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- 6541: Paul Ehrlich
- ... different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affects children and sometimes leads to death. In 1894, mothers no longer had to worry about their child dying of diphtheria because of Ehrlich’s help in the discovery of the antitoxin for the deadly disease. Another discovery Ehrlich made was of ...
- 6542: Presidential Anomalies
- ... America enjoyed the longest peacetime economic explanation in its history. After only serving 70 days in office, a would be assassin’s bullet lodged in President Reagan’s chest. His reaction to the brush with death displayed a fortitude rarely seen outside the movies. “Honey, I forgot to duck”, he told his wife. Within days, Reagan was back in the presidential saddle.
- 6543: Patton
- ... His anticommunist comment found Patton relived of his command of the Third Army. Shortly afterwards on December 9, 1945, Patton was severely injured in a car accident. Twelve days later he died. [Biography] After his death, many books and a movie were made about Patton keeping the interest alive for the next generation. Patton, produced in 1971, portrayed the General as an American folk hero. The film showed the things he ...
- 6544: P. T. Barnum
- ... named Joice Heth. She was being exhibited as the 161-year-old former nurse to George Washington. As crazy as the fib was the public loved it. Heth earned him a sizeable profit before her death, the next year. Barnum had an autopsy done and found out Heth was only 80 years old and claimed he to had been fooled by her. Next Barnum signed a juggler named Vivala and toured ...
- 6545: Peter The Great
- ... day which shall be better than this“(4:90). He was determined to Westernize his country to close the gaps and heal the scars of the Mongol invasions. So, the very next year after the death of his half-brother Ivan, Peter set out to see Europe himself -- no Czar had ever set foot out of his dominions for over 600 years, or ever even seen the West. And the thought ...
- 6546: Mark Twain
- ... qtd. in Kaplan 220). They moved to Florence, Italy in October 1903. After recuperating from her heart attack, she was stricken with another. Twain never left Olivia’s side and was with her until her death. That night Twain stayed by her side caressing her hand. The next day he wrote, “I am tired and old; I wish I were with Livy” (qtd. in Kaplan 236).Twain went into a state ...
- 6547: Martin Luther King- I Have A D
- ... everywhere" (154). After all, he knew that any violence on the part of his civil rights workers would lead to violent counterattacks from segregationists. He knew this would only lead his followers to injury and death. "The purpose of our direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation" (156). Nonviolence put his followers on the moral high ground and made ...
- 6548: Magic Johnson
- ... teams. Earvin was named All-Conference Most Valuable Player And United Press International’s “Prep Player of the Year” in Michigan. That summer, Reggie was killed in an auto accident. Earvin was devastated by the death of one of his closest friends. Earvin started to receive five to six letters a day. In his senior year, Earvin started off the season averaging forty points a game, but Coach Fox told him ...
- 6549: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... and that he wanted to fulfill his promise. Ozzy writes most of his songs when he is in a very depressed stage in his life. In the song “Suicide Solution” Ozzy wrote it about the death of Bon Scott. He died from a drug overdose. He was one of Ozzy’s close friends from the band AC/DC.” Wine is fine but whiskey’s quicker suicide is slow with liquor, Take ...
- 6550: Obituary On George Washington
- ... and fair; so many people hired him to survey their lands. When George was 19, his older half brother, Lawrence, became very ill. Many doctors tried to cure him, but nothing helped. After Lawrence's death, George lived at Mount Vernon. George joined the Virginia militia. The British governor of Virginia sent him to the Ohio River on an important mission. Soon Major Washington was fighting in the first battles of ...
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