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- 2211: Bill Gates
- ... which earned them $20,000. Gates and Allen developed a machine was able to generate summary statistics on traffic flow from a rubber tube strung across a highway. Unfortunately, Traf-O-Data was not a big success. However, after their Traf-O-Data adventure the Gates and Allen received a job offer with TRW, a corporation that produced software producta. They were able to earn $30,000 a year working with ...
- 2212: Evita Peron
- ... launched a collection for the victims. He arranged for the Buenos Aires acting community to donate its time for an evening's entertainment, with the proceeds going to disaster relief. Evita was present on the big night, and she wanted to meet the colonel. Peron had risen quickly in the government and had accomplished a major coup with the unions, essentially taking control of them. But Evita probably knew nothing of ...
- 2213: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... of copies were sold in the United States. This novel and A Farewell to Arms were both made into movies. In 1953 he went on a safari with Mary, and he was in heaven hunting big game. Though Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for ...
- 2214: Stephen Biko
- ... also put forth many ideas to help the black people understand what the whites were doing to them. He said that treating of the blacks poorly itself was not the worst problem they had, the big dilemma was that the blacks were accepting the treatment. Biko also founded the Black Consciousness Movement, a movement that had the objectives of uniting all black victims of white racism, and eventually to form an ...
- 2215: Biography of Katharine Hepburn
- ... In 1928, she and “Luddy” (her nickname for him) were married. They moved from Hartford to New York. Kate's acting career started in 1928 when she played in a New York Production of The Big Pond. The first Broadway production she played in was The Night Hostess where she had a small role. Miss Hepburn played a part as a schoolgirl in the play These Days. It opened in her ...
- 2216: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... nothing new to him(Davis 125-126). In 1977 Gotti got his wish. He was formally inducted into the Gambino crime family. John was inducted into the family by Neil Dellacroce under the authorization of "Big" Paul Castellano. Castellano was the new head of the family after the death of Carlo Gambino. Gotti was appointed his own crew, the Bergin-Hunt crew. His crew soon became the highest earning crew in ...
- 2217: Isaac Newton
- ... the King's School, near Grantham. At first, Newton was a poor student. He was at the bottom of his class. He cared more about painting, making kites, and inventing toys. Amazingly, one day, a big bad bully gave him a hard kick. The little dreamy boy flew into a mad rage, and beat the other boy thoroughly. Yet that didn't satisfy him enough. He wanted to beat the other ...
- 2218: Life and Times in the Middle Ages
- ... he was kept away from the kingdom during his childhood. He gathered some really great knights in his court. Problems of precedence were avoided by using the round table at meetings. King Arthur has a big influence on literature, art, music, and society from the Middle Ages to the present. There is a huge debate on his existence because there is no conclusive evidence to prove he ever existed. In all ...
- 2219: Auschwitz
- ... killing center operated in Birkenau. -(http://motcl.wiesenthal.com/text/x02/xr0207/html) & (www.members.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm) When the people arrived, they were brutally forced to leave the cars in a big hurry. The people had to leave there personal belongings behind them. Those belongings that were left were later taken by a forced-labor detachment ironally called "Kanada". They then had to make two lines men ...
- 2220: Greek Olympics
- ... 200 feet. After the foot races the crowd would go the Alris for boxing. Boxing was added in the 23rd Olympiad in 688 B.C. Greek boxers were not classified according to their weight, so big men had an advantage. There was no boxing ring; instead they boxed in an open space. No athletic events were scheduled for the last day or fifth day of the Olympic Festival. In the morning ...
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