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- Both science and mankind are indebted to the French Chemist for his contribution in the development of science of Microbiology. He discovered the process of pasteurization to stop fermentation of milk and butter. He is well known for discovering the vaccine against the rabies. ...
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- The Fourth District of Chicago is rather new to the Chicago land made up
largely of Hispanics and Latinos. This District like many others face major
problems of crime, health care and education. Democratic representative Luis V.
Gutierrez represents the answer to these and other problems. Who is...
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- Mathew Maldonado
Pd.1B
H English 10
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Although was a employee at NSA, the text supports that his actions were not right or lawful. His actions may be disagreed with but the texts supports his actions were not right. "Michael Scherer,...
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- There are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael,...
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- Truth Paragraph
was a strong woman that spoke her mind for what she believed in. , originally named Isabelle, was born into slavery about 1797 in Ulster County, New York. Around 1815 Isabella married Thomas, a fellow slave, and had five kids, Diana, Peter,...
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- Franklin D. Roosevelt played an important role in economic and social reforms and was the first president to reach out to citizens in 'fireside chats' ' leading to a 'more personalized' and a closer relationship with citizens. His wife, Eleanor, aided him in social reforms, but his own party...
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- , a civil rights leader in the 1960's believed that blacks and
whites should be segregated. He also believed that white man was evil and
were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's "non-
violent protests" weren't working and that violence was needed for change.
's life was a...
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- The Famous Mathematician
was born in 287 B.C. in small self-governed town in Sicily. In 312 B.C. Syracuse, Sicily was captured by the Romans. The way died is unknown. Some people believe that was studying a mathematical diagram and a roman soldier...
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- 2/10/14
Religion
Micah Roemen
I chose to write about because I have heard of his life and found it interesting. There was also a large amount of knowledge to research from about . I also knew he is called Doctor of the church and I...
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- GEORGE ORWELL
Orwell is best known for two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, both of which were published toward the end of his life. Animal Farm (1945) was an anti-Soviet satire that presented two pigs. These pigs are said to represent Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky. In 1949, Orwell...
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Joan California cooper is an African American playwright and author. She wrote seventeen plays and named the Black Playwright in 1978. Her work in the theater that she caught the attention of acclaimed poet and novelist Alice Walker. Encouraged by walker to...
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- An autobiography recounts the life of an individual who has played an important role in the world. The individual, or, character must be a relevant and influential figure in society to have a successful autobiography. Frederick Douglass was an extremely intelligent and influential man which is...
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- Emily Kubincanek
7th period
Essay
In the excerpt from Douglas's autobiography, he goes into detail about his early childhood as a slave. He mentions that he doesn't know where or when he was born. His mother was a slave also and he talks about her very little involvement in his...
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- has experienced many hardships during his short reign as king, but has overcome most of them. He is expected to send Morocco in a new direction, because of his new political reforms. His relations with other countries can be sometimes rough, but Moroccans must believe that he can find a way...
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- Biography of "Let your clubs speak for you." was too young to notice the racism around him. He didn't understand that in this world, people were judged by the color of their skin. He couldn't speak out about it; he couldn't voice his opinions, or come up with possible solutions because he was too...
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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948)
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990.
served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993 - 2001), under President Bill Clinton.
During...
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- had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. founded the Fasci di...
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- Many readers, critics and scholars have seen how similar Shakespeare's and Marlowe works are. Because of their similarities some have thought that Shakespeare's work was really written by Marlowe due to the lack of education of Shakespeare while others think that Shakespeare was the true writer of...
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- South-Africa was settled by Dutch speaking whites, the boers, in the seventeenth century. Later they were followed by the British, who they several times fought against to keep the power. In 1948 the white people felt that the bladks threatened their position, so the national party, that has formed...
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- MacArthur was the General of the Pacific fleet Navy during WWII. He led a southern attack against Japan that began just above Australia and eventually captured every Japanese occupied islands except the mainland.?At the outset of the War, MacArthur was in command of the US forces in the...
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- Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, but Gandhi was a passive and peaceful preacher of morals, ethics, and beliefs. He was an outsider who ended British rule over India without striking a blow. Moreover, Gandhi was not skillful with any...
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He was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from the Union he was made a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He fought in the first and...
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- was a musical composer of the late 17th and early
18th centuries. He was one of the greatest composers of all time. He was born
in Eisenach, Thuringia, in 1685. He spent his life in music and was known for
his ability in that subject.
At age 15, Bach got his first job as a court musician at...
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- What I researched on there weren't a lot of things I could find on him. The things I found were very interesting, things like his personal life and his career. His personal life wasn't bad nor was his career. Many people love Shakespeare's plays. When reading or watching his...
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- Pathway Home Articles Vampire Facts Who Is? John George Haigh?
Who Is? John George Haigh?
The Acid Bath Vampire
In the halls of vampiric crime, few names stand out like that of John George Haigh. Half a century ago, England's newspapers screamed, "Vampire!" The trial of "The Acid Bath...
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- was a Captain of industry. He gave away most of his fortune and gave a lot back. Even though he didnt treat his workers the best he
and John D. Rockefeller were captains of industries. They helped America become what it is today. They developed company's and...
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- is considered to be one of the most influential people in the history of music. He took the initiative to stand up and speak for an entire generation. He sung about freedom, peace and solutions to the world's problems. Many of the people of this generation lived vicariously through him and his...
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- CAMUS BIO-BIBL
Biographie
Albert Camus est n' en 1913, ' Mondovi, en Alg'rie. Son p're, simple ouvrier agricole, meurt en 1914, lors de la Bataille de la Marne. C'est ' Alger, dans le quartier populaire de Belcourt, qu'Albert Camus passe son enfance et son adolescence, sous le double signe, qu'il...
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- He was born 1732 and he died in1799. seems today a figure
larger than life itself'..almost as he was when he was a familiar person in the
halls, homes, shops, and bars of 18th-century city Williamsburg. On Duke of
Gloucester Street, in the Raleigh Tavern's Apollo Room, or the Governor's...
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On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish descent,...
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- was born on May 5, 1818, in a place called Trier in Prussia. His parents were of Jewish descent, however they did not practice Judaism. In 1824 Karl's father adopted Protestantism. Marx attended the university of Bonn and later the university at Berlin, where he studied in law, while majoring in...
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- Environment is an important issues. In Viet Nam's modern history, besides Ho Chi Minh, there are many famous revolutionaries. One of them is General , also known as Van Sau affecting strongly to Vietnamese's revolutions.
was born in 1899 in the central land of Viet...
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- Jan 4 1643 - March 31 1727 On Christmas day by the georgian calender in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, England, Issaac Newton was born prematurely. His father had died 3 months before. Newton had a difficult childhood. His mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton remarried when he was just three, and he was...
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- was a master at the art of leadership, proving this throughout his several high-ranked positions in the US Army during World War II. 's roles during World War II include Chief of Staff to Commander General Walter, Brigadier General, Major General, Commander of all U.S. forces...
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- Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in Walworth, London on April 16, 1889. His parents, Charles and Hannah Chaplin were music hall performers in England, his father was quite well know in the profession. Charlie had one sibling, a brother named Sydney. At a very early age Charlie was told that someday...
