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- 6961: Isaac Newton's Life
- ... interest in mathematical research. Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642, we give the date of 4 January 1643 in this biography which is the "corrected" Gregorian calendar date bringing it into line with our present calendar. (The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in England ... father owned property and animals which made him quite a wealthy man, he was completely uneducated and could not sign his own name. How Newton was introduced to the most advanced mathematical texts of his day is slightly less clear. According to de Moivre, Newton's interest in mathematics began in the autumn of 1663 when he bought an astrology book at a fair in Cambridge and found that he could ...
- 6962: Dea Sea Scrolls Imperfection
- ... today had to have been done long ago, without the comfort of technology as we now know it. It’s a safe bet to say that the chairs that we sit on during a normal day are by far more comfortable than beds used by the princes of old. The tables from those ancient times were most likely not made with the same amount of care and perfection as they are ... gets buried next to Jacob. Keep in mind that the scribe is being rushed to finish this book and he is still very tired from lack of sleep and working on copying this book all day long. He doesn’t have time to research and he knows that these events happened, but he just isn’t sure if it was in the text itself. So the scribe makes a judgement call ...
- 6963: The Awakening
- ... he is remembered the most (Encarta). Like Chopin, Maupassant’s ideas were looked at as "immoral" and "mature," dealing with ideas such as "sex," loneliness, and "depression" (Jones 385). He questioned the standards of the day, and was therefore rejected by many people as an immoral person (Jones 385). Kate Chopin’s interest in Maupassant began after her mother died (Toth 181). At that time she had moved to a new ... Maupassant had on Kate Chopin, that does not change the facts. Had it not been for Maupassant ideas and challenges, Kate Chopin may have never been remembered. Her stories would have been typical of the day, and insignificant, but because of Maupassant, however, Chopin dared to question what was normal, and challenged what was moral. Her contributions to literature will never be forgotten. It is a shame that the Maupassant’s ...
- 6964: Francesco Petrarch
- ... the Archbishop. Petrarch was included in a welcoming committee of the Cardinal Gil Albornoz. Along with the Archbishop and other noblemen greeted the Cardinal and his men. The Cardinal asked to speak with Francesco one day. During this time Petrarch did not ask for anything of himself but asked that many petitions from his friends, including Nelli, be signed. Shortly after the visit from a Genoese envoy came to Milan asking ... come from the classical writers, Cicero, Virgo but also from a woman named Laura. Petrarch apparently was in love with this woman but his love was not returned by her: ‘Ah! Said to himself one day, ‘ was I to see the laughter of those bright eyes extinguished by are; those golden locks changed to silver; the flowers painted on that complexion faded away; was I see Laura without her garland, without ...
- 6965: Francisco Franco
- ... on a range of political families running from those on the center right to extreme reactionaries. Franco balanced off these groups against one another, retaining for himself a position as arbiter above the affairs of day-to-day politics. Helped along by the general prosperity of Europe, Spain enjoyed rapid economic growth in the 1960’s. However, in the early 1960’s, opposition to Franco became more outspoken. Miners and other workers went ...
- 6966: A Season In Purgatory
- ... Bradley, Gerald Bradley, Grace Bradley, and Winifred Utley. Harrison Burns not very wealthy, parents were murdered. He lived with his Aunt Gert. He attended Mildford Catholic school (an all boy school). He wanted to one day become a writer. He was a sort of a scary boy. He had no adventurous about him. Only son only child. Some what of an outcast good guy never broke rules. Lived in Ansonia he ... and he was very intoxicated. The family started blaming Harrison and ask him to leave. They were still mad at the turn down of the proposal and the confrontation Constant and Harrison had prior that day. Gerald after feeling scared of what Harrison could tell the police ordered Johnny Fuselli to “handle” Harrison. Jerry enforced a “drowning no marks on him.” Fuselli did attempt the drowning but Harrison got away by ...
- 6967: About Medical Marijuana
- ... the DEA rejected Judge Young's ruling and refused to reschedule! Two appeals later, NORML experienced its first defeat in the 22-year-old lawsuit. On February 18, 1994, the U.S. Court of Appeals (D.C. Circuit) upheld the DEA's decision to keep marijuana in Schedule I. It seems that as long as the DEA-a law enforcement agency-is allowed to set its own criteria used to determine ... already broken the law by suggesting at least once that a patient obtain marijuana illegally. These findings are later published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. At NORML's urging, U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) introduces legislation in Congress in 1995 (H.R. 2618) to amend the federal law to allow physician's to legally prescribe marijuana as a medicine to patients. NORML testifies before Congress in 1996 on ...
- 6968: In Shape
- ... it. Little girls are bought dolls and tea sets and easy bake ovens so that they can imitate their mothers’ behavior. Little girls learn to cook and clean and are told early on that one day they will marry a handsome man and have lots of babies. We are taught gender specific roles from the day we are born. Women don’t usually have same sex experiences until they are twenty- three or twenty- four and women are pushed to marry by the time they are twenty or twenty-one. If ...
- 6969: The Prince And The Pauper
- The Prince and the Pauper This tale documents how a twist of fate can alter one s life. It begins with Edward Tudor (Prince, by birth) and Tom Canty (Pauper) switching clothes one day and, in turn, accidentally switching lives. The Prince must now endure the slums of the country in which his father rules. He is beaten, starved, and must beg for food. This aspect of the tale ... 70 it mentions "the loving-cup", I have no idea what it means so I looked it up in the back and there it was note number four, page seventy, "The Loving-Cup" plain as day. The third point of critical analysis is realism. The Prince and the Pauper is not very real, even for the time when Mark Twain wrote this book. Would a prince really let a pauper into ...
- 6970: "Please Let Us Skate"
- "Please Let Us Skate" "Hey you guys! Skating is prohibited in this park. Would you please be so kind and leave. Thanks for cooperating and have a great day" exclaimed a security guard who worked for the park. Apparently the security guard's idea of a great day in the park means monk-like silence. With an area restricted on roller-blading and skate-boarding, we are forced to skate elsewhere. "As a security guard for the past year, I want to keep ...
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