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- 2441: 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 ...
- 2442: Clipper Ships
- ... characteristics such as a sharp hull (designed for speed, not for cargo capacity) and a heavy and lofty square rig. The origin of the clipper is debatable. Some believe that it was descended from the French frigate of the late 1700's. Other's believe that it originated from the early Baltimore clipper's. It is highly probable that it was designed by many ship builders who combined their experience. The ...
- 2443: Hypnotism
- ... became interested. He believed that cures were not due to animal magnetism however, but the power of suggestion. This was the generally accepted opinion of the scientific community. Then in 1825 Jean Marie Charcot, a French neurologist, disagreed with "The Nancy School of Hypnotism", which followed the guidelines of James Braid's ideas. Charcot believed that hypnosis was simply a "manifestation of hysteria". He revived Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism ...
- 2444: Stowaways
- ... into the cargo of grain, breathing through a couple straws that just broke the surface of the cargo. Unfortunately for them, the cargo hadshifted slightly during the voyage, burying the stowaways alive (Pegram). The container revolution has added significantly to this problem. Containers are, of course, packed and sealed well before it ever gets near the ship, and they can come aboard full of stowaways without the crew having any idea ...
- 2445: Bacons Rebellion
- ... mostly slaves and indentured servants{however there we poor whites also} and when these to races joined forces as they did in Bacons Rebellion if well organized had great power in throwing a successful revolution due to the sheer number of people among other aspects. So In order to maintain unchallenged power, status and authority, the elite devised a plan or policy that would separate these two races and ensure ...
- 2446: The Seminole
- ... Indians were in contact with other Indians who had the germs, they could also get the disease. The Indians could not fight against this enemy, so the Indians were rapidly reduced. (Lepthien 5-6) The French also tried to establish a colony in Florida in 1564, but they failed because the Spanish captured the settlement the following and extinguished the belief that France had claims in Florida. One year later, the ...
- 2447: 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 ...
- 2448: Nuclear Weapons: Destructors or Saviors?
- ... MAD (due to its inability to protect its population from a large- scale nuclear war), is dead on target, when one realizes that this protection- while being physical-may also be concerning their conscious states. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that in war, "we are all embued with the feeling of participating in a world event . . . it's during peacetime that we should have had that dedication and that ...
- 2449: Doc Holliday
- ... drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and French languages. Amazingly Docs favorite subject was rhetoric, his teachers claimed that Doc had a way with words unsurpassed by anyone in his class. All of these factors may have contributed to Doc having a ...
- 2450: Hypnotism
- ... became interested. He believed that cures were not due to animal magnetism however, but the power of suggestion. This was the generally accepted opinion of the scientific community. Then in 1825 Jean Marie Charcot, a French neurologist, disagreed with "The Nancy School of Hypnotism", which followed the guidelines of James Braid's ideas. Charcot believed that hypnosis was simply a "manifestation of hysteria". He revived Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism ...
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