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- 3881: Jack Robinson
- ... to retaliate or acknowledge taunts; Robinson endured malicious catcalls and racial slurs shouted from the stands. He also received unsigned notes threatening death if he continued to play baseball. Some rival players went beyond verbal abuse in an effort to intimidate him. They threw pitches at Jackie's head, spat on him when he slid into a base, and attempted to injure him with the spikes on their shoes. With the ...
- 3882: Issac Asimov
- ... me George. I won t have my daughter entrusted to a machine and I don t care how clever it is. It has no soul, and no one knows what it may be thinking. A child just isn't made to be guarded by a thing of metal. (I, robot p.9). George her husband has no choice but to get rid of Robbie. This example proves that Isaac Asimov is ...
- 3883: Howard Hughes
- ... years his paranoia left him a recluse and in twenty years he had not been seen or photographed by the public. Howard was born on Christmas Eve 1904, in Houston, Texas. He was the only child of Howard Robard Hughes Senior and Alene Gano Hughes. His mother died when he was sixteen and his father died when he was 18. Howard s childhood wasn t the greatest but in the end ...
- 3884: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... of theology, poetry, and jurisprudence, constitute a celebration of culture equal in scope to Dante s Paradise and Limbo combined (de Santis, de Vecchi 12). Raphael s later works again focused on the Madonna and Child. Every time the different paintings came into existence, they each held different personalities yet always had an intimate and gentle composition. His final work, The Transfiguration, displayed in the Vatican, exhibits how Raphael s work ...
- 3885: Henry Ford
- ... Detroit and used the family farm as his address as he traveled around from job to job. In 1885, at a party, he met Clara Jane Bryant. They married April 11, 1888 and their only child, Edsel, named after his boyhood friend Edsel Ruddiman, was born November 6, 1893. Ford had never given up his dream of a horseless carriage. Whenever he had a spare moment he read about gas engines ...
- 3886: Henry Charles Carey
- ... covered with forest, or inhabited by savages or wild beasts. Thus, viewing life from the point of view of a settler in a new country, Carey is "led to deny, and indeed with vituperation and abuse, the Law of Diminishing Returns(and with it the Ricardian Law of Rent)"(Gray, 251). The end result of it was a correction and adjustment made to Ricardo's Theory. In the end Carey did ...
- 3887: Harriet Tubman 3
- ... eating one of the woman's sugar cubes. As was the custom on all plantations, when she turned eleven, she started wearing a bright cotton bandana around her head indicating she was no longer a child. She was also no longer known by her "basket name", Araminta. Now she would be called Harriet (McClard 21, 26-28, 29-33). In 1844, Harriet Ross married a well-built man with a ready ...
- 3888: Harriet Tubman
- ... to have associated with John Brown, the abolitionist, he called Harriet Tubman General Tubman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Seward, whose house is also in Auburn, New York, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Wendell Phillips, and Lydia Maria Child. William Seward was good friends with Harriet. When Harriet came to Auburn, New York she purchased land from him, for her and her parents to live on. As she became older, she took in people ...
- 3889: Hammurabis Code
- ... 3. 229 states that if a builder constructs a house, and that house later collapses killing the owner, the builder shall be put to death. Law 14 states that if a man has stolen a child, he shall be put to death. 3 states that if a man accuses another man of a crime, and the accuser cannot prove that the crime was commited by the accused, the accuser shall be ...
- 3890: Grace Murray Hopper
- ... Story It was 1906 in New York City when the great pioneer in data processing, Grace Murray Hopper, was born to the parents Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horn Murray. Even as a young child Grace loved learning about mathematics and the new technological advances that were coming out, mostly because of her surrounding environment -- her mother was a mathematician. Although at the time women were not considered as important ...
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