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- An exemplary novel of realism, Henry Fleming's experience as a new recruit and his struggles internal and external while under fire was hailed as a remarkable achievement for Crane and remains in print today. Crane lived a very short but eventful life--author and publisher Irving Bacheller hired...
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- The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century produces many differing views on religion. The Catholic Church didn't change much until the Counter Reformation, which probably helped to encourage the Protestants. The Protestants not only disagreed with the Catholic Church about their...
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- was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin, the second son of four children of Amos Parker and Isabella Wilder. In 1906 the family moved to China when his father became the United States Consul-General in Hong Kong. The teenager attended the English China Inland Mission...
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- was born on April 15,1452 in the village of Anchiano, close to the town of Vinci. His illegitimately father was Ser Piero, a notary a lawyer and Leonardo's mother was Caterina, a peasant girl (Costantino 9). Born during a time when it was possible to believe that man can do all things, and Leonardo...
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- was a well known American poet in the twentieth century. His work was familiar with individuals worldwide. 'He was also known as a national symbol' (Shuman 555). His contributions in literature have influence of other successful poets such as Robert Graves, Mary Oliver, Donald...
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- Justin Shin
10/8/12
was born on October 13, 1451 at Genoa, Italy. His father was famous for weaving and political business, so Christopher took his job until the age of fourteen. This was when his life as a sea voyager began. During his whole life,...
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- Early Life
She was born the second daughter of traveling salesman Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle in the small city of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. There was a mis-spelling on her birth certificate that recorded her surname as "Chasnel", making the tracing of her roots almost impossible for...
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Conservationist, wildlife biologist and television host was born in Norwell, Massachusetts in 1967, where he attended Norwell High School. Corwin has bachelor of science degrees in biology and anthropology, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst,...
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- was a physicist who developed the first X-ray. He was born on March 27th 1845, in Lennep, Germany. He studied at many different schools, one of which was the university of Munich where he spent most of his time as the chair of physics. In 1895 he was studying the phenomena...
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- What drove , born March 30,1853, to his mental illness and suicide? Could it have been the many things he tried, but failed at in his life? He failed in many different careers, in love, and even his artwork. Van Gogh sold only one painting his entire life. Because of his mental illness, he was...
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- Was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time....
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He had many jobs in his life. He was a philosopher, inventor, musician, politician, writer, scientist and diplomat just to mention a few. Benjamin Franklin was a great leader in the American Revolution, helped to write the Declaration of Independence and was one of the...
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- (Born February 22 [February 11, Old Style], 1732, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]'died December 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775'83) and subsequently first president of the United States...
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- Around September 2, 1766 John Dalton was born. He was born in Eaglesfield, England. Dalton was most known for the development of the modern atomic theory. Dalton was taught at his early ages of learning by his father and a Quaker teacher whom in 1778 Dalton would replace him after he retired. ...
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- In my culture, we knew that genius guy , he only said that the Earth was round like ball and turned around of the sun in 24 hours, but the earth was not the center of the universe. However , they were sacrificed him because he was told the untrue story and he died. 'It should be noted that...
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- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald once said "Mostly we authors must repeat ourselves'that's the truth. We have two or three experiences in our lives' experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up" (de Koster n. pag.). Fitzgerald's works contain...
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- Born in the Austrian town of Braunau on April 20, 1889, Adolf was the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. By 1900, young Adolf's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory school or the technical/scientific...
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- On August,13 1860, Pheobe Ann Moses was born to Jacob and Susan Moses in their one room cabin in Patterson, Ohio. When Annie was around 6, her father contracted pnemonia while traveling the 18 miles home from town in a blizzard, and died in the spring of 1866. Afterward, Susan had trouble...
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- Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20th , 1925. He was the seventh child in the close family of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. 'I was the seventh of nine children' he later recalled, 'and when you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive'. He attended...
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- E-mail: williamandrew@hotmail.com
Niels Hendrik David Bohr Niels Hendrik David Bohr was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The Nobel prizewinning physicist was known for his development of the theory of atomic fission that led to the development of the atomic bomb. He was born on...
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- Most of the worlds geography was a mystery before james cook
' He made 3 voyages
' Described himself as "who had the ambition not only to go further than anyone had done before but as far as possible for a man to go."
' Born into the age where scientific knowledge was an intense as the thirst...
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- MOLLY PITCHER
By: Brittany Warren
I am a composite person so I have no definite birth or death date recorded in history. In addition, I never roamed the cobblestone paths or the dirt roads of a town that I claimed as my home. I am a "woman" who represents the actions of the heroic women who...
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- Nicholas' brief pontificate was marked by several important events. A born politician, he greatly strengthened the papal position in Italy. He concluded a concordat with Rudolph I of Habsburg (1273'91) in May 1278, by which the Romagna and the exarchate of Ravenna were guaranteed to the Pope....
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was a good person; he loved his patients and cared about them. He made kids laugh, comforted old people and made everyone feel good. I would do exactly the same, I will care about each patient I see. Laugh with them and talk, cause I believe when a person is happy he...
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- Although she lived a seemingly secluded life, Emily Dickinson's many
encounters with death influenced many of her poems and letters. Perhaps one of
the most ground breaking and inventive poets in American history, Dickinson has
become as well known for her bizarre and eccentric life as for her...
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- Sharon #29
Mrs.Rendon
was known as an English theologian, a theologian is a person knowledgeable in theology, mainly Christian theology. was born in London, circa 1603. He was a father of three sons and one daughter. There names were Sydrach, Roger and...
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- Mohandas Gandhi, Whom most people know as Mahatma, meaning ?Great
Soul,? is one of the most prevalent images in the minds of those who think about great
leaders, in the movement for human rights and non-violence. However, not much is
known about his life as a child and his achievements in the...
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- ?I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: ?We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal?...I have a dream that my
four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their...
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- Se trataba de Mr , un americano quien se hab'a educado hast= a el punto de no tener dinero. En 1937, sali' de su ciudad, Boston, Massachussets. En 1944, se halla en Am'rica del Sur, alrededor del r'o Amazonas, con una tribu de ind'genas. Era 'el Gringo Pobre', a veces deb'a buscar...
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- was born in Lawrenceville, Massachusettes on
August 25, 1918. He was the first born child of Samuel and Jennie Bernstein,
who lived in Boston, but had gone to Lawrenceville to visit some relatives.
Bernstein's parents had little knowledge of, or interest in
classical music. The only records...
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- Albert Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost every person in the world. While most of these people do not understand his work, everyone knows that his impact on the world of science is amazing. Many people have heard...
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- is one of the toughest players you can meet on a basketball court. Off the court, he is soft-spoken and extremely friendly. When you first meet him you can not help but want to be friends with him. I had the opportunity to first see Modibo play this past summer at an AAU (Amateur Athletic Union)...
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- On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 A.M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the world's most famous victims of World War II. Her name was , and her parents were Edith Frank Hollandar and Otto Frank. She had one sister,...
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- : Fighter for the Black Man was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to work were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delivering speech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America's view of the Negro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just...
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- America is interesting. It captures the imagination and attention
of the world but almost all of the attention it receives is negative. A gas
guzzling, beer drinking, loud, and highly violent culture are some of the
more common attributes dumped on America. It's the mass murders, militia
standoffs,...
