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- 2181: Francisco Pizarro
- ... expedition he reached the capitol of the Inca Empire, Cuzco7. Pizarro and other Spaniards were migrating to Cuzco and inconspicuously taking over the Inca Empire. The complete takeover of the Inca's was a very big accomplishment because the Incas had the most formidable and successful military societies of the Americas, served by generals, with inexhaustible supplies and more than 50'000 armed soldiers8. Pizarro only had 180 men. The downfall ...
- 2182: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer: Biography of R. L. Stine
- ... Stine. R.L. Stine's first house was three story's high, with a garage. His dog named Whitey (half collie, half husky, half elephant) spent his days and nights there because he was so big he knocked everything over if he was allowed in the house. He had to push the heavy garage door open and let him in the yard every day and would always get knocked over. R ...
- 2183: Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
- ... he is a great screenwriter, the relations between the children and their parents are so well desined, when parents come to Tokyo to visit their children they see that things are working different in a big city, their children try to treat them politely but in the fast life of Tokyo parents feel that they are not as importent to their childrens as they should be. Also Chishu Ryu(the father ...
- 2184: Albert Einstein
- ... of light squared). That theory made the atomic bomb possible. "At dawn on July 16, the atomic structure of the world was revealed when Einstein's famous equation E=MC2 came to life with a bang"(Brian 344). He was famous for his philosophies too. besides the theory of relativity, he discovered the theory of motion. "The motions of bodies included in a given (vehicle) are the same among themselves whether ...
- 2185: Carl Jung
- ... it may start drawing values from other systems to boost itself even higher. Such highly energized systems have a tendency to go BOOOOM! So, entropy can destroy those high energy systems if they get too big. The operation of the entropy principle results in an equilibrium of forces. Just like two bodies of different temperatures touching each other would soon equalize temperatures. The hotter one will transfer heat to the cooler ...
- 2186: Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
- ... rest of his life. "The lessons I learned in the home of Mrs. Ruffner were as valuable to me as any education I have ever gotten anywhere since," he later commented. Booker heard of a big school for Negro's in Hampton, Virginia, and he decided to go there. In 1872, at the age of sixteen, he set out on the 400 mile journey to Hampton, traveling most of the way ...
- 2187: Ben Hogan
- ... tragedy. Hogan's instinctive reaction was to become protective of his mother. After the suicide the family underwent serious financial problems. To do his part Ben began selling newspapers, until he heard that their was big money to be made at the local golf club for caddies. This was Hogan's ticket into golf, with golf being considered a "rich man's" game Hogan probably would never have started playing golf ...
- 2188: Benedict Arnold
- ... a very daring boy. He once ran on a millwheel with another kid. He was also known to love fireworks and once was caught lighting a jug of gunpowder that would have resulted in a big explosion. When he was a little older (about 17), Arnold twice ran away to join the colonial troops fighting in the French and Indian War. When he was 21 he moved to New Haven. In ...
- 2189: Babe Ruth
- ... that New York and Babe Ruth were made for one another, and by the way Babe took New York by storm, it is hard to dispute the saying. He took an instant liking to the big city, enjoying bars, dance clubs and people in general. It was in New York that Babe started the long ball game. In the early twenty's Babe's home run totals usually eclipsed that of ...
- 2190: The Works and Life of Charles Dickens
- ... real and imagined" (Sundell). Most of Dickens' works have the main character as a young boy facing the hardships of growing up in a poor family or having the life of a pauper in a big city. In these tales, though at times fictional, Dickens seems to portray his life as a child through his books. The time period about which Dickens' books were written is the mid nineteenth century. They ...
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