So, "Who really was James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok?" ... Another story was that he and his brother Lorenzo stopped a lynch mob, and a woman called one or both of them "Wild," and the name Bill was just attached on to it. ... Wild Bill was a scout for Colonel George Armstrong Custer who wrote a book in 1974 called "My Life on the Plains." This fueled Wild Bill legend because it discussed Wild Bill's early life, Civil War stories, and mythical gunfights that were probably made up by Wild Bill himself. ... Hickok set up camp on the outskirts of a town called Deadwood in South Dakota wit...

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In fact, two of his most famous novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fang, are set from his experiences while he was in Alaska. ... It was in Sonoma Valley, London called it his Beauty Ranch. ... Out of the some 50 books London wrote two of the most famous novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang. ... The Call of the Wild has been translated into more than thirty languages, and it exists in millions of copies; White Fang are only slightly less in numbers. The general plot of The Call of the Wild was "Buck" a huge, four- year old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog th...

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Ibsen's early plays were wild concentrating on visions both romantic and poetical of the rebel in search of the truth. ... This peiod saw brilliant plays such as An Enemy of the People (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), The Master Builder (1892) and When the Dead Awaken (1900). ... It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. ... Benedotto Croce called these portrayals of people who live in constant expectation and who are consumed by their pursuit of "something else" in life a "desperate drama"." ...

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Films such as Wild Style, Style Wars, Beat Street, and Breakin', propelling the elements, and compelling outsiders with no understanding of the culture to explore this "new" phenomena. ... When Wild Style came around, only five or six members from Rock Steady would get to represent. ... Shortly thereafter, Wiggles, Fabel, and Freeze started their own crew called Electric Company. ... Even though Wild Style is regarded as a more authentic Hip Hop flick, I actually saw Beat Street first. ... I remember buying an album called, Electric Breakin', that came with a pullout that taught you ...

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These young wolves who are leaving in search of mates and territory are called dispersing wolves (Gese and Mech 1991). ... According to David Mech, this may be the case with wolves, and that their behavior in the wild is somewhat different. ... In these wild wolf packs, the male breeder is dominant over all other members of the pack. ... The wild wolves do maintain some of the behaviors of the captive wolf packs. ... Also, wolves in the wild will leave the pack when they reach maturity to try and establish their own pack. ...

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The Yanomamo live in hundreds of small villages, grouped by families in one large communal dwelling called a shabono (http://crystalinks.com/yanomami.html). ... Groups of Yanomamo could live entirely off the wild foods in their environment. Generally the most common wild foods are two species of wild pig, several varieties of monkeys, tapir, armadillos, anteaters, alligators, deer, rodents, and birds (Chagnon 1997: 61). ... Wild honey is one of the most highly prized foods of all, and the Yanomamo will go to great extremes to get it (Smoles 1976: 103). ... Although the Yanomamo supplement ...

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This occurred due to the new management of the national bank, which began to call in loans and foreclose of mortgages and send people to debtor's prison. ... Causes for the panic included the failure of state banks due to the lack of funds, a new piece of legislation was passed that called for the payment of hard currency for land, factories were closed due to foreign competition, and the price of cotton fell dramatically. ... This opposition began calling themselves the Whigs, since they were opposed to what they called tyrannical rule of Jackson. ... Clay called this plan the Amer...

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The English word Church is translated from the original Greek word 'EKKLESIA', which means 'CALLED OUT ONES' - from EK (out), and KLESIA (called). ... The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch (Acts 11:26). ... The main leader came to be called Bishop. The others, later, were called Presbyters. ... Among those who perished in this reign were Simeon, the brother of Jesus, Bishop of Jerusalem, crucified (AD 107), and Ignatius, second bishop of Antioch, who was taken to Rome and thrown to the wild beasts (AD 110). 4. ...

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The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... The Hunter's Return represents wild woods surrounding a glade where a family seems to be living in symbiotically with the prevailing forces of nature. ... America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation i...

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Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." ... Conrad also illustrates Marlow's growing empathy for the men he once called "savages" during a scene in which a band of followers sent by Kurtz attacks the steamboat with flying spears. ... According to Marlow, Kurtz has been overtaken by the wild darkness. ...

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They were the ones who would call people to go to the pardoner to have their sins removed and forgiven. ... This author is in agreement saying, "O what a shameful thing it is when a priest is like an ass, unversed in moral and lawlessly wild! ...

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If they are out in the wild looking for the animals there is a certain danger of getting hurt or being bitten. ... For example, once bitten by the Two-step viper a person doesn't get very far before they collapse and possibly die (Reptile Wild). ... Unlike lizards snakes don't have eyelids, instead a specialized clear scale, which is called a brille, protects their eyes. ...

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In Russo's other books his main characters often find themselves in trouble for things that are just common sense to them, such as when Harry, the owner of the diner in "Mohawk," is ridiculed for being nice to Wild Bill even though everyone else treats him badly. ... Then on top of that, Randall is connected to Wild Bill as he saved his life, Wild Bill is connected to Harry as Harry takes care of him, and Wild Bill is also the nephew of the local Policeman. ...

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Gladiatorial contests hold a central place in our perception of Roman behavior. They were also a big influence on how Romans themselves ordered their lives. Attending the games was one of the practices that went with being a Roman. The Etruscans who introduced this type of contest in the sixth cent...

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Then in 1952, a multi-camera/widescreen projector process was introduced called Cinerama. ... Ansocolor was used heavily in Westerns allowing filmmakers to experiment with films such as The Wild North & Kiss Me Kate until 1955 when Eastmancolor was created and eventually took over as the main color system. ... Eventually this style diminished and a genre called "adult westerns " began. ... In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected th...

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Rudyard Kipling's Kim Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1865. He lived in India during the height of the British Empire so that the story of his life takes place against a backgroun...

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This stage is called Intimacy v. ... Darwin concluded that evolution did occur gradually, requiring thousands to millions of years and that the primary mechanism for evolution was a process called "natural selection." He also concluded that millions of species alive today arose from as single original life form through a process called "natural selection." ...

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By the time mom called us downstairs for lunch, Cory and I had put all of our things away in our room that we were sharing. ... I guessed, pointing to an ancient looking gray stone well that was half hidden with a tangle of tall grass and wild rosebushes. ... "Don't forget to check the front door," mom called quietly to dad from the other room. ...

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The Plight of The North American Indians The history and culture of the American Indian is sadly misrepresented because of culture biases and inaccurate reports. In order to give a more accurate report of the American Indian one must look at period before the Euro...

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In the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century, industry in America was growing at an alarming rate. This growth brought about basic changes in the way things were produced and in the lives of those who produced them. It was the Civil War that first started to change industrial landscape of the nation. "More than a million dollars a day were spent on weapons, ammunition, machinery, clothing, boots, shoes, [and] canned goods" (Meltzer, 3). The high demand for so many different items brought bigger, newer and more efficient factories. ...

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The Nile also supplied geese and fish, and wild papyrus which Egyptians wove into rope, mats, baskets, and paper. The early Egyptian people grew food by the Nile and lived mainly by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants. ... The main crops that were grown in those days were flax, barley, and a primitive kind of wheat called Emmer. ...

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Then there's the story of Marlow's predecessor Fresleven, a gentle, quiet man who goes on a wild rampage, and the office of the Company with the two women knitting black wool like the fates. ... There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them enemies! ... He so disillusioned and disappointed by his fellow Europeans that he calls their exploit a "lugubrious drollery-. ...

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MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. I asked her questions about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South...

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The team proposed that Microsoft adapt the PC to be more like a console and, one by one, talked their superiors into supporting what they called Project Midway, so code-named because their machine would be midway between a PC and game console. ...

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- She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms... Then she was portrayed to have been overcome with grief and despair as suggested by the line in the story, "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment." ...

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