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- 1901: Fray Junipero Serra
- ... his own direction. He joined the expedition of Don Gaspar de Portola and received orders to explore and occupy new territory. He was commissioned by the King to lead the Franciscans into Alta California (present day California). Father Serra traveled across the border to Alta California on July 1, 1769 and established his first mission, San Diego de Alcala, that same month. Serra's blessing of the side of Mission San ... of the European settlement of California. It was there where Serra planted the cross and dedicated the first mission. He then began a journey by sea on the San Antonio to what he called present-day Monterey, a "pleasing stretch of land." This was the capital of Alta California. He founded his second mission at this location, San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo (Saint Charles Borromeo by the Carmel River). This ... Gabriel, 1772 San Luis Obispo, 1776 San Francisco, San Juan Capistrano, 1777 Santa Clara, 1784 San Buenaventura. In his fifteen years as padre president his nine of the twenty-one missions, each about a one-day walk apart were linked by a dirt road called "El Camino Real." By the time Father Serra died in 1784 he had established nine California missions and baptized six thousands Indians, about ten percent ...
- 1902: Commonwealth
- ... known as the "marching season." These are parades celebrating the victory of William of Orange over the Catholic James Stuart. July 12, 1960 was the victory of William at the Battle of the Boyne. This day is referred to as the "Glorious Twelfth" and is a national holiday in Northern Ireland. For many Protestants, the Twelfth is the most wonderful day of the year. Spectators also include the police and the army while helicopters circle overhead on the lookout for trouble. Writer: Ireland has had an abundance of writers and poets. The first famous Irish writer ... s funeral. People in the south often agree with the IRA ideals but not with their violent methods. In the end everyone will have to sit down and negotiate a lasting peace. St.Patrick´s Day: March 17 is Saint Patrick´s Day in the Republic of Ireland. It´s a time to join in a parade, paint your face green, white and orange, of course to drink until you ...
- 1903: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- ... Tom surprises his dad and whole family with his sudden arrival. Soon after Tom learns that the entire family is going to go west, to California. After little debate they decide to go the next day and bring Tom and the preacher. Also coming were grandpa and grandma, pa and ma, Toms older brother Noah, Toms younger siblings Al, Rose of Sharon (who is pregnant) and her husband Connie, Ruthie and ... away. So they and the other couple buried him since they did not have enough money to burry him right. Then the two families decided to continue on their way toward California together. The next day they continued on. Their journey continued on smoothly until one day a part of the car and a bearing went out. Tom and Casy stayed with the car and every body else went on in the Joad truck until they saw a good spot to ...
- 1904: Chocolate Chip Cookies
- ... ever wondered how the chocolate chip cookie came to be? Have you ever wondered who brought this American tradition into our homes? Do you know how they became so popular? Well, it all started one day with a young lady named Ruth Wakefield. One day she was making some cookies for her guests. They were called Butter Drop Do's. This cookie required semisweet chocolate pieces to be melted in the batter. Well she was in a hurry, she had ... never the less everyone at the Toll House Inn simply loved them. In fact, they became so popular the recipe was published in the Boston Newspaper. The recipe was named the Toll House Cookie. One day Nestlé was going over their reports and they found that sales for chocolate bars rose rapidly in the Boston area. This was because the chocolate bars were the primary ingredient in the Toll House ...
- 1905: The Chinese Culture
- ... One was a girl and the other was a boy. They lived in a house which had a huge very thick roof. The man had built the roof so thick because it rained almost every day. He hated the rain. He knew it had its benefits but too much of it ruined his crops, destroyed his livestock and every time it rained the roof of the house was destroyed. And every ... Duke would descend from the heavens and stand on a hilltop. There he would watch with pure delight as the rains and thunder came down harder and harder. Finally the man had had enough. One day he took his axe and waited on the hilltop for the Duke to arrive. When the rains came so did the Duke, and the man slashed him in the back. The Duke was hurt but ... s time the ship was finished. It was built out of the strongest material known to him. Meanwhile the egg the children planted had grown to a size of about two small people. Then one day what the man had anticipated came. Huge torrential downpours of rain started and there were tremendous floods. The man jumped into the ship he built, in his panic he had forgotten about the children. ...
