Biography Of William Shakespeare
.... School with other 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 Will .....
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Autobiography Of Thomas Jefferson
.... waters of Roanoke and left numerous
descendants, and Peter my father, who settled on the lands I still own
called Shadwell adjoining my present residence. He was born Feb. 29, 1707/8,
and intermarried 1739. with Jane Randolph, of the age of 19. daur of Isham
Randolph one of the seven sons of that name & family settled at Dungeoness
in Goochld. They trace their pedigree far back in England & Scotland, to
which let every one ascribe the faith & merit he chooses.
My father's education had been quite neglecte .....
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Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
.... the Declaration of Independence.
As its principal author, Jefferson gave eloquent expression to the
principles of the natural rights of man, among which, he affirmed, was
self-government.
Jefferson's intellectual prowess led some political opponents to dismiss
him as a visionary, but he was remarkably successful in politics. As leader
of the opposition to the Federalist policies of Alexander Hamilton and John
Adams, Jefferson was put forward by his supporters to run against Adams in
the election of 17 .....
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Booker T. Washington: Fighter For The Black Man
.... hard work.
Booker T. Washington cleared the way for the black community to fully enter
the American society. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in
Franklin County, Virginia, on a small tobacco plantation. His only true
relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father was
probably the white son of one of the neighbors, though it is not known for
sure. Washington spent his childhood years on the plantation, but since he
was so young he never had to do the heavy wor .....
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Eli Whitney
.... entire career as an
industrialist. He wanted to "employ steady sober people,"tied to his
factory and part of a community of industry. He intended to create a sel
-sufficient village, producing goods, and populated by well educated,
happy workers,Whitneyville. He also affected the industrial development of
the United States , in manufacturing muskets but most of whitney's own
guns parts do not in fact interchange. Nevertheless, Eli Whitney is a
figure whose history is fascinating, and whose impact in New .....
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Terry Redlin: A Biography
.... has received the
Minnesota Duck Stamp competition,Minnesota Trout Stamp competition,@nd in
the Federal Duck Stamp competition, been honored by Ducks
Unlimited,conservationist of the Year, and The Magnum Donor by the
Minnesota waterfowl Association.
Five years ago, Redlin completed his largest painting yet. He
painted a picture of “America the Beautiful”. He did eight paintings in
which he painted from the West to Present day. The paintings have been
showcased by many magazines, private collectors, an .....
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Biography Of James Polk (11th President)
.... sensing that the people favored
expansion, urged the choices of a candidate committed to the Nations
"Manifest Destiny." This view prevailed at the Democratic Convention,
where Polk was nominated on the ninth ballot.
Even before he could take office, Congress passed a joint
resolution offering annexation to Texas. In so doing they took away the
possibility of Polk having a war with Mexico, which soon served diplomatic
relations.
After trying to negotiate boundaries with Mexico and Canada .....
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Julius Caesar Biography
.... Later he was captured by
pirates and paid the usual ransom of 25 talents (500 kg) of silver.
When Sulla (the dictator in Rome) died, Caesar felt safe to return
to Italy where he started a career as a criminal lawyer. In 75 BC he went
to Rhodes for more education and was once again captured by pirates, who
asked the usual tariff. Caesar demanded it doubled and threatened to kill
them. After the ransom was paid, he defeated the bandits and had them
crucified.
After continuing his studies, they wer .....
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Christopher Columbus
.... willing
to give him one. Columbus had to wait.
Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, and thought it was Asia.
He and his men, unexpectedly, came across Natives and their culture, and
realized this was not Asia. Columbus first landed on the island of Navidad,
and ended up coming back to this New World 3 more times. He never landed on
the main land of America, but he keeped on exploring the coasts of America,
looking for an opening to get to Asia. Unfortunatly, he never found it
because there was and .....
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Mohandas Gandhi And His Life
.... Gandhi's teenage years were full of problems. He was not good at
school, or in sports, he also missed a year of school at age 13, when he
got married. Life got very stressful for him when his father became sick.
He was forced to take care of him. To cope with is problems he started to
smoke shoplift and eat meat.
In 1887 he started collage at the University of Bombay. He did not
like it there and decided to go to England and become a barrister and
return for a job like his fathers. When he arrived in E .....
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Biography Of Roger Maris
.... During the "Home Run Race" Maris was bothered by
the press constantly. Wherever he went the press was there. When he went
to the super market, to his apartment, to the ballpark even to the bathroom
the press was there to ask him questions about "The Race." As a result of
this he started to lose his hair faster than normal and he smoked more then
he normally did.
I admire Roger Maris because even though the press bothered him all
the time he did not buckle under all the pressure. He remained cool a .....
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Nevil Shute
.... and created his own business, Airspeed
Limited. His second novel, So Disdained, was published in 1926 and
released in the United States, as The Mysterious Aviator in 1928 (Kunitz
and Haycraft 1034). During this time he began to write under the Christian
name Nevil Shute, because he feared that his reputation as a fiction writer
would hinder his engineering career (Internet). Through the next many
years, up until World War II, Nevil Shute published many more books. Shute
then moved to Australia in .....
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The Life Of Booker T. Washington
.... He said the way we do this is make successful businesses we get
educated and get into politics. For these beliefs that Booker believed in
is why he was called "The Great Compromiser." Many white ex-slave owners
began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by
the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being
secretly funded by great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller. The love approached racism in a nonthreatening way. The on .....
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The Life Of Hitler
.... to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried
again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In
fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance,
and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be
painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end.
He could not apply to the school of architecture, as he had no high-school
diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot
the rejection he rec .....
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Jimmy Hoffa, His Life And Disappearance
.... and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He
quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work
full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his
boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years as a teenager were
also charged with a special kind of radiant energy. At the youthful age of
seventeen Hoffa was unloading boxcars at the Kroger grocery chain warehouse
in Detroit for thirty-two cents an hour. It was there that he organiz .....
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