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I believe that work and leisure are both privileges and blessings from God. I say blessing because everything that we do in life impacts us in some way. Work can be just as much a blessing as leisure; it just depends on our attitude. Work a...
About 968 pages (290,446 words) in 34 products

The "rebirth of the arts", in the time period known simply as the Renaissance, created new opportunities for talented artists, architects, and writers. The writers are especially well known, for their re-introduction of drama in entertainme...
About 2,622 pages (786,436 words) in 64 products

Although Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) successfully served as a member of the House of Representatives and of the Senate and was vice president under Dwight Eisenhower, the thirty-seventh president of the United States will probably be...
About 119 pages (35,807 words) in 10 products

The 1920's was names the Decade of Extremes, meaning that social groups throughout the USA benefited varyingly; the minority of groups which did roar, roared to a very large extent, but the many who didn't roar suffered enormously; hence, t...
About 406 pages (121,647 words) in 18 products

American medicine in the 1990s underwent great technological advances in areas ranging from plastic surgery to techniques that greatly improve a person's vision. General surgery, which had been a shrinking specialty, achieved new heights ...
About 71 pages (21,282 words) in 2 products

Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) was an American political leader and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court greatly contributed to constitutional law. Roger B. Taney was born in Calvert County, Md., on March 17, 1777, into a landed, sla...
About 260 pages (78,047 words) in 4 products

Beginning as a radio sports announcer, Ronald W. Reagan (born 1911) enjoyed success as a motion picture actor and television personality before embarking on a political career. After two terms as governor of California (1967- 1975), he def...
About 155 pages (46,507 words) in 11 products

Growth of the New World depended on African slave labor. Slaves tilled the land in North America and the West Indies and mined precious ores in South America, bringing wealth to the European settlers. Transporting these slaves across the At...
About 111 pages (33,168 words) in 2 products

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), nineteenth president of the United States, supervised the Republican party's unsuccessful attempt to build a Southern wing based on old white "Whig" elements. Rutherford B. Hayes was born Oct. 4, 1822...
About 66 pages (19,924 words) in 5 products

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