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Joplin’s personal life had begun to struggle and get more complicated. Joplin’s first marriage ended in divorce due to the loss of their infant. After a while, Joplin remarried to Freddie Alexander. However, Freddie died shortly after the wedding in 1904. In 1907, Scott Joplin moved to New York City and hoped to make enough money in order to produce without financial backing. While in New York City, Joplin started to write more music and performed in vaudeville shows. Although John Stark set up…

embarrassing moment in MLB history. ... It was the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. Twenty years ago Tuesday, baseball came to a screeching halt and didn't return for 232 days. The strike canceled the rest of the 1994 season, and for the first time since 1904, even the World Series 1997 To honor Jackie Robinson, his number “42” is retired from all major and minor league teams. April 15, 1997: The magnificent night at New York's Shea Stadium when Jackie Robinson's No. 42 was retired throughout…

1892 and died in 1973. He specialized in Old and Middle English. His father died in 1896. His mother, his younger brother, Hilary, and John moved back to England. In 1900 his mother became Catholic and then John and Hilary grew up Catholics. Then, in 1904 John's mother has diagnosed with diabetes. She died in November that year and the boys became orphaned. John later mastered Latin and Greek. Sometimes he would make up his own languages. War started in 1914 and John didn't want to go to war…

Pablo Picasso inspired painters and sculptors with his unique styles in the 20th century. His portfolio had more than 20,000 pieces including works of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics. Picasso had a very creative side of his very own, but he was also inspired by many other artists. Starting at a very young age, he enjoyed drawing in his spare time. Since his artistic abilities were so in depth and detailed, and the fact he stayed being an artist so very long, his works were divided…

Adeline Virginia was an English writer foremost modernists in the twentieth century. She was born in January 25, 1882 to March 28, 1941. Woolf was significant figure in London society and central in the influential Bloomsbury Group intellectuals. Best-selling novels like Mrs. Dalloway 1925, The Lighthouse 1927, and Orlando 1928, the book-length A Room of One’s Own 1929, its dictum. Woolf severe bouts of mental illness her life committed suicide in 1941 at age of 59. Adeline Virginia Stephen…

Josef Delarose Lascaux, Thomas Patton, William Morrison, and John C. Wharton. Both Wharton and Morrison patented the first electric cotton candy machine back in 1899. Cotton candy was first introduced to the public at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. However it was 50 years later when in 1949 a cotton candy machine with a spring base was introduced that it became easier to process cotton candy. Today cotton candy continues to be popular and sticky fingered children love it. You have to know…

Pope John XXIII was born to the name “Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli” circa the year 1882. After being ordained in 1904 and being drafted by the Italian military to be a chaplain, Angelo served the church in multiple other ways. Angelo became the bishop of Bulgaria, as well as the papal ambassador of Turkey and Greece. Working his way up, Angelo became pope in 1958 and took the name Pope John XXIII. People expected Pope John XXIII to do much, as he was 76 at the time, nor did they expect him to stay…

in 1904. They later had 4 children, whom were also…

Although children were servants throughout most of human history, child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution. The Conditions children worked in were horrific and violated human rights, these practices needed to come to an end. Nineteenth century reformers and labor organizers sought to restrict child labor and improve working conditions but, it took a huge effort to sway public opinion. Forms of child labor such as indentured servitude and child slavery have existed all…

cages. Professional basketball was played in many leagues but most merged for example in 1949 the nbl and the baa merged with the NBA and in 19175 the aba merged with the NBA making the NBA almost instantly the most popular league.In the Olympics of 1904 an…