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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy Ellington, American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, is considered to be the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th ce...
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur Essay submitted by Lexus Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in 20th century USA. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in L...
Socrates
Socrates
Philosophy is a vast field. It examines and probes many different fields. Virtue, morality, immortality, death, and the difference between the psyche (soul) and the soma (body) are just a few of the many different t...
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was one of a few scientists that change the way we look at the world Today. He was born in 1879 and die on 1955. In that time he...
George Washington
George Washington
Washington was born in Westmore County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732. He is the son of the late Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. Augustine was a tobacco farmer and a stock raiser. Washingto...
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surge...
Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday
For almost a quarter century Billy Sunday was a household name in the United States. Between 1902 when he first made the pages of the New York Times and 1935 when the paper covered his death and memorial serv...
George C. Wallace
George C. Wallace
George Wallace
The 1960's were characterized as an era full of turmoil. During this era, one of the most controversial topics was the fight over civil rights. One of the key political figures against c...
Edward Gein
Edward Gein
All through history there have been stories of death and killing. There have been many murders in America. Some
killers have had odd practices that they inflict on their victims; however, few have gone to the...
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was born on November 12th 1840 in Paris, France. Very few would dispute the statement that Rodin was the greatest genius in the world of sculpture in the late 19th century. There w...
Al Capone
Al Capone
Perhaps the best-known gangster of all time, Al "Scarface" Capone was the most powerful mob boss of
his era. He dominated organized crime in the Chicago area from 1925 until 1931, when he was imprisoned
f...
John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike was born March 18, 1932 to Linda Grace Updike and Wesley Russell Updike in Reading, Pennsylvania. Wesley Updike was originally from New Jersey where he worked as a telephone splicer and was lai...
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
At the turn of the century America was in the face of economic downfall. Laissez Faire Industrialism had been in place and citizens were at the disposal of big business. Poor working conditions and povert...
Francois Viete
Francois Viete
"Francois Viete"
Francois Viete went to many places and did a lot of things. He lived for 63 years. In his life he got to do more or at least as much he wanted to do. He got to work for Kings, and ...
Nikita Khrushcev
Nikita Khrushcev
Nikita Khrushchev rose to power after the death of Stalin. He was a leader who desperately worked for reform yet his reforms hardly ever accomplished their goals. He was a man who praised Stalin while he was...