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John Lennon Autorized Assasination
John Winston Ono Lennon has been exhumed in print more than any other popular musical figure, including the late Elvis Presley, of whom Lennon said that he "died when he went into the army". Such was the cutting wit of a deeply loved and sadly missed giant of the twentieth
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John Locke
There he lay as a normal infant, red and whimpering. How does the mind of a baby grow to become one of the greatest political philosophers the world has known? From his response to the Puritan upbringing by his father, to "The Reasonableness of Christianity", which John Locke published just
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John Locke
John Locke John Locke was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. His association with Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) led him to then become a government official who was responsible for collecting information about trade and colonies. It also led him to become an economic
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John Milton
John Milton was born in London, England (1608), to Sarah Jeffrey and his father, who was also named John. His mother was the daughter of a merchant sailor. His father was a law writer and also composed music. He inherited a love for art and music from his father. By
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John Milton: A Biography
John Milton: A Biography John Milton was born on the ninth of December in 1608. Mr. Milton was a legal secretary and brought great wealth to the family, giving them a luxurious life. On the side he was also composed church music which most likely influenced his son's interest in
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John Paul II
JOHN PAUL II JOHN PAUL II was the first non-Italian pope since 1523, whose energetic, active approach to his office, unprecedented world travel, and firm religious conservatism have enhanced the importance of the papacy in both the Roman Catholic church and the non-Catholic world. The pope is also the head
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John Pierpont Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. His parents were Junius Spencer Morgan and Juliet Pierpont. As a youth Morgan moved from school to school, first attending Hartford public school in 1848 and then Episcopal Academy in Cheshire. Morgan then got accepted into English High
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John Proctor
Proctor was originally from Ipswich, where he and his father before him had a farm of considerable value. In 1666 he moved to Salem, where he worked on a farm, part of which he later bought. Proctor seems to have been an enormous man, very large framed, with great force
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (1787-1848) John Quincy Adams was born on July 1767, in Braintree Massachusetts. His parents were John and Abigail Adams. His mother came from prominent families, the Nortons and the Quincys, and his father was a prospering lawyer at the time of Quincy's birth, which allowed for him
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of a world. When someone who knows Tolkien is asked about his works, one thought comes to mind, Middle Earth. This was the playground in his mind that such vivid descriptions of fantasy lands came from. It is the base of his most well known
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John Ronald Reul - Tolkien
John Ronald Reul (J.R.R.) Tolkien has been called various things by various critics. Some have called him "the father of modern fantasy," "creator of England's mythology," and great post-modern expressionist. Others see his work as childish, sexist, and silly. However, there is more to his work than both his
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John Steinbeck
A Brief Biography of John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902 and attended Stanford University intermittently between 1920 and 1926. Steinbeck did not graduate from Stanford, but instead chose to support himself through manual labor while writing. Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold was published in 1929, and was followed three years
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was born in February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Salinas was an agricultural valley in California. His father was the county treasurer and his mother was a schoolteacher. This is where his education began from a mother that encouraged him to read. The community was a comfortable environment
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John Steinbeck
Through a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies and attempt, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, to forge lives of
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27th, 1902. His mother, Olive Steinbeck, was a teacher and also was a major influence on John's writing. His father, John Steinbeck Sr., was a county treasurer. When Steinbeck was a child, during his summers off from school, he worked on
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John Steinbeck
“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” (George 1) This is a quote by John Steinbeck that shows exactly how he felt about being a writer. Steinbeck, a Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize
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John Sydney McCain III
John Sydney McCain III was born August 29, 1936 in a military hospital at Coco Solo NAS in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama. His father, John McCain, Jr. was a naval officer stationed at the Canal, doing duties at a small submarine facility. At the same base and time,
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John Wayne
The “Duke” When I think of an American cowboy in my mind I see a picture of John Wayne mounted high on his horse in a desert setting riding out into the sunset. His name is synonymous with the western film genre. John Wayne’s characters are known world-wide as American
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John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17 1942. Gacy had an uneventful childhood up until the age of eleven. While out playing he had been struck on the head by a swing. Subsequently he suffered fainting fits for many years. Gacy graduated from business school and
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John Wood
Born in 1910 in the town of Hall, Indiana,[5] Wooden moved with his family to a small farm in Centerton in 1918.[6] As a boy one of his role models was Fuzzy Vandivier of the Franklin Wonder Five, a legendary basketball team that dominated Indiana high school basketball from 1919
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Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash Quite possibly one of the most recognizable voices in music belongs to Johnny Cash. His music spanned into the genera's of country, folk, rock and even gospel music, this shows that J.R. Cash was one of the most fascinating performers in popular music. In addition to being one
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Johnny Damon
Johnny Damon Hi, my name is Johnny Damon of the baseball team the Boston Red Sox. I wrote my biography Idiot with some help from Peter Golenbock. I wanted to write this book to tell everyone how it feels to be a top athlete in Major League Baseball. As most
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Johnny Got His Gun
dignity because he could no longer interact with other humans. It was the author's idea of the worst case scenario that could have occurred to a soldier who was injured. The description of his injuries gave the reader a picture of what it would be like to have lived with
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Johny Jhoneses
The origin of the tale of “Davy Jones” is unclear, and many explanations have been proposed: * There was an actual David Jones, who was a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s,[4] but most scholars agree that he was not renowned enough to gain such lasting global fame.[3]
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Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk 1914 - 1995 Jonas Edward Salk was an American research scientist. He worked in the field of preventive medicine. He is best known for his discovery of a vaccine to stop polio. Polio is a serious infection caused by a virus. The disease was greatly feared because it
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Jose Diokno Brief Biography
JOSE W. DIOKNO (1922-1987) Renowned Street Parliamentarian Nationalist, and Legal Luminary Jose W. Diokno, or "Ka Pepe," as he was popularly known, was born on February 26, 1922 to Ramon Diokno, a former associate justice of the Supreme Court, and Eleanor Wright, an American who became a Filipino citizen. He
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Joseph Biggins
Joseph Biggins was born at the Davis General Hospital, August the 9th, 1989. His father, a military man, his mother - a nurse - both forces combined together to give Joseph a fairly stable upbringing, however, still definitely made worse by the area he lived. See, the professions of his
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Joseph Bombardier: A True Canadian Inventor
Born in 1907 in Valcourt, Quebйc, Joseph Armand Bombardier was the eldest of Anna Gravel and Alfred Bombardier's eight children. From an early age, Joseph combined a talent for tinkering with a zeal for machinery. At the age of thirteen, he created one of his first motorized toys: a miniature
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) - Jуsef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski Polish-born English novelist and short-story writer, a dreamer, adventurer, and gentleman. In his famous preface to THE NIGGER OF THE 'NARCISSUS' (1897) Conrad crystallized his often quoted goal as a writer: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the
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