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- 4001: Lorenzo Ghiberti
- ... with a painter in the town of Pesaro for its ruler, Sigismondo Malatesta. His education as a goldsmith helped him create his greatest piece of work, The Gates of Paradise. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS Ghibertis big break came when he went back to Florence in 1401 after hearing that a competition was being held for the commision to make a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the cathedral in ...
- 4002: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... She also wants the reader to understand why she saw her father as God-like, as she states in the second stanza: Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe, Big as a Frisco seal(M, 8-10). As a child she could not see him as anything but a statuesque figure. She was young and could not understand her father's faults. Readers can easily ...
- 4003: Sammy Davis Jr.
- ... spit on in the army, but that made him want to perform more. Upon his discharge the trio got back together, and Sammy met Frank Sinatra for the first time. Sammy wanted to be a big star and he realized this major difference between most black artists and the famous white artists. Most black artists came on stage played some songs, joked at or to each other, and left. The white ...
- 4004: Strengths And Weaknesses Of Lo
- ... the number of factories in Russia. He also started the first Russian newspaper and enlarged their army to 200,000 men. He also got a warm water port for his window on the sea. A big weakness for Peter the Great was he ignored and abused the people of his country. Many of the changes were for the sake of increasing his own power. He ordered many Serfs to build his ...
- 4005: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... in The Strand magazine in 1901. Conan Doyle wrote a true autobiography, Memories and Adventures in 1924. Arthur's last published book; Edge of the Unknown, was published in 1930.22 World travel played a big role in the backgrounds for Doyle's stories and novels. The Doyle family visited Berlin, Germany in 1890 to investigate bacteriologist Robert Koch's claim to have possibly have found the cure for tuberculosis. In ...
- 4006: Stalin
- ... The problem with this plan was that it depended upon to many variables and the depression in the West plus low crop yield hampered the project. Yet during the first Five Year Plan, 1,500 big enterprises were built. New sectors of industry were established, which had not existed in tsarist Russia-machine tool production, automobile and tractor manufacturing, a chemical industry, motor works, airplane factories, the production of powerful turbines ...
- 4007: Shoeless Joe
- ... all day long and dream. He also likes to improve the things that he loves to build. He worked hard at making a better baseball park. 5. Rays character does not really have a big transformation. He has to travel to Iowa to see if he could bring his friend to play ball. I think that he displayed some courage. I would not have the courage to do what he ...
- 4008: Story Of J Robert Oppenhiemer
- ... had traveled what seemed like thousands of miles, until he found himself back at the root of this thought train, the call. He knew all along that it was coming, and that it would be big, but it was bigger than his mind would allow him to imagine. As the general spoke the words, a part of his spirit left him. The bomb had been dropped at precisely 8:15 A ...
- 4009: Pete Rose And The Hall Of Fame
- ... professional baseball, a player has to play the game extremely well (www.baseballhalloffame.com). When a player plays the game better than most have played he gets rewarded, usually with lots of money in a big contract. Then there are those rare players, the 244 elite players of the game that have already been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Being inducted in the Hall of Fame is the utmost of ...
- 4010: George Wallace
- ... the schoolhouse door" to block two black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Wallace fearing significant jail time for defying the federal courts backed off. He then made another speech denouncing "Big-government." His views drew much criticism from northern politicians and officials. Another tense moment was the nationally publicized fire house and police dog incidents in Birmingham. The Civil Rights movement intensified while Wallace tried to ...
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