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Jinnah: A Charisma Built for Disrupture
Mohammad Ali Jinnah has remained an enigma in popular imagination, even as we near the 60th anniversary of his death. The founding father of Pakistan, he created a state in the name of Islam, yet was a non-practicing Muslim by most accounts. A Shiite Muslim for the majority of his
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Joan Lowery
Biography Joan Lowery Nixon was first published when she was just ten. A poem she wrote appeared in a children's magazine. She sold her first article to a magazine when she was seventeen. Joan majored in journalism at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. There were few
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (originally Jehanne d'Arc) was born in the village of Domremy, France, to Jacques d'Arc and his wife Isabelle, on January 6, 1412. During the time Joan of Arc was born and growing up, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) was taking place between two royal
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Joan of Arc - the Maid of Orleans
JOAN OF ARC (Fr. Jeanne Darc), the Maid of Orleans, was the daughter of respectable peasants, and was born in 1412, in the village of Domreny, in the department of Vosges, France. She was taught like other young women of her station in that age, to sew and spin,
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Joan of Arc Report
Bravery, determination, leadership, who do you think of when you hear these words? Joan of Arc had all of these qualities, and many more. By the end of this journey through Joan’s life, you will know all about Joan, from the day she was born, to the day her
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Joe Dimaggio
Joe DiMaggio DiMaggio steps up to the plate, he hits the bat off his cleats, he spits out his chewing tobacco, his dead skin shredding off from the wooden, worn out bat. The adrenalin is pumping the, and crowd is roaring, the stadium seems to be shaking from the fans
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Joe Louis "the Brown Bomber"
Joe Louis "The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. Although throughout his life he lived in many places including Las Vegas and Chicago, he still always considered Detroit home. Officially Joe Louis Barrow, Joe was born in the foothills of Alabama to his mother Lillie
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Joe Montana
Joseph Clifford Montana, Jr., (born June 11, 1956 in the Monongahela 'pocket suburb' New Eagle, Pennsylvania) was widely considered one of the best football quarterbacks in the history of the National Football League. The western Pennsylvania and West Virginia hills around the Monongahela river drainage basin are famed in sports
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Joeseph Goebbels: The Naziist Theory
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
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Joeseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a man who had many accomplishments in his lifetime. He was a family man, a business man, and a political leader of one of the worlds largest super powers. He is noted for having control over more people for a greater amount of time than anyone
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Joey Jordison
Joey Jordison is a very talented person. He is not only in a platinum album band playing drums, but also plays guitar on a side project. Despite growing up in an area considered out of the music scene he has become a spectacular drummer. Joey Jordison (Nathan Jonas Jordison) was
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was born in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 12, 1746. During his childhood, he suffered many hardships. Four of his six siblings died at an early age, and his father died when Pestalozzi was only five years old, leaving his mother to raise her three
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Johann Pachelbel mark Jose
Johann Pachelbel Mark Jose (1653 - 1706) 02/06/06 Period 4 German composer and organist. He studied music with Heinrich Schwemmer and G. C. Wecker, attended lectures at the Auditorium aegidianum and entered the university at Altdorf in 1669, where he also served as organist at the Lorenzkirche. He was forced
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of northern German musicians. Although his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ building admired him. Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Between the 1600s and the 1700s, many would think more of Kings or Queens who ruled their vast kingdoms for years upon years rather than a great composer such as Johann Sebastian Bach, a man who greatly contributed to Germany and many other specific regions of Europe during his
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in B-Minor, the motets, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in
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Johannes Gutenberg: The Beginning Through The End
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, more commonly known as Johannes Gutenberg, was a man of the Renaissance. Johannes was born in approximately 1400 in Mainz, Germany into an upper-class family. His father was named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden. According to some, he was a goldsmith for the bishop at
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Johannes Kepler
Hum300GD Johannes Kepler was born the son of a poor mercenary solider in 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Wurttemburg in the Holy Roman Empire. He began his education in Wurttemburg through a scholarship program designed to produce teachers and Lutheran pastors. In 1589, Kepler entered the theological seminary at the
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Johannes Kepler
A Short Biography Johannes Kepler was born at 2:30 PM on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, WÐ"јrttemburg, in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality. He was a sickly child and his parents were poor. But his evident intelligence earned him a scholarship to the University of TÐ"јbingen
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John Adams
Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. His exact date of his birth is unknown but he was baptized on June 5, 1723. At the age of fifteen, Smith began attending Glasgow University where he studied moral philosophy. In 1748 he began giving lectures in Edinburgh where he discussed
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John Adams
John Adams Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in
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John Adams
earned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A
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John Audubon
I wanted to learn more about John J Audubon, because when I read about how he would hunt different types of birds and shoot them just to be able to paint them the way he wanted to see them. John J Audubon, in order to make his paintings look "life
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John C. Freemont
John C. Fremont played many roles in our American history, especially in shaping the West. Born illegitimately by a Virginia society woman and poor French refugee on January 21st 1813 in Savanna Georgia, John grew up to be an explorer, American military officer, and a politician. Fremont at first assisted
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John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of Canada, or at least the region that would become that nation. In 1497, he set sail from Bristol on his ship the Matthew looking for a sea route to Asia. He ended up
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John Calvin
John Calvin John Cauvin, other wise known as John Calvin, was born in 1509 and died in 1564. John Calvin was one of the earliest reformers of the Protestant Reformation and played an important role in the development of one of the main braches of Protestantism, Known as the Reformed
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John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller was the guiding force behind the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company, which grew to dominate the oil industry and became one of the first big trusts in the United States, thus engendering much controversy and opposition regarding its business practices and
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John Delorean
John DeLorean Background: John DeLorean was a divorced, health nut, and dated younger actresses and models in the corporate scene at GM, which did not sit well with the corporate executives or their wives either. He had ear length hair, with sideburns, a style that can generally be stereotyped with
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John Diefenbaker
John Diefenbaker was instrumental in bringing in the bill of rights, which "provides Canadians with certain quasi-constitutional rights in relation to other federal statutes," (wikipedia.com). The bill of rights was created in 1960 it gave Canadians Freedom of speech and freedom of religion, The right to life, liberty and security
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John Donne
Holy Donne John Donne was an English poet and probably the greatest metaphysical poets of all time. He was born in 1572 to a Roman Catholic family in London. His father died when John was young leaving his mother Elisabeth to raise him and his siblings. Throughout Donne's life his
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