Carol Causs
.... the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct answer. Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication followed and the answer could be found.
This act of sheer genius was so astounding to Herr Buttner that the teacher took the young Gauss under his wing and taught him fervently on the subject of arithmetic. He paid for the best textbooks obtainable out of hi .....
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Capone
.... his friend for life, Jack Guzik. Guzik was Jewish. His family lived off prostitution. Al Capone never worried about racial issues, his wife was even Irish. After Jack Guzick was roughed up by a Joe Howard, Capone let out his temper. It did not help when Howard called Capone some rude names. Soon after, Capone shot him down. There was no conviction, it was clear that Capone was becoming more and more powerful. He had to have connections in the law to not be convicted.
Al Capone finally got a tast .....
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Edgar Allen Poe
.... in Baltimore with his impoverished aunt, Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virgina Clemm, and his older brother, William Henry Leonard. He tried looking for work as a teacher in Baltimore, but another person got the job and Thomas Willis White hired him as an editor at The Southern Literary Messenger, in which he published short stories, poems, and ascorbic literary reviews. In October, the Clemms joined him, and in May he married his cousin Virginia.
The rest of his life, Poe suffered from severe ment .....
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Elvis Presley
.... Roll music. His music, movies and daunting presence has made him an American icon and an international superstar. However he sold more records in the year following his death than in any previous year in his life. He is more popular today than ever and is sill perhaps the biggest selling artist in the world.
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Eduard Munch
.... apple. In addition to that, there is a blood rose, which Munch perceptively placed between the husband and the scenario behind his dark and tortured soul. This blood rose is like a heart bleeding and melting, or a soul crying red tears, crying because of a disconsolate love. In comparison, Vampire and Jealousy both use dark colors to symbolize pain, loneliness, confusion, and vulnerability. The victim in Vampire is having his life taken away; the husband in Jealousy is having his soul melt away. Bo .....
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Elizabeth Blackwell
.... at the top of her class. After this, she went to Paris (which at this time was the medical Mecca) to take advanced studies, but she was not permitted to study here either. She was then forced to enter a large maternity hospital as a student midwife. Here she contracted an infection and lost her sight in one eye. She then went to London and there she was permitted to continue her studies.
In 1850, Elizabeth returned to New York City and was not allowed to practice medicine in any hospital. During this .....
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ON Doc Hollidays Death Bed
.... to be packing more than just a .22, he needed a back up weapon to rely on in case of emergency. Doc, as most westerners, found the most effective backup weapon to be a small knife. This knife could be kept in his coat pocket, his pant pocket, or in his boot, and was easy to access should Doc come across anyone looking for a fight. Doc was never one to turn down a fight, if someone wanted to play for blood, Doc was gun-ho, he would fight anyone willing to challenge him, no matter how acclaimed the oth .....
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Obituary On George Washington
.... some of their food, and watched them dance in the bright firelight. George wrote about these experiences in his journal. George Washington started his own surveying business when he was 17 years old. He was honest and fair; so many people hired him to survey their lands.
When George was 19, his older half brother, Lawrence, became very ill. Many doctors tried to cure him, but nothing helped. After Lawrence's death, George lived at Mount Vernon. George joined the Virginia militia. The British governor .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... folly. He is then led to blind himself by his own hand and be banished from his own children and city according to his own decree. Oedipus is a victim of the Greek’s most powerful force – fate.
Aristotle says that a tragic hero will be sympathized and pitied. He says that they “excite pity and fear.” This is true in most respects for Oedipus in that he was once a greatly respected and revered man. As the tragedy begins to come to an end, an undercurrent of pity and sorrow is felt for Oedipus. O .....
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Ozzy Osbourne
.... on the floor underneath the piano with a shotgun in one hand and a bloody knife in the other with seventeen dead cats all around him. What happened is Ozzy had drank and smoked and done all kinds of drugs and he didn’t like the cats to begin with so he shot and stabbed every one of them. He just didn’t care if they died or not. If that’s not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesn’t care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking .....
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Orson Welles
.... poles. You just recognize them." [To Kennety Tynan, 1967]
Orson Welles is often referred to as a “Renaissance man”, an individual who’s ambitious and concerned with revolutionizing multiple aspects of life. He was a prolific writer and talented actor who often appeared in his own productions. A gifted artist, Welles, coupled his abundant energy with an enthusiasm for life. He tried everything and was not afraid to take risks and to suffer the consequences of failures as well as the acclaims of succe .....
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Oliver North
.... He was also called on to enact nuclear war game scenarios to better help the President and his staff for possible situations. And with his ranking of only Lieutenant Colonel, he holds many more responsibilities than many of his senior officers. He has often offended his senior officers due to their jealousy and their resentment to taking orders from a lieutenant colonel acting in the name of the President. His relationship with President Reagan has also boosted his authority around the White House. A s .....
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Octavian Augustus
.... the various public meetings where citizens voted on laws and public office (Hanes 1997). Magistrates were the elected officials who put the laws into practice. The most important of these magistrates were the consuls. The two consuls, each elected for one year, acted as the chief executives of the state. Censors were also very important magistrates. Censors were elected every five years to take a census and record the wealth of the people. Censors also had two other very important jobs. The first was to ap .....
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On J.J. Thompson
.... J.J. Thomson, thought that all material particles themselves might be some kind of structure built out of ether, so these views were not so far apart.
Experiments were needed to resolve the uncertainties. When physicists moved a magnet near the glass, they found they could push the rays about. Nevertheless, when the German physicist Heinrich Hertz passed the rays through an electric field created by metal plates inside a cathode ray tube, the rays were not deflected in the way that would be expect .....
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Oliver Cromwell
.... anti-Catholic. In his youth Cromwell was not very studious, since he enjoyed outdoor sports, such as hunting; but he was an avid reader of the Bible, and he admired Sir Walter Raleigh's The History of the World. Cromwell learned that the sins of man could be punished on earth but that God, through His Holy Spirit, could guide the elect into the paths of righteousness. (Kathe, 1984)
In the early parts of his married life Cromwell, like his father, was quite conscious of his responsibilities to his fellow .....
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