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- 14151: The First Generation of Computers
- ... and continuing until around the year 1957, included computers that used vacuum tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time where mammoth machines that did not have the power our present day desktop microcomputers. In 1950, the first real-time, interactive computer was completed by a design team at MIT. The "Whirlwind Computer," as it was called, was a revamped U.S. Navy project for developing an ...
- 14152: Abraham Lincoln
- ... his opponent was Stephen A. Douglas. During the election a small girl sent Lincoln a letter requesting he grow his beard that is when Lincoln decided to grow his beard (Stefoff 79-80). On Election Day Lincoln had won the presidency winning forty percent of the popular votes and sixty percent of the electoral votes. Shortly after Lincoln was elected the South seceded from the nation stating that Lincoln would be ...
- 14153: Benjamin Banneker
- ... Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. On the basis of his calculations, Banneker accurately predicted that a solar eclipse would take place on April 14, 1789. This contradicted the forecasts of prominent mathematicians and astronomers of the day. Also around this time, a piece of land along the Maryland - Virginia border was selected as the site for the U.S. capital. In 1789 George Washington instructed Secretary of State Jefferson to put together ...
- 14154: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... unequaled in Europe, in fact, he toured regularly as a solo virtuoso. 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 people of great talent, he was never very good at playing the political game, and consequently suffered drawbacks in his career. He was passed over for a major ...
- 14155: Adolf Hitler
- ... Finally, on April 30, 1945, with all of Germany overrun by Allied invaders, Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker, as did his long-time companion, Eva Braun (1912-45), whom he had married the day before. Hitler had a charismatic personality of overpowering forcefulness. An amoral man, rootless and incapable of personal friendships, he looked on his fellow humans as mere bricks in the world structure he wished to erect ...
- 14156: 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 ...
- 14157: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... liberal arts program at the University of Rochester in 1934. But after periods of unhappiness and questioning the loyalty of her friends, she withdrew from the university. For the next year Shirley worked night and day on her writing. In doing so she established work habits, which she maintained for the rest of her life. After a year of becoming conscientious and disciplined writer, Jackson thought she better return to college ...
- 14158: Computer Viruses: Infection Vectors, and Feasibility of Complete Protection
- ... B. Define interest group. C. Define problem. II. Discus the ways that a virus can infect a computer. A. Disk exchange and use. B. Local Area Network. C. Telecommunications also known as Wide Area Network. D. Spontaneous Generation. III. Summarize threat, and alternatives. A. Must isolate from outside world. B. Must write own programs. C. Propose alternative of damage control. Sources Cited Burger, Ralf. Computer Viruses and Data Protection. Grand Rapids ...
- 14159: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... She refuses to come out, and as a result, the house rots, just as she, and is forgotten. Amaranta chose to seclude herself romantically. Though men proposed, she refused, and she remained alone until the day she died. Solitude, whether it be perceived or real, individual or collective, physical or emotional, condemns a race to self-destruction. Garcia Marquez illustrates that point in every aspect of One Hundred Years of Solitude ...
- 14160: Agatha Christie
- ... sown. At the back of my mind, where the stories of the books I am going to write take their place long before the germination of the seeds occurs, the idea had been planted: some day I would write a detective story (Gill, p. 6). These experiences, combined with her traditional background, tastes, and talents, contributed to shaping her successful British detective fiction stories (Wagoner, p. 1). This paper will examine ...
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