? Mackenzie King our 10thPrime Minister of Canada and by far one of our greatest. William Lyon Mackenzie King accom...
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin
Anonymous
There was a man named Josiah Franklin. He owned a candle and soap shop in Boston, Massachusetts. The sign for the shop was shaped like a blue ball. Josiah had children, but there were often not living...
John Calhoun
John Calhoun
zuzwebpage@angelfire.com
A boy of Scotch-Irish descent, whose ancestors had settled in Pennsylvania before travelling through mountains to resettle in southern territory, he was born in 1782 in the Abbeville di...