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Robert John Walker – US Senator

Robert John Walker - U.S. Senator

Robert John Walker – US Senator


Robert John Walker was an American politician, senator, 18th US Treasury Secretary, and 4th Governor of the Kansas Territory.
Robert Walker was born on July 23, 1801 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, into a judge’s family. In 1819 he graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1821 he was admitted to the bar. He married Mary Bache (Benjamin Franklin’s granddaughter) in 1825 and moved to Natchez to enter his brother’s law office. By 1826, through speculation on cotton and land, Walker was able to make a fortune. In 1838, due to enormous pressure from Congress, Walker freed the slaves.
In 1835, Walker was elected senator from the Democratic Party. As an ardent expansionist, Robert Walker voted to recognize the Republic of Texas in 1837. He also advocated for low tariffs, the distribution of surplus federal funds and was an opponent of the Second Bank of the United States.
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Jawaharlal Nehru – precious ruby of India

Jawaharlal Nehru – precious ruby of India

Jawaharlal Nehru – precious ruby of India

Jawaharlal Nehru was one of the most prominent politicians of the XX century. He was the leader of the Indian national liberation movement and became the first prime minister of independent India. His spiritual and political mentor was Mahatma Gandhi, whose covenants he had followed throughout his life.
Nehru’s father was a well-known lawyer and one of the leaders of the country’s largest party, the Indian National Congress (INC). Jawaharlal (the name is translated from Hindi as “precious ruby”) was born in 1889 and the father wanted him to continue his work. Therefore, as soon as the young man was sixteen years old, he was sent to study in England at the prestigious Harrow school. After graduating from this elite school, Jawaharlal continued his studies at the law faculty of Cambridge University. Despite the fact that he was a good student the young man considered law to be too boring. At that time, he was seriously interested in aviation and dreamed of becoming a military pilot. But his father categorically forbade him to fly.
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Osceola – Seminole Indian military leader

Osceola - Seminole Indian military leader. Portrait by J. R. Winton, 1837

Osceola – Seminole Indian military leader. Portrait by J. R. Winton, 1837


Osceola was a military leader of the Native American people, Seminole. In the 1830s he fought against the U.S. government, because they wanted the Seminole to leave their homeland in Florida.
Osceola was born in 1804 in Georgia. His mother was a Native American, member of the Creek nation. A white Scottish trader, William Powell, became his mother’s second husband. The family moved to northern Florida and joined the Seminole when Osceola was a boy.
In 1819 Spain sold Florida to the United States and this opened the fertile lands of the Seminole for white Americans. Later, in 1823, an agreement was signed according to which the Seminole had to leave the coastal territories and move inland, to the marshy lands of central Florida, which were not suitable for habitation. Osceola spoke out against it and was sent to prison. After the release he organized a fighting force. The warriors killed the U.S. official and the Seminole chief who had signed the treaty. So the Second Seminole War began in 1835. Resistance lasted almost two years.
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Heinrich Himmler – head of the Gestapo

Heinrich Himmler - head of the Gestapo

Heinrich Himmler – head of the Gestapo


Heinrich Himmler was one of the organizers of the concentration camps across conquered Europe. He headed the elite units of the German army, SS divisions. By the way, he was responsible for the internal security of the Reich and was Hitler’s right hand, and in fact – the most powerful man after him.
To tell the truth, Himmler was responsible for inhumane experiments on prisoners to determine the possibility of survival in extreme conditions. Also he had an idea of experiments to increase the number of Aryan race. At the same time, he was an impeccable official and an ideal family man, also known for his punctuality.
The future head of the SS was born on October 7, 1900 in Munich, Bavaria, into the family of the director of the classical gymnasium. A frail and physically weak boy dreamed of becoming a great military leader. However, even at the end of the First World War, when the Kaiser’s army needed soldiers, the medical commission rejected Heinrich. Thus, he was unable to take part in hostilities, although subsequently he told a lot about his “front-line feats”.
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Medgar Evers – field secretary for NAACP

Medgar Evers - field secretary for NAACP

Medgar Evers – field secretary for NAACP


Medgar Evers gave his life for equal rights for African Americans. His assassination called attention to racial hatred in the southern United States. He was one of the first martyrs of the civil-rights movement.
Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. He was the third of four children of a small farm owner who also worked at a nearby sawmill.
During World War II he served in the U.S. Army. After the war he studied at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in Mississippi. He entered college in 1948, majored in business administration, and graduated in 1952.
During his senior year he married a fellow student, Myrlie Beasley. After graduation the young couple moved near Evers’s hometown.
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Charles de Gaulle – French general

Charles de Gaulle - French general

Charles de Gaulle – French general


In France, perhaps, like nowhere else in the world, people have always been able to appreciate the personality. Let’s remember, for example, the Hundred Years’ War. The French nobility was knocked out by English arrows at the Battle of Crecy and Poitiers, the king was in captivity, the country was ruined. And then the knight Bertrand du Guesclin appeared and saved France.
In the 15th century, France was rescued by the Maid of Orleans in knight armor – Joan of Arc. And in the 20th century, Charles de Gaulle turned out to be the savior of France, its brave knight, who allowed the country to preserve its pride and honor…
The father of the future politician, Henri de Gaulle, was a professor of philosophy and literature. His beloved son was born in 1890. Later, Charles de Gaulle wrote: “My father, an educated and thinking man, brought up in certain traditions, was full of faith in the high mission of France”.
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Hermann Göring – German politician

Hermann Göring - German politician

Hermann Göring – German politician


Hermann Göring was a German politician and air force commander. He was second in command to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was born on January 12, 1893 in Rosenheim, Bavaria. He was the son of the consul general of the German Empire in Haiti. Hermann was educated in the military school. In October 1915 Göring became a fighter pilot and by 1918 he had won all the important military awards.
After the war he went to Denmark to fly as a private pilot. Göring met Hitler when he returned to Germany in 1922. Hermann became commander of the Nazi storm troopers. In November 1923, he received a painful injury which brought on his first drug addiction.
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