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- 2351: Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
- ... reflect deeping despairs, and a conviction that life ultimately was without meaning. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21,1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous real estate business. His father, Dr. Hemingway, imparted to Ernest the importance of appearances, especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented surgical forceps for which he did not accept money. He believed that one should not profit from something ...
- 2352: Marie Curie
- ... sister Bronya, decided to study at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. However, they face one major p roblem, they had no money. In order to save money, the sisters decided to give private lessons, business was poor, so they made little money. Manya, wanting to keep up her education attended a "floating" university. The floating university helped Manya decide to be a physics teacher, like her father (Webb, 1991). Manya ...
- 2353: Alexander Hamilton
- ... the industry rather than agriculture, which helped the government receive large amounts of money by imposing taxes. He helped establish a national bank which would provide a national currency that would stimulate commerce and promote business growth. He also helped eliminate national debts by proposing revenue tariffs on imports and by proposing an excise tax on American whiskey. He argued that as long as the states owed money to other nations ...
- 2354: Life of Charles Robert Darwin
- ... house was named The Mount. Charles father Robert was the town doctor, and was both liked and respected by his patients. Charles mother Susannah Darwin was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood. She had inherited good business sense from her father; his company , which made Wedgwood China is well known today. Since Charles was a boy, he was expected to be a doctor. It ran in the family. His father and grandfather ...
- 2355: Hitler's Life
- ... included kidnapping the leaders of the Barvarian government, make them accept Hitler as their leader, win over the German army, and bring down the German democratic government in Berlin. This plan started at a large business meeting in a Munich beer hall and the Bavarian leaders would be guests. On November 8, 1923, troops surrounded the place. Hitler and his troops broke into the beer hall, causing everyone to panic. Hitler ...
- 2356: Igor Stravinsky
- ... conductor is encouraged to impose a purely egotistical, false, and arbitrary authority, and that he is accorded a position out of all proportion to his real value in the musical, as opposed to the music-business, community," he says in one of such places. It is obvious that Stravinsky holds a personal grudge against the conductors; being a musician, he must have come across them many times. He says, "conducting, like ...
- 2357: Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
- ... discomfort", and on another occasion was lowered into Mt. Vesuvius to view molten lava. He had considered becoming a cleric, but this was not an unusual choice for the affluent graduate with little interest in business or law. In 1837 he published his Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, to reconcile his scientific beliefs with Christian dogma. Babbage argued that miracles were not violations of laws of nature, but could exist in a mechanistic ...
- 2358: Albert Einstein
- ... Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1874. Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert's father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced ...
- 2359: Subliminal Advertising Is Fair
- ... time every year, companies have, are, and will continue to make consumers buy things they have no need for until the consumers get help. If a corporation wants to use these resources to help their business grow and prevent theft at the same time, there is absolutely no reason why they should be restricted from doing so.
- 2360: Destroying Waco
- ... to remove the methamphetamine lab when he took over as leader in 1987. Charges that we were assembling an arsenal of weapons to be used against the government were equally off-base. We ran a business, buying and selling weapons at gun shows, to bring in revenue for the community. Only a few of us at Mount Carmel were directly involved with this but it was a relatively profitable line of ...
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