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- 2211: Charles Dickens
- ... magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, in which he serialized Oliver Twist (1837-1839). By this time, the first of his nine surviving children had been born, He had married Catherine, eldest daughter of a respected journalist George Hogorth (April 1836). Novels His first major success was with The Pickwick Papers. They were high spirited and contained many conventional comic butts and jokes. Pickwick displayed, many of the features that were to be ...
- 2212: The Land Ethic
- ... 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 ...
- 2213: The Legalization Of Marijuana
- ... 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 ...
- 2214: Herbert Hoover
- ... 1929 Wall Street debacle. The commission fed 10,000,000 people during the war and left funds for Belgian postwar reconstruction. When the United States entered the war in April 1917, Hoover was called to Washington to serve as food administrator. This was a special wartime office, created to encourage American agricultural production and food conservation and to coordinate a rational distribution of food. When the war ended in November 1918 ...
- 2215: Harry Shippe Truman
- ... Truman. He learned many things like the railroad's decline was because rich people wanted more money. Harry started investigations and uncovered more and more scandals. It was very successful. Harry now was living in Washington D.C., so his family couldn't live in D.C. all year round. So, Half the year, Harry's wife and daughter would live with him, the other half they would live at the ...
- 2216: Lusitania
- ... the voyage, the New York German community tried to run an ad warning about the trans-Atlantic voyage. But the duty officer at the State department did not approve, so no ads were placed. Later George Vierick, who was in charge of placing the ads, convinced William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, that on all but one of the Lusitania's voyages it carried war materials. Bryan had an advertisement run ...
- 2217: Sir Sandford Fleming
- ... conditions. Fleming advocated t he adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from t hat according to established time zones. He was instrumental in con vening an International Prime Meridian conference in Washington in 1884 at which the system of inter national standard time-still in use to day-was adopted. Fleming also designed the first Canadian postage stamp , the 3-penny beaver, issued in 1851. He was ...
- 2218: Sir Wilfrid Laurier of Canada
- ... He will always be remembered for the role he played in Canadian politics. BIBLIOGRAPHY Spigelman, Martin. Wilfrid Laurier. Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, 1978. Canada Today. Scarborough, Ontario: Pretice-Hall Canada Inc, 1988. Brown, George W. Building The Canadian Nation. Toronto: J.M Dent & Sons limited, 1958 Schull, Joseph. Laurier. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1965. "Laurier." The World Book Encyclopedia, 1987, Vol. 12.
- 2219: King Henry VIII
- ... of some shallow victories. Although he himself opposed the Reformation, his creation of a national church marked the real beginning of the English Reformation. He died on Jan. 28, 1547, and was buried in St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. f
- 2220: Descartes
- ... 1982. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy ed. Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1985. Cottingham, John Descartes. Oxford, 1986. Williams, Bernard Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry. Harmondsworth, 1978. Russell, Bertrand The History of Western Philosophy. George Allen and Unwin, 1961. 11. Kripke, Saul Naming and Necessity. Oxford 1980. Word Count: 4577
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