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- 9001: Abraham Lincoln
- ... died at about 7:30 the following morning, Lincoln died without regaining consciousness. He was 56 years old. He was also the first American President to be assassinated (Stefoff 113). The news of Lincolns death stunned the nation. A manhunt was mounted for Booth and those who joined him in the conspiracy. On April 26, Booth was killed in a shoot-out with federal troops who had tracked him to ...
- 9002: The Wright Brothers
- ... born four years later on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio. (Porter 736) The two dropped out of high school before receiving their diploma and became interested in mechanical devices, (Wright Brothers) which after the death of Otto Lilienthal in 1896, led them to pursue flying mechanisms. (Wright 60) Between the years of 1900 and 1902 the two tested gliders and produced the first reliable tables of air pressure on curved ...
- 9003: Benjamin Banneker
- ... able to reproduce the plans from memory in two days, saving the U.S. government the effort and expense of having someone else design the capitol. Although Banneker studied and recorded his results until his death, he stopped publishing his almanac due to poor sales. Banneker died on Sunday, October 26, 1806. For years he has been reffered to as the first Negro man of science. Works Cited Brodie, James Michael ...
- 9004: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds with a level of skill that was his alone. Bach remained at his job in Leipzig until his death in 1750. He was creatively active until the very end, even after numerous heart problems virtually blinded him in 1740.
- 9005: Issac Newton
- ... ever since. Today it is called the Binomial Theroem. That same year, 1665, Isaac graduated from Trinity College. He wanted to stay on at the university to continue his studies. But the plague, the Black Death, had broken out in England. The university was closed and the students sent home, for the fear that the plague would strike Cambridge. Newton then returned to Woolsthorpe. Fear of the plague keep Newton close ...
- 9006: Burton Freund
- ... the Skirball Cultural Center here in Southern California. Despite his limited public success, he sold many of pieces to private parties, enough in fact to live quite comfortably here in Los Angeles until his death in 1969.
- 9007: Saint John of the Cross
- ... door. Thought to be achieved miraculously by some, John was able to creep past the guards, climb down the wall, and regain his freedom. From the time of his escape until the time of his death, John devoted his life to the sharing and explaining of his experience of the Lordfs grace and love. "Saint John of the Cross, in the darkness of your worst moments, when you were alone ...
- 9008: Anne Moody
- ... Soon after Moody entered high school, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago, was killed for whistling at a white woman. Emmett Tills murder had proved it was a crime, punishable by death, for a Negro man to even whistle at a white woman in Mississippi. Although her mother refused to give an explanation of the organization, Moody learned about the NAACP from one of her teachers soon ...
- 9009: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... Napoleon gathered the " Grand Army" of about 500,000 men. In June 1812, Napoleon endeavored on a new campaign. This was one of the worst mistakes he ever made. This would ultimately lead to the death of an entire generation of French men. Napoleon and his 500,000 men marched into Russia. Napoleon believed that after a few quick victorious battles, he would be able to convince Alexander to return to ...
- 9010: B.F. Skinner and His Influence in Psychology
- ... Behavior of Organisms. This book describes the basic points of his system. Another was Walden Two. This book describes a utopian society that functions on positive reinforcement. Skinner was a very productive person until his death in 1990 at the age of 86. Behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology that is interested in observable behavior. Skinner said, Behaviorism is not the science of human behavior; it is the philosophy ...
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