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- 1291: Life of William Shakespeare
- ... could be used to represent anything from a city wall to a mountain. The next level contained pulleys which could raise or lower anything from above. The top level was used for creating sounds of rain or thunder, or dropping important objects from the sky. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at age 18. In two years, they had three children, a daughter named Susanna, and twins, Hamnet and Judith. He didn ...
- 1292: Madonna
- ... only the second greatest hits album to make the top ten list. Furthermore, her album Erotica Madonna, including songs like "Erotica," "Fever," "Bye Bye Baby," "Deeper and Deeper," "Bad Girl," "Waiting," "Thief of Hearts," "Words," "Rain," "Why's It So Hard," "In This Life," "Secret Garden," and "Where Life Begins," was timed for release with her controversial book entitled Sex, was brought out late in 1992. The book immediately was a ...
- 1293: Kurt Cobain
- ... born on February 20,1967 in the town of Aberdeen, Washington. Aberdeen is on the west coast and is about 108 miles southwest of Seattle. Aberdeen is a dreary place with about seven feet of rain a year. Kurt was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy was a homemaker. She had a very tight bond with Kurt. He was her first born. She had another child ...
- 1294: Dinner With Bill Gates
- ... quarter mile in length and equally long in width. As we approached the enormous wooden door, lights flicked on and a computer generated voice greeted us. Not knowing what to do, we waited, letting the rain soak our dinner suits. When the door was opened, we were prompted to enter by a servant. Stepping into the entrance way, our coats were taken by a different servant than the one who had ...
- 1295: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... 1905, Pierre was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences and became a Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne. Early in the following year, tragedy struck. Crossing the road in a shower of rain, Pierre stepped out from behind from a cab straight into the path of a heavy horse drawn wagon. The driver tried to stop the wagon, but all was in vain. The weight of his load ...
- 1296: George Washington: Biography
- ... killed and most of his men were captured. Washington pulled his small force back into Fort Necessity, where on July 3 he was overwhelmed by the French in an all-day battle fought in the rain. Surrounded by enemy troops, with his food supply almost exhausted and his dampened ammunition useless, Washington surrendered. Under the terms of the surrender signed that day, he was permitted to march his troops back to ...
- 1297: The Nomination ofAndrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... emphasize his po int, in 1838 (one year after Jackson left office), a unite of federal troops rounded up the 15,000 Cherokee who resisted relocation and remained in Georgia and during the cold and rain of winter forced them to march to their lands in the west, this was known as the "Trail of Tears" since about 25% of the people died in route of either disease, starvation, and exposure ...
- 1298: Alfred Nobel
- ... J. Pelouze, a famous chemist. There he met the young Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero who, three years earlier, had invented nitroglycerin, a highly explosive liquid. Nitroglycerin was produced by mixing glycerin with sulfuric and nitric acid. It was considered too dangerous to be of any practical use.(Schuck p. 87) Although its explosive power greatly exceeded that of gun powder, the liquid would explode in a very unpredictable manner if subjected ...
- 1299: Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
- ... Banting got an idea from his early days experiment from the farm. The farmers always threw away the cows' embryos, which was a resource to get the cells. They mixed the mixture of alcohol and acid, inserted it into the cows. It worked. The mixture destroyed the digestive juices that interfered with the isletin. Now, they got enough isletin to continue their experiment. Finally, they had to prove the most important ...
- 1300: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... in a conducting liquid, like mercury and would produce a current. Basically speech could be transmitted by wire. On March 10,1876 Alexander and Watson were working on the machine when Alexander knocked over battery acid. He shouted, "Mr. Watson, come here. I need you!" and Watson working in the receiver room heard his voice coming through the wire. Later, the Bell Company was formed, which is now AT&T. Before ...
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