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John Wilkes John Wilkes. John Wilkes, the son of Israel Wilkes, a malt distiller, was born on 17th October 1725. In 1747 he married Mary Meade, an heiress who owned a large estate at Aylesbury. It was a marriage of convenience and Wilkes spent most of his time with his friends at the Hell Fire Club. After ten years he permanently separated from his wife.
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John Wilkes In 1762, the new king, George III, arranged for his close friend, the Earl of Bute, to become prime minister. This decision upset a large number of MPs who considered Bute to be incompetent. John Wilkes became Bute's leading critic in the House of Commons.
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The Trent Affair Despite the intensification of hostilities, President Abraham Lincoln and his advisors eventually relented and claimed Wilkes acted without orders. The two British agents, Mason and Sildell, were released and allowed to complete their trip to Great Britain and arrived on January 8, 1862.
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Mickey Mouse Mouse-related merchandise sales have declined from their 1997 high, but they still make up about 40% of the company's consumer products revenue. Mickey returned to the big screen for a cameo in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Biography forJack Dawson (Character)from Titanic  (1997) This character biography may contain plot spoilers. Visit our Character Biography Help to learn more. Jack Dawson June 17,1892-April 15,1912 (age 19) is one of the main protagonists in Titanic and the love interest of Rose DeWitt Bukater. He dies at the end of the film from hypothermia. He is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. Jack Dawson was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1892.
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- Wilkes, Georgia. March 4, 1883. Atlanta, Georgia. Alexander H. Stephens, in full Alexander Hamilton Stephens (born February 11, 1812, Wilkes county, Georgia, U.S.—died March 4, 1883, Atlanta, Georgia) politician who served as vice president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–65).
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The Insane Story of the Guy Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln Four years of war later, as the North was celebrating the South’s surrender, a stage actor and Rebel sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth snuck into Lincoln’s box in the balcony of Ford’s Theatre in Washington.
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Who Was John Wilkes Booth Before He Became Lincoln's Assassin? John Wilkes Booth was the son of prominent, wealthy actors. He, too, became an actor and was so popular, he was one of the first to have his clothes ripped off by fans. Hulton Archive/Getty. John Wilkes Booth was the man who pulled the trigger, capping off a coordinated plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln. But historian Terry Alford, an expert on all things Booth, says that there's much more to Booth's life. His new biography, Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth, delves deep into his life — before Booth went down in history as the man who assassinated a president.
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American Revolution John André. John André (2 May 1750 – 2 October 1780) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.
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What You Didn't Know About John Wilkes Booth & Jesse James John Wilkes Booth did not die in Garrett’s tobacco barn in 1865 as is commonly supposed. Booth was saved by his brother Knights and spirited immediately down into Texas after the assassination. He lived and worked for many years in Granbury under the alias ‘John St. Helen.’.
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- John Jay (December 23, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, second Governor of New York, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–1795).
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John Wilkes Booth Biography On May 10, 1838, John Wilkes Booth was born near Bel Air, Maryland. Booth was the second youngest of ten children. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, was a well-known actor and was eccentric, with a reputation for heavy drinking.
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- John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838 into a family of noted actors. Booth would eventually take the stage himself, appearing in 1855 in Shakespeare’s Richard III in Baltimore. Despite his Confederate sympathies, Booth remained in the North during the Civil War, pursuing a successful career as an actor.
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Civil War Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
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- Stephen Douglas (1813-1861) was a politician who became a US Senator from Illinois by defeating Abraham Lincoln, only to lose to Lincoln in the Presidential election of 1860. …Douglas was a champion of States Rights and helped pass the Compromise of 1850 that balanced slave states against free states.
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The Co-Conspirators The Co-Conspirators. John Wilkes Booth. A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. Union cavalry pursued him to the Garrett farm, burned down the barn to flush Booth out, then, as he rushed out, killed him with a bullet to the neck.
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What types of corrugated packaging materials are there? C-Flute is 3-16ths of an inch thick. B-Flute is a little bit smaller at 1/8th of an inch in thickness, and it is used for smaller products and boxes. It’s better for folding into intricate shapes and for printing, so this is the flute usually seen for Point-Of-Purchase (P.O.P.) displays or for cardboard cutouts.
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Civil War,Assassination of President Lincoln Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
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Mr Jack Dawson Jack Dawson was a fictional character in the 1997 James Cameron feature film Titanic. He was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. Jack was born in Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin, USA around 1892. His parent died while he was still young.
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Boston Corbett On April 24, 1865, Corbett's regiment was sent to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, whom Booth fatally shot on April 14, 1865. On April 26, the regiment surrounded Booth and his accomplice, David Herold, in a tobacco barn on the Virginia farm of Richard Garrett.
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Booth's Reason for Assassination On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth became the first person to assassinate an American president when he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford’s Theater in Washington.
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- Gale Hansen, American actor who portrayed character Charlie Dalton in Dead Poets Society.
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- John Brown was one of the most famous abolitionists, or opponents of slavery, in history. He traveled widely to gather support and money for his cause. Many people who helped him were either unaware or did not care that he often used violence to achieve his goals.
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Who Is John Adams John Adams, one of the most prominent and influential Founding Fathers in American history, played a critical role in the development of the newly found United States.
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- The Patriot (wrestler) Del Wilkes (born December 21, 1961)[3] is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, The Trooper and The Patriot.
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John Jay John Jay. For other uses, see John Jay (disambiguation). John Jay (December 23 [O.S. December 12] 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, second Governor of New York, and first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).
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Edwin Stanton Edwin Stanton. Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory.