.... above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The young couple worked hard and saved money with a passion. Before long Alfred opened his own grocery shop, and eventually he came to own two." (Mayer,1979) Alfred often discussed current events with his two daughters, and also his keenly-held political beliefs. Margaret's father had a considerable effect on her political beliefs. Although he had once been a member of .....

.... children. Marriage did not satisfy him, so he left home and wandered to Mount Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem living off peasant donations as a self-proclaimed holy man with the ability to heal the sick and predict the future. Rasputin's travels took him to St. Petersburg where he was welcomed with open arms. The court circles at that time were entertaining themselves with mysticism and the occult. So Rasputin's alleged extraordinary healing power was warmly accepted. In 1905 Rasputin was introduced to the royal family, and in 1908 was called to the palace by Nicholas II and Alexandra during one of their hemophiliac son's ble .....

.... newly discovered classical statues and ruins. He soon sculpted his first large-scale sculpture, Bacchus. At about the same time, Michelangelo also did the marble Pietà. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before Michelangelo was 25 years old, and it is the only work he ever signed. The high point of Michelangelo’s early style is the gigantic marble statue David which he made between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence. David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was placed in the Piazza Della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the .....

.... produced, followed on a subsequent visit by Lucia Silla. The latter showed signs of the rich, full orchestration that characterizes his later operas. A trip to Vienna in 1773 failed to produce the court appointment that both Mozart and his father wished for him, but did introduce Mozart to the influence of Haydn, whose Sturm und Drang string quartets (Opus 20) had recently been published. The influence is clear in Mozart's six string quartets, K168-173, and in his Symphony in G minor, K183. Another trip in search of patronage ended less happily. Accompanied by his mother, Mozart left Salzburg in 1777, travelling through Mannhei .....

.... Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River and various islands across the Puget Sound. Seattle was married twice, his first wife Ladaila, died after bearing one daughter, Kiksomlo, known as "Angeline". His second wife, Oiahl, had three daughters all of whom died young and two boys, George and Seeanumpkin. (2) In 1792, Captain George Va .....

.... concerns and agreed to sign the treaty on 23 August only because the majority of his band favored it. In the autumn of 1879, Pitikwahanapiwiyin, now chief, accepted a reserve and settled with 182 followers on 30 square miles along the Battle River about 40 miles west of Battleford. Frustrated by the government's failure to fulfill treaty promises, Pitikwahanapiwiyin became active in Indian politics: representing the Cree at inter-band meetings and acting as a spokesperson with the government. In July 1881 Pitikwahanapiwiyin acted as guide and interpreter during Governor-General Lord Lorne's trip from Battleford to Calgary. In Ju .....

.... I knew him since his second year with the Orlando Magic about four years ago. Shaq is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He has also made two platinum albums in which he expressed his life story. Movies that he has been in include Blue Chips and Kazaam. Also, Shaq has contributed a lot of time and money to donations. Shaq has affected me in many ways. One thing that he has taught me is that I can do anything that I want if I put my mind to it. He taught me this by overcoming a hard childhood, moving from place to place because his step-father was in the military. He had been everywhere from being born in N .....

.... 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery, Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957. Kennedy attempted to win the Vice-president presidential nomination and failed; Kennedy began to plan for the presidential election in 1960. He won the nomination on the first ballot. He campaigned with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson his running mate, against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nominee. The issues of defense and economic standards were raised in four televised debates. Kennedy won the election with 113,000 votes out of 680,000 cast. Kenne .....

.... of his adventures into the Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious institutions such as Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Turdeau returned to Canada in 1949 and resumed his social science endeavors. At this time in Quebec, the province was experiencing tremendous cultural and political differences with the rest of the country. The Union Nationale had taken possession of political matters in Quebec and was steadily dismantling the socialist essence imposed on t .....

.... dismissed from the Arts Academy twice. Soon after World War I started, Hitler volunteered for the army where he worked as a messenger in some of the bloodiest battles. He was wounded and received two medals of valor. The medals he got were the “ Iron Cross Second Class,” and the , “ Iron Cross First Class.” After the German war was over he took up political work and joined the tiny German Workers’ Party. By 1920, he was in charge of the party’s propaganda schemes, and left the army in order to build up the party. Hitler renamed the party, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( NAZI was the abbreviation.). Th .....