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- There have been many people that have contribution to sociology, was one of these people. His theories made great and big changes, which brought many controversies into sociology. He used scientific methods to approach the study of society and social groups (Dickey, est. al; 1876; 394).
was a...
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- Characteristic of the Romantic Era
Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that placed value on emotion or imagination over reason, on the imagination over society. Some sources say Romanticism started in reaction to neo-classicism, or the...
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- The 18th century was a period of unprecedented contact between Europeans and subjects of the Ottoman Empire, a situation that spilled over into all areas of society. "Turkish" customs and art became the popular rage in Vienna, as the fear of actual Ottoman a superior opera, with his creation of Die...
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was known as a Patriot woman who was a threat to the power and authority of the Puritan leadership. Her religious beliefs were very different when compared to those that were being taught by Puritan clergy within the Boston area. Her preaching nearly caused a...
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- Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848,
six years after his parents, George and Rebecca Latimer, had run away from slavery in Virginia. They were determined to be free and that their children be born on free soil. Because of his light complexion, George was...
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- The number one cause of death in teens is suicide? Looking back to one of the most commonly known and most devistating suicides, of lead singer of the former band Nirvana. In his time of music he had the world in his hands. He used personal turmoil as fuel for great music. Suprisingly, he seemed...
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- This essay will illustrate why Napoleon Bonaparte is regarded as one of the greatest military masterminds in the history of mankind. It will show the life of Napoleon from when he was a young boy, till he died in 1821. It will show how he deceived the French into giving him power, and how he used...
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- Born September 7, 1963, 's early reputation on the
streets of Compton, California, was a hustler eager to apply his street
knowledge to his legitimate game. He dropped out of high school in the tenth
grade, but refused that to interrupt his success.
In the late `80's he turned to rap music. ...
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- Theodore Roosevelt was the second of four children. He was born in New
York City on October 27, 1858 of Dutch, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French and
German heritage. Partially due to poor health, he suffered from Asthma and
bad vision, he was educated by tutors until he entered Harvard...
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- Locke's Influences on Education
John Locke had a number of major influences on society in general, but his influences on education have stood the taste of time. His idea of Tabula Rasa, his introduction of empiricism, and idea of the use of all senses are all objectives that are used in schools...
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- On an unknown date in 1817, on a slave plantation in Tuckahoe Maryland,
Frederick August Washington Bailey was born. Frederick was raised in a house
on the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven,
like many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields. As a...
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- has written over more then five hundred published works and continues to keep writing. He is known as one of the best science fiction novelists and has won many awards and accommodations for it. After publishing his adult novel Fahrenheit 451, it was soon considered one of his best works. There...
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- was a stupendous ball player. He was great at playing
baseball because he practiced a lot. His whole baseball career, is the career that I dream of having. He played in 12 of his 18 career years in the World Serieswith the Yankee's. When was growing up, he was small, and spindly. His nickname...
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- The story of Eva Peron is a fascinating one . Evita, as she is known,
enjoyed a rise to power like no other. The details of this ascension are often
disputed, making Santa Evita's tale all the more intriguing. . .
Maria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919,1 the fifth and youngest
illegitimate...
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- Pole vaulting has come a long way since 1912. It started out using bamboo poles. Now new technology has brought the sport a long way. It has been said that it is the single most advanced sport ever. The fiber glass poles now used in the pole vault has brought the world record from thirteen feet two...
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- Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are famous psychoanalysists with unique approaches to personality. At one point they shared many of the same theories and had a deep friendship. In fact, Jung was to be heir to Freud's position as president of the International Psychoanalytic Association. However,...
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- Julius Caesar is a man determined to be the king of the Roman State. He sees himself as a great man, better than others. He's very ambitious and considers himself godlike. He is also superstitious to an extent. This personality is what I think gets him killed in the end.
The story begins in...
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- The life of Ronald Wilson Reagan is a story of unlikely successes. Born into a poor family, he came of age during the hard economics times of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Yet he was able to achieve great successes in two quite different fields-as an actor and in politics. Ronald Reagan is...
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- For generations, has been a hero to Scotland and a patron of freedom. After Mel Gibson's portrayal of Wallace in the award winning movie, Braveheart, there was a dramatic rise in the popularity and recognition of the Scottish hero. The story of has been passed down through many different...
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- Robert Cormier was born in 1925 in French Hill, a French-Canadian
neighborhood of Leominster, Massachusetts, and has lived in Leominster all
his life. The second of eight children, Robert enjoyed a happy childhood in
the nest of his close-knit family and community. His family provided him a
haven...
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- Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974), American aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He attended the University of Wisconsin for two years but withdrew to attend a...
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- Though Barry Switzer's career may have not always been glamorous, it was always successful. Switzer grew up in Arkansas, but will always be connected with Oklahoma. He is one of the best coaches to ever coach college football, and reached a hundred wins faster than any other coach. Barry had a...
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- German engineer Ferdinand Porsche is certainly one of the most important
figures - if not the most imporant and influent-in the history of automobile
making. This outstanding Teuton was born on September 3rd, 1875 in Mafferdorf,
Germany. One of the most remarkable accomplishments of his carrer was...
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- The rise of into the ranks of history's greatest composers was parallelled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair. Beginning in the late 1790's, the increasing buzzing and humming in his ears sent Beethoven into a panic, searching for a cure from doctor to...
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- was a dreamer. Bradbury had a skill at putting his dreams
onto paper, and into books. He dreams dreams of magic and transformation, good
and evil, small-town America and the canals of Mars. His dreams are not only
popular, but durable. His work consists of short stories, which are not hard...
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- Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, just north of Boston, on Sunday, August 25, 1918. Bernstein was named Louis at birth, after his mother's grandfather, but at the age of sixteen he had it formally changed to Leonard, or Lenny.
As a child, Bernstein was sick very often with asthma and hay...
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- The book ion written by Edward Hyams is a book that has changed my entire view on society, life, greed, and morales.
This book tells the entire life of a famous revolutionary named Ernesto Guevara. Ernesto Guevara is widely known throughout the world as Che Guevara or simply Che. The interesting...
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- , Grand Duchess of Russia, was a very mischievous little girl with a sharp sense of humor (McGuire 18). She was always described as having long fine fingers and baby blue eyes. As she grew older, her personality changed drastically because of her dramatic childhood. Her eyes and fingers remained...
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- was an English soldier and statesman who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars. He was lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 to 1658 during the republican Commonwealth.
As a general on the parliamentary side of the English Civil War vs. Charles I, Cromwell helped...
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- Supreme Court Justice was born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey to a Sicilian immigrant father and an Italian-American mother and was raised in Queens. He attended Catholic schools in New York City as a child and teen. Scalia then attended Georgetown University, spending his junior year at...
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- ankhamen ,or , was one of the youngest kings to reign over any country. "The Boy King" is best remembered for his magnificent funeral treasures, including his elaborate golden burial mask. achieved a measure of immortality through his glittering burial treasures.
was an Egyptian pharaoh of...
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- Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous real estate business. His father, Dr. Hemingway, imparted to Ernest the importance of appearances, especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented surgical forceps for which he would not...
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- Throughout Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the warlike and the social concept behind chivalry is one of intense concern for this author from the Middle Ages. What makes Canto XII so important in terms of understanding Dante's feelings on chivalry and war is that the reader is seeing Dante's views on...
