Bede The Venerable
.... he is best known as a
historian. His works were on almost every major subject then known, and
made him one of the most learned and prolific authors that England has ever
had(Brown, 1). Much of Bede's work was done in Latin, but he is the first
known writer of English prose. All of his work in the English vernacular
has since been lost, but he is still considered the "Father of English
Writing" and also "The Father of English History."
Bede's ultimate piece of work was his Ecclesiastical History of the
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The Baseball Life Of Babe Ruth
.... to bat.
Brother Mattias stopped the game in middle of the inning and told
Ruth to get up to the mound and see how good he is. This was the first
time Ruth had ever pitched in his lifetime, so he was scared. No one had
ever seen Ruth this scared before, but after the first pitch that Ruth
threw he knew that he was a natural.
On July 10, 1914, Ruth was sold to the Boston Red Sox's
organization. The Red Sox player did not know too much about Ruth. They
thought he was just another guy who thinks too much .....
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Miller's Incident At Vichy
.... Von Berg, an Austrian
prince, and Ferrand, a cafe proprietor.
What a profound insight Arthur Miller has given us on these
characters who all lead very different lives and were thrown together in
similar circumstances.
What was similar amongst these characters were that they were put
in a holding house awaiting their sentence, to be set free or to be called
a Jew and die. Every one had fear inside of them. But in particular,
Lebeau showed his aggression on that very cold and dreary day. The great
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John Maynard Keynes
.... predicted that the staggering
reparations levied against Germany would goad that country into economic
nationalism and resurgence of militarism. Keynes being a well-educated man,
made some great investments in a decades time. Within that decade he made
his two million fortune by speculating in international currencies, stocks
and commodities. In addition to his newly made fortune Keynes served as a
trustee of King's College and built it's endowment from 30,000 to 380,000
pounds. Keynes went on to writ .....
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David Hume
.... and consider merely any object or cause, as it appears
to the mind, independent of all observations, it never could suggest to us
the notion of any distinct object, such as its effect; mush less, show us
the inseparable and inviolable connexion between them. A man must be very
sagacious who could discover by reasoning that crystal is the effect of
heat, and ice and cold, without being previously acquainted with the
operation of these qualities.” Therefore, cause and effect is learned
through experience. .....
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Biography Of Thomas Edison
.... Edison was deaf.
But he said he did not mind. Being deaf helped him to work on his
inventions in quiet and without being disturbed.
At sixteen, Edison became a telegraph operator.He learned the Morse
code and spent his spare time taking apart and putting together telegraphs.
He had many many jobs, but most of his employers became upset with his
habit about forgetting about his job and working on his own experiments.
At twenty one, he repaired a broken down stock ticker machine. A business
named Law .....
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Vespasian
.... in Thrace and
a quaestorship in Crete, he reached the praetorship in the earliest year
allowed him by law, namely AD 39, the year in which his elder son, Titus,
was born.
Vespasian ingratiated himself with the ruling emperor, Caligula (Gaius
Caesar); and in the next reign, that of Claudius, he won the favour of the
powerful freedman Narcissus. He became commander of the Legio II Augusta,
which took part in the invasion of Britain in 43. After distinguished
conduct at the crossing of the Medway River, he .....
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Jonathan Edwards
.... he liked her calmness and strong
religious beliefs. They had a daughter, Esther, who died in 1755 when she
was only twenty-three. Her son, Aaron Burr, became the Vice President of
the United States.
Edward was a strong willed pastor. His presence and brilliant
sermons helped to bring about the religious revival known as the "Great
Awakening". He drew such graphic pictures of the hell awaiting them that
the people began to frantically prepare for the conversion experience by
which they would be "born .....
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Life Of William Shakespeare
.... boys of his social class. Students
went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The
teachers were strict disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably
fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known
to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large
fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford
also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the opportunity to
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
.... Cristo. Eugene's mother Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was a
romantic and idealistic women who was affected most of her life by an
addiction to morphine.
During his childhood Eugene attended the Mount Vincent Catholic
Boarding School between the years 1895 and 1900. After leaving Mount
Vincent Eugene attended Bett's Academy in Stanford Connecticut from 1900 to
1906. In 1906 Eugene was accepted to Princeton University but before
completing one year he got expelled.
After getting expelled from Princeton he spe .....
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The Rule Of Julius Caesar And How The Leap Year Was Started
.... from the provinces to the Senate to enable everyone to have
a part in the government.
Caesar wanted order, law, and peace. He believed that of course,
there should be order and laws but to use the power for peace. He wanted
to stop chaos and for his people to be fortunate and feel all equal.
Besides everything else he contributed to the less fortunate, he also gave
grain to the poor.
Many people believed that Julius Caesar was a tyrant who meant to
end the republic and make himself king, a .....
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Bill Gates
.... 12). Gates, Allen and a few others from Lakeside got entry-level
software programming jobs. One of Gates early programs that he likes to brag
about was written at this time. It was a program that scheduled classes for
students. "I surreptitiously added a few instructions and found myself nearly
the only guy in a class full of girls"(Gates 12).
In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates
attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction C .....
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Bram Stoker
.... later
when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal
Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the
forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes
that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares
and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again, this time in the role of
Hamlet, 10 years after Stoker's Trinity days. Stoker, still very much the
critic (and still holding his civil service position), .....
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Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
.... Dakota Territory. There he slowly got over the
loss of his wife as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle, hunting big
game, and even capturing an outlaw. He returned east in the fall of 1886 to
run for mayor of New York against Congressman Abram S. Hewitt and the
economist Henry George. Hewitt, a Democrat, won easily with Roosevelt
finishing a poor third.
Roosevelt then married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in
London. Edith was an intelligent and cultivated, yet private woman. She
bore .....
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HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
.... one school interest was history, especially that of the Germans. When
his teacher glorified Germany's role, "we would sit there enraptured and
often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's
operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology.
Failure dogged him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he
studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's
death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts
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