Suetonius
Twelve Caesars, a biography of the lives of the Caesars
Peloponnesian War
battle between Athens and Sparta, effectively destroyed Athens
Martin Luther King, Jr
"I have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray.
John Brown
John Hancock
Charles Darwin
Origin of Species
John Scopes
persecuted for teaching Darwinism in his biology classroom
William Hearst
Charles Lindbergh
Anne Hutchinson
Virginia Dare
Emily Post
George Washington
Christopher Columbus
sailed three ships across the Atlantic in 1492, Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
Amerigo Vespucci
America derived its name, Italian navigator, As a result of Vespucci’s work, maps of the entire planet changed radically
Malcolm X
militant Black Muslims, Founder of Muslim Mosque, Inc.,was assassinated in February 1965.
Gloria Steinem
Aristotle Onassis
Galileo Galilei
belief that the sun was at the center of the universe led to his death during the Inquisition.
Henry Ford
perfected the assembly line
Sigmund Freud
Oedipus complex theory, and attributed most psychological problems (particularly sexual ones) to childhood occurrences.
Albert Einstein
work led to the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear fission
Thomas Paine
common sense pamphlet
James Boswell
autobiography of samuel Johnson
took over the Harper’s Ferry arsenal in 1859 in an attempt to lead a slave uprising, Brown encouraged slaves to claim their
freedom themselves by murdering their owners. Though captured by Robert E. Lee before his plan went very far, he had
many open supporters, including Henry David Thoreau.
President of the Continental Congress, he was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, and did so with a flourishing
signature
began his career in publishing with the San Francisco Examiner, and his publishing house grew to 18 newspapers and 9
magazines during his lifetimeOrson Well’s Citizen Kane is said to be based on Hearst’s life
made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.,His family made headlines in 1932 after his young son was
kidnapped from their home and murdered.
helped to found Rhode Island,slaughtered by Indians,believed that one could reach heaven through faith alone, and that
denying one pleasures during life or engaging in elaborate religious rituals were futile and unnecessary
first English child born in America, She and her family settled at Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke Island, the inhabitants of which
all mysteriously disappeared
wrote Etiquette, Her descendents, most recently Peggy Post, have continued to update her initial work to keep up with the
changing times.
appointed Thomas Jefferson his Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, Jay’s Treaty and the
Whiskey Rebellion caused him considerably controversy by his second term, and he was accused of being an aristocratic
enemy of democracy.
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