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- Smith, Michael (1932- ), British-born Canadian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner. Smith developed a method for altering the nucleic acid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) structure of protein molecules. His technique enabled scientists to determine with great accuracy the function of proteins in specific...
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- In August 1841, at an abolitionist meeting in New Bedford, the 23-year-old Douglass saw his hero and his 'true friend?, William Lloyd Garrison, for the first time. A few days later, Douglass spoke before the crowd attending the annual meeting of the Massachusetts branch of the American...
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- September 13, 1916, was the day Harald and Sofie Dahl, two
Norwegian immigrants living in Wales, had their first son, a boy they named
Roald. Even before birth Roald was supposed to be endowed with great sense
of beauty, courtesy of his father. Harald Dahl, a thriving ship broker in
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- Mark Antony is one of the most famous people of Roman history. He was one of the most superior generals and a crucial statesman in his time. A comrade and patron of Julius Caesar, Antony was an ideal military tactician and leader of the people. He was a man who started out for the people but...
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- Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelest and short-story
writer whose writings and personal life exerted a profound influence on
American writers of his time and thereafter. Many of his works are regarded
as American classics, and some have subsequently been made into motion
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Este famoso cuento, escrito por Oscar Wilde (16/10/1854 - 30/11/1900) narra la llegada de un feo enanito al castillo de Espa?a, donde deb?a hacer re?r a la Infanta y a los nobles, porque la peque?a cumpl?a 12 a?os.
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was an American patriot who, in 1775, carried news to Lexington of the approach of the British. He warned the patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and Johh Hancock of their danger and called the citizens of the countryside to arms. This was the inspirations of...
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- was also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, on November 30, 1835, he died April 21, 1910, he achieved worldwide fame during his lifetime as an author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such...
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- and integration are two phrases that cannot be segregated. Whether he liked it or not, he played the star role in the integration of society during the time that he played Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers. His heroic journey that landed him in the Majors shows, ?how integration has...
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- Robert Frost has been discovering America all his life. He has also been
discovering the world; and since he is a really wise poet, the one thing
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- The Soubirous family lived in the far north of the little town of Lourdes, in
the Lapaca district. A large stream flowed there, and on this stream there were
seven mills; one of them known as the Boly Mill, and this had been the residence
of the Soubirous. Francois Soubirous leased the mill from...
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- Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the...
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- was born in a small town called Gori, his birth name was Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvilli.(Tyrant). Iosif is Russian for Joseph and in 1910 he changed is name to Stalin meaning steel.(Red Tsar) As a student Stalin received a good education which gave him the ability to become dictator of all...
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- Galileo was born near Pisa, on February 15, 1564. His father,
Vincenzo Galilei, played an important role in the musical revolution from
medieval polyphony to harmonic modulation. Galileo was taught by monks at
Vallombrosa and then entered the University of Pisa in 1581 to study
medicine. He soon...
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- One of the most publicized figures in the history of U.S. sports was the 'Wheaton Ice Man,' a ripping, tearing ball carrier whose correct name is Harold Grange. Perhaps the greatest broken-field runner of them all, Grange terrorized the opponents of the University of Illinois for three years. They...
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- was man who had wisdom, ingenuity, and a voice. He was born on April 9, 1889 in Princeton, New Jersey. Robeson's mother died in a fire when he was six and his father moved to Somerville with the family, where Robeson excelled in academics and Sang at a church. When he was 17 he earned...
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- Georges Bizet, who is best known for his opera, Carmen, has remained
somewhat of a mystery as far as his musical education, social life, and
personal life. He is not like so many other composers and musicians of the
Romantic Period who led a highly publicized life like Hector Berlioz,...
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- Edward Lorenz was a mathematical meteorologist during the 1960s. In
1961, an experiment with a primitive weather predicting program lead to the
discovery of the theory of chaos. Lorenz defined chaos as "a system that
has two states that look the same on separate occasions, but can develop
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- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10,1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts (Davidson 247). She was the second born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson (Davidson 247). Her older brother Austin and her younger sister Lavina lived in a reserved family headed by their...
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- William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who
lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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- When one thinks of computer software, one must think of Microsoft. In
fact if you use a computer, chances are that you will have some type of program
on there that is developed by Microsoft. The CEO, chairman, cofounder, and
owner of 147 billion shares of Microsoft is .
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- was born on April 28, 1926. She was the youngest of 3 children born to Amasa and Francis Finch Lee. She was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended local schools until 1944, at which time, she entered Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama. She became a Fulbright Scholar and spent a year...
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- For almost a quarter century was a household name in the United States. Between 1902 when he first made the pages of the New York Times and 1935 when the paper covered his death and memorial service in detail, people who knew anything about current events had heard of the former major league...
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- Born in Groton, Conn., was the son of the Reverend Sr. His Father was a pioneer of New England Anglicanism who followed the example of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Jr.,broke away from the Congregationalists and pursued Anglican ordination. He graduated from Yale in 1744 and received his B.A in 1748....
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- John Adams had three remarkable careers in his lifetime. One as an enemy of British oppression and champion of independence. As an American diplomat in Europe and as the first vice-president and second president of the United States. His diary, letters and speeches showed him to be very...
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- was born on February 24, 1685 in Halle, Germany.
One of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700-50) and, during
his lifetime, perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians. Handel
was born February 24, 1685, in Halle, Germany, to a family of no musical
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- was one of the great humanists. He was well
educated and practice scholasticism. He was also a great writer, who wrote
books of many types. He is even called the greatest European scholar of the
16th century (Britannica Macropedia). He was also courageous, as he
criticized the Church harshly. It...
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- was assumed to be born in 1592. I have found that his most
probable birth date was in February of 1593. This is due to the usual calendar
confusion: England was not at that time using the new calendar adopted in
October 1582. It was 1593 according to our modern calendar, but at the time the
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- Washington Irving was a American writer, the first American author
to achieve international fame, who created the fictional characters Rip Van
Winkle and Ichabod Crane. The strict acceptance and standing popularity of
Irving's tales involving these characters proved the effectiveness of the
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804 into an old Puritan family. Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. He thereafter returned to his Salem home, living in semi-seclusion and writing. His work received little public recognition, however, and Hawthorne attempted...
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- Ronald William Howard was born March 1st, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma. He is the older of two brothers. His parents, Rance Howard his father was an actor, director and writer, his mother Jean Howard was an actress, in 1959 his family relocated to Hollywood. Young Ron quickly joined the family business...
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- David wrote much about the subject of religion, much of it negative. In this paper we shall attempt to follow 's arguments against Deism as Someone knowable from the wake He allegedly makes as He passes. This kind of Deism he lays to rest. Then, digging deeper, we shall try our hand at a...
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- Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling
writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction,
the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these
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Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, the son of Hans Luther, who
worked in the copper mines, and his wife Margarethe. He went to school at
Magdeburg and Eisenach, and entered the University of Erfurt in 1501,
graduating with a BA in 1502 and...
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- was a phenomenal African-American mathematician, astronomer, and inventor. He was born near Baltimore, Md., on November 9, 1731. He was the son of a slave and a free black woman. He grew up as a free black, and while attending school he demonstrated early mathematical ability. His childhood...
