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- 2541: Buffalo Bill
- ... with Indians on the Platte River, but in 1917 Congress revoked the award because he was not a member of the military at the time. In 1901 Buffalo Bill became president of the Cody Military College and the International Academy of Rough Riders, a riding school he established on his property in Wyoming Buffalo Bill was about six feet tall. He had a medium build, was strong, tough, and had long ...
- 2542: Bruce Lee
- ... vision. It is all combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force, which I hold in my hand." Bruce had learned this from Master Sifu Yip Man. Influences Shortly after Bruce entered La Salle College of China (middle school to us), he came home one day and told his mother he was being bullied around after school. He wanted to be trained in the martial arts. His father practiced Tai ...
- 2543: Derek Morris: A Personal Bio
- ... t come true but who knows. Being a student at Shrewsbury I have had much success. I have been on the honor roll many times and a few months ago I was accepted to Bryant College. On the baseball field I have also received various honors and awards. I was captain of the baseball team in my junior and senior year and was named most valuable player in my junior year ...
- 2544: Bill Gates
- ... the machine, at least not from a couple teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates 15). While at Harvard, the cool thing ...
- 2545: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... At the age of 13 the Princess met her third cousin, Prince Philip Mountbatten of Greece who was then18. Quite taken with him upon their first meeting, Elizabeth watched as he showed off in a college tennis match. About four years later Prince Phillip, also having been love stricken, would return to watch Elizabeth in her performance of Aladdin. The next four years were to lead Elizabeth into womanhood. Firstly, this ...
- 2546: Andy Warhol
- ... because he never felt comfortable with his homosexuality. His childhood life may have been full of the torture that children threw at him for being the different person he was. He was able to attend college. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein, who was a fellow student that later became ...
- 2547: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... Frequently King would place his friends and family into childhood fantasy tales. And one would always know how Stephen felt about them because of how long they lived in the story. It was not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for ...
- 2548: Alfred Binet
- ... the counterattacks of Delboeuf and the Nancy School, which eventually caused a split between student and teacher. Having been married in 1884 to Laure Balbiani, whose father was E.G. Balbiani, an embryologist at the College de France, Binet was given the opportunity to work in his lab where his interest in 'comparative psychology' was piqued and in which he eventually wrote his thesis for his doctorate in natural science, focusing ...
- 2549: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... was during this time period in which Kennedy met and fell in love with Jacqueline Bouvier. "Jackie", as she was known, came from a wealthy Catholic background as prestigious as the Kennedys. She attended Vassar College and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She spoke French, Italian, and Spanish fluently. They were wed on September 12,1953, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. All seemed well, yet after ...
- 2550: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Denied a formal education himself, he directed that his son be given complete classical training. He studied with Reverend Mr. Maury, a classical scholar, for two years and in 1760 he attended William and Mary College. After graduating from William and Mary in 1762, Jefferson studied law for five years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved ...
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