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- 14091: Andrew Carnegie
- ... death in 1919, he had donated over $350,000,000. He achieved his beliefs that education is key and that knowledge should be free and easy accessible. His legend still lives on in the modern day due to the hundreds of libraries he helped to make possible.
- 14092: Jackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier
- Jackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier Its April 15, 1947 opening day at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. Many people have turned out to see one man, the first black person to ever play in major league baseball. He is setting new standards for all blacks now and those ...
- 14093: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... the science of the past, improved both the practical and theoretical science of his own time, and, with his amazing intuition, foresaw many of the things possible in the future even up to the present day." (Cooper 18) The universal genus that was bestowed upon Leonardo da Vinci was observed around the late 1800's when he was praised and admired as the highest level of Renaissance man (Bacci 5). "Sometimes ...
- 14094: Christopher Columbus
- ... sent Vasco da Gama off to India in 1497. Despite difficulties in recruiting a crew, Columbus departed Spain in May 1498 with six ships and made landfall on Trinidad on July 31, 1498. The next day he reached the mainland and thus discovered South America. Having found pearls at islands near the coast, the expedition then sailed across the Caribbean to Santo Domingo. The colonists there were in revolt, and Columbus ...
- 14095: Louise Brooks
- ... Card showed her hundreds of films and Brooks began to write articles for film magazines and journals. In 1960 she went to New York City to introduce a screening of Prix de Beaute. The next day she returned to Rochester and never left again. Crippling arthritis was a big part of her being Rochesters most glamorous hermit, she spent her time in her apartment and only left there for about ...
- 14096: Macbeth And Lady Macbeth
- ... s plot with greater energy than Macbeth himself. She vows adamantly that, "He that's coming / Must be provided for" (Shakespeare 62-63), implying that Duncan must be killed. Driven by fear of suspicion by day, and terrible dreams by night, Macbeth becomes completely paranoid with everyone, including Banquo, his right hand man. At this time Macbeth takes control and realizes that he must kill Banquo. He decides that Banquo must ...
- 14097: Euclid
- ... the gamut of ancient thought. The subjects include: the transitive property, the Pythagorean theorem, algebraic identities, circles, tangents, plane geometry, the theory of proportions, prime numbers, perfect numbers, properties of positive integers, irrational numbers, 3-D figures, inscribed and circumscribed figures, LCD, GCM and the construction of regular solids. Especially noteworthy subjects include the method of exhaustion, which would be used by Archimedes in the invention of integral calculus, and the ...
- 14098: Macbeths Character
- ... the audience. He killed all these people so that he could stay on the throne. But towards the end of the play Macbeth was getting sick of his ways and he says: "I have liv'd long enough: my way of life has fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; "this shows us that Macbeth is sorry for what he has done and is trying to restore trust with the audience ...
- 14099: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... pg.96) In 1909, the first phase of Wrights career ended sadly, when he left his lover, Mamah Borthwick Chaney, the wife of a former client, and his five children alone at Taliesin. That day, a crazed servant murdered Mrs. Chaney and six others, also setting a fire that destroyed much of Taliesin. This incident caused a setback in his career for a short period of time. In 1916, Wright ...
- 14100: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... in Europe - in fact, he toured regularly as a solo virtuoso - and his growing mastery of compositional forms, like the fugue and the canon, was already attracting interest from the musical establishment - which, in his day, was the Lutheran church. But, like many individuals of uncommon talent, he was never very good at playing the political game, and therefore suffered periodic setbacks in his career. He was passed over for a ...
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