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who is known world wide for his stories of terror, grief, revenge, and misery. Yet all his ideas all target the same thing, French writer Charles-Pierre Baudelaire. The story of Poe’s life is nearly as compelling and horrifying as the stories that…

to change. The conflicting idea of salvation was the key ingredient in the separation of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome. Martin Luther and his followers began to believe in a different form of salvation. During this time, several other groups,…

Place: Atlanta, Georgia Died: April 4, 1968 Biography: Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He did very well at the segregated public schools he attended. At age 15 King Jr. entered Morehouse College. In 1948 he graduated…

October 16, 1854, Dublin Date of Death: November 30, 1900 (Aged 46) Description of Death: Oscar Wilde died penniless and alone in a Paris hotel. He was buried without much ceremony in the cemetery of Père Lachaise. Commemoration: For years after…

woman of the late 1800s who not only acknowledges her sexual desires, but also has the strength and courage to act on them. Breaking through the role appointed to her by society, she discovers her own identity independent of her husband and children.…

in 1948 and thus a dark period of human existence arose with issues such as black oppression and white supremacy clouding people’s everyday lives within the country. Nelson Mandela is almost certainly the most renowned prisoner in the history of…

(Schickel,124) and Flora Disney (“Walt Disney: A Biography,”1). He was born in Chicago, Illinois to poverty. Disney had four other siblings (“Walt Disney: A Biography,”1) which included three brothers named Roy, Raymond, and Herbert and a sister named…

in Porbandar in the present state of Gujarat on October 2, 1869, and educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay,…

of Saukenuk, in northwestern Illinois. At 15, he joined a raid against the Osage, one of his tribe's principal enemies. At this early age, he succeeded in becoming a Sauk warrior. Not long afterwards, "Black Sparrow Hawk", later to be called Black…

Oil. His firm grasp of business and his determination to do whatever it took to succeed and be the king of oil propelled him to great heights. But how did he get to the top? After Rockefeller left his job as a bookkeeper in 1859 to seek his…