The Rise of Daniel Hale Williams Daniel Hale Williams III was an extraordinary African American surgeon. Dr. Williams, the son of a barber, was a free African American born during the 1800s to Daniel Hale Williams II and Sarah Williams. Dr. Williams’ family was heavily impacted by the ongoing history at the time. Furthermore, Dr. Williams’ ancestors were slaves. Daniel’s ancestors on both sides were a mixture of European, Native American, and African American.
A colonizer and statesman, Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala was one of the most talented and capable of the many native Mexicans involved in Texas ' struggle for independence from Mexico. He was born in the villiage of Tecoh in what is now the state of Yucatan, Mexico, on October 3, 1789. While still in his teens, de Zavala became an ardent advocate of democratic reforms. As a result of his political activism, he was imprisoned in 1814 for three years. When released, he re-entered politics and by 1820 represented Yucatan in the Spanish Cortes in Madrid.
Frank Lucas one of the most famous criminals making more than $1,000,000 a day at his largest. Selling heroin straight from the source. Frank Lucas is the American Gangster. Frank Lucas was born on September 9, 1930 in La Grange, North Carolina. Frank grew up with his mom and dad.
Louis Riel (1844-1885) On November 16, 1885, 41 year old Louis David Riel was executed. Riel was born on October 22nd , 1844 in Saint-Boniface, Red river settlement. Louis Riel was the oldest child out of the eleven children his parents, Louis Riel Sr and Julie Lagimodière had. Growing up Louis Riel was a smart student.
The Most important events happened in London, England and Paris, France (1775-1790). A major event that happened in London, England was the bad court system that they had. It shows how bad the court system is by how they charged Charles Darnay with treason. Treason is when you betray your own country and/or when you try to kill someone from that country. The public assumed that he’s felonious of betraying the country so Darnay goes on trial to show that he’s not guilty.
In the 1970s, the United States had a national drifter that claimed to have killed over six hundred people. He was first incarcerated for the murder of his mother and was later incarcerated for the murder of his girlfriend and his landlord. Lucas confessed to many murders, claiming he targeted female hitchhikers that were national vast. Henry Lee Lucas was an infamous murderer born to alcoholic parents Viola and Anderson Lucas in Virginia in 1936.
Living as a pioneer in the Nineteenth-Century in Nebraska was sometimes difficult. The pioneers came in large numbers from the states of New York, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. They fled to the Midwest because industrial cities were becoming overpopulated, land was inexpensive in Nebraska, they found land hard to come by to farm and they wanted to make a better living. (http://www.campsilos.org/mod2/students/life4.shtml, n.d.)
Louis St Laurent was born on the first of February 1882 in Compton, Quebec. His father Jean-Baptiste-Moise St Laurent was a Québecois who owned a general store and his mother Mary Anne Broderick was an Irish schoolteacher. . Louis St Laurent was the first of seven children. He grew up speaking French to his father and English to his mother. That resulted in him being fluently bilingual.
Over the centuries people have remembered me for the grand, imposing buildings and statues constructed to record my achievements as a warrior, administrator and protector of my people. During my long reign as Pharaoh, I had become the legendary figure I was destined to be and left behind a great legacy as the builder of the countless monuments built in Egypt including my capital city, Pi-Ramesses. I built on an enormous scale to ensure my legacy would last the ravages of time. Marston correctly states that eight more Pharaoh’s took my name although the glory of my name was lost under their rule. It was devastating to watch my government come to an end and my empire that I spent decades building and creating had been lost, (Marston, 1996, p.14).
Napoleon arrived in the capital of Egypt in 1798 on July 21st and took over a palace to hold on the scholars and scientists. The scholars started to measure the Sphinx and made copies of the hieroglyphs there were finding and then Napoleon evaded the British blockade in 1799. The French army stayed in Egypt and so did the scholars and then they received a package with a rock slab in it and there was a note from a french army officer. The note said that they found it during when they were rebuilding a fort and the french soldiers found it when tearing down a wall. The stone had missing pieces so the french soldiers tried to find the missing pieces behind other walls and didn't find them.
Henri Cartier Bresson was a French humanist photographer known for his street photography and ability to create candid photos of people. Bresson was a person who viewed photography not just as an art, but as a psychological analysis of culture and people. While walking the streets of different areas of the world, he became immensely curious about how people view reality and decided to capture, “the true moments of human existence”. His photographs captured the in between moments, showing the true reality of the way people live. During his early years, Henri discovered the art of painting when his Uncle Louis started teaching him how to paint.
He moved back to Paris and in Paris he joined the Jacobin Club. It was a debating society initially favoring a constitutional monarchy, and soon he became its president, he talked in public against nobles, bishops, and monks. In September 1791 he got to leave to go back to Corsica again for three months he got elected lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, and made some leadership advancements. With such a great knowledge of military tactics, he was ask to take a position in the French army. In May 1795 the United Provinces of the Netherlands became the French-influenced Batavian Republic.
Parisians. People in french eat different foods. In french there are popular dishes all around the world. For a very long time Paris has been a European cultural center , and it is a great place to meet artist from all around the world. Today the city the cities old culture can be admired in hundreds of museums,galleries, and churches that nearly every part of the city. Paris is also cast in the music of local artist sand in the architectural splendour that gives the city its luxurious appeal.
Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He was the third child and only son to Etienne and Antoinette Pascal. His mother passed away when he was just three years old. Since Etienne Pascal had unorthodox views, he decided to teach his son himself. Pascal did not study mathematics before he was fifteen years old, but when he was twelve he secretly started to work on geometry.
Napoleon decided that France’s naval forces were not yet ready to go up against the British Royal Navy. So instead, he proposed an invasion of Egypt in an attempt to wipe out British trade routes with India. Napoleon’s troops gained a victory against Egypt’s military rulers (the Mamluks) at the Battle of the Pyramids in July 1798; soon, however, his forces were stranded after his naval fleet was nearly decimated by the British at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798. In early 1799, Napoleon’s army launched an invasion of Ottoman-ruled Syria, which ended with the failed siege of Acre, located in modern-day Israel. That summer, with the uncertain political situation in France, the ever-ambitious Napoleon opted to abandon his army in Egypt and return to
