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- 14111: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... reflecting telescope, the first of its kind, and the prototype of the largest modern optical telescopes. In 1671 he donated an improved version to the Royal Society of London, the foremost scientific society of the day. As a consequence, he was elected a fellow of the society in 1672. Later that year Newton published his first scientific paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the society. It dealt with the new theory ...
- 14112: John the Baptist
- ... It is very hard to confess that there are those greater than we are, and to acknowledge it without the least grudge that they deserve the preference above ourselves (Greenhough 77). AFor everyone has their day and then the evening come, and the other lights appear" (78). John knew that his evening would come soon and Jesus would be the next wonderful light. Jesus spoke of John as Aa burning and ...
- 14113: Miltons Paradise Lost
- ... his job unbearable, his wife frigid, his teenage daughter a stranger, his life in general intolerable. While masturbating in the shower one morning, Lester declares this event to be as good as it gets all day. So he takes a fall. Lester Burnham complicates his life further when he becomes infatuated with his daughter's best friend. After seeing this young girl at a basketball game, Lester succumbs to his delusion ...
- 14114: My Antonia 2
- The Use of Parallels and Imagery in My Antonia by: D.P.(AKiN) My Antonia, by Willa Cather, is a book tracing the story of a young man, Jim Burden, and his relationship with a young woman, Antonia Shimerda. Jim narrates the entire story in first ...
- 14115: HDTV: The Emergence of a New Generation in Television.
- ... future researchers will be able to look back and correct some aspects from my research. Maybe I'll decide to go back and continue this research at a later date. References Benson, K. B., & Fink, D. G. (1991). HDTV: Advanced television for the 1990's. New York: McGraw Hill. Brown, L. (1992). Les Brown's encyclopedia of television. (Vol.1, p259). Detroit: Gale Publishing Co. Hitchen, E. (1997). Wide-screen television ...
- 14116: Alphonse Capone
- ... rival gangs were eliminated or nullified and the suburb of Cicero became a "firfdom" of the Capone mob. A good example of the culminating violence of the Chicago gang era was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on Feb. 14, 1929. It was here that seven members of the "Bugs" Moran mob was gunned down against a garage with sub-machine guns by 5 members of Capone's gang posing as ...
- 14117: The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
- ... theme but were not nearly as successful as the first two. Melville then wrote Moby Dick, which was full of symbolism and underlying meaning. This book and his following novels were still unsuccessful in their day. Melville went on to write short stories and poems. After his first two works Melville lost his popularity and never gained it back. Many of his writings were not published until after his death, and ...
- 14118: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... in a tomb in the basement of Usher's house. What they do not realize is that she is still barely alive. Usher keeps on hearing sounds over the next couple of days. The seventh day after Madeline's death, a bad storm appears. The narrator and Usher open the door of the narrator's room and Madeline falls on Usher . They both die. The narrator then leaves the house. As ...
- 14119: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of people's lives for the better. The very earliest existence of the modern day computer's ancestor is the abacus. These date back to almost 2000 years ago. It is simply a wooden rack holding parallel wires on which beads are strung. When these beads are moved along the ...
- 14120: Antonio Vivaldi
- ... of Emperor Charles VI in Vienna. Vivaldi's works include more than 500 concertos, more than 70 sonatas, about 45 operas and also religious music, including the oratorio Juditha Triumphans in 1716, the Gloria in D in1708, masses, and motets. His instrumental sonatas are more traditional than his concertos, and his religious music reflects the operatic style of the era. His most famous and younger contemporary, J. S. Bach, studied his ...
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