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John F. Kennedy
... The Kennedy family was very wealthy and provided means for the Kennedy children to pursue whatever they chose and chose politics.
was elected to Congress in 1942 and as a new member Kennedy supported legislation that would serve the interests of his elements. Kennedy usually backed bills sponsored by his party but would sometimes show independence by voting with the Republicans. He also joined with the Republicans in criticizing the Truman administration’s handling of China. In China, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which had been supported by the United States, was unable to withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. By ...
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Thomas Jefferson
... they
have it in stock, walk around trying to find the book, go check it out, drive
home, stop at McDonald's, and finally site down and read it. By the time you
get home and have time to read it, you're too tired to read the book, let alone
do a report with it.
Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia, on
April 13, 1743. His dad, Peter Jefferson and his mom Jane Randolph were members
of the most famous Virginia families. Besides being born rich, Thomas
Jefferson, was well educated. He attended the College of William and Mary and
read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in
Virginia. He went into to the ...
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General George S. Patton
... that the profession of arms was his calling.
GENERAL PATTON`S PERSONAL SIDE ARMS. THE IVORY HANDLED REVOLVERS BECAME HIS TRADEMARK DURING WW2. TOP SMITH & WESSON .357 MAGNUM. BOTTOM COLT .45 MODEL 1873.
Young George didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights fixed on becoming a combat general. He had one major obstacle to overcome, however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographic maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when George was sent off to Stephen Cutter Clark's Classical School t ...
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The Life And Work Of Chaim Potok
... occupations and his writings.
He worked as an instructor at the University of Judaism 1957 to
1959. He was on the faculty of the Teachers Institute, Jewish Theological
Seminary from 1964 to 1965. He was also editor-in-chief of the Jewish
Publication Society of America 1965 to 1974. He is currently the chairman
of the Publication Committee at The Jewish Publications Society. Chaim
Potok also served his people and religion through all of his writings which
are all in some way related to or involve Judaism.
Now, to go in-depth into his writings. First, his novels. The first
novel Potok wrote was The Chosen, which won him the Edward Lewis Wallant
award, ...
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Nostradamus - The Man
... became Procurer of the Parliament of
Province.
As a small boy Nostradamus underwent significant changes in his life. While
Nostradamus was a child his family was forced to convert to Roman
Catholicism. Around this time he was sent to live with his grandfather who
taught him the basics of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics and Astrology.
A few years later Nostradamus's grandfather died and he went to Avignon to
finish his schooling. Whilst at Avignon he also believed as did Galileo
that the Earth was round and circled the sun.
Nostradamus used his ability to help people through harsh times and did not
even fear for his own life. In 1525 he rec ...
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Steve Jobs
... Wozniak. The two designed computer games for Atari and a telephone
"blue box", getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club.
Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first
"killing" when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought their first fifty fully
assembled computers. On this basis the Apple Corporation was founded, the name
based on Job's favorite fruit and the logo.
Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personel computer led him into revolutionizing
the computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a
friend, Wozniak, built a personel computer called the Apple. The Apple changed
people's idea of a ...
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Agatha Christie
... Agatha Miller was born the third child to her parents, Fred and Mary Miller. She grew up in Torquay, Devon, England. She was taught at home by her mother and several tutors and governesses, never attending a real school. As a child, Miller kept herself occupied by inventing games to play with her siblings. Not being around other children besides her siblings made Miller a shy child. She was not outspoken in her thoughts, so she expressed her feelings in music. Later in life, she would turn to writing as a means of expression (Yaffe BKYaffe@nltl.columbia.edu). Agatha Miller’s first husband was Archibald Christie, who was a World War I fighter pilot. The ne ...
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Michelangelo
... him a monumental tomb. We have no clear sense of what the tomb was to look like, since over the years it went through at least five conceptual revisions. The tomb was to have three levels; the bottom level was to have sculpted figures representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to have statues of Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic figures of the active and contemplative life-representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays ...
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Mickey Mantle
... games going after school with some of Mickey's friends (Falkner 22).The people who taught him how to play the game were his father and grandfather. He practiced with them for at least 2 hours a day (Falkner 23). Mickey played sports and games whenever he could. He just could not stay away from the game of baseball. The one sport that Mickey did not want anything to do with was swimming. The reason why was because swimming almost cost him hislifeOnce him and his friends were swimming in a river,and they were not supposed to, and a lady came and seen them, and his friends left him on a raft and he could not swim, and he fell off and almost drowned.Mickey did not ...
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Thomas Edison
... which was the usual way to vary and balance electrical currents. In February of 1877 Edison began experiments designed to produce a pressure relay that would amplify and improve the audibility of the telephone, a device that Edison and others had studied but which Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent, in 1876. By the end of 1877 Edison had developed the carbon-button transmitter that is still used today in telephone speakers and microphones.
Many of ’s inventions including the carbon transmitter were in response to demands for new products and improvements. In 1877, he achieved his most unique discovery, the phonograph. During the summer of 1877 Edison ...
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