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- 2501: Georg Cantor
- ... father and relented. However, after several years of training, he became so fed up with the idea that he mustered up the courage to beg his father to become a mathematician. Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg study mathematics. In 1862, Georg Cantor entered the University of Zurich only to transfer the next year to the University of Berlin after his father's death. At Berlin he studied ...
- 2502: Winston Churchill
- ... read history and poetry, however, and was fascinated by soldiers and battles. From childhood he had an extraordinary memory. Winston Churchhill didn't want to go to university. Instead, he enrolled in the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He graduated in 1894. After service in Cuba and India, he worked as a war- correspondent in Northern India, Sudan and in South Africa, where he was captured by the Boers. His daring ...
- 2503: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
- ... spirit and weaved them together so as to suggest a method by which man could master the universe. He did this to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college instituted for the interpreting of nature and the producing of great works for the benefit of man. The island community of Bensalem also has "two long and fair galleries" (Bacon, 456). In one gallery the ...
- 2504: Richard Lederer: His Works
- ... by." Even as a high- school student, Richard knew that Elvis Presley, born three years before him, would become immortal because he recognized that "Elvis Lives" is a two-word anagram. Richard Lederer entered Haverford College as a pre-medical student but soon found that he was reading the chemistry books for their literary value. Mr. Lederer became an English major and then attended Harvard Law School, where he found that ...
- 2505: Julius Caesar: Military and Political Strength
- ... to gain office and went to Rhodes where he studied rhetoric. In 73 BC he returned to Rome as very persuasive speaker. The year before, while still absent, he had been elected pontificate, an important college of Roman priests. Julius Caesar's Middle Life was full of wars, political intrigue and shifting of fortunes. Caesar's first and one of the biggest political moves was when he helped Pompey take office ...
- 2506: Steve Jobs
- ... High School. His electronics teacher at Homestead High, Hohn McCollum, recalled he was "something of a loner" and "always had a different way of looking at things." Going to work for Atari after leaving Reed College, Jobs renewed his friendship with Steve Wozniak. The two designed computer games for Atari and a telephone "blue box", getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club. Beginning work in the Job's ...
- 2507: Lee Iacocca
- ... excited about joining the military. Ironically, the illness that had almost killed him, saved him from going to war. Most of his classmates that joined the service had been killed over-seas and abroad. For college Lee chose Lehigh University for its engineering program, although he wanted to go to Purdue, he did not get a scholarship. Lehigh University was one of the sights that Ford Motor Company used to recruit ...
- 2508: Adam Smith
- ... some six months previously. At the age of about fifteen, Smith proceeded to Glasgow university, studying moral philosophy under "the never-to-be-forgotten" Francis Hutcheson (as Smith called him). In 1740 he entered Balliol college, Oxford, but as William Robert Scott has said, "the Oxford of his time gave little if any help towards what was to be his lifework," and he relinquished his exhibition in 1746. In 1748 he ...
- 2509: Richard Nixon's Presidency
- ... in Yorba Linda, California, on January 9, 1913. His parents were poor, and his early life was one of hard work and study. He was a gifted student, finishing second in his class at Whittier College (1934) in Whittier, California, and third in his class at Duke University Law School (1937). Unable to find a position with a Wall Street (New York City) law firm after his graduation, Nixon returned to ...
- 2510: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... he had an extraordinary memory, that he frequently used to memorize stanza after stanza of poetry. Winston Churchill didn't want to go to university. His dream was to be enrolled in the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He graduated in 1894.After service in Cuba and India, he worked as a war-correspondent in Northern India, Sudan and in South Africa, where he was captured by the Boers. His daring ...
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