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- 4731: 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 ...
- 4732: Benjamin Franklin 3
- ... helped stabilize America by helping to write the countries declaration of independence, which is only one of his many works. Benjamin Franklin s leadership did not only influence the people of his time, but this great quality still influences the people of today. Many people today think of Franklin as a proud pillar of our national heritage. Most of Franklin s education was self-taught through his hard work and dedication ... wise person. Franklin s inventions contributed greatly to both the world then, and the modern world. Franklin invented bifocals, the dumb waiter, the Franklin stove, and completed many experiments on electricity. Another of Franklin s great contributions to America was establishing the first lending library, hospital, and fire station. Franklin worked on ideas such as better-paved and lighted streets. Benjamin Franklin was a true American because of his dedication to ...
- 4733: Baron De Montesquieu
- ... economic problems that existed there. So, this means that in most of his writings, the lower class people are left out. Montesquieu lived during a time before the French Revolution, but his ideas had a great effect on the development of governmental structure in that period of time. There were great problems in France at that time, with the lower class people growing in number, which means that the country was growing in poverty. This provided less of an opportunity for the lower class earning a ...
- 4734: Archimedes
- ... second invention was the compound pulley. The third invention was the way of finding the volume of something by displacement as demonstrated in the story above. Most historians would agree that more important than his great mechanical inventions were his mathematical discoveries. The mathematical works that have been presented to us by Archimedes could be classified into three groups. The first group consists of works that have as their major objective ... sun^?s rays and set Roman ships a blaze. The theorems that Archimedes discovered and worked on raised Greek mathematics to a whole new level. He undertook difficult problems in both mechanics and mathematics with great preserverence. Archimedes^? theorems, postulates, and inventions are still part of society today. These are some of the reasons that some scolars rank him with the greatest mathematicians in history.
- 4735: Alice Walker
- ... was the difference between black and white authors, along with the Women s Movement. She contemplated the fact that black women had been suppressed for so long that they would never know what kind of great artists they may have lost during all the times while there was slavery. This is what the short story In Search of Our Mother s Gardens discusses. The title has a special meaning because Walker ... black advancement in a white society; however, her feminist views are cross-cultural. This caused a lot of conflict within the black community when her third book The Color Purple was released. It was a great success which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, and it made Walker a financially secure woman. It has been translated into 22 languages and has sold over four million copies. The novel covers the period ...
- 4736: Albert Einstein 3
- ... established. After a number of false starts Einstein published, late in 1915, the definitive version of general theory. Just before publishing this work he lectured on general relativity at Gφttingen and he wrote:- To my great joy, I completely succeeded in convincing Hilbert and Klein. In fact Hilbert submitted for publication, a week before Einstein completed his work, a paper which contains the correct field equations of general relativity. When British ... became a permanent arrangement by 1935 when he applied and was granted permanent residency in the United States. At Princeton his work attempted to unify the laws of physics. However he was attempting problems of great depth and he wrote:- I have locked myself into quite hopeless scientific problems - the more so since, as an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here... In 1940 Einstein became a citizen ...
- 4737: Albert Einstein
- ... would deny these partial successes and ascribe them to human self-deception. The fact that on the basis of such laws we are able to predict the temporal behavior of phenomena in certain domains with great precision and certainty is deeply embedded in the consciousness of the modern man, even though he may have grasped very little of the contents of those laws. He need only consider that planetary courses within the solar system may be calculated in advance with great exactitude on the basis of a limited number of simple laws. In a similar way, though not with the same precision, it is possible to calculate in advance the mode of operation of an electric ...
- 4738: Artist: Turner: Outline
- ... The Slave Ship between 1833 and 1840 the emancipation of the slaves in the British colonies began. b) Turner wanted to have a marriage between art and industry and painted Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway, yet artists disliked the industrial revolution saying it was repulsive. 3. The changing style of Turner. a) Turners works have changed greatly throughout his career and now his late works have been regarded ... that of Carthage in earlier years. b) Turner believed in the sublimity of his paintings. Turners paintings instill emotion and thought, and remind us that we are constantly evolving and learning. His romantic views leant great inspiration to the emotional aspects of his paintings. The end result are paintings that teach you to see with your heart and view with your mind the changing world that we inhabit.
- 4739: Agatha Christie
- ... the Orient Express, her style of writing can be described as one of Christie s best works, having an international trend, and being a genius with detective fiction. Murder on the Orient Express was a great book and should be read by all. Agatha Christie is the world s best known mystery writer. (Harper) All of her novels are known around the world as being very excellent. No one has read ... All of Christie s novels even contain the same characters. There are a variety of stories other than Murder on the Orient Express that contains the popular detective Hercule Poirot. He is known as a great detective in all of her works. He always get the murder figured out, no matter how long it takes him. He figures out who did the crime in Murder on the Orient Express while on ...
- 4740: Abe Lincoln
- ... end of the war was in sight. Little after his inauