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- 2411: Kobe Bryant
- ... Kobe was drafted to the Charlotte Hornets. Before even practcing in a hornet's uniform, Kobe was dealt to the Los Angles Lakers in exchange for center Vlade Divac. Despite his youth and lack of college experience, Bryant was a big help to the Lakers. He scored in double figures 25 times. He grabbed the spotlight at the All-Star Weekend by winning the Nestle Crunch Slam Dunk and leading all ...
- 2412: Booker T Washington
- ... whites political powers and, to worry about their farming skills, instead. The all-black faculty institute included the famous agricultural scientist George Washington Carver. Booker T Washington received honorary degrees from Harvard University and Dartmouth College. Booker was married three times before he died and lived out the first two wives. Booker T Washington died on November 14,1915. He was also the first black elected to the Hall of Fame ...
- 2413: Thomas Jefferson
- ... rule and sought to develop a government that would best assure the freedom and well-being of the individual. II. Early Career Jefferson was born in western Goochland County, Virginia. In 1760 he entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He later studied law and was reasonably successful as a lawyer, but his main source of income was his land. In 1767 Jefferson began work on his mountaintop ...
- 2414: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... D. Auchincloss II in 1942. Jackie then moved with her mother to Newport, Rhode Island (22-23). The government source also indicates that Jackie attended Miss Porters School for Girls in Connecticut and Vassar College where she excelled in history, literature, art and French. Her junior year she spent at the Sorbonne in Paris, studying French and learning more about the French culture. She then returned to the United States ...
- 2415: Biography of Ernest Rutherford
- ... Zealand. His parents had emigrated to New Zealand from Britain approximately 30 years earlier. Rutherford was a successful all-round student at school, though did not show any real interest in science. He entered Canterbury College at Christchurch, where his interest and ability for science developed and he graduated with first class degrees in science and mathematics. He stayed at Canterbury carrying out research, and developed a radio wave detector which ...
- 2416: Madam Walker's Life and Her Cosmetic Products
- ... black women to find independence and self-esteem. In 1906, she married Charles Joseph Walker and changed her name to Madam C.J. Walker. In 1908, the Walkers moved to Pittsburgh where Sarah founded Lelia College, a school of cosmetology (now defunct). She traveled extensively to the Caribbean and Central America and moved to Harlem in 1916 after divorcing C.J. Walker. In 1917, she organized the first Madam C.J ...
- 2417: Warren Harding
- Warren Harding Warren went to school at Blooming Groves one room school. He showed early instincts of the declamation. When he was 14, he entered Ohio Central College. He graduated after two years with a bachelors degree in science. He and two of his friends acquired a small town paper, the Marion Star. In five years the star became the foremost paper ...
- 2418: Antoine Lavoisier
- Antoine Lavoisier Antoine Lavoisier was born in 1743 on August 26th in Paris. He studied at the College Mazarin. In 1768 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. Through out his life he has held many public offices, some of which are director of the state gunpowder works, member of ...
- 2419: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Comparison
- ... both Dr. King and Malcolm X would stand by me on that. Martin Luther King lived in an entirely different environment. He was a smart student and skipped two grades before entering an Ivy League college at only the age of 15. He was the class valedictorian with an A average. King paraded his graduation present in a new green Chevrolet before his fellow graduates. He was raised in the perfect ...
- 2420: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... Nonetheless, most Americans admired Fords decency and honesty, and many voters thought him more trustworthy than Carter. In November, Ford lost by 1.7 million votes and by a narrow margin in the electoral college. He was the first president in 44 years to be turned out of office by the voters. Overall, in my opinion Ford was a great president who required most of the respect for the presidency ...
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