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Tim O’Brien Biography Tim O'Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, which is a small town in Minnesota and grew up in Worthington (About Tim O’Brien, Illyria.com). He was very into reading when he was a child and loved to do magic tricks. His parents were reading eccentrics, as his father was on the local library board and his mother was a second grade teacher. He was a very all-American kid and spent his childhood on little league baseball teams, and later, on jobs. O’Brien was then…

Inspired by major events like the World Wars, Gertrude Stein was able to become an outstanding and influential author in her time and to this day. Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, Pittsburgh, PA and later moved to Paris, France where her career embarked. She went to Radcliffe College where she studied psychology with William James, who influenced a lot of Gertrude Stein’s ideas. Stein later graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1898. After moving to Paris, she was able…

Trump is not LITERALLY Hitler. Donald was born on June 14, 1946 and Hitler Died April 30, 1945. They were never even alive at the same time. Unless you identify with the Buddhist belief that it takes between 49 days and two years to be reincarnated, which in that case, could mean that Trump is LITERALLY Hitler…

Coca-Cola's famous slogan "A pause that refreshes" truly fits with their soda, drinks. Especially Coca Cola's "Everybody's happy… Have a Coke" 1946's advertisement. This advertisement caters to the general audience, populist and elitist, because many people join the military, whether it was because of patriotic duty, being drafted into the war, or looking to seek some fame. Although American soldiers seem happy that the war is over, they're badass soldiers, and getting ready to go home, but…

Year Age Major Events 1940 25 Billie performed for nine months at Café Society. She was supposed to sing again on 1 October 1940 but she did not turn up. So Barney Josephson cancelled her contract. She was replaced by Hazel Scott who sang there for the next seven years. In December 1940, ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Performers) went on strike. 1941 26 On 25 August 1941, Billie married Jimmy Monroe, a never do well, an ex-trombonist and a former pimp. She had been engaged to Sonny…

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis happen during World War II. The USS Indianapolis was launched on November 7, 1931. It was 610 feet and 4 inches long. It was 9,600 tons. What had contributed to the weight was eight white Forster boilers, 4 Parsons geared turbines, about 70 guns, and 3 SC-2 Curtiss Seahawk airplanes. On April 1940 the Indianapolis move from west coast to Hawaii with the rest of the Pacific Fleet. On February 1942 the Indianapolis participated in raid on Bougainville in Solomon…

skills by selling soft drinks to his peers at age 8, then later signing customers up for the The Atlanta Journal newspaper. Truett was drafted after high school graduation and served for 6 years until honoraly discharged. Upon his return to Atlanta in 1946, Truett and his brother pooled their money and opened a restaruatn, the Dwarf Grill—later known as the Dwarf House. It took more than 20 years for the first Chick-fil-A to open in an Atlanta mall in 1967. At time of Truett Cathy’s death in…

test was used to identify which solutions contained glycogen or starch. If the solution tested negative, it stayed the yellow colour of the iodine solution. Whereas, if the solution tested positive for glycogen it turned a red-brown colour (Morris, 1946). Additionally, the solution turned a blue-black colour if the iodine reacts starch (Bailey & Whelan, 1961). For this test,…

In 1946 elections, there was a passage of call for changes by the Republicans hence serving as the first one after long overhauled non-passing of bills for 16 years. Though he vouched to the adoption of the labor relations Act, he had a feeling of too much…

“In Germany they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up… They came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up… Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.” Reverend Martin Niemoller wrote these impactful words in 1946 addressing group responsibility for the Nazi’s actions during their regime. Perhaps inspired by the same words Saul Friedländer would come address similar topics in his historical narrative Nazi Germany and the Jews Volume I: The Years of Persecution,…