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Famous Explorers Of Africa
... had returned home to London where became famous on his publications of his voyage across Africa.
Later in 1806 he sailed downstream to the Bussa rapids, where he drowned, trying to escape an attack by the Africans.
Rene Callie
Rene Callie was a 27 year old man who was fascinated by the stories told about peoples travels to Africa. His readings of Mungo park also stimulated his fascination. Callie had entered a contest for the first person to reach Timbuktu and reach back. He had reached Timbuktu. During Callie's trip he did not find it easy to prove to the French Authorities that a young man with no experience could discover Timbuktu. On his way back Callie had j ...
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Howard Stern: The King Of Mass Media Or The Anti Christ?
... he had any at all. Stern has absolutely no respect for himself nor does he have any towards his cohorts, and the general public as a hole for that matter. He constantly pushes the limits, and is a nuisance to the air waves. His words are offending and detrimental to our society.
In the past people have viewed Howard Stern as a vulgar pig who degrades every one that he encounters. After constantly ducking from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), and many activist groups, Stern still manages to stay on the air. However, that air time has come with a hefty price. Stern has gone down in the history books ...
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John Kennedy
... nine children. They were, in age order, Joseph Junior, John, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, and Edward (Teddy). All the children were born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Each of the kids had a one million dollar trust fund set up for them by the time they were born. The environment they were brought up together in was very wholesome and extremely elegant.
On September 12, 1953, John F. Kennedy married Jaqueline Lee Bouvier. Together they had a daughter Caroline in 1957. Later in 1960 they had a son John Junior.
's education process is remarkable. He started out by going to a couple of Public schools in Brookline. He later moved onto Private schoo ...
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Maria Mitchell
... By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public in the fall of 1836. At the Atheneum she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her father's telesscope. For her college education even Harvard couldn't have given ...
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Hannibal
... War and ’s promise to visit Roman injustice back on Rome a hundred fold. For Carthage to take the town of Sagunto was completely within the rights of the Carthage and the treaty but Rome at the time was getting too big and becoming very imperialistic. All Rome could see was that they had to have all of the Mediterranean and the only thing that stood in their way was a single General and his men. The way in which the Romans were unconsciously straying from "mos maiorum" to manipulate the course of events was disturbing. Though these actions were not entirely the "evil" work of Rome. from his earliest memories could recall nothing but hatred fo ...
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Sir Isaac Newton And Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
... system was published in 1684, three
years before Newton published his. Also at this time Leibniz's method of
notation, known as mathematical symbols, were adopted universally. He also
contributed in 1672 by inventing a calculating machine that was capable of
multiplying, dividing, and extracting square roots. All this made him to be
considered a pioneer in the developement of mathematical logic.
Sir Isaac Newton is the other major figure in the development of Calculus. He
was an English mathemetician and physcist, whose considered to be one of the
greatest scientists in history. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at
Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in ...
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James Cook
... in 1768,
the navy appointed Cook to lead an expedition to Tahiti. On the Endeavour they
left in August and reached Tahiti in April of 1769. On the island scientists
watched the planet Venus pass between the Earth and the Sun. This was the main
goal of this voyage but cook had been given secret orders to find an unknown
continent in the south pacific. He was told to find it because geographers
believed that it kept the world in balance, however Cook was unable to find it.
In October of 1769 Cook became the first European man to visit New Zealand. In
April of 1770 the Endeavor sailed to Botany Bay on the east coast of Australia.
Cook claimed the entire east ...
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Niels Bohr
... he won the Nobel Prize for his work on the atomic structure. When he visited the United States in 1939, he brought the knowledge that the German scientists were successful in splitting the uranium atom. In the winter of 1939, Bohr worked at Princeton University, were he developed the theory of atomic fission that led to the first atomic bomb, and then returned to Denmark in 1940. In 1943, he was still in Copenhagen when the Nazis occupied his country. He left Copenhagen, because of his Jewish background, and went to Los Alamos, North Mexico, were he helped scientist who were working on the first atomic bomb. Before he left, he dissolved his golden Nobel medal in ...
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Giorgione
... of 1500. However, Hieronymus Bosch also greatly influenced his work. Bosch was also in Venice at this time, and has presented several demons done in a style similar to that of Bosch in several of his paintings. Both use minimal or sketchy underdrawings to preserve the atmosphere and colors of the painting. Their brushstrokes are quick and delicate, and highlights on details, such as metals and fabric, are wispy.
No signed and dated works of exist, and few original paintings by have survived the ages, however, he had a sweeping effect on the style of the masters to come. His better-known works include Laura, La Veccia, La Tempesta, the Castlefranco Altarpi ...
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Margaret Thatcher
... her reluctance to commit Great Britain to full economic integration with Europe inspired a strong challenge to her leadership. Ms. Thatcher was ousted from leadership, and resigned in November 1990 and was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by her protégée, John Major: who, consequently, only served one short term.
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born October 13, 1925 to Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and m ...
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