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Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key to racial justice and collaborated with President Kennedy when he proposed the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of , which was passed after President Kennedy was slain on November 22,

Guy de Lusignan has the distinction of being the man who lost the Kingdom of Jerusalem by leading the Christian army to an unnecessary but utterly devastating defeat at the Battle of Hattin in

Purna Das Baul, whose real name is Baul Samrat Shri Purna Ch. Das, was born March 18, , in the village Ekchakka in the Birbhum District. He comes from a long lineage of Bauls, a sect of wandering minstrels from Bengal who sing traditional and spiritual folk music.

She is often thought of as a poet of place: she lived her entire life in Wisconsin and spent many years in a cabin on an island that frequently flooded, documenting the ecological and social dimensions of that changeable landscape in vivid detail.

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Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born Aug) is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. Often regarded as the greatest point guard of all time, [3] [4] [5] [6] Johnson spent his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

James Welch has described himself as both an "Indian writer" and "an Indian who writes." This double vision of American Indian experience as unique and yet representative is at the heart of his first four novels, all set in or around reservation Montana and all revolving around protagonists, like Welch himself, of Blackfeet ancestry.