Stephen E. Ambrose - American historian and biographer

 Stephen Edward Ambrose was famous American historian andbiographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was along time professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the authorof several best selling volumes of American popular history. Beginning late inhis life and continuing after his death, however, proof and reports havecontinued to surface documenting long time patterns of plagiarism,falsification, and inaccuracy in many of his published writings and other work.In reaction to one of the early reports, Ambrose said he was not "outthere stealing other people's writings."

In 1998, he got the National Humanities Medal. In 2000,Ambrose got the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service,the top honorary award the Department of Defense offers to civilians. In 2001,he was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for illustrious Service from theTheodore Roosevelt Association. Ambrose won an Emmy as one of the producer forthe mini-series Band of Brothers. Ambrose also got the George Marshall Award,the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, and the Bob Hope Award from theCongressional Medal of Honor Society, and the Will Rogers Memorial Award.

Date Of Birth	January 10, 1936
Place Of Birth	Lovington, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Historian, Author
Date Of Died	October 13, 2002
Place Of Died	Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, U.S.

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Thanksgiving - holiday, First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a holiday famous in the United States on thefourth Thursday in November. It has publicly been an annual tradition since1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, Nov 26. As a federaland popular holiday in the U.S., it is one of the major holidays of the year.Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broaderholiday period.

The event that Americans usually call the "FirstThanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for guide them safelyto the New World. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, given thatenough food for 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans. The dinner consisted offish and shellfish, wild fowl, venison, berries and fruit, vegetables, harvestgrains (barley and wheat), and the Three Sisters: beans, dried Indian maize orcorn, and squash. The New England colonists were familiar to regularlycelebrating "thanksgivings" days of prayer thanking God for blessingssuch as military victory or the end of a drought.

Mount Rushmore - ameriacn presidents sculpture

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture engraved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and later on by his son Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot sculpture of the heads of former United States presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The whole memorial covers 1,278.45 acres and is 5,725 feet above sea level. Borglum decisive the sculpture should have a further national focus, and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain.

After securing federal funding, building on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were finished between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took more construction. Though the primary concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding enforced construction to end in October 1941. The U.S. National Park Service took control of the memorial in 1933, while it was still in construction, and control the memorial to the present day. It attracts around two million people annually.

Location	Pennington County, South Dakota, U.S.
Nearest city	Keystone, South Dakota
Area	1,278.45 acres
Established	March 3, 1925
Visitors	14,757,971

Maya Angelou - American autobiographer and poet, professor

Maya Angelou is one of the American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is well known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early on adult experiences. The first and most greatly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international respect, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degree and was selected for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.

Angelou was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s, was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. A Tony Award nomination for her position in the 1973 play Look Away, and three Grammys for her spoken word albums. In 1995, Angelou's publishing company, Bantam Books, known her for having the longest running record on The New York Times Paperback factual Bestseller List. In 1998, she was induct into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She has provide on two presidential committees, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Lincoln Medal in 2008. Musician Ben Harper has privileged Angelou with his song "I'll Rise", which include words from her poem, "And Still I Rise." She has been awarded above thirty honorary degrees.

Born	Marguerite Ann Johnson
Date Of Birth	April 4, 1928
Place Of Birth	Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Occupation	Poet, civil rights activist, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, author, actress, professor
Ethnicity	African American
Literary movement	Civil rights

Salmon P. Chase

Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who provide as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States. In 1830, Chase moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he speedily gained a position of prominence at the bar. He published an annotate edition of the laws of Ohio which was long careful a standard. The death of his first wife in 1835, triggered Chase's religious reawakening and devotion to causes more aligned with his faith, including Abolition. He worked primarily with the American Sunday School Union and began defending fugitive slaves. At a time when public opinion in Cincinnati was conquered by Southern business connections, Chase, influenced probably by James G. Birney, associated himself with the anti-slavery movement. He became the head of the political reformers, as different to the Garrisonian abolitionist movement.

Born	January 13, 1808
Birth Place	Cornish, New Hampshire, U.S.
Political party	Free Soil, Liberty, Republican, Democrat
Spouse(s)	Katherine Jane Garmiss, Eliza Ann Smith, Sarah Bella Dunlop Ludlow
Profession	Politician, Lawyer, Judge
Religion	Episcopalian
Died	May 7, 1873
Death Place	New York City, New York, U.S.