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…Roscoe Arbuckle was born in Kansas on March 24, 1887. At birth Roscoe weighed an amazing 14 pounds, thus his nickname “Fatty”. He is named after the Republican politician, Roscoe Conkling. In the fall of 1887, his family moved to Santa Anna…

…, for not long before this he had met Eberhard’s daughter Lily, to whom he took a strong liking. Ulrich Busch, one of his brothers, had meanwhile been paying attention to Anna, Lily’s older sister. On March 7, 1861, Eberhard gave away the hands of both his daughters…

…. Shortly after that, Douglass met Anna Murray and fell in love with her. He then became more determined to be a free man. Disguised as a sailor, Douglass escaped to New York City. He met a man named David Ruggles, an Abolitionist, who took Douglass under his…

…years after his wife Anna Douglass died, he married a forty-five year old white woman named Helen Pitt¡¦s (8). Frederick Douglass considered this marriage to the white women a blow against racism. He showed a demonstration of the possibilities for racial…

…penned up in their own waste, their limbs atrophied, and their veins so pumped full of antibiotics they couldn’t control their bowels, but when I took a date to Anna Maria’s, I could never resist the veal scallopini” (Meyer 242). Even in his introductory…

…and other businesses on top of the $200 million and escalator clauses he's asking for in the contract. The entire sports world is getting out of control, and no single sport is exempt from this hype and corruption. In tennis, Anna Kournikova is in the top 20…

…. With her as his inspiration, he followed the precept in a book be CO-wrote with Anna Strunsky, The Kempton-Wace Letters. London divorced Bess due to an affair with his "New Woman," Charmian Kittredge. In 1905 he married Charmian, who became the persona…

…, was massacred at the Alamo. Usually, in battles, someone is left to tell the story, but the Alamo had no one. One hundred and eighty-seven men for eleven days withstood the Mexican army of the despot, Santa Anna. When the battle was done, all of the one hundred…

…Fokine and a group of russian dancers that included Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova. It was now that Diaghilev established "Les Ballets Russes". This company made possible the realization of Fokine’s ideas of ballet as an art that unified dance, drama…

…the birthplace of his brother Philip and his sister Baldina. There, their father had become the adviser and lover of Princess Anna of Saxony, wife of Prince William I of Orange (William the Silent). On the death of Jan Rubens in 1587, his widow returned the family…