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- 4631: Cassius Clay - Muhammad Ali
- ... to come to the gym and learn how to box, so he could get pay back on the bicycle thief. This is the story of how Cassius first got interested and determined to become a great boxer. He also showed determinations when he brought home and Olympic gold medal. He trained very hard for our country and did a really good job. Even back then he ran his trashed talked his ... of brain damage from boxing so much that now in his old age he cannot speak and function quite right. But this does not affect "the butterfly" in his daily life. Muhammad Alli made a great contribution to boxing and the dancing style, and he will never be forgotten for his amazing technique. This book is a very entertaining and true to life book Muhammad Alli. I recommend this book to ...
- 4632: Boris Yeltsin
- ... stack exchange, a reserve bank, and a civil law code. Despite assurances from Boris that capitalism would yield dividends within a year, the economy slowly shrank from 1992 to 1999. Millions of ordinary people suffered great poverty and unemployment. Frictions in the government were worsened by the government's inability to agree on a constitution. A majority of voters expressed confidence in Boris in a referendum held on April 23, 1993 ... Gorbachev's stance of reducing tension with western nations. Boris has had many meetings with the United States, including ones with George Bush and Bill Clinton. He has also cultivated relations with Germany, France, and Great Britain. In 1997, he aloud former soviet countries to be admitted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Boris has promoted trade and cooperation with China. Boris also gave the Kuril Islands back to Japan (for ...
- 4633: Bob Dylan
- ... Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wanted to make something of himself, he needed to get ... of thinking in so much of a way, that singers were now expected to write their own music. Throughout his life, Dylan continues to influence many musicians, poets, writers, and just people in general. Such great artists like Joan Baez (Blowin in the Wind), Jimi Hendrix (All Along the WatchTower), and even modern artists like Sheryl Crow (Mississippi) have all borrowed songs from him. Dylan has won a number of Grammy ...
- 4634: Blaise Pascal
- ... moved to Rouen where his father Etienne was appointed tax collector for Upper Normandy. Soon after settling down in Rouen his Essay on Conic Sections was published in February of 1640. It was his first great work. Pascal also invented the first digital calculator to aid his father in his tax collecting duties. For three years he worked 1642 - 1545. Dubbed the Pascaline, it resembled a mechanical calculator of the 1940 ... Roberval to find the arc length and the length of the arch of the cycloid. Pascal published his own solutions to his own problems in the Letters to Carcavi. This seemed to be his last great interest in science. He spent his last years giving to the poor and attending church in Paris one service after another. He died at the age of 39 in intense pain after a malignant growth ...
- 4635: Billy The Kid
- ... waited for Brady and his posse to come into town. When they finally did Billy and his band of outlaws opened fire from their ambush and killed Brady and his posse. Even though Billy used great strategy to gain the upper hand on Brady he was regarded as a coward for the ambush and lost the support of the people who had supported him. While the Lincoln County War went on ... beard, who was the most feared gunman in the West". Even though he agreed to testify he didn’t want to surrender so Wallace granted a fake arrest. Billy testified and with that it brought great fame. He reveled in this fame and couldn’t get enough of it. After the trial Billy agreed to be put on a mock trial for murder but Wallace guaranteed his release. Even though he ...
- 4636: Billy Graham
- ... he would be heard by every Christian on the green world that God created. Following graduation from Wheaton Graham entered what could be considered a transition state that lay somewhere between formal education and the great preacher as whom we know him. During this time he amassed several personal skills that would benefit him once he began his own ministry, and also made contacts with people that would later work for ... Coast for his popular radio show, heard every afternoon for two hours. Especially once news of Hamblen's own conversion at one of the meetings reached the airwaves, people came to see what was so great that everyone on the radio was talking about. A second media break came when Randolph Hearst, owner of newspapers across the country including two major ones in Los Angeles, inexplicably told his papers to "puff ...
- 4637: Bill Gates
- ... was a destination in a Star Trek episode)"(Gates 16). It had a few switches and lights on the front that you could get to blink, but that was about all. This new chip had great potential, but there was no way to program it. After five weeks of not going to classes, not eating or sleeping regularly, their version of "BASIC was written- and the world's first microcomputer software ... licensing agreement between IBM and Microsoft, IBM had no control over Microsoft's distribution of its MS-DOS to other companies who wanted to clone the IBM machine. This decision by IBM is still under great debate. Many industry analysts argue that IBM should have waited for their own software developers to develop an operating system or that IBM should have purchased MS-DOS from Microsoft. However, from a more broad ...
- 4638: Authur Miller
- With the Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists. He has also written other powerful, often mind-altering plays: The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. And who ... piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse ...
- 4639: Arthur Kornberg
- ... 3rd, 1918, the son of a sewing machine operator in the sweatshops of the Lower East Side of New York City. His parents, Joseph Aaron Kornberg and Lena Rachel Katz, were immigrant Jews who made great sacrifices to ensure the safety of their family. They had fled Poland, for if they had stayed, they would have been murdered in a German concentration camp. His grandfather had abandoned the paternal family name ... are also used in modern genetic engineering today. His work has help spawn a new generation of research in molecular medicine, has completely transformed the nature of medical research, and has enabled scientists to make great strides in the diagnosis and treatment of immune disorders. His research has laid the foundation for the clinical advances in the treatment of many devastating human disorders. D. Conclusion Professor Kornberg finds time to travel ...
- 4640: Andrew Jackson
- ... women were still left out of the picture, it helped set the basic properties for later on. The way he did it was not the best for common people, but he was still considered a great president by most people. As in Encarta Encyclopedia, three years before Andrew Jackson was born, his Scotch-Irish parents, emigrated to America from Northern Ireland. They had two sons at the time. Andrew’s Father ... promoted to governor of the territory of Florida after taking it over and leading troops into the dangerous territory when he was greatly outnumbered (Encarta, 2). Before Jackson became president, he was known as a great fighter and didn’t let anyone mess with him. As in Britannica Encyclopedia, Charles Dickinson once insulted Jackson’s wife, and Jackson challenged him to a duel with pistols. Andrew Jackson stood there and intentionally ...
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