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- 1251: Make A Fast Friend - Adopt A Greyhound!
- ... or two. Finding soft spots will take mere seconds. But loving a Greyhound will last a lifetime. The first proud greyhound owners were kings and queens of ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece. Modern greyhounds have lived their lives on a track, in a crate, or on a farm in a run. A far cry from the pampered lives their ancestors lived. But the centuries of breeding are still a part of the greyhounds’ demeanor. They are elegant, gentle, loving animals that make wonderful companions. Though they are coming from a track into a home, they are ...
- 1252: Buddhism 4
- ... alive there was no chanting, no ritual and no ceremony, only meditation. There was no assembly hall, pavilion, living hall, or shrine hall. Though there were 3000 monks, there was still no temple. Those monks lived and practiced under trees, in caves, and in the forest. Three thousand monks is a great number compared with less than 1000 at wat sanghathan. Even a congregation of 200 lay people is considered quite a number in todays world. In the early days of the order monks lived close to nature. The ordination did not require a meeting reviewing the rules, only the Buddha s words ehi Bhikkhu Upasampada ( Come, Monks! well taught is the doctrine; lead the Holy Life to make a ...
- 1253: Helen Keller
- Imagine a life without being able to see or hear and not knowing how to communicate with anyone around you. That world of darkness is what lived in for six years. has been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886-1960, she proved herself to be a creative and inspiring woman of America. She was a writer and ... what was known as acute congestion of the brain and stomach; this is now known as scarlet fever. As a result, she was left blind, deaf, and mute. For many of her earlier years Helen lived in darkness with very few ways to communicate with others around her. Obviously her attempts were not always successful. When she failed to communicate she would throw fits and have outburst that would upset not ...
- 1254: British Castles
- ... support other classes (Collier s Encyclopedia 532). The origin of has been traced back to the late Roman times when men placed themselves under a man stronger and wealthier than themselves (Rowling 31). The knights lived in castles built upon hilltops or in the bend of rivers. There they received vessels, held meeting: and upon occasion, defended themselves from rivals. There are many different general styles of castles in Britain. One ... During dinner the quest might be entertained with music or jokes, and stories. When dinner was over one of the quest would entertain the company with a song of their own. The way of life lived in these times were very different from how we live things now. Their way of attack then was very brutal and took strong men to pull the job off. Now gun-power is invented so ...
- 1255: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... neighbor's barn to avoid a beating, and he was ordered to either treat her more civilly or face a hefty fine. Heinrich often wrote to his sisters of the deplorable conditions that the duo lived in, and he took commercial courses in double bookkeeping and English so that he would be able to leave the area altogether and find work in commerce (Burg 10, 11). In September of 1841, he ... in New York City on March 27, 1869. Within two days he had bribed a man to record that Schliemann had been in residence in the United States for well over five years, and had lived in New York for a little more than a year. Thusly, Schliemann was able to attain U.S. citizenship only two days after he set foot on its shore for only the fourth time in ...
- 1256: A Critical Analysis Of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... the father figure. This was the start for the financial collapse that later happened Allan Melville was unrealistic and had a lot of wishful optimism. “He seems to have been a man who constantly lived beyond his means, continually expecting a great windfall to be around the corner.” (Humford 35) When Allan Melville was borrowing money for his business, he was trying to fulfill his wife's social ambitions ... rejection by his mother, more of a favoritism toward another sibling. The father was not the center male figure in the family, it was the maternal uncle. His father was a weak willed individual who lived beyond his means and had a dependence on his brother in law for financial support. Melville's father also went bankrupt, had a mental collapse, and then died. These experiences had a psychological impact on ...
- 1257: Brazil 2
- ... a new currency-the real-which was tied to the U.S. dollar but allowed to fluctuate within a narrow band. The immediate positive effects were quickly felt by the Brazilian population, especially those who lived precariously on the edge of destitution. For the first time in decades poor people had cash in their pockets that retained its value, and could not only buy more food but also consumer goods. The ... Constitution also provided protections to bureaucrats and the organized or corporative sectors of society, making administrative reform difficult and providing extraordinary benefits to those entrenched within the government apparatus in a country where millions still lived in abject poverty and the distribution of income was among the worst in the world. The postmilitary constitution became a Christmas tree of entitlements. It also mandated the distribution of tax revenues away from the ...
- 1258: Wilhelm Roentgen
- ... in Lennep, Germany to Friedrich and Charlotte Constance Roentgen. When he was three Wilhelm and his family moved to Apeldoorn, Nederland. His father owned a thriving cloth business so he was pretty well off. He lived right next to the Kostschool of Martinus Hermanus van Doorn, a boarding school with around eighty students, which he attended. He was expected after he graduated to go into his father’s business and eventually ... first book, called "Question for the Inorganic Part of the Chemistry Textbook", under the pen name of Dr J. W. Gunning. As you probably figured out that was the name of the man he had lived with in the past. People tried to find the real author but all they could find were the initials W.C.R. Wilhelm would later go to school in another college called Swiss Federal Technical ...
- 1259: Medieval Castles
- ... its citadel contracted into a smaller space. Castles were basically fortified locations. The word itself comes from the Latin castellum. Up to the 6th century fortifications were primarily communities in which most of the population lived. But in the middle of the 6th century, the armies of the Byzantine Empire began to build strong forts as defensive positions. For the next few centuries this castle building was confined to the Byzantine ... the castle compound. These gates were so large that they were rarely opened except on ceremonial occasions. A smaller door was built into one of them to provide easy entrance and exit for those who lived in the castle_. A person known as the chief porter was charged with the responsibility of making sure that only friends passed through. The outer walls of most castles were massively thick, sometimes as much ...
- 1260: Peyton Place
- ... which leads to him raping her. They stay together and end up in marriage. As the third main female character, Selena Cross is probably the most significant. She was the same age as Allison. She lived in a shack with her little brother Joey, deranged mother and alcoholic stepfather, Lucas Cross. She lived an abusive life with Lucas drinking, beating her mother, beating her, and sexually violating her. He gets Selena pregnant and she secretly gets an illegal abortion from the town doctor, who forces Lucas to disappear ...
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