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- 2251: Thomas Jefferson
- ... his beliefs by purchasing when everyone else thought that it was a tremendous mistake. Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter near the end of his life,”Is my Country the better for my having lived at all?” I think his life’s works answer his self-examination with a resounding yes (internet). Bibliography Bober, Natalie. Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain. (Macmillan, 1988). Boorstin, D.J. The Lost World ...
- 2252: The Life Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... revealed one of the talents that was to make him famous: the keen, observing eye of a scientist. As a dutiful citizen, Franklin never stopped thinking about ways to improve the society in which he lived. He was the guiding spirit behind the creation of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Pennsylvania Academy (later known as the University of Pennsylvania), and the Pennsylvania Associaters militia. These accomplishments created fame, yet Franklin remained humble and ...
- 2253: Biography Of Pocahontas
- ... more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend. Around the year of 1595, Pocahontas was born to chief Powhatan, the powerful chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of Virginia. She was but one of the many children of Powhatan, who ruled more than 25 tribes. Her real name was Matoaka, a name used only within the tribe. Her ...
- 2254: Adolf Hitler
- 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 ...
- 2255: Toni Morrison Interview
- ... Since it is such a disturbing topic to deal with Morrison decided that she would write a book that included the conditions of slavery but put the greater emphasis on the minds of those who lived with slavery. She wanted to focus on the feelings and emotions that besieged her characters during and after slavery. Morrison also used a house, 124 Bluestone Road, as the center of her novel. She used ...
- 2256: Biography Of Robert E. Lee
- ... Cockspur Island, Georgia. In 1831, the army transferred him to Fort Monroe, Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis who was Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her family home in Arlington on a hill overlooking Washington D.C. They had seven children which were three sons and four daughters. Lee served as an assistant in the chief engineer's office ...
- 2257: Ira Remsen: A Scientist Unknown His Work
- ... market. The Food and Drug Administration requires that warning labels to be put on products containing saccharin. Time Line of The Life of Ira Remsen 1846: Born on February 10th in New York City Childhood - Lived and educated in Germany 1867: Received Masters Degree from Columbia University 1870: Earned Ph.D. at Universities of Munich and Gottingen in Germany. Started research into pure chemistry at University of Tubingen. 1872: Moved back ...
- 2258: The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... all the while still had his eyes on France. On June 18, 1815 Napoleon with his new army once again attacked the English, led by the Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo. This battle was short lived and Napoleon was quickly defeated, and he was once again abdicated. But this time they sent him to live on the Island of St. Helena, where he died in may 1821. As you can see ...
- 2259: B.F. Skinner And His Influence In Psychology
- ... when we are tired. Early Life Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania on March 20, 1904 to William Arthur and Grace Madge Skinner. Skinner’s home was a warm and stable place. He lived in the house he was born in until he went off to college. Skinner also had a younger brother named Edmond James Skinner, born November 6, 1906. Skinner was very fond of his brother and ...
- 2260: Georg Fredrich Handel
- "Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave." L.V. Beethoven (1824) Georg Friedrich Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Marienkirche, Halle. At the age of seven, Handel visited Saxon Court ...
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