.... Later the same year he joined the army. He succeeded there and In 1829 he signed for an officer-training. This was the same year as he published his second book "Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane and minor poems" but this time under the name of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel". These poems show the musical effect that has come to characterize Poe's poems. Late .....

.... as were her siblings and children, a reminder that slave masters in Northern states were no less cruel and profit-minded than those of the South. Throughout her own life story, Truth documents her double bondage as an African American and a woman in a society dominated by whites and men. Female slaves, for example, often did both men's and women's work. One master boasted of Isabella that she was "better to me than a man -- for she will do a good family's washing in the night, and be ready in the morning to go into the field, where she will do as much at r .....

.... change t heir clothes quickly, and do their allotted chores expeditiously. Hoffa's tasks were taking care of the stove and the clothes boiler and picking up and delivering laundry. The family worshiped at the Christian Seaboard Congregational churches, and Hoffa attended Sunday school there.(Current Bio) In 1922 the Hoffas moved to Clinton Indiana, two years later they settled in Detroit, Michigan, in an apartment on Merritt Street on the city's brawling, working-class West Side. There he and his brother were derided by their peers as "hillbillies" until t .....

.... puppies and a German Shepherd-Husky mix named Diego. By watching Julia on screen you may be deceived, whereas she is not quite the glamorous, dressy gal you think. Julia’s quite the opposite, she is a fast talking farm girl who often dresses grunge-like. Also, she is not a very competitive but never misses a chance to put on her dancing shoes. Julia’s homes vary across the United States from an apartment in the East to a house in the West to a retreat in the South. She owns a duplex apartment in New York, a house in Hollywood Hills and a fifty-acr .....

.... years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa then decided to begin her teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in Calcutta, India. On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa with her new positon established a congregation called Mission .....

.... he went. It is also supposed that Olympia played a part in the assassination of Alexander's father Philip. Within Alexander's childhood lay the beginning's of a true warrior's career. His favorite literature, the Iliad, was an epic battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Aristotle, made him an amazing strategist. This later helped him immensely when faced with insurmountable odds. Aristotle also showed him that leaders must have compassion and understanding. Alexander applied this with his troops. He used the the .....

.... did not take participate in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine. He focused on understanding his own disease, and later became more interested in leprosy. In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys, exploring northern Argentina on a bicycle. This was the first time Ernesto came into contact with the very poor and the remnants of the Indian tribes. It was during this leave of absence from schooling that Guevara, now nicknamed “Che” (Italian origin mea .....

.... Armand's mother had fought hard for this title and would not let it go easily. He took to his religious studies easily and because of his health problems was ideally suited to this life. In 1606 then Abbe Armand de Richelieu was appointed Bishop of Lucon and in 1622, Pope Gregory appointed him a Cardinal. Like his grandfather and father before him, serving the monarchy was very important to Richelieu. To this end he allied himself with Marie de Medici, the queen mother, and was appointed to the court as Secretary of State to foreign affairs in 1616. Thi .....