Sir Rich Arkwright
.... John Kay, a former employee of Highs', to "turn brass" for him.
This was all part of a clever plot to get Kay to reveal the design of
Highs' water frame. Eventually, Arkwright succeded and Kay cunstructed a
replica of the water frame, or otherwise known as throstle.
Arkwright showed off the model to several people to seek financial aid.
He eventually prevailed on Mr. Smalley to fund the project.
In April of 1768 he hired Kay and took him along with him to Nottingham
where he built a fac .....
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
.... still waiting to hear Bill Clinton's statement. Another
big problem to Bill is that he has been unable to fulfil those very big
promises he gave during his election campaign in 1992. That has given his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises was his
health program, the purpose of this was to give people with not so many
money a chance to get treated at a hospital. In US you are supposed to pay
hospital-bills yourself. It is something like our public health insurance
where the gover .....
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Biography Of Ogden Nash
.... he started to compose
works of free verse.
Mindscape Complete Reference Library CD stated that 1931 was the
greatest year of Nash's life. In June, he married Frances Rider Leonard of
Baltimore, Maryland. Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse:
"Hard Lines" and "Free Wheeling." Contemporary American Poets made an
interesting statement on these first two books by Nash: "These two books
show poetry of remarkable freedom of scansion (rhythm pattern) and
uncoventional feelings of thoughts." C .....
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Biography On Guy De Maupassant
.... an adolescent he was much more
interested in sports than writing, especially rowing.
Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War,
in which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was
finished, he entered the French civil service. He first served with the
Ministry of Navy and later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During
the between 1873 and 1880 he also served as a literary apprentice under
Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet .....
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
.... still in school, World War I started. In the spring of
1915, his name was enlisted in the Canadian Army. However, his commanding
officer, arranged him for his education. Hours after the successful
completion of his final exams in December 1916, he was back in uniform.
Within a few months, he was serving in the Canadian Army Hospital at
Ramsgate, England. He then voluntarily transferred to the front line near
Cambrai, France because he felt he was not doing enough. He used his
intelligence to capture thre .....
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Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
.... had sprouted began to grow.
Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for a
regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that
Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent. (1)
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against
Batist .....
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The Life And Death Of 2Pac
.... incident is not a scene from a DeNiro/Pacino mobster movie.
Nor is it an episode from an Oliver Stone or Quentin Tarrantino film. In
fact, it is not a scene from any movie, although the story will likely wind
up as a made-for-television drama. Rather, it is the dramatic finale of
the life of rapper/actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was shot four times
during this escapade while traveling from a Mike Tyson fight to a nearby
club on September 7th. He later died of the wounds, after six days of
inten .....
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Byron's Don Juan
.... and the absence of his father. By 1798 he had inherited the
title of 6th Baron Byron and the estate of Newstead Abbey. Once hearing
this news, he and his mother quickly removed to England.
All of Byron's passions developed early. In 1803 he had his first
serious and abortive romance with Mary Chaworth. At the age of15 he fell
platonically but violently in love with a young distant cousin, Mary Duff
(Parker 10). He soon had another affair with a woman named Mary Gray.
Soon hereafter he was involv .....
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Albert Einstein
.... often be found in the lakes that were scattered about the
countryside near Munich.
As a child, Einstein's sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A
favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marvelled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-bas .....
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Crazy Horse
.... in the western
plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation was divided into seven tribes:
Oglala's, Brule', Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and the
Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The Hunkpatila was one
band of the Oglala's (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of all
times came from this band. His name was Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of
1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy man, and his .....
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Catherine II, Empress Of Russia (Catherine The Great)
.... trends of her age.
She was a tireless worker and knew how to select capable assistants--for
example, Nikita PANIN in foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the military,
and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of the
Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter I--
westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she did
not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but rather
encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of se .....
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Aristotle
.... works, and natural history( modern day biology). His most
famous studies are in the field of philosophical works. His studies play an
important role in the early history of chemistry. Aristotle was the first
person to propose the idea of atoms matter and other grand ideas.
Aristotle made the first major advances in the field of philosophy of
nature. He saw the universe as lying between two scales: form without matter
and is at one end and matter without form is at the other end. One the most
i .....
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Balzac's Pessimistic View Of Nineteenth Century Society
.... of
success" and Chabert tries desperately to climb back up to the top, where
he had been before. At the beginning of the novel, there is a vision of a
slow non-energetic man walking progressively up the stairs to lawyer
Derville's study which contrasts the boisterous energy of the clerks.
Chabert reaches Derville's study and is determined to find the lawyer to
help him find justice for his infortunes, "... me suis-je d‚termin‚ …
venir vous trouver. Je vous parlerai de mes malhers plus tard." Cha .....
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A Biography On Carl Sandburg
.... went on to the city of Chicago.
There, he wrote for the two newspapers, the Daily News and the Daybook.
He liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked
for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew.
In the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book,
Chicago poems. Two years later, at the age of forty, he published
Cornhuskers. The public loved these two mar .....
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Essay On Christopher Columbus
.... to the "New World", such as pigs, horses. Columbus
had opened the seeds of change. The European society as a whole, had
thought that the Europeans were doing a favor, by changing their primitive
ways, when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more
superior to what the Europeans had in their own. The obstinate Europeans,
did not want to make concessions because they had an assumed air of
superiority.
Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portayed by people of
1862, they viewe .....
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