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- 2521: Linus Carl Pauling
- ... was an American chemist and physicist, whose investigations into the structure of molecules led to discoveries of how chemicals bond. Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 1901, and educated at Oregon State College and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He began to apply his insights into quantum physics as professor of chemistry at Caltech, where from 1927 to 1964 he made many of his discoveries. By devising ...
- 2522: Emily Dickinson: A Biography
- ... an older brother named Austin. Her mother Emily Norcross Dickinson, was largely dependent on her family and was seen by Emily as a poor mother. Her father was lawyer, Congressman, and the Treasurer for Amherst College. Unlike her mother, Emily loved and admired her father. Since the family was not emotional, they lived a quiet secure life. They rarely shared their problems with one another so Emily had plenty of privacy ...
- 2523: The Life of Sally Ride
- ... tennis player. She even ranked on the junior tennis circuit. However, her plans changed. Her mom said, She could not make the ball exactly where she wanted it. So she decided to go off to college. At the age of twenty-seven she enrolled at Stanford University. There she worked hard to obtain four degrees. In 1973, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Science in ...
- 2524: The Ambitions of Napoleon
- ... the end of his reign he was destroyed by his own restless ambition to take over Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15th, 1769. He started school at the age of ten at the College d'Autun. But that didn't last too long. Four months later he entered the Brienne Military School. Napoleon excelled in this school and he was later recommended to the Military School at Paris. Napoleon ...
- 2525: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... he liked, pursued it, and eventually ended up doing what he wished he wrote poetry. Williams spent the vast majority of his life in the small town of Rutherford, New Jersey, leaving only to attend college. He established a small medical practice in Rutherford in 1910 and, shortly after, married a young woman, whom he met at the University of Pennsylvania, by the name of Florence Herman in 1912. Following his ...
- 2526: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- ... be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude (WWW Page, 1994)." On November 5, 1872 Grant was reelected with an electoral college majority of 286-66, and a popular majority of 763,000 (O'Brien, Steven. 1991). During his second term as president his government became corrupted. He hired officials that were his friends that used their ...
- 2527: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... Civil War , worried for her friends and families lives, death increased in frequency to be a dominant theme in her writings. After 1878, the year of her influential father's death, (a treasurer of Amherst college, and a member of the Congress), this theme increased with each passing of friend or family, peeking perhaps with the death of the two men she loved (Waugh 100). But, as documented by several critics ...
- 2528: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... the late twenties his father's physical and mental condition got worse, and he became paranoid, abusive, and violent. In 1827 Tennyson escaped his troubled home when he followed his two older brothers to Trinity College, Cambridge, where his teacher was William Whewell. Because each of them had won university prizes for poetry the Tennyson brothers became well known at Cambridge. In 1829 The Apostles, an undergraduate club, invited him to ...
- 2529: Biography of Karl Marx
- ... Heinrich transferred him to Berlin. Also, he did not go to most lectures, and showed little interest in what was to be learned. Karl's reckless ways were not tolerated at Berlin, a more conservative college without the mischievous ways of the other universities. While at Berlin, Marx became part of the group known as the Yong Hegelians. The group was organized in part due to the philosophy teacher Hegel that ...
- 2530: Biography: Anne Sullivan (1866-1936)
- ... now famous incident at the backyard pump. That breakthrough was immortalized in Gibson's play, books, on television and in film. Miss Sullivan transcribed many books into Braille for Helen Keller. She attended school and college with her pupil, and accompanied her everywhere for almost 50 years. Throughout her life Helen called Miss Sullivan "Teacher." In 1905, Miss Sullivan married John Macy. Helen lived with the couple, who both now helped ...
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