... climate, swamps, and thick rich soil. None of the original settlers of the Southern colonies were use to working; therefore they had no food to eat. When John Smith, a key leader in keeping Virginia alive, said to his colonists "No work, no food" the colonists took control and began a new life. As a ... location of Jamestown, many diseases spread causing the death of some of the settlers. The good soil the colonies had helped the settlers become very rich. John Rolfe found a way for the colonists to succeed when he stole tobacco from the W. Indies. Tobacco became the cash crop for the So...

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... his first birthday. Elizabeth, his mother, took custody of him, but she shortly died before Poe's third birthday. Poe was informally adopted by John and Frances Allan, who christened him with the name he is known by today, Edgar Allan Poe. For reasons that are unknown, when Poe ... virtues or actions, the "cosmic forces of good" will always be there to rectify any wrongdoing, including murder. This is how the critic William Henry Smith, back in November, 1847 felt about Poe's "The Black Cat." "His (Poe's) analytic observation has led him, he thinks, to detect in ... an absolute spirit of...

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... her to fame. When Billie was eighteen she moved to New York to live with her mother. . She admired musicians like Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. Holiday's music is known to be a mixture of Armstrong's swing and Smith's sound (geocites). She began singing at a popular jazz club called Pods" and Jerry's located in Harlem. It was there that she was discovered by ... John Hammond who set her up with three recording sessions with Benny Goodman. After that she performed in many clubs in New York and had a decent black ... ...

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... distinctive signature on such standards as "Night And Day," but she also contributed remarkable originals to the jazz canon, including "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless The Child." Influenced by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, Holiday not only sang with passion and conviction, but she also improvised with a trumpeter's sensibility. Born Eleanore Harris on April 7, 1915. Her father Clarence Holiday and mother ... for girls. Billie left the girls home at the age of 12 with the help of her mother and grandfather. Billie loved imitating popular songs by her favorite singer Bessie Smith. By a...

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... return to England. However, they were not successful. Times were very bad, because many of the first settlers were English Gentlemen, and were not used to working for a living. Finally, John Smith took control, and said that unless someone worked, they couldn't eat. Because the location of Jamestown was poor many settlers died. Much of the land was swampy and helped spread ... . In 1619, the Virginia company formed a law-making body. It was called the House of Burgesses. This was the first law example of representative government in America. Industries: It was John Rolfe who finally foun...

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... leaving Kinderhook for the first time. He was nervous about the change. Van Buren was ready to become a state politician. He was broke weeks after he arrived in the city. John Van Ness sent money to support him and pay his rent. Through Van Ness Mat met Aaron Burr and observed the battle for control of the New York Democratic Party ... their first year of marriage a son, Abraham Van Buren, was born in December 1807. Van Buren tried his luck at Senate and won. During the next 10 years sons John, Martin Jr., and Smith were born. Van Buren's 5th son, Winfield was born the following year. H...

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... at Campobello Island where he was vacationing. Roosevelt made his first public appearance since suffering from polio at the 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York where he nominated Alfred E. Smith as "the happy warrior"," and gave him his support even when running for president against Franklin's cousin Theodore Roosevelt who won in a landslide victory. Roosevelt successfully ran for governor of ... most influential state in the country as well as several important political figures such as Joseph P Kennedy, William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, and his soon-to-be vic...

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... some of the young musicians in town, including Scott Hayden and Arthur Marshall, with which he co-wrote with later in life. Joplin is thought to have studied, at George R. Smith College in Sedalia. This was a Methodist college for blacks. The school was destroyed by fire in 1925; there is no documentation as to the extent of his studies there. In ... . In 1898 he sold Original Rags. Original Rags was the only ragtime piece of the six pieces" he had sold at that point. In 1899 Joplin and music sore owner John Stark published the greatest and most famous piano rag, The Maple Leaf Rag. Sale...

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... 11, 1939 in New York City and now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Both of her parents were writers, so she always felt that writing was a way of life. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. She is a distinguished author of more than 200 books, and when she is not writing ... papercut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was in...

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... ,000 copies within a year and became one of the most remarkable best sellers in American history. The book succeeded in bringing the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience. John Brown: He was a huge abolitionist who led uprising in Kansas and Virginia. He helped free the slaves. He felt it was God's will for him to help destroy slavery. He ... to lead a war to free slaves. Brown moved to the black community of North Elba, New York, in 1849. The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families...

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... the objections voiced against the fresh new Constitution. They, too, were published in the New York Times under a pen name-- Publius-- and appeared between 1787 and1788. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay wrote a series of 85 essays that appeared in New York newspapers. In these essays, they argued that the powers of the national government distributed and balanced in a ways that ... , of course. The Constitution was ratified by all thirteen States, and The United States of America was born. In the end, even some of the most outspoken Antifederalists, like Melancton Smith of New...

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