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- 2181: Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass On an unknown date in 1817, on a slave plantation in Tuckahoe Maryland, Frederick August Washington Bailey was born. Frederick was raised in a house on the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven, like many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields ...
- 2182: Teenage Parenthood
- ... marijuana. The media (especially TV) featured these experts and patients, usually ignoring the testimony of legitimate medical experts. If marijuana is legalized there are billions of dollars to be made by the unscrupulous. Billionaire financier George Soros, who admits to having experimented with cannabis, gave a million dollars for the California and Arizona pro-pot initiatives. The FDA issues narcotic licenses to physicians. Under license guidelines, Schedule I substances have no ...
- 2183: Charles Darwin
- ... destined to change our understanding of the process of evolution. His vessel, "The Beagle"(a ketch sailboat), had been used to mount other expeditions to places around the world such as Africa and India. Captain George Peacock, a fellow scientist who took to the sea after his life's thesis on evolution was rejected by the national science academy, invited Darwin to the vessel. Darwin's close associate, Robert Fitzroy, accompanied ...
- 2184: Marie Curie
- ... gave her life to the very thing she loved. She gave us knowledge that we take for granted and a new look at people's importance in the world. Bibliography 1.(book) Biography of Physics, George Gamow. Harper & Row. 1961. 2.(website) , WIP, 1998 3.(website) , University of Virginia, 1998
- 2185: The Life of Franz Liszt
- ... Liszt was hospitilized for a newvous breakdown.In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of the rock band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington.He was passed on to several elatives after his parents divorced when he was eight years old.For some time he even lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction.It was ...
- 2186: Teenage Pregnancy 2
- ... alarming statistic which sheds light on this issue is the following: Out of all teen mothers, sixty-six percent of them had children by men who were twenty or older (Klein, p32). Also, a 1992 Washington state study found that 62 percent of 535 teen mothers had been raped or molested before they became pregnant, and the offenders average age was 27.4 years (Klein, p32). Why are teenage girls becoming ...
- 2187: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... found my suffrage advocacy less shocking. In addition to suffrage, my chief lecture point was educational opportunity for girls. The Centennial Exposition brought me to Philadelphia in 1876, and I also made regular trips to Washington to speak on behalf of the federal suffrage amendment. I spent most of the 1880's working on my book, The History of Woman Suffrage. After Henry's death in 1887, I spent increasing amounts ...
- 2188: Telecommuting
- ... office space for their growing company. The cost to set up telecommuting is also very reasonable, and companies are recognizing that it costs them practically nothing and there is a huge number of benefits , says George Piskurich, a designer of instructional programs and author of An Organizational Guide to Telecommuting. The basic requirements are a quiet work area, a laptop or desktop computer, and a phone line. Telecommuting is still in ...
- 2189: Charles Lindbergh
- ... was shown most of the German Air Force and even the new planes. Hitler wanted Lindbergh to see the extent of his air force and hoped that Lindbergh would reveal to officials in London and Washington the power of the Germans. Meanwhile, Lindbergh informed the U.S. government of all that he had seen, including the fact that he was very impressed with the German Air Force. Hitler was very grateful ...
- 2190: Television 2 -
- ... May, discovered the photoelectric effect: selenium bars, exposed to sunlight, show a variation in resistance. Variations in light intensity can therefore be transformed into electrical signals. That means they can be transmitted. 1875. Boston, USA. George Carey proposed a system based on the exploration of every point in the image simultaneously: a large number of photoelectric cells are arranged on a panel, facing the image, and wired to a panel carrying ...
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