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Betzy Morales Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter who was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. Her real name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon. She started painting after a serious injury from a bus at 18 years old. Kahlo had several surgeries throughout her life due to Polio. As her career as a painter begin to grow, she started to live all around the world such as, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Fifty-five of her paintings are self-portraits. She was also known as a bisexual…

in Australia. It took till 1984 for enrolment and voting to be made compulsory for all eligible voters. Electors who do not vote at a state election will be fined. The following years several states across Australia made voting compulsory. First in 1926 in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania in the year 1928, then in Western Australian 1936 and in South Australia in 1942. In 1962 aboriginal voters were finally given without exceptions the right to enrol and vote while in 1973 the voting age was…

barbiturate poisoning, and a psychiatric team did the investigation termed its probable suicide. The investigators say that she drunk then of depression, She have been none for doing pills and drinking alot. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Baker. As the identity of her father is undetermined. Jun 19 1942 Marilyn Monroe Married Jim Dougherty, Norma Jeane entered Van Nuys High School in September of 1941, but her days as a typical…

Imagine a young child filled with joy to serve for their nation in war. The Hitler Youth was an army of German kids from 10-18 which was founded in 1926. Many young boys around the 1940’s in Germany were proud to join the army because boys like Dieter Steiner felt, “I am all grown up. I’m a pimpf!” (Steiner 2) How was this approved by parents and where did this idea come from? Well, the Hitler Youth came from Germany’s very own dictator, Adolf Hitler’s military preparation to become a soldier…

Annie Oakley. Originally born under the name Phoebe Ann Moses in Darke County, Ohio on August 13, 1860. Growing up, Annie’s parents weren’t the richest, in fact they were so poor that after her father died of pneumonia, her mother sent her off to the Darke County Infirmary when she was only nine years old. Years later, she returned home to help support her family, her second stepfather taught her how to shoot a gun so she eventually started hunting game to give to a local grocery store. When…

white minority and Africans ascended because of the manipulation of the British government, as resident native ordinances were dismantled resulting in the inability for African laborers to be successful. The unfortunate situation of Kenya overturned in 1926 when the Laborites returned to power in Britain. They protected Africans rights to land and represented them on the legislative council. British paternalism in Tanganyika was similar to that of Uganda. Sir Donald Cameron believed in a system…

EDITORIAL --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imperialism is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. The imperialistic lifestyle greatly appeals to the US, but why? The government wants to expand to other territories around the world. Many of the worlds great powers such as Russia and China hold territories that the US wants. The U.S. recently bought Alaska from Russia in order…

Congo (Bender, 25). The line reached the Condo border in 1928. The Angola rulers and natives put a resistance and there were two violent transitions. Angola went from being a monarchy to a republic in 1910 and then to military dictatorship after a 1926 coup. The changes resulted in the Portuguese tightening their control on Angola. By 1920 Portuguese had taken control of the whole Angola and Africans were forced to work in the…

1932 presidential election (Gies 81). Back in the summer of 1921, Roosevelt, Eleanor, and their five children enjoyed a stay at Campobello Island (Kluger 30), but soon after arriving, Roosevelt became ill with what presented as a cold (Osinski 41). After a swim on August 10, Roosevelt's symptoms began (Kluger 30), and despite his health, he continued to enjoy activities with his family (Osinski 41). The illness progressed to leg shakes, wobbly and weak legs (Kluger 30), muscle pains, and even…

February is Black History Month in the United States. In the mainstream media, at least in 2008, not much has been said to remind people of this fact. Perhaps it has been overshadowed by the presidential race (which itself is historical), or other celebrity news which, unfortunately, leads to ratings and ad dollars. My 10-year old son asked me - no, begged me - to write a Hub about Black History Month. In order to provide more information to him and others that are interested in the history of…