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- 301: Jack London 2
- ... comparison: a first class ticket on the "Titanic" was about $1.800, a steerage ticket about 100$). The journey in fact lasted 27 months and took them "only" as far as the South Pacific and Australia. Discouraged by a variety of health problems, and heartbroken about having to abandon the trip and sell the Snark, London returned to Glen Ellen and to his plans for the ranch. In 1909, '10 and ...
- 302: Henry Ford
- ... conveyer belt moving the parts along further speeded the process. With these new tactics, a factory could produce 40%-60% more cars per month. By late 1913 he had established assembly plants in Canada, Europe, Australia, South America, and Japan. At this point, the Ford Motor Company was the largest manufacturer of cars in the world. In 1914 Ford astonished the business world by more than doubling the minimum wage for ...
- 303: Charles Dickens
- ... productions. He also was successful in giving public readings of his works. He also busied himself with various charities for schools for poor children and a loan society to enable the poor to move to Australia. He came to know the streets and alleys of London better than any other person of his time. The reason being that he often walked for hours to work off energy. In failing health, he ...
- 304: Celine Dion
- ... name because you ll never forget the voice . It later went gold, making both of her two English albums gold. Celine did an American tour in the spring, and that Fall she did tours in Australia, Europe, and Japan. She also released the songs Love you blind, and Cry Just A Little. In 1993 Celine sang for President Bill Clinton and his wife, and she sang in the soundtrack for Sleepless ...
- 305: Dalai Lama
- ... and talked with many Westerners and has visited the United States, Canada, Western Europe, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Greece, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Nepal, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Vatican, China and Australia. He has met with religious leaders from all these countries. In 1981, His Holiness talked with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie, and with other leaders of the Anglican Church in London. He also ...
- 306: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... the end of the war, they returned home to Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex. About two years later, Doyle traveled to Buckingham Palace in London to be knighted.25 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took his family to Australia to spread the word about spiritualism.26 In 1926, The Land of Mist was published. Doyle had officially declared himself a spiritualist. He then wrote his first spiritualism book called The New Revelation, and a ...
- 307: Mother Teresa
- ... a new one, and her pleas were answered. She was able to leave the order. From there, Mother Teresa touched peoples lives all around the world. She worked in the slums of Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, and North America. This single woman started out an order of nuns, an order of brothers, a group for lay people, houses and programs for poor and starving children, women, and men. Perhaps ...
- 308: Billy Graham
- ... grew and so did peoples faith for the almighty God. But the fifties took their toll on Graham and his health. He traveled to countless American cities, as well as many foreign lands, among them Australia, Indian, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and most of the European countries. This left Graham feeling tired and worn out. So Graham looked to the words of the bible for inspiration. "Go ye into all the world ...
- 309: Ben Carson
- ... to do his residency at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He had been one of only two interns accepted in neurosurgery. One year later in 1983 Carson and his wife Candy moved to Australia. Later that year they had a son named Murray. In 1984 Ben Carson moved back to Maryland and would become chief pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. A year later he would have to prove his ...
- 310: Sir William Lawrence Bragg
- ... shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics with his father, British physicist Sir William Henry Bragg, for their work in establishing X-ray crystallography, the study of crystal structures with X rays. Born in Adelaide, Australia, William Lawrence Bragg studied at Saint Peter's College in Adelaide and at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1908. He enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, in 1909 to continue studying mathematics, but switched ...
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