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- 2121: Gravity
- ... waves are waves of gravity. They are vibrations of space itself. They travel through space at the speed of light, but are more like sound than light. Hertz' discovery set the foundation for the electronic revolution of the twentieth century. Electromagnetic waves not only revolutionized our lives, but also our knowledge of the universe. Astronomers gradually opened the electromagnetic spectrum, first using visible light and then radio, x-rays and gamma ...
- 2122: Columbus
- ... the great person that he was. First of all, because Columbus discovered the New World people now live 1/3 longer than they did during his time. Columbus breakthrough led the world into an agricultural revolution. As the supply of food increased, the health of the world also increased. As a result, people began to live longer. Today the population has multiplied ten times in the past 150 years. This all ...
- 2123: Courageous John Quincy Adams
- ... He did anything but that. John Quincy was the only Federalist to vote in favor of the Louisiana Purchase, that was proposed by President Thomas Jefferson, to buy a big piece of land from the French in 1908. When John Quincy had to say something about a certain subject he said it, no matter what his peers said. John Quincy had a big role in the problem with foreign policies. Great ...
- 2124: Geographical Analysis of Early Civilization
- Geographical Analysis of Early Civilization Toward the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution( dated approximately 10,000 b.c.), the ancestors of modern man began the great transformation from nomadic gatherers and hunters, to recognizably civilized people. This change is evidenced by the agricultural and urban revolutions, as ...
- 2125: The Protector Of The Scots And The Hammer Of The Scots
- ... bride a visit, unfortunately this is a dark and stormy evening. His nobles try to persuade the King not to go out in this bad weather, however his pride and maybe a bit too much French wine get the better of him. The King of Scotland is found the next day at the bottom of a cliff with a broken neck (William Wallace the Truth http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/wallace ...
- 2126: Criticism Of Alexander Pope
- ... but was mainly self-educated. Due to his religion at the time, it was impossible for him to follow a career and be permitted to enroll in a university. Being able to read Latin, Greek French and Italian at a very young age he was already writing verses and at the age of sixteen didn't know that his later writings would be published as his "Pastorals."(The New Enc. Britannica ...
- 2127: Daniel Boone
- ... he was fifteen, the family moved to the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina, a trek that took over a year. At nineteen or twenty he left his family home with a military expedition in the French and Indian War. There he met John Finley, a hunter who had seen some of the western wilds, who told him stories that set him dreaming. But Boone was not quite ready to pursue the ...
- 2128: D-Day
- ... were being prepared along with over 13,000 fighter, bomber, and transport aircraft. Beginning on April 1, preliminary air strikes were conducted. 11,000 aircrafts were deployed dropping 195,000 tons of bombs on French centers, German air fields, radar installations and military bases. Most of these air attacks were to deceive the Nazi into thinking landings would be made more north-east than what the actual plan called for ...
- 2129: David Hume
- ... him to become a lawyer, he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University where he studied but did not graduate, and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and began his literary career. As Hume built up his reputation, he gained more and more political power. He discarded the possibility of ...
- 2130: The Boxer Rebellion
- ... confidence of the Chinese people in their own government. This also alienated another group of people in a society plagued with inequalities: from peasant to gentry. The two elements described here are not reasons for revolution, but are elements that polarize an already difficult situation. The West became a catalyst for a formula with volatile ingredients. The Chinese economy already had economic and political inequalities, but adding the West into mix ...
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