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was a botanist, geologist, and writer. He had overcome earthquakes, glaciers,
and he climbs mountains. had impressed by overcoming all the
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- was born in 1847. As a child He took after his
grandfather who was an actor who entertained people with his voice. Alexanders
mother, who was deaf, would have people talk to her through her ear tube, which
amplifies speech by talking through a object that looked like a horn. Alexander
choose to...
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- was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. is the exception. was very preoccupied with...
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- was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. In 1845, his father, a tailor by trade, moved his family to Paris in hopes of finding his fortunes in the capital. They moved into a small apartment building which has been part of a sixteenth century housing complex for the Palace Guard. He...
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- was an African-American poet and an author. He was prolific at writing short stories, novels, librettos, plays, songs essays and poetry. His work was popular with black and white readers of his day, and are celebrated today by scholars and schoolchildren alike. He is accredited as being the...
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centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people.
While most of these do not understand this man's work, everyone knows that
its impact on the world of science is astonishing.
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
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- In both of the writings by Douglass and Stowe, the question is raised concerning the existence of God. On page 1790 while watching the sails of the ships on Chesapeake Bay Douglass cries out for God to save him and grant him freedom and then states, "Is there any God?" On pages 2330 in response to...
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- has written over more then five hundred published works and continues to keep writing. He is known as one of the best science fiction novelists and has won many awards and accommodations for it. After publishing his adult novel Fahrenheit 451, it was soon considered one of his best works. There...
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- It all began in and around the year 1919. Sula Peace, the daughter of Rekus who died when she was 3years old and Hannah, was a young and lonely girl of wild dreams. Sula was born in the same year as Nel, 1910. Sula was a heavy brown color and had large eyes with a birthmark that resembled a...
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- On May 29, 1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was Joseph P. Kennedy's second son. J.F.K was one of nine children. His brother and sisters were named: Joseph Jr., Robert F., Edward M., Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, and Jean. J.F.K's Father served as first...
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- Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of...
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- was born in Mondovi, Algeria, on November 7, 1913, and died instantaneously in a car crash in route to Paris on January4, 1960. In the interval he studied philosophies at the University of Algiers, went to Frances where he severed in the Resistance by editing Combat, and had a brief marriage and...
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- In 1825 President John Quincy Adams appointed as the first
U.S. minister to Mexico. His first assignment was to persuade the Mexican
government to sell the U.S. the province of Texas, thus continuing the
rapid expansion of the American democracy. The United States continued to
pursue Texas with...
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- Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin?..
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- For anyone who knows anything about baseball, the 1919 World Series brings to mind many things. "The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 started out as a few gamblers trying to get rich, and turned into one of the biggest, and easily the darkest, event in baseball history" (Everstine 4). This great sports...
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- was born on January 8, 1894, in Zdunska Wola, near Russian Occupied Poland. Father Kolbe created a life of good deeds which he voluntarily ended to prolong another man's. Because he was involve in sickness as well as enemy threat, St. Maximilian lead a life with a constant chance of death, just...
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- The inventor of dynamite was a very important roll to take part in. The ultimate inventor of it was a mane named . Before dynamite, miners had to use nitrogen to blow holes in rock and other things. However it is too volatile and can explode incredibly easily. Alfred changed all this.
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- is a basketball phenomenon. Mr. Marbury has been known by the basketball world at the young age of eleven. Many pressures and confrontations have encountered Mr. Marbury throught his entire basketball career. These began when he was a young child and they still accompany him.
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- Could you ever imagine living your entire life in the same town and if you try to leave something will keep bringing you back. In the novel, Ethan Frome, the main character Ethan Frome lives his life in this way. Through his silence, isolation, and illusions he causes himself to be trapped in...
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- March 19, 1996
People all around the world know the voice of James Earl Jones. From
Star Wars fans listening to the voice of Darth Vader to news junkies who hear a
voice that dramatically intones AThis is CNN@ just before all the cable network=
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- was a German theologian and religious reformer, who started the
Protestant Reformation, and whose vast influence during his time period made him
one of the crucial figures in modern European history. Luther was born in
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- February 20, 1902, a photographer was born. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Ansel Easton Adams was the only child of New England parents, Charles Hitchcock and Olive Adams. Adams' father was a businessman, whose company included an insurance agency and chemical plant. Ansel took an...
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- 1832-1918 In the fond eyes of her husband, President James A. Garfield, Lucretia "grows up to every new emergency with fine tact and faultless taste." She proved this in the eyes of the nation, though she was always a reserved, self-contained woman. She flatly refused to pose for a campaign...
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- There are always two sides to every issue. Though many great things can come from being obedient to your friends, families and even the government, many great things also can come from being disobedient. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X proved this. By being disobedient and following their...
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- Pop art is a movement that occurred near the end of the 1950's. It was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism. Pop art emphasized contemporary social values, the sprawl of urban life, the vulgar, the superficial, and the flashy. Advertising provided a number of starting points for the subjects. ...
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- We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free.
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- On November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of Dallas, Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead, apparently by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The world had not only lost a common man, but a great leader of men.
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- 1. THE BEGINNING At half past six on the evening of April 20th, 1889 a child was born in the small town of Branau, Austria. The name of the child was . He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara. As a young boy Adolf attendated church regulary and sang in the local...
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- and Lao Tzu were two highly known scholars in Ancient China. These scholars with their intellectual writings changed the views of the Chinese people. believed in the moral values and filial piety, he also wanted civic obedience. Lao Tzu was a mystical writer, his comparison between a "perfect...
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- was one of the most renowned writers in world literature. His great masterpieces have influenced the world immensely. He was not only a great writer and poet but he also was a man that overcame great odds to write awe inspiring works of
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- contributed a large potion of the Civil War. To begin,
he was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18, 1782. His parents
were farmers so many people didn't know what to expect of him. Even though
his parents were farmers, he still graduated from Dartmouth College in
1801. After he learned to...
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- Gaius Julius was an extremely powerful politician and a brilliant general. He also gained the respect as a good leader and was appointed dictator of Rome. helped Rome and the present day world become what it is today by his great leadership qualities.
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- Throughout Princess Diana's lifetime she loved, cared, and helped others along the way. She had many accomplishments in life. Such as her children and her many organizations.
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- Introduction
Alexander the great made an impact on world history that few individuals
can profess to have done. He ruled all of the known world, and one of the
largest empires ever. His men were the first westerners to encounter tales of
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- Where would music be had it not been for the men that stepped before him.
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classics. These men were naturals in their own right, but these people wrote
their music in the 17th and 18th century. Many people don't realize...
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- John Keats was one of the last, great poets of the Romantic Era.
He wrote poetry of great sensual beauty and with a unique passion for
details. In his lifetime he was not associated with the senior poets who
began the movement at the time of the French Revolution. He was unlucky in
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, one of America's greatest actors and
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inherited much more than a good mind and a strong
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public service and in worshiping God.
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- , a Scottish economist and philosopher, was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The exact date of his birth is unknown, however, he was baptized on June 5, 1723. was the son of , the comptroller of the customs at Kirkcaldy, and of Margaret Douglas. He was the only child of the married couple. His...
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of his time. He spent almost 30 years exploring a region little known to the
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, one of America's greatest actors and
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- John Marshall was born in Fauquier County, Virginia on September 4, 1755.
