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- 991: Albert Einstein
- ... letter to President Roosevelt during the second world war, telling him of the possibility of the creation of an atomic bomb, as he realized the threat the Nazis posed to the world. Einstein had left Germany when Hitler first came to power, and for much of the war had preached a doctrine of peace. After the war, Albert pushed hard for the cause of international disarmament and world government. He continued ...
- 992: Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
- ... her. One day Gretchen expresses her unhappiness of being at the house. She feels that she is not noticed and her hard work is not completely appreciated. She leaves the house and goes back to Germany. When Fordyce talks to Joe, Joe says that she was a great asset to the house and will be greatly missed. And of course, Fordyce is heart broken. These two stories both have one thing ...
- 993: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... 1924. Arthur's last published book; Edge of the Unknown, was published in 1930.22 World travel played a big role in the backgrounds for Doyle's stories and novels. The Doyle family visited Berlin, Germany in 1890 to investigate bacteriologist Robert Koch's claim to have possibly have found the cure for tuberculosis. In 1892, the Doyles traveled to Norway, where Conan Doyle went skiing for the first time. Shortly ...
- 994: Stephen Crane Biography
- ... American War for Joseph Pulitzers New York World. During the last few years of his life, he was in debt and suffering from tuberculosis. He died on June 5, 1900 while he was in Germany he was only 29. Some of Cranes most famous works are The Red Badge Of Courage (1895), The Blue Hotel (1898), and War is Kind and Other Lines (1899). Stephen Crane also wrote Maggie a ...
- 995: Stephon Marbury
- ... numbers. He was frustrated that very few people could comprehend how much pressure was exerted on him to do this. Mr. Marbury even had international recognition by making the covers of magazines in France and Germany. A news show on the American Broadcasting Company, "Nightline", profiled him. Mr. Marbury says: It's real hard for people to understand if they don't come from New York, I was scrutinized for every ...
- 996: Peter The Great
- ... all of the population consisted of serfs, the merchants, nobles, and elite only populated five percent of Russia. The elite, like the serfs, were not very well educated at all. Timmerman, a knowledgeable man from Germany, taught and showed Peter all of the nautical instruments need to navigate a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to ...
- 997: Profiles In Courage
- ... would later mathematically prove to put a damper on the economy. Since his constituents were poverty stricken, they supported free silver. George Norris was a member of the House. He was previously a diplomat to Germany. During the time that the US was about to enter World War I, Norris was opposed. He also filibustered against the Armed Ship Bill because he hated war. George failed in these efforts. Robert Taft ...
- 998: Peter The Great
- ... August 1697 Peter left for journey to the West. He was the first Russian ruler to do so. His journey created not only sensation in Russia but in the countries he passed through. He visited Germany, Holland where he spent several months improving his knowledge of shipbuilding and navigation. He also visited England and Vienna. While on his journey he bought scientific instruments, books, and many curiosities. Peter was successful in ...
- 999: On J.J. Thompson
- ... Other experiments cast doubt on the idea that these were ordinary particles of matter, for example gas molecules as some suggested. In France, Jean Perrin had found that cathode rays carried a negative charge. In Germany, in January 1897 Emil Wiechert made a puzzling measurement indicating that the ratio of their mass to their charge was over a thousand times smaller than the ratio for the smallest charged atom. When Lenard ...
- 1000: Carol Causs
- ... created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the thirtieth of April, 1777, in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany). Gauss was born into an impoverished family, raised as the only son of a bricklayer. Despite the hard living conditions, Gauss's brilliance shone through at a young age. At the age of only two ...
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