The Temple of Music was Claus Spreckels’ most expensive gift to his adopted hometown of San Francisco. It was a concession to his son, Adolph B. Spreckels, who served very successfully as a park commissioner and who enlisted many members of his class to improve the Golden Gate Park. The document provides a good sense of the bourgeois male club culture of the era. It also gives insights into the German-American network in San Francisco: Now only was Frederick W. Dohrmann (1842-1914) a successful, first-generation, German-American crockery merchant, and, from 1896, the owner of California’s first department store, the Emporium, he was also a driving force of the German Benevolent Society, the German Altenheim, and served as a park commissioner.
Gerard John Schaefer, Jr was an admirable sheriff’s deputy in Martin County, Florida. No one suspected him of even hurting a fly, that was till his true colors were shown and he was convicted for two murders and privately boasted while he appealed against his conviction, both in writing and verbally, that he had murdered more than 30 women and girls. Schaefer was born in Wisconsin and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he was the first of three children born to Catholic parents, Gerard and Doris Schaefer. There it was where he attended Marist Academy until 1906, then he and his family packed their things and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was there sibling rivalry bloomed, he didn’t get along with his father and he believed that
Tadeusz Gebethner was not only a great person on the soccer field, but he was an even better person off the field and should be recognized for that. The Gebethner family was a well known family in Poland due to their heavy involvement in the soccer team Polonia. On the field, Tadeusz was the first president of the soccer team as well as the captain of the team. With those very large roles on a newly founded soccer team, Tadeusz integrated minorities into Polonia, even Jews. When Poland was attacked by the Germans September 1, 1939, Tadeusz joined the polish army.
Lou" Holtz (born January 6, 1937) is a former college football analyst for ESPN as well as a former football coach. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary (1969–1971), North Carolina State University (1972–1975), the University of Arkansas (1977–1983), the University of Minnesota (1984–1985), the University of Notre Dame (1986–1996), and the University of South Carolina (1999–2004), compiling a career record of 249–132–7. Holtz 's 1988 Notre Dame team went 12–0 with a victory in the Fiesta Bowl and was the consensus national champion. Holtz is the only college football coach to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings. Holtz also
Forty year old Beate Zschaepe, also known as the Nazi Bride, confessed to being part of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a terrorist organization. She is the only surviving member and is being held on trial for what happened over the past seven years. The crimes the group committed include the murder of ten people, two bomb attacks, 15 bank robberies and the destruction of evidence of arson. Beate Zschaepe explained to NBC News that she did not participate in the preparations or carrying out of the crimes and she felt guilty for not being able to prevent them. She also admitted that she couldn’t break away from the group because she wasn’t strong enough and she was financially dependent on the leaders.
Andrew Zimmern Andrew Zimmern is a very popular chef known for traveling the world and trying strange foods that most people would not even think of eating. However, he has not always been the person many people know him as. Andrew attended The Dalton School and Vassar College before opening and managing several restaurants with three other popular chefs. Although he had a very successful life up until that point, he also struggled with alcohol and heroin. These addictions led to him losing his apartment and living on the streets for a year.
One day there was this boy who had a dream of being the best in football. The boy 's name is Zogam and he is 10 years old. Zogam started playing football 2 years ago and has never been good at it. The only bad thing about Zogam is that is is very miniature, but Zogam is only 10.
The trait that he gets from this is determination to work since he learns he needs to work hard to get better at
Well, once one reads the excerpt, they can be given a great feeling of being a problem solver, or for short definition, skillful. To be skillful is very similar to being resilient, but it comes more into fact of being related to past experiences and knowing of
The FBI collection of articles of Famous Cases & Criminals prominently portrays the mass murder mayhem of Timothy McVeigh 's efforts to topple the government, thus making headline news in many area news articles around the world. Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death because he took many lives, performed a terrorist bombing on a government building in Oklahoma City, and received fifteen counts of murder, and as Exodus 21:24 states, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” This is a concept on which capital punishment is based. Personally speaking, every person should have a chance to make up for their mistakes, ensuring that their soul may go through some healing.
James S. Tisch James S. Tisch (age 63) has been president and chief executive officer of Loews Corporation since 1998 and board member since 1986. Jim is also a director of CNA Financial Corporation, (a Loews subsidiary) and chairman of the board of directors of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., where he served as chief executive officer until May 2008. He is a director on the board of the General Electric Company. Before joining Loews in 1977, Jim was with CNA.
I feel that one’s grades show a lot about their character, dedication and determination along with several other
In no way saying that the average student cannot meet the requirement and achieve success over the amounted work, it would also be ridiculous to expect every graduate
His strength isn’t what makes him great; but it is what he does with his strength plus his
Today, I will be talking about domestic violence, a man once said “From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story, a story that says I Survived ” this person was Craig Scott, this man is a politician who wants to make the world Domestic Violence free. You may not know it but everyday, at every home, street, and work, men and women are going through violence Did you know that 300,000 women in Australia a year go through domestic violence and 1 woman and man are killed a week and the rates are getting higher. As I speak a person of any age is going through violence. Domestic Violence can affect people because of their sexual identity, race, age, culture, ethnicity, religion, disability, economic status or location. Just because