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- On the evening of April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in the village of Braunau Am in Austria. Nobody knew he would grow up and someday lead a movement that would hurt many families.
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- Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong
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"To bad he had to kick the bucket!"
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nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack
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- was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and he died in France in 1973. Picasso's father was an art teacher in a local school. He wanted Picasso to become a great artist some day. Picasso's painting style changed more over the period of his life than any other great artist. He was always trying new...
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- Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892-1971), American Protestant theologian, whose social doctrines profoundly influenced American theological and political thought.
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- As one of America's first modernist poets, T. S. Eliot's unique style and subject matter would have a dramatic influence on writers for the century to come. Born in 1888 in St. Louis Mo. at the tail end of the "Cowboy era" he grew up in the more civilized industrial era of the early 20th century,...
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- is one of the most influential women in American History. She has many credits to her name and had numerous accomplishments in her lifetime. will not soon be forgotten.
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- Dmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the world's fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a...
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- Kevin Runion
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- One person that had a big impact on religion in her time was . Considered a saint by many, dedicated her life to serving the poorest of the poor, help the dying, AIDS victims, orphans, and society's outcasts around the world. , whose original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in what is...
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Setting:
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hitting team in the American League. The Angels need a win and are counting on
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- was born on February 25, 1955. He was soon adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, CA. Steve wasn't happy at school in Mountain View so the family moved to Palo Alto, CA. Steve attended Homestead High School. His electronics teacher recalled that he was 'something of a loner' and...
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- The 32nd President of the United States,
led the nation through the greatest war in history, World War 2. By doing
this, FDR made his mark in history with his supreme leadership and
optimistic views.
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- , an Italian-born navigator who sailed in the service of Spain, is commonly described as the "discoverer" of the New World--America. Although Columbus was in search of a westward route to Asia by sea, the "discoveries" he did make were more important and valuable than the route he failed to find....
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- Benjamin Franklin's autobiography was to serve as a precedent for
his son. His admiration and venerability for his ancestors inspired his
life and hopped it would do the same for the future generations. Franklin
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As the Industrialization began, a few talented and foreseeing people took advantage of the development of new industries, technologies, and methods. Mass production was a way to produce goods in large quantities, and being able to sell them to the consumer for more affordable prices. The old...
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- was born in Clermont France on June 19, 1623, and died in Paris on
Aug. 19, 1662. His father, a local judge at Clermont, and also a man with a
scientific reputation, moved the family to Paris in 1631, partly to presue his
own scientific studies, partly to carry on the education of his only son,...
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest Anti-Transcendentalist
writers of all time. He utilized his writings to express his dark, gloomy
outlook on life.
Hawthorne, a descendant of a puritan family, was born in Salem,
Massachusetts. Some of his ancestors included a judge known for the...
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- Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin (1914- ) holds many honorable positions and has received numerous awards for his notable work. He is one of America's most eminent historians, the author of more than fifteen books and numerous articles on the history of the United States, as well as a creator of a television...
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- Mary Wollstonecraft is held as being the first modern feminist. She was born in 1759 to a gentry farmer and an unloving mother and is said to have began her protests at an early age by protecting her mother from an abusive father and resenting her brother's favored position. She worked as a...
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- An English novelist and poet, was born September 11, 1885, in Nottingham, England. He was the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status between...
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- was 32nd president of the US 1933-45, a Democrat. He served as governor of New York 1929-33. Becoming president during the Great Depression, he launched the New Deal economic and social reform program, which made him popular with the people. After the outbreak of World War II he introduced...
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- was a German scientist and mathematician. People call him the founder of
modern mathematics. He also worked in astronomy and physics. His work in
astronomy and physics is nearly as significant as that in mathematics.
also worked in crystallography, optics, biostatisics, and mechanics.
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I really didn't have any problems finding information about Thomas
Jefferson. On the Internet, I just did a search for , and I got
all kinds of information, from the University to his
autobiography.
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- Grace Murray Hopper - A Life Story
It was 1906 in New York City when the great pioneer in data processing, Grace Murray Hopper, was born to the parents Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horn Murray. Even as a young child Grace loved learning about mathematics and the new technological...
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- The ambition to unite Germany under ein Volk, ein Reich (one people, one empire) was the primary goal of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party from the beginning of World War I to the end of World War II. This was not, however, a simple goal to achieve. Like most of Hitler's speeches, his road to power...
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- grew up in different environments. King was raised in a comfortable middle-class family where education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from and underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and...
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- In the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass (1845) ,there are
many masters that own and regulate his activities. Some masters were very
cruel and unusual. One individual master even gets into a pure out fight
with Douglass. Douglass did gain a little more freedom from this fight
with his...
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- was born on March 6, 1475. He was one of the most successful artists in all of Italy. His family had no artistic talent, but his is extraordinary. He loved to make marble sculptures. He was sent to another family because his mom fell off a horse. Plus, his father was an abusive man. So, he...
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- , was a man held in high regards of his peers. The life in which Petrarch lived, was certainly not one of which many people could have had dealt with. A life of solitude, misplaced love and, family misfortune that was endured. But, through hard workand perseverance, loyalty to the churches...
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- Charles Manson is known as one of the most sinister and evil
criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and
his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson's childhood,
personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a
family-like cult...
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- was an English mathematician, logician, and bibliographer. He was born in June 1806 at Madura, Madras presidency, India and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1823. had passed away on March 18, 1871, in London.
Augustus was recognized as far superior in mathematical ability to any other...
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- William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770 in the village of Cockermouth, Cumberland, into a comfortable middleclass family with roots firmly planted in Lake County. In 1778, Ann Wordsworth died suddenly, and then, over the Christmas holidays of 1783-1784, John Wordsworth followed. (Dome critics...
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- Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in the Rhine province of Prussia, now in Germany. Marx was an economic theorist who composed the idea of communism which included the idea of all the people owning all the property and infrastructure. These theories played a large...
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- Adolph Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. He lived in Vienna poverty stricken from 1907-1913. His childhood was not your average childhood. He didn't have enough money for the things he wanted so therefore he was not living the life he needed. As a reaction of his early life he couldn't keep...
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- 'was truly one of our great geniuses' even though he
may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself,
'Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.' Emerson was also a major
leader of 'the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism'. (Encarta 1)
Transcendentalism was...
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- In 399 BCE an elderly gentlemen named Socrates was brought before an Athenian jury. He was charged with corrupting the youth of Athens and not believing in the gods. At his trial Socrates tried to prove that he was innocent of the charges against him but it was to no avail. Socrates was handed...
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- Milton, John (1608-1674), English poet, whose rich, dense verse was a powerful influence on succeeding English poets, and whose prose was devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare.
Milton was born in London on...
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- was an honest person who had responsibility and compassion towards her husband, family and her fellow man, whatever their social status. She used great citizenship and initiative actions in dealing with anyone who was fortunate enough to make her acquaintance.
was an outspoken advocate of social...
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- began on February 6, 1895. On this
date Ruth was born.
As most boys started their baseball career throwing rocks at street
signs. Ruth was throwing eggs and potatoes at truck drivers.
The first organized baseball team that Ruth was on ,was at St.
Mary's Industrial School for Boys. Ruth was on...
