Madeline Allen Miss Gregory World History 28 November 2017 Madame du Barry (1793) Madame du Barry was born on August 19th in 1743. Madame du Barry had several jobs. She was a hair dresser, saleswoman and then when she met Jean-baptiste du barry she started working in one of his several gambling houses. She met Comte du Barry and left the gambling houses. When Madame du Barry became Comte du Barrys mistress he made her a high class courtesan. According to madameguillotine.co.uk she later met Louis XV and he fell in love with her. “ He was instantly smitten with her and it wasn’t long before her lover du Barry’s brother was forced to marry in order to make her position more respectable and enable her to have the title necessary for and entreé into Versailles life.” …show more content…
She enjoyed the luxurious things that came with her position like expensive jewelry and paintings. She also live in the Louveciennes estate which was given to her by the king. Her estate was very luxurious and spacious. There were a few reasons why Madame du barry was sent to the guillotine. The first was that the court did not like her at all. They thought she was rude, offensive and blunt. They did not want to be associated with her at all. The main reason that she was sent to the guillotine was when Louis XV died of smallpox she was banned from the court. During this time on January 10th, 1719 a huge amount of her jewelry was stolen. When she went to look for it in France she was arrested by malicious authorities. She was imprisoned in Sainte Pélagie in Paris. In prison she shared the locations of her hidden jewels in an attempt to get out of prison. It did nothing but buy her a few hours. Madame du Barry died on december 8th in 1793 when she was sent to the guillotine. Her final words were, “on moment more, please monsieur, do not hurt
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Death: 15 October 1977, Sydney. She was bludgeoned to death with a large piece of timber in her Paddington studio, her fingers found broken, and her body battered. The murder was never solved, but there has been some speculation that she was a victim of the serial killer, John Wayne Glover.
Jennie Wade was the only civilian to die in the battle of Gettysburg. Jennie Wade was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and died there just twenty short years later. The battle of Gettysburg was then known as one of the bloodiest battles in the American civil war. This caused a single civilian to lose their life, Jennie Wade was that person to die at Gettysburg. Many other civilians died in the war itself, but only she died at Gettysburg.
Helene Melanie Lebel, one of two daughters born to a Jewish family, was raised as a Catholic in Vienna. Her father died during World War I when Helene was only 5 years old, and when Helene was 15, her mother remarried. Helene entered law school, but at age 19, she started showing signs of an illness. By 1935, her illness became so bad severe that she had to give up her law studies. Helene was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and was placed in Vienna’s Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Although her condition improved in 1940, Helene was forced to stay in Steinhof. Her parents believed she would soon be released, but in August, her mother was informed that Helene was transferred to Niedernhart. She was actually transported to Brandenburg, Germany where she was led into a gas chamber or room? disguised as a shower room, and was gassed to death. Helene was listed as dying in her room of “acute schizophrenic excitement”.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
Betty Marion White was born on January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois. She is the only child of Horace and Tess White, an electrical engineer and a house wife. At the age of two her and her family moved to Los Angeles. Betty White graduated from Beverly Hills High School California, in 1939 at 17. Betty started modeling they same year she graduated. She first did various radio shows in the 40s. But her first TV show was on Hollywood in Television in 1949. Whites first produced television show was Life with Elizabeth. "I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood."
“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary”, Sally Ride (http://www.brainyquote.com). This, of course, is true for the inspirational astronaut we know today. Sally Ride changed society’s views on women, and made it into American history books. She impacted modern day space exploration and young women by being the first American woman in space as shown by her work for NASA and her dedication toward young women and girls pursuing careers in science and math.
At that time, Viola Desmond was the one of the only successful black canadian business woman and beautician in Halifax because there are were very few careers offered to the black. She Attended Bloomfield High school and also, studied in a program from Field Beauty Culture School, located in Montreal. These schools were one of the only academies that accepted black students. After she graduated, she promoted and sold her products because she wanted expanded her business;she also sold many of her products to her graduates. In addition, she opened a VI’s studio of beauty culture in Halifax.
The Rev. Dinah Dutta was elected to the churchwide executive board of Women of the ELCA in July 2014. She is reelected to the board at the convention in July 2017.
