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- 14061: Marie Curie
- ... instrument until the appearance after 1930 of particle accelerators. The existence in Paris at the Radium Institute of a stock of 1.5 grams of radium in which, over a period of several years, radium D and polonium had accumulated, made a decisive contribution to the success of the experiments undertaken in the years around 1930 and in particular of those performed by Irene Curie in conjunction with Frederic Joliot, whom ...
- 14062: George Washington Carver
- ... of the Spingarn Medal in 1923. Late in his career he declined an invitation to work for Thomas A. Edison at a salary of more than $100,000 a year. Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Franklin D. Roosevelt visited him, and his friends included Henry Ford and Mohandas K. Gandhi. Foreign governments requested his counsel on agricultural matters: Joseph Stalin, for example, in 1931 invited him to superintend cotton plantations in southern ...
- 14063: Rosa Parks
- ... bus, a whole row of black seats had to be vacated so the one white person could sit down. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks was feeling particularly tired after a long hard day at her job as a seamstress. Her feet were too weary to walk, so she decided to take her chances and ride the bus. The bus was crowed but she found a vacant seat in ...
- 14064: Pope John XXIII
- ... promotion of Christian-Jewish dialogue. His sure diplomatic sense together with his popularity made him an influential figure in international affairs, and he met with a number of world leaders, including U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Pope John XXIII died on June 3, 1963, after a long illness. He had been pope from 1958 to 1963. Pope Paul VI became the next pope. I believe that ...
- 14065: Environmental Protection
- ... least 1,000 times higher than it was when the genus Homo made its appearance about 2 million years ago. According to the best estimates, an average of 200 species vanishes from the Earth every day. By the year 2025, an estimated 20 percent of Earth's species may have been pushed to extinction - a loss of species unmatched since the end of the Mesozoic 65 million years ago. For human ...
- 14066: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- ... California, in 1929 he graduated at David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles as valedictorian of his class. He entered the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1929, and received the degree of Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937. From 1937 to 1939 he was the personal laboratory assistant of the late G. N. Lewis, with whom he published a number of scientific papers ...
- 14067: The Internet Beyond Human Control
- ... coast to coast that could take up to two weeks. When my parents went to Mexico for two weeks they tried to send me a postcard, but I didn't receive it till the next day they came back. This could very well end up to become a problem. Soon no one will even want to use U.S. mail. A big part of the government money is from the costs ...
- 14068: The Works of William Faulkner
- ... that the narrator is the town as a whole. Faulkner used this abstract view to supply the reader with unsympathetic emotions towards Emily. This unreceptive view is shown after Emily purchases arsenic, So the next day we all said, She will kill herself; and we said it would be the best thing.(720 Faulkner). The impersonal outlook held by this narration allows readers only to see the towns point of ...
- 14069: George Mason's Views
- ... is born with the same freedoms but based upon what culture he or she is born into certain rights may or may not be placed upon that person, Mason set the groundwork for our modern day Declaration of Independence. George Mason was born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia. He spent a lot of his early adulthood active in the writings of controversial political literature. As well as writing the Virginia declaration ...
- 14070: Alexander Hamilton
- ... independent nation. Hamilton's program had great success in restoring the credit of the United States. His vision of a centralized economy provided the basic model for a system that has survived to the present day. Yet, in the implementation of his political ideas, Hamilton encountered many attacks against his character and beliefs. I believe that Hamilton was a failure as a politician because he had many political ideas that were ...
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