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- Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in Walworth, London on April 16, 1889. His parents, Charles and Hannah Chaplin were music hall performers in England, his father was quite well know in the profession. Charlie had one sibling, a brother named Sydney. At a very early age Charlie was told that someday...
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- was a man who was best known for bolding standing against the difficult problems of his day. Issues such as slavery, negro social and political rights, and saving the Union in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln had many strength as well as flaws. He considered himself a...
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- A pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression.
Born in...
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- Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, had a strong impact on
American and African American history through his
involvement with the abolitionist movement and the
establishment of the abolitionist paper called the 'North
Star.' As a young slave growing up Frederick Douglass had
help learning how to...
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T.S. Eliot was a very influential pessimist, always and constantly
thriving on his hatred of little things and his love life.
Eliot was born in St. Louis Missouri - 1888 ad. His parents were
both writers and loved the arts, most effectively passing on the genes...
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- How does try to extricate himself from the sceptical doubts
that he has raised? Does he succeed?
by Tom Nuttall
[All page references and quotations from the Meditations are taken from
the 1995 Everyman edition]
In the Meditations, embarks upon what Bernard Williams has
called the...
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- If the question was asked, "Who was and still is the most hated and despised man in the history of the South" the response would be . From the onset of hostilities in the Atlanta Campaign on May 6, 1864 and the march to the Sea ending two days before Christmas 1864 with him capturing Savannah, no...
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- Many questions arise when one talks about Moll Flanders. Who was born in Newgate, was a whore for twelve years, was a wife five times, was a thief for twelve years, eight years a transported felon in Virginia. Through hard and long discussions, many questions about Moll Flanders were answered but...
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- The year was 1929, the Great Depression had hit hard all over the world.
People were losing their jobs, and their way of life was changing drastically
right before their eyes; the people needed money fast. They needed to rebuild
their lives and get back on their feet again, economically,...
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- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), world famous Russian physiologist became second to Freud as the most influential psychologist of our century. Pavlov was a follower of "The father of Russian psychology," Sechenov, whose theory was that the reflex is the essence of all reactions. Pavlov went...
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- In the Egyptian pyramids of Giza, the Great ruled as the greatest pharaoh of all times. the Great, also known as II, was born in 1304 B.C., and was given the name the Justice of Ray is Powerful. He had the knowledge of the kingdom, and became the focus of the court at an early age. and his...
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- was born on April 22, 1724 in Konigsburg, East Prussia. At age 8, he entered the Collegium Fridiricianum, a pietistic Latin school, where he remained for 8 1/2 years and studied the classics. he then entered the University of Konigsburg in 1740 to study philosophy, mathematics, and physics. In...
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- One of the most profoundly inspired and masterful composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family in Eisenach, Thuringia - until recently part of East Germany. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills of...
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- was a bright happy 13-year-old Jewish girl. She was born in Germany. Ann lived with her Father, Mother and Sister. Her father owned his own business. He sold herbs and spices until 1940, when Hitler came into power. Ann's father Mr. Frank was a kind man. He did not want to see his family go...
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Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States.
During his first year in office the Wall Street crash of 1929 occurred. He
was blamed for the resulting collapse of the economy, and his unpopular
policies brought an end to a brilliant career in public office. After...
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- There is no understanding to modern Ethiopia without a grasp of Haile Sellassie's life. Sellassie would prove to be one of Ethiopia's most noble leaders. He pushed education for his people. He made a valiant effort to drag Ethiopia out of its stagnant state of unpaved roads, minimal schools, very...
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- Carver was born a slave in Missouri. Although is exact birth date is unknown it has been narrowed down to July 12, 1861. Carver was only an infant when his dad was killed an he, his brother and mother were kidnapped. He was then orphaned and Moses Carver, his owner, bought George back in exchange...
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- Throughout the twenitieth century, many individuals have made importaint
contributions to their nations or to thier region.Three that i will be talking
about are , Yassir Arafat, and Yizhak Rabin. due to what these
Three have done what whould be of there nations or regions.
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- The state of Israel, established on May 14, 1948, had many great leaders
that helped it to become a state. One of them was . was
one of the most energetic and hardworking women in the world. Without her help,
it is possible that Israel would have never survived as a state in an area
surrounded...
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- "Hope" is the Thing With Feathers-
In "Hope" is the Thing With Feathers, she uses many of her techniques to make the poem more lively and fun to read.
In this poem, Emily Dickinson uses an irregular rhyming scheme of "abcb." This means that in each of the three stanzas, the second and the fourth...
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- became a world famous writer with his book The Firm. Although he never wanted to be a writer, he has now written over nine books, many of them best- sellers (Arnold 29). Examining his writing will show why quit his previous job as a lawyer. I will start by telling about his childhood, education,...
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- Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, to William and Mary Ford. Even when he was a small boy, he was greatly fascinated with machines. The first machine he designed was a waterpowered mill which consisted of a coffee grinder, a broom handle, and a wooden wheel he made that could be turned by...
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas. His parents, David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Stover Eisenhower, were a deeply religious couple who belonged to a Protestant sect called the River Brethren. Dwight had two older brothers, Arthur and Edgar, and three younger ones,...
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- , a man who personified a literary battle between good and evil, had an ambiguous and unique writing style that was greatly advanced for his time. Although literary works such as, The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown, and The House of Seven Gabels, have apparent themes showing 's obsession with...
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- Marcus Tullius , is remembered in modern times as the greatest Roman orator and innovator of what became known as nian rhetoric. He was the son of a wealthy family of Arpinium. He made his first appearance in the courts in 81. His brilliant defense, in 80 or early 79, of Sextus Roscius against a...
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- Robert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29,
1963, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time
winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often
associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical
dimensions...
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- Tip was a man who was not bashful to call himself "a man of the house."
was a person whose greatest charm was that he seemed
"completely out-of-date as a politician." (Clift) He was a gruff, drinking,
card playing, backroom kind of guy. He had an image that political candidates
pay consultants...
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- America's best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature died at the age of 56 in her hometown on April 6, 1886 due to an illness. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily was the middle child of a prominent lawyer and one-term United States congressional representative,...
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- was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father's...
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Justin B. Mrs. Wilkinson English Honors III 02/24/00 The 19th century had many great achievements happen within its 100-year time period. From the building of the Erie Canal, to the steel plow being invented. From the invention of the telegraph, to Thomas Edison...
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- Family, friends, money, honor, carrier, there are many important things in life. What people are willing to do to achieve their dreams and goals? Some of them would do anything to get what they really want. They would cheat, steal, and kill, just to be the best of all. Rufinus, the main character...
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- No other New York gangster in the twentieth century matched the capabilities of the sinister, crafty, powerful, and secretive Charles 'Lucky' . Who with the help of his closest friends and allies, even enemies, established the National Crime Syndicate in the early 1930s, which still remains today...
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- 35th president of the United States, the youngest
person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic
president and the first president to be born in the 20th century.
Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president.
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- was one of the most successful entertainers ever. dominated popular music in the United States from the release of his first big record, Heartbreak Hotel, in 1956. His records (all 45 of them) sold more than a million copies each, his 33 motion pictures, and his appearances on television and in...
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- Racial issues have always been debated and followed by many people throughout the history of America and will continue to be for a long time. Along with these debates come movements and with movements come leaders. Two well-known leaders of racially driven movements are Marcus Garvey and David...