- 1906: Hazards Of Smoking
- There are many things today which cause us harm. One can spend virtually an entire day listing the hazards faced by modern society. However, none of these hazards are as deadly as a habit millions of American's bring on themselves twenty to thirty times a day. Smoking is the cause of a multitude of medical problems that plague not only the individual smoker, but everyone else as well. Smoking is defined as the inhaling and exhaling of the fumes of burning ... increased chances of congenital defects. In general, the risk of developing a tobacco-related cancer depends on the intensity of the habit as determined by duration of the smoking habit, number of cigarettes smoked per day, tar content of the cigarette, and the depth of inhalation. Cigarette smoking is not only related to the development of lung cancer but also affects the development of cancer of the bladder, oral cavity, ...
- 1907: The Use of Supplements Creatine, Androstenedione, and HMB
- ... 2.4lbs of uncooked steak contains about four to five grams of Creatine (2). However, some of the Creatine is degraded during the cooking process. The average person consumes about one gram of Creatine a day from a regular diet. (3) Creatine is also produced endogenously by the liver, pancreas and kidneys. The body of a 70-kg individual produces about two grams of Creatine a day consisting a turnover rate of about 1.6% a day. The body of a 70-kg individual would contain a total of about 120 grams of Creatine. Approximately 60% of the Creatine is stored in its phosphorylated form, phosphocreatine also known as Creatine phosphate( ...
- 1908: Bill Gates Roadway To His Succ
- ... the allure this machine would have for a hand full of young students. Bill Gates and a few other Lakeside students immediately became inseparable from the computer. They would stay in the computer room all day and night, writing programs, reading computer literature and anything else they could to learn about computing. Soon Gates and the others started running into problems with the faculty. Their homework was being turned in late ... could not refuse. Gates is quoted as saying, "It was when we got free time at C-cubed (Computer Center Corporation) that we really got into computers. I mean, then I became hardcore. It was day and night" (Wallace p. 30). Although the group was hired just to find bugs, they also read any computer-related material that the day shift had left behind. The young hackers would even pick employees for new information. It was here that Gates and Allen really began to develop the talents that would lead to the formation of ...
- 1909: Analysis of Blake's "London"
- ... callousness of the rich and powerful, f the institutions of state and religion. The speaker of the poem emphasizes the social and economic differences that separate the citizens of London. By repeating the word "charter'd", he reminds the reader of the commercial nature of the city, the fact that portions of it are owned, and that not everyone has equal access to goods or property. In the first line of his poem as Blake speaks of how he is wandering through the "charter'd" streets, he is commenting on this commercial aspect of London. As he moves on in his poem he also refers to the "charter'd" Thames, he is telling us in this second line that even a river which is a force of nature, is owned in London. When Blake says that he sees "marks of weakness, marks of ...
- 1910: Blackness
- ... who had moved from Fort Donelson to Corinth, Mississippi. The North was commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant and the South by General Albert Sydney Johnston. The Union army was taken by surprise the first day when the Confederate Army unexpectedly attacked, but after Union reinforcements arrived the fighting virtually ended in a tie. Lasting for two days, April 6 and 7 of 1862, casualties for both sides exceeded 20,000 ... the morning of April 6. Johnston’s men burst out of the woods so early that Union soldiers came out of their tents to fight. The Confederate army drove the Yankees back eight miles that day. One area that was especially troublesome for the South was nicknamed the Hornet’s Nest and was commanded by Union General Prentiss. The area was a sunken road that Federal troops rallied behind and mowed ... to which the whole nation has so long been looking forward, begun this morning and has resulted in a complete victory" (New Orleans, Times-Picayune, 1862). This report was accurate as far as the first day’s fight was concerned. General P.G.T. Beauregard wrote to C.F.S. (4) President Jefferson Davis in agreement with the the Times-Picayune reporting that "We this morning attacked the enemy in ...
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