Archimedes
.... story has become famous because Archimedes said, \"Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth. Another invention he invented was the Archimedean screw. This machine was built for raising water to highland areas in Egypt that could not receive water directly from the Nile River. This device is still used today for irrigation purposes even is some countries today.
The most famous story of Archimedes life involves the discovery of Archimedes\' Principle. The story begins when King Hieron asking .....
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Aristotle
.... writings, including a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the \"doctrines of Pythagoras\" (the guy from the Pythagorean Theorem). Of these, only a few short pieces have survived. Still in good shape, though, are Aristotle\'s lecture notes for carefully outlined courses treating almost every type of knowledge and art. The writings that made him famous are mostly these, which were collected by other editors.
Among the writings are short informative lectures on logic, called Organon (w .....
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Aristotle
.... Mercury, the sun and the moon. The problem with this model, however, was that, according to Aristotle, it did not explain how the motion of the outer spheres was to be prevented from interfering with the motion of the inner spheres. Aristotle therefore attempted a mechanical explanation, and postulated 22 counteracting spheres, which would set things in balance. It is generally held that Aristotle\'s addition of these counteracting spheres complicated rather than cleared up the problem of planetary motion .....
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Arthur Clarke
.... This further reinforced his knowledge of space and helped allow him to write the myriad of non-fiction books about space that he has written. In June of 1952 his book, The Exploration of Space is sold for some 50,000 dollars, this marks a turning point in his career as being known to only a select few to becoming widely known. He appeared on \"The Today Show\" that same month. He also meets Robert Bloch \"Psycho\" and E. E. \"Doc\" Smith at the American Science Fiction convention. In June of 1953 Clar .....
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Arthur Conan Doyle
.... ship in the Arctic Ocean during a seven-month voyage. When he returned to the University after his long trip, Doyle received his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1881. After his graduation, Doyle decided to go back and make a second voyage as a whaling ship\'s doctor in the Arctic Ocean. While on the second voyage, he nearly died of a high fever.8 When Doyle left Edinburgh University, he told his family that he had changed his religion, and was no longer of the Catholic faith.9 Doyle began his writing .....
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Arthur Kornberg
.... receiving his B.S. degree in biology and chemistry in 1937, and since City College offered no graduate studies or research laboratories at that time, he became one of two hundred pre-med students at the University of Rochester. All through college he worked as a salesman in his parents’ furnishing store, and earned about $14 a week. This along with a New York State Regents Scholarship of $100 a year and with no college tuition to pay he was able to save enough money to pay for the first half of medical sch .....
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Auguste Rodin
.... his works his fame spread beyond France to England where he was well thought of. He opened a second studio in Paris and it was there that he first met Camille Claudel who would become his model and companion. In 1884 he received the commission for the Bourgeois de Calais comprising six figures to be installed in Calais, France. It was in 1891 that Rodin received the commission for his most controversial sculpture, that of Balzac. His models of the famous Frenchman, nude, drew enormous criticism and a c .....
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Augustus Caesar
.... Julius Caesar\'s son.
As Rome once again fell into devastation, they needed someone who could pull Rome back together and take control. This led to the second triumvirate. The three men who were running in this were Lepidus, Octavian, and Marc Anthony. After Lepidus retired from running for dictator, it left only Octavian and Marc Anthony. As Marc Anthony and Cleopatra set out to take the throne in Rome, they went to western Rome in Asia Minor to win battles. Anthony won the battle of Armenia but soon .....
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Authur Miller
.... a significant American playwright. Soon after he wrote The Crucible in 1953, which became a Broadway hit, and won a Tony Award. This thrilling retelling of the witch trials and hangings in Salem, Massachusetts (1962) riveted audiences. But it reflected a more ready issue, the "McCarthy era" of his time. The autobiographical tone of After the Fall in 1964 also evoked controversy as well as praise. And it was through knowledge of the Brooklyn waterfront that he was able to form his characters in A .....
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Babe Ruth
.... would begin to imitate the professionals who became their heroes. Baseball taught quick decision making skills, competitiveness, how to sacrifice for the team, as well as how to accept authority. Hugh Fullerton, a modern student of baseball at the time, spoke of his thoughts of baseball:
Baseball to my way of thinking, is the greatest single force working for Americanization. No other game appeals so much to the foreign born youngsters and nothing, not even the schools, teaches the American spirit .....
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Babe Ruth
.... the age of twenty-one. To get around this, Dunn became Ruth\'s legal guardian.
When George Ruth, Jr., appeared with Dunn at the ballpark the other players started cracking jokes, and one of the players quipped, \"Well, here\'s Jack\'s newest Babe.\" The rest of the players also started referring to young George as \"Babe\" and the name stuck. Thus began the storied career of Babe Ruth.
In the mornings, Ruth would go into Landers\' Coffee Shop in Boston, and it is here that he met Helen Woodford, a .....
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Ben Franklin
.... embarrassed.
Josiah and Nathan\'s father both took their sons to the Writing School. Ben was good in every subject except math. An example of the type of math that Ben had trouble with is; 848 plus 262 equals 101010. Poor Ben would get a zero but his teacher would not explain the math to him.
Ben loved science and frequently did experiments. His first experiment was paddles to make him swim faster. When he tried his newly invented paddles he found that although he could swim faster the paddles hurt .....
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Benito Juarez
.... Oaxaca State legislature. Next, in 1834 he became the attorney for the state. Governments changed, as was characteristic in Latin America, and he was thrown in jail. He then was released, and gained support of both Liberals and Conservatives and in 1841 he became a senior judge in the state’s capital court. He was a great judge, he was impartial, didn’t care about race, sex, or social class. He also followed dressing patterns similar to Abraham Lincoln, with a black wool suit, white linen shirt, blac .....
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Benito Mussolini
.... he returned he worked for a Social Newspaper Company and wrote several literacy works. The newspaper was called "La Lotta di Classe (The Class Struggle). The towns’ people loved his newspaper. He made the editor of "Avanti" (forward); it was published in Milan.
When Benito wrote some ignorant and cruel suggestions and ideas in the newspaper. So the he was fired. He then decided to created his own newspaper. He called it, "Li Popolo d’ Italia" (The People of Italy). He hoped .....
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Benito Mussolini
.... movement attracted much of the lower middle class and
took its name from the Fasces, an ancient symbol of Roman
discipline. The Fascist movement grew rapidly in the 1920’s,
spreading through the countryside where it’s Black Shirt Militia won
support of the land owners and attacked peasant leagues of Socialist
Supporters. To take advantage of the opportunity Fascism shed it’s
initial Republicanism gaining the support of the King and Army.
On October 28, 1922 Mussolin .....
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