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- .......having a good start not only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest architect who will ever live. Yes, I intend to be the greatest architect of all time.' - 1867-1959 CHILDHOOD Born in Richland Center, in southwestern Wisconsin,...
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- Who was ? Nearly anyone knows Ness' accomplishments in Cleveland when he went up against Al Capone. Most also know Capone eventually went to jail for tax evasion, but what happened to Ness and his Untouchables? Did they merely fade away into quiet life? The fate of Ness was quite the opposite, he...
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- . He and his cult, "The Family," together killed
seven people, bloodied and butchered. The people who he and others killed,
the Tate and LaBianca families, were wealthy and well-off. What could have
made them do such a thing without pity or remorse? Read on........
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- has always strived for the best presentation of his work, he has become a master printer, revitalizing the platinum-palladium process as well as working with new techniques. The combination of innovative photography and meticulous printing has made one of the most significant photographers of the...
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- Annelies Frank was born June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her parents Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Hollander called their daughter Anne. In 1933, in response to Hitler's anti-Jewish decrees, Mr. Frank opened a branch of his company, Opteka, in Amsterdam and began planning to bring his...
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- , like so many great life stories, was the subject of a very tough childhood. He was son to a couple of poor immigrants, born on 31 July 1912, in New York, America. At the age of fifteen, Friedman's father died. Despite this, he won a scholarship to both Rutgers University and the University of...
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- was born on October 2, 1800 as property of a small plantation owner in Southampton, Virginia. His mother strongly hated slavery, and this hate was passed down to Nat. In his early twenties he was sold to a neighboring farm. He was sold again in 1831 to the Joseph Travis family.
Shortly after he...
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- Many people for different reasons know Clive Staples Lewis, from Christianity to his Chronicles of Narnia. Not only was Lewis a writer, but he was also a professor in England and a World War I veteran. Today he is known as C. S. Lewis because many of his works were always published under this name....
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- It was Christmas night 1996, Boulder, Colorado. The Ramsey family was on their way home from a Christmas party. Jonbenet was asleep in the backseat of the car. The Ramsey's were planning a trip to their family home in Michigan the next morning.
When the morning of December 26th came, something...
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- The abolitionist movement was intended to get rid of one of the darkest things in our country's history. Pioneers of abolitionism devoted their lives to fight for freedom and the pursuit of a better life for blacks. One of the most famous abolitionists is . Her efforts in the Underground...
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- , born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, made a significant contribution to English Literature in various genres including poetry, short story and novel. His birth took place in an affluent family with his father holding the post of Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the Bombay School of...
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- John Grisham incorporates many reality-based ideas into his novels. He uses experiences from his own life as plots in his novels. Many of his novels are from actual experiences portrayed in life today. Grisham uses his knowledge and experiences as a courtroom lawyer to create realistic novels...
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- , French artist, was a leader of the Fauve group. He was highly regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th century art and a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression.
Matisse discovered his artistic abilities when he had been bedstrucken with an attack of...
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- Kurt Donald Cobain was born to Wendy and Donald Cobain on February 20,
1967 in the small logging community of Aberdeen Washington and his life ended on
April 5, 1994. Kurt fronted one of the greatest bands of our time called Nirvana.
In this report I hope to inform you about the life and mysterious...
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- Discovering the Secrets of Humankind's Past
was born to be an archaeologist, for his childhood in Africa truly prepared him for the field life he would later lead. The son of missionaries Harry and Mary Leakey, Louis grew up in Kenya near Nairobi, among the Kikuyu African tribe who the elder...
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- Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. Galileo lived in Pisa until he was about 10 years old. In 1574 his family moved to Florence where Galileo started his education at a monestary named Vallombroso, . In 1581, Galileo went to the University of Pisa to study medicine,...
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- Euclid's Facts
Euclid was born about 365 BC in Alexandria, Egypt and died about 300 BC.
Euclid was best known for his treatise on geometry (The Elements). The
long lasting nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading
mathematician of all time. But little is known of Euclid's life...
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- Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, portrays black women struggling for sexual as well as racial equality and emerging as strong, creative individuals. Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of Willie Lee and Minnie Grant Walker. ...
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- was able to, through his writings , lead the readers to examine their own social corlas, judgment, and wisdom. The most remarkable quality of his works is that even when we read them today, we still examine ourselves. He was able to accomplish their task as well as any writer of any era. ...
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- , also known as "Saint of the Gutters" devoted her life to reaching out to the sick and the outcast. The people that no one else wanted to deal with, took privilege in helping. To her "earthly sufferers were nothing less than Christ in disguise." (Das 2) The life that lived was a life...
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- was born in 1899. His hometown was Oak Park, Illinois, which is by Chicago. He died in 1961 by suicide. Grace Hall, his mother was a musician. She was very good and took up opera. She stopped to raise a family, and from then on she was a music teacher and had a career. His dad was quiet and was a...
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- Ryan Conroy All the world knows the special magic of . Since 1966, he has led the group that bears his name, selling over 30 million albums and performing before an estimated 13 million people. In every performance, Carlos shares with his audience a personal communication that crosses all...
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- was a woman dedicated to a cause, a cause to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from being murdered by lynching. Lynching is defined as to take the law into its own hands and kill someone in punishment for a crime or a presumed crime. ? back round made her a logical spokesperson against...
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- Woodrow Wilson was a significant presence in the world during the early 1900's. As America's President, Wilson was extremely influential in setting tone for the rest of the nation to follow in regards to foreign policy. Whether it was total neutrality or outrage the rest of the US followed their...
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- "Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of
fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to
me to have received as much celebrity as it deserves. Nemerov's virtues are
all in fact unfashionable ones for our time: vivid intelligence, an
irreverent...
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- The Bonhomme Richard vs. The HMS Serapis
John Paul was born in the small fishing village of Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from...
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- John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century.
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- How the Actions of Governor Wise and the State of Virginia in the Case of John Brown may be easily Justified.
After months of planning, John Brown and his twenty-one 'soldiers? marched into the strategically located town of Harpers Ferry with the goal of starting a slave revolt which would lead to...
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- was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid 1800's. Her father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and she alone decided to rebel against hat and reject the Church. She like many of her contemporaries had rejected the traditional views in life and adopted the new...
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- Mark Twain was one of the most popular and well-known authors of the 1800's. He is recognized for being a humorist. He used humor or social satire in his best works. His writing is known for ?realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression? (Mark Twain...
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- Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man's work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard of 's General...
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- In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark - she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very difficult to speak. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a...
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- On August 2, 1923, was vacationing at his father's home at Plymouth,Vermont when one night he was awakened by the tragic news of Warren Harding's death. Harding ,who had been on a public speaking tour of the West, when his health began to deteriorate, tried poorly to alleviate the scandal that...
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- was bornabout 1480 in Sabrosa of a noble Portuguese family. His parents, who were members of nobility, died when he was about10 years old. At the age of 12, Magellan became a page to Queen Leanor at the royal court. Such a position commonly served as a means of education for sons of the Portuguese...
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- was born on April 20,1889. This was the beginning with
horrible plans for power and control of other people.Some of the things that
Hitler did throughout his life were very cruel things; first of all, he was a
man who loved war and fighting. Second, he was in charge of putting all of the
innocent...
