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Biographies · 145 words
- 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....
Biographies · 144 words
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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...
Biographies · 406 words
- (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...
Biographies · 528 words
- 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. ...
Biographies · 237 words
- 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...
Biographies · 135 words
- 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...
Biographies · 437 words
- 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...
Biographies · 181 words
- 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...
Biographies · 313 words
- 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...
Biographies · 159 words
- 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...
Biographies · 332 words
- 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...
Biographies · 110 words
- 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...
Biographies · 759 words
- 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...