Kayla was just an average 14 year old playing in a soccer tournament. She fell a couple of times, once on her tailbone and another on her neck ("Kayla Montgomery"). There was a tingling sensation running up and down her spine, and she lost feeling from the waist down ("Kayla Montgomery"). Shortly after her fifteenth birthday, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, or MS for short ("Kayla Montgomery"). Her disease hasn’t progressed from the time she was diagnosed to now, so she is still able to do the things she loves including running. Kayla was determined to push herself to achieve her goals. Before Montgomery was diagnosed, she wasn’t a fast runner at all, but she soon rose to the top ("Kayla Montgomery"). Kayla became the fastest long distance runner and also the track and field team captain at Mount Tabor High School ("Kayla Montgomery"). She started to train with the boy’s team her sophomore year because the girls on her team weren’t enough competition (Polachek, Emily). Kayla became the 21st fastest 3200 meter runner in the country at North Carolina’s state track meet her senior year ("Kayla Montgomery").
For years, I have been told that Lillian Handlan Lemp, better known as the Lavender Lady is one of the many ghosts of the Lemp Mansion. I had no reason to doubt this until I learned that Lillian never lived in the Lemp Mansion. When Lillian was married to William Lemp Jr, they lived in the in a penthouse on top of the Chase Park Plaza. After finding this out, I had to ask myself; “Why would the Lavender Lady haunt the Lemp Mansion if she never lived there?” I could only come to one conclusion, she doesn’t. If there is no reason, then the ghost everyone claims to see in the Lavender Suite cannot be the restless spirit of Lillian Handlan Lemp. I know this may be hard for some to accept, since so many psychics, paranormal investigators, and television shows have identified the ghost on the second floor as the Lavender Lady, but I still find it very hard to believe Lillian would haunt a home in which they never lived in. Lillian actually died in her apartment on Park Avenue in 1960.
When I was a child my family rarely had the money or time for an outing to the movie theaters, so when we watched a movie it was generally on DVD and, if it was me or my mom choosing the movie, it was The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride had everything a proper fantasy movie should; adventure, battles of strength and wit, and true love. We follow the heroine, Princess Buttercup as she is separated from her true love, betrothed to the repulsive prince Humperdinck, kidnapped by a band of criminals, saved by a mysterious man, and exacts her revenge on the man who hired her kidnappers. This movie sets the precedent for all other media that I consumed. Even now, I have a tendency to compare books and movies to The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride showed me what to expect in life and provided a variety
Although there is much evidence out there that Mata Hari was not a spy, there are people that still believe she committed espionage against the French during World War I. The French police claimed that she had cost the allied fifty thousand troops lives (Edwards 1). Although any information that was passed on between her and her companions could be found in a newspaper in Spain, according to Julie Wheelwright of the University of London (2). Another claim that many people have made is that Mata Hari could never keep her story straight. They claimed that she would constantly change where she was and what she was doing at various times when she was being interviewed at Saint-Lazare prison (Arbuckle 3). Think about if you were in her situation, being constantly interviewed for over four
The United States of America, the world’s youngest super power, is regarded as the world leader of peace and progression. The United States prides itself as the land of endless opportunity and equality where dreams come true. Unlike its much older and out dated counterparts of other world nations, in The United States, your destiny is not pre-determined by any one or any factor. In the United States, any person can follow their dreams regardless of color, creed, religion, social status or monetary wealth. One of the United States most iconic symbols is that of the Statue of Liberty. This majestic 305 foot tall statue of Lady Liberty overlooks the sea and holds in her hand a torch signifying a guiding light as if lighting the way for hope for the rest of the world. Engraved on this vessel for American ideology is arguably one of the most famous American quotes “Give me your, tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. Despite these optimistic and borderline utopian ideals, the United States is not
Hundreds of prisoners were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at several locations around Paris. The wealthier you were the better accommodations you got because you had to pay for furniture and other things. At one point Marie Antoinette was there. Her cell was converted into a chapel dedicated to her memory. She was eventually hung on a guillotine. She had one of the best rooms because she was Queen of France for a short time. In the 19th century, the Conciergerie still continued to be used as a prison for high-value prisoners