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- 7421: New York
- ... 000 years ago. They hunted animals with spears. Some of thier spear points have been found. Giovanni de Verranzo was the first European to explore New York. He was Italian, but he worked for France. American leaders wrote the United States Constitution in 1787. It created the county's goverment. New York approved the Constitution on July 26, 1788.
- 7422: Egypt : The People
- ... people live in Egypt. Peasant farmers called fellahin make up over 60 percent of the population. But less than 4 percent of Egypt's land is suitable for farming. Before the leaders of the 1952 revolution introduced land reform, less than 2 percent of the landowners owned half of the land available for farming. Most of the fellahin were tenants or owned very tiny farms. A man who owned 3 to ...
- 7423: SAMUEL SEABURY
- ... filled the position and preached in an uneventful ministry. He also ran a school in Westchester. As the tensions between Britain and the colonies grew stronger, Samuel stayed loyal to the crown. He viewed the American government as very primitive and dependent on the British government. When talk of the First Continental Congress arose, he began to voice his opinion. He tried to stop the election of the delegates by writing ...
- 7424: Stephen Hawking
- ... his chair. He can speak up to fifteen words a minute and can save them on a disk if he wants. The only bug in the program, he feels, is that it gives him an American accent. His youngest son was asked what he thought of his father’s computer voice and he replied that it was the only voice he had ever known his father to have. He did not ...
- 7425: Atlantis: We Will Ever Know
- ... by Dr. Paul Schliemann. Schliemann introduced himself as the grandson of the famous Heinrich Schliemann, the archeologist who discovered the ruins of ancient Troy in 1873. His “discovery” made front page news (The New York American, October 1912.) and boasted of an advanced civilization with aircraft, power-driven boats and the like. Schliemann said his grandfather told him on his deathbed of the family's secret: the location of Atlantis. Schliemann ...
- 7426: Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
- ... out because he needed to work for his family and bring in more income than his mother and two brothers were making. Anderson worked as a laborer in 1896- 1898, then served in the Spanish American War. He attended Wittenburg Academy in Springfield, Ohio, in 1900, then went to Chicago. In Chicago he worked at a produce warehouse, and when he was in his teens he began working as an editor ...
- 7427: Aldous Huxley
- ... in California. He wrote the screenplay for Pride and Prejudice in 1940 (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). In all, Huxley wrote forty-seven books in his career. In 1959 he received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his work (Aldous Huxley-Biography). In the 1950’s Huxley wrote the Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. These novels deal with the “inebriated states produced by hallucinogens ...
- 7428: Canada
- Canada Canada, is the world's second largest country and it is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere. It comprises all of the North American continent north of the United States, with the exclusion of Alaska, Greenland, and the tiny French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Its most easterly point is Cape Spear, Newfoundland and its western limit is ...
- 7429: Jane Addams
- ... state a stream of neighbors, friends, and admirers filed past her casket at a rate of 2000 per hour” (Kittredge 105). This showed how powerful this woman was to the lives of many in the American Society. In conclusion, this woman was a pioneer to the wealthy all over the world. Her message was to reach out and help someone who is in need of your help. Although this happened decades ...
- 7430: Chisholm Trail
- ... led to the expansion of western railroads and the development of refrigerator cars. Although Jesse Chisholm's role in the "Cattle Boom" is very insignificant, the trail named for him played a major role in American History.
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