.... when the police arrested him for drinking. (This was during the Prohibition.) As punishment he was kicked off the school magazine, The Jack O'Lantern, to which he contributed as a cartoonist. To get around the rule he began to sign his work as Dr. Seuss. And that is why Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss. While at Oxford he met his first wife Helen Palmer to whom he was married for 40 years until her death. They moved to New York. While in New York he worked drawing cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he who coined the phrase “Quick Henry, the Flit” which was to 1930s advertising what “Just Do It” is to 1990s advertising. Sort of. They later .....

.... and Saint John. Subsequently built as the Intercoloni al railway. Fleming was its chief engineer. In 1871 he was appoint ed engineer of the proposed new Canadian railway from Montreal to th e Pacific Coast. He was in charge of the major surveys across the p rairies and through the Rocky Mountains. He proposed constructing the ra ilway along a northerly route through Edmonton and the Yellowhead Pass and then turning S to Burrard Inlet on the Pacific. Altrough his spe cific recommendations regarding the route were not followed, his extens ive survey work of various routes, including the Kicking Horse Pass t hrough which the Canadian Pacific main line was .....

.... for people to build cottages upon. However, the Peshtigo fire of October, 1871, burned over 1,280,000 acres and left more than 1,000 people dead. This ended the lumber boom and mcCourt went into debt to the bank. Elizabeth loved attention from men when she was a teenager and she liked to be talked about, even if the talk didn't compliment her. Her sisters were jealous of her most of the time. Even their parents lavished affection on her. To put it plainly, Elizabeth was spoiled. She always went her own way and damned anyone who tried to stop her. After winning an ice skating contest with an incredibly revealing costume, a man named Harvey Doe began c .....

.... school but also to locate his musical idol, Charlie Parker. He played with Parker live and in recordings from the period of 1945 to 1948. Davis began leading his own group in 1948 as well as working with arranger Gil Evans. Davis’ career was briefly interrupted by a heroin addiction, although he continued to record with other popular bop musicians. 1955 was ’ breakthrough year. His performance of "round midnight" at the Newport Jazz Festival alerted the critics that he was "back". Davis form a quintet which included Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and John Coletrain. In 1957 Davis made the first of many solo recordings wi .....

.... when New York State emancipated slaves in 1828.) A mystic who heard voices she believed to be God's, she arrived in New York City in 1829, where she preached in the streets. In 1843, obeying her voices, she took the name Sojourner Truth and went preaching along the eastern seaboard. That same year she came into contact with the abolitionist movement, which she enthusiastically embraced, and for the next few years she toured the country speaking in its behalf. Encountering the women's rights movement in 1850, she also added its causes to hers. During the American Civil War she solicited gifts for black volunteer regiments, and President Abraham Lincoln received .....

.... During his time spent there, his ranks rose from Lieutenant to Major. In 1851, he left the military to join the staff of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington to teach. He stayed there until 1861. Jackson married a woman named Elinor Junkin in 1853, but she died the next year. He then married Mary Anna Morrison in 1857. His notoriety became known when he was a General at the Battle of Bull Run. Jackson’s men formed such a strong line that another southern general said, “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!”. That is where he earned the name Stonewall. He was an amazing general. In the Shenandoah Valley in 1862, .....

.... who had blonde hair and blue eyes. Everyone else was considered subhuman. This is when the Jews were started to be thought as bad people. Later he joined and reorganized the group called the Nazi party. He got into some trouble later that would send him to jail. He got out of jail in 1923 when he purchased a villa in Berchtesgaden. By 1930 the Nazi party was the second largest party in the country. Because of his power in speeches he was appointed chancellor of the Nazis in 1933. Within a year he was made full leader of the Nazi Party. In 1938 Hitler takes over Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1939. World War 2 begins with Hitler and his troops marc .....

.... is best known as the key figure of the artistic and cultural phenomenon of the 1950’s known as the Beat movement” (Stine 273). Kerouac: A Biography helps to explain why the statement above is true. The book, Kerouac: A Biography, is very thorough and explains every aspect of Jack Kerouac: past, present, and future. Everything is very detailed throughout the book. According to Deck: “Ann Charter’s ‘Kerouac,’ taken as straight biography or as an evocation of perhaps one of the liveliest periods in American letters, is a pleasure. It is about men and ideas that changed everything. That’ .....