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- 2011: Stephen King
- ... a safe house for the characters in the book. This is significant because King said that he chose the library because he always felt safe and sound in his public library when he was young. George Denbrough is the main character in the book. King came up with the name because he saw it on a headstone from 1845. He saw the name and liked it (Beahm 104-107). The town ...
- 2012: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... unconscious. Later that afternoon he suffered a stroke and died. At 5:47 the International News Service teletypist, Charles Sparkenbaugh, typed the shortest bulletin in wire history WASHN–FDR DEAD. During Roosevelt’s funeral in Washington, at 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon, America’s radios broadcast empty air. Telephones went dead, not even a dial tone. And Tele machines ceased their chatter, then slowly typed out seven letters s i l ...
- 2013: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... the naval yards, and two days a week visiting the naval hospital. Eventually, Eleanor became one of the seventy thousand women to volunteer at the Red Cross canteens. She was assigned to the one in Washington's Union Station. During the summer, she would often get up a 5 a.m. at go to the canteen. Eleanor was offered a job of setting up canteens for the American servicemen in England ...
- 2014: Margaret Atwood
- ... in Alabama. She has also lived in England, France, Italy, and Germany. Atwood is presently employed as a lecturer of English at the University Of British Columbia at Vancouver. She has instructed English at Sir George Williams University in Montreal and was an assistant professor of English at York University in Toronto. Atwood was also a Writer-In-Residence at the University of Toronto and the M.F.A. Honorary Chair ...
- 2015: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... navy because of his back trouble and history of illness("JFK" 98). After months of training and conditioning, John reapplied and on September 19, John was accepted into the navy as a desk clerk in Washington. He was disgusted and applied for a transfer. In June 1941, Kennedy was sent to Naval Officers Training School at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and then for additional training at the Motor Torpedo Boat ...
- 2016: John Dalton
- ... his studies in meteorology led him to conclusions about the origin of trade winds involving the Earth's rotation and change in temperature--unaware, perhaps, that this theory had already been proposed in 1735 by George Hadley. These are only some of the subjects on which he wrote essays that he read before the Philosophical Society: others included such topics as the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, rainfall, the formation of clouds, and ...
- 2017: Bill Gate's Biography
- ... countries. Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered ...
- 2018: Homeopathy And Women
- ... between professionals, health reformers, and women's rights advocates. Less class-conscious than their orthodox counterparts, the sectarian practitioners apparently devoted a large portion to their practice to serving the poor. Julia Minerva Green, a Washington homeopath, maintained a practice in which one-quarter of her patients were charity cases (Moldow 1987: 128). A long-time director of the American Foundation for Homeopathy, Dr. Green is said to have made housecalls ...
- 2019: Hemp...A Help For Today
- ... D. Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1997 4. Mathre, Mary Lynn, Ed. Cannabis in Medical Practice. London: McFarland & Company, Inc. 1997 5. Peterson, Robert C., Ph.D. Marijuana Research Findings: 1980. Washington DC: Department of Health and Human Services. 1981 6. "Hemp Fact Sheet" Online. Internet: html://www.ran.org/ran/ ran_campaign/old_growth/hemp_fact.Html#advan. 7. Herer, Jack. The Emperor Wears No Clothes ...
- 2020: How Social Darwinism Influence
- ... revolution and insurrection for imperialistic nations. If the people of the oppressed nation believed that they were being cleansed of their dirty and evil ways, they would welcome the invaders as evangelizers. For example, in George Orwell’s Burmese Days, Doctor Veraswami worships the Europeans and states that the natives were the cause of disease and suffering. This apparently isn’t true because it can be proven that the Europeans brought ...
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