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Abraham Lincoln Biography for Kids

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:17:36 +0000

Lincoln’s Early Life Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, on Nolin Creek in Kentucky. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was a poverty-stricken farmer, who could never seem to make ends meet. Consequently, Lincoln spent his childhood learning how to weld an axe, hunt and work a plow. He was Continue reading the biography

Ronald Reagan Bio

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:33:54 +0000

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, and attended high school in Dixon, Illinois. Upon his graduation, he attended Eureka College near Peoria, Illinois, where he excelled in football and acting. Not long after his graduation in 1932, he was hired by radio station Continue reading the biography

Martin Luther King, Jr. Biography for Kids

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:30:02 +0000

On April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Oakland Tribune published a story that began, “In the days and years ahead, Martin Luther King Jr. will be numbered among that small but honored company of men who have changed the course of history by sheer forc Continue reading the biography

Karl Marx Biography

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:43:03 +0000

EARLY DAYS Marx was born in 1818. As a student in Berlin, Marx stumbled upon the works of Hegel, who stressed that everything in society and in nature was in a process of constant change and development. A group of young “Left Hegelians” tried to use Hegel’s ideas to draw radical Continue reading the biography