Johnny Bright was born on June 11, 1930 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was raised by his mother in a working class neighborhood, and was the second oldest of five children. Him and his four brother were all very involved in sports growing up. Johnny attended Central High School in Fort Wayne. While he was there he lettered in basketball, football and track, also he twice led his basketball team to final four appearances in the state championship and led the football team to the City title in 1945.…
When Jerry West was a boy, he was kept out of sports do to his small stature. He mostly spent all of his free time shooting basketball at a hoop that is nailed to his neighbors storage shed. That is the place where he started to perfect his shooting style and skills. Later on Jerry West finally worked his way onto East Bank high school’s varsity basketball team, he spent his junior year mostly on the bench. He was the first high schooler in West Virginia to score 900 in a single season.…
Dustin Turner should be released from prison. He was going through the Navy Seal training trying to finish around the age of 20 years old. He and his “friend” Billy Joe Brown had to become friends over the course of time, because they were paired up together at the beginning of their training.…
July27, 1981 six-year old Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. Revé Walsh, his mother, allowed young Adam to busy himself with a video game display while she shopped. A few minutes later, she returned to the display to find her son missing. What she did not know was that, there had been an argument between Adam and a group of kids at the display that resulted in them all being put out of the store where little Adam was abducted. About a month later, two fishermen discovered Adam’s severed head in a canal near Vero Beach.…
1 Paul "Bear" Bryant He is the most recognizable coach in college football history. He graced the sidelines with his houndstooth hat for 25 years with Alabama and had fourteen SEC Championships and six national championships. He took over the Tide in 1958 and proceeded to reach 24 consecutive bowl games. 2 Knute Rockne…
In the 1980s, Randy Weaver moved his family from Iowa to Northern Idaho to try and escape what he thought was a corrupt world. When they moved to Idaho, they found a cabin that was secluded from everyone. Randy Weaver and his family were known to be white separatists. When the Federal agents suspected Weaver of being a white supremacist and an anti-government group, they started to investigate him. The feds also suspected Weaver to be selling a government informant two illegal sawed-off shotguns.…
The parents of Westside High School senior, Chris Browning, were killed in a tragic car accident right outside of Savannah, Georgia when he was 8 years old. He now resides with Alan and Melissa Smith, who adopted Chris after a few short months after the accident. He also has a step brother Jacob (18 years old). Chris excels in baseball, as well as in the classroom. Chris grew up in a house where he did not feel so welcomed by his step brother, Jacob.…
This paper will inform you all about Bill Robinson and his carrer. Bill Robinson as known as “Bojangles” was a huge iconic African- American tap dancer and actor during the Harlem Renisance. Bojangles was best known for his Broadway performances and film roles.…
In 1948, B.B. king was invited to perform on Sonny Boy Williamson’s (a famous blues harmonica player) radio program on KWEM in West Memphis. From that break, B.B. king began garnering for and more public interest. More and more viewers began tuning in to the radio to hear B.B. king play. He was soon given a 10 minute spot on a black managed radio station called “WDIA.”…
Christopher "kit" Carson was a vital part of the United States Westward Expansion. He did a lot on his day, such as an American frontiersman, trapper, soldier and Indian agent. I will go into more detail about that in this paper. On Christmas Eve, 1809 (December 24) Christopher "Kit" Carson was born.…
Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell. His maternal ancestry traces back to passengers on the Mayflower; his father's, to colonists who arrived about a dozen years later. Bryant and his family moved to a new home when he was two years old. The William Cullen Bryant Homestead, his boyhood home, is now a museum.…
Dr Charles Nelson Perkins (Charlie Perkins) 16 June 1936 – 19th October 2000 64 years old. Background Dr Charles Perkins was an Australian Aboriginal activist, Soccer player and administrator. Born in Alice springs near Aritunga to a Kalkadoon mother and an Irish father, he was the first ever Aboriginal Australian to graduate from the University of Sydney (Wikipedia, 2017.) Career Milestones The proclaimed Australian Living national treasure began playing Soccer for Port Thistle in Adelaide in 1950 before his talents lead him overseas to trial for Liverpool F.C (Indigenous Australia, 2017).…
Henry Bibb born in 10 May 1815 in Shelby Country, Kentucky. His father James Bibb was state senator, mother Mildred Jackson was a slave work for Willard Gatewood, so Henry was a slave too, he need work for neighboring farm and his wages were used to pay for a girl to school, because she was the successor of a widower. As a young man, Henry was sold to another man, Mr.Vires. He wasn’t a good man, he was very cruelty, so Henry would tried ran away so many days, but every time Mr. Vires would caught him but he never gave up.…
"After he ditches his car and gives away his trust fund, Chris Mccandless hitchhikes and eventually steps off the road into the Alaskan wilderness carrying only what will fit in his backpack." As unbeleivable as it seems, Chris was not the only one to do such an out of the ordinary thing. Timothy Treadwell, "the bear expert", gave up on civilization and went to the comfort of the wild. Both Mccandless and Treadwell were successful in being unsuccessful. With many obstacles, lessons learned, and opinions of others, both young men led a life of pure adventure.…
The life of David G. Burnet wasn’t what anyone would expect it to be. He was born as an orphan in Newark, New Jersey on April 4, 1787. David Burnet’s middle name was Gouverneur. When David Burnet had spare time the ran to the Passaic River when he was younger. A man of the name of Dr. William Burnet took David in.…