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- 2641: Pierre De Fermat
- ... his entire life, approximating Pi to 35 places. Then Blaise Pascal lived his entire life, born in 1623 and died in 1662. Next Sir Isaac Newton was born in the year 1642. Then Marin Mersenne, French philosopher, mathematician, Jesuit theologian, and scientist died in the year 1648. Finally Mr. Pierre de Fermat died in the year 1665. Some of the most striking results were discovered after his death on loose sheets ...
- 2642: Newfoundland
- ... have been a contributing factor. Being a woman and a catholic was certainly not an advantage at the turn of the century in Newfoundland. There have been some improvements with the introduction of the industrial revolution. It was still a poor condition as the women shop workers can point out. There were other women like that of Catherine Snow that trudged from the outports to find that gender and religion were ...
- 2643: Latin America
- ... the Dominican Republican; and the ten republics of South America, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. All these nations speak Spanish except Brazil, which speaks Potugese, and Haiti, which speaks French. The term Latin America does not apply to American possessions of European countries or of the United States or to former British possessions, such as Guyana, although Puerto Rico, culturally speaking, belongs to Latin America ...
- 2644: Queen Elizabeth I
- ... warfare. She is most famous for her dramatic victory over the Spanish Armada during the summer of 1588 (Sowards, 25). "English hostility to Spain was growing for a number of reasons: sympathy for the beleaguered French Huguenots and the peasants of Holland locked in their own desperate struggle with Phillip; the undeclared sea war with Spain that English privateers and pirates had already been carrying on for a generation
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- 2645: Egypt : The People
- ... people live in Egypt. Peasant farmers called fellahin make up over 60 percent of the population. But less than 4 percent of Egypt's land is suitable for farming. Before the leaders of the 1952 revolution introduced land reform, less than 2 percent of the landowners owned half of the land available for farming. Most of the fellahin were tenants or owned very tiny farms. A man who owned 3 to ...
- 2646: Distinctly Canadian
- ... netted stick, or crosse, with which the ball is caught, carried, and thrown. The game, originally played as training for warfare by the Native Americans of North America, and called baggataway, was adopted by the French-Canadians. They called the head of the stick used in the game la crosse because it resembles a bishop's crosier or cross. The National Lacrosse Association (now the Canadian Lacrosse Association) was formed in ...
- 2647: Lebanon
- ... because no poll has been officially taken since 1932). Almost all of these people, whether they are Christian or Moslem, are Arabs, and Lebanon is an Arab country. Mo st of the people can speak French or English or both, but Arabic is the national language. However, the national unity that usually comes from a common language and heritage has eluded the Lebanese people. In many ways, the country is less ...
- 2648: Medical Revolutions
- ... before had America faced even a hint of such agony and the way it responded to the occasion is fascinating history. In a very real sense the War Between the States brought forth a medical revolution and, perhaps above all, an awareness of public health. The terrible, swift scalpel became less terrible: and the dank, dirty, dingy pesthouse evolved into a pavilion of hope. Nursing, dentistry, and pharmacy also experienced a ...
- 2649: Canada
- ... second largest country and it is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere. It comprises all of the North American continent north of the United States, with the exclusion of Alaska, Greenland, and the tiny French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Its most easterly point is Cape Spear, Newfoundland and its western limit is Mount St. Elias in the Yukon Territory, near the Alaskan border. The southernmost point is Middle ...
- 2650: The Panama Canal
- ... later it obtained a consession from the Colombian goverment. Panama was then part of Colombia to dig a canal across the isthmus. The United States involvement was the international company failed, and in 1880 a French company was organized by Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal. His company went bankrupt in 1889. United States interest in a Atlantic-Pacific canal however continued. In 1899 the United States ...
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