Albert Einstein Biography
.... in discrete quantities. The energy of these quanta was directly proportional to the frequency of the radiation. This seemed at odds with the classical electromagnetic theory, based on Maxwell's equations and the laws of thermodynamics which assumed that electromagnetic energy consisted of waves which could contain any small amount of energy. Einstein used Planck's quantum hypothesis to describe the electromagnetic radiation of light.
Einstein's second 1905 paper proposed what is today called th .....
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
.... two worlds gave birth to such social tension inside me that somehow defined the path I was to follow for the rest of my life." Aleksandr had little literary education and read few western novels, and later said he regretted it (Major 20TH Century Writers, p 2792-2793).
*After grade school Aleksandr went to the University of Rostov-on-Don and graduated in 1941, majoring in mathematics and physics (Encarta 99). After he graduated, he served as a captain of artillery in World War II from 1941 through .....
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Alexander Graham Bell
.... Company, which had filed a patent for the telephone just hours after Alexander Graham Bell. As part of the deal, in 1879, Western Union sold its 55-city telephone system to Bell Telephone Company and gave up the telephone business. In return Bell Telephone agreed to leave the telegraph business.
Why I choose this person
I chose Alexander Graham Bell because I believe that with out his contribution, the telephone, we could not communicate so easily and effectively with each other as we do know.
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Alexander Graham Bell
.... excellent man was that He made a phenomenal contribution to the communication world. When he was young and just got in to experimenting with sound and how it travels he made a voice box out of the larynx of a sheep and he was able for it to communicate words like mother and father. Bell was fascinated with the invention of the telegraph but pondered about how it was only able to send one message at a time. Bell went on a mission to make this invention better by making it able to send multiple messages and .....
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Alexander I
.... all contributed to his instability.
Catherine had already written the manifesto that deprived her son of his rights and designated her grandson as the heir to the throne, when she died suddenly on Nov. 17, 1796. Alexander, who knew of it, did not dare to disclose the manifesto, and Paul, his father, became the emperor. Paul's reign was a dark period for Russia. He quickly instituted a number of new laws to undermine those aspects of his mother's reign in which he disagreed with. Paul's actions w .....
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Alexander The Great
.... storming its walls and destroying every building, except the temples and the house of the poet Pindar. His army sold the 30,000 inhabitants of Thebes into slavery or killed them. Alexander’s actions against Thebes discouraged rebellion by the other Greek cities.(“Alexander the Great.” 1).
With solid footing at home, Alexander prepared to invade Asia in 334 B.C. After crossing the Hellespont with an army of 35,000 men, he met his first Persian battle on the banks of the Granicus .....
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Alexander The Great 2
.... Darius was soon killed by one of his generals which made Alexander King of Asia. He did not rest for long, as he had set his sights on India. In 326 BC Alexander defeated Porus, the prince of India.
Alexander was now at the height of his power. His empire stretched from the Ionian Sea to northern India. However, Alexander had even greater plans. He wanted to combine Asia and Europe into one country, and named Babylon the new capital. In order to attain this goal he encouraged intermarriages, did .....
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Alexander The Great 3
.... culture, paved the way for the Greek Empire, and helped prepare the way for Christianity by opening up the Greek world to Oriental influence.
Napoleon and his family were forced to flee Marseilles after coming into conflict with Pasquale PAOLI, a Corsican nationalist. Napoleon for his role in the French Revolution was eventually appointed commander of the Army of the Interior . From this position began his practice of dividing and conquering and successfully defeated the Sardinian and Aus .....
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Alexander The Greats Struggles
.... and mother.
Alexander had a strong ego beginning at birth. Even from the cradle, his mother taught him that he was a god, so he grew up believing it was true. There were many reasons why Alexander’s mother believed him to be a god. When he was born, earthquakes shook the ground, there was a comet, two eagles perched, and lightning a temple and burned it to the ground. She believed those were signs from the gods. When Alexander was just a young buy, he went into the woods and killed a .....
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Alfred Nobel
.... something that could absorb the nitroglycerin and not still have the same power. He Found that a substance called Kieselguhr. This substance consisted of (diatomeus earth) marine organisms diatoms. This way the explosive could be transported easily and detonated from a safe distance. It saved laves and time. He would name it Dynamite and got a patent for it in 1867.
Throughout his life he had poor health but was not worried about it because he expected many advances in medicine. He once expe .....
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Alice Walker
.... stories, children’s books, and poems. Charles Truehearth of The Washington Post writes, “She has discussed such topics as spousal abuse, fear of death, female sexuality, and incest”(1991).
Walker is very much of a feminist, which is demonstrated by the previous quote. According to David Bradley of The New York Times, “She coined the term “womanist” which she used to describe the Black women’s issues that are at the heart of so much of her work“(1984). .....
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Alice Walker 2
.... a world in your eye!” Never before did she look at it in this way. The question always was “did I change after the accident?”. Every choice that you make every experience that you go thought is what makes you one of a kind. Alice had it hard enough she thought, growing up in the 1940’s as a black girl. Now with this extra burden it was the straw that broke the camel back. Alice had it hard enough with her burdening eye, she believed that she did not deserve this, she asked what did .....
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Almost A Woman
.... people she had met, including her closest friends, were never allowed to wear a skirt that was above the knee or even have a boyfriend.
Towards the end of Junior High School one of her teachers who had always had faith in her said that she should audition for the Performing Arts High School in Manhattan. She liked the idea that she could become a famous star when she was older. The other students and some teachers discouraged her. They thought she was stupid to try and go to the Performing Arts Hig .....
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Alvin Ailey
.... continuing to choreograph and dance professionally. In 1958, Ailey founded his own company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. During the Company's first decade, Ailey created approximately twenty new ballets, among them Hermit Songs and Reflections in D. These were followed by The River, The Lark Ascending, Love Songs and many others.
Although he created some seventy-nine ballets, Ailey maintained that the Company was not a repository for his work exclusively. The Company's varied repertory i .....
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Americas Vision Hamilton Or Jefferson
.... of the constitution, especially the Tenth Amendment. The Tenth Amendment states,” the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Jefferson argued that since the Constitution did not specifically empower the federal government to establish a national bank, thus it could not do so. Hamilton argued for a loose interpretation. He relied on the implied powers clause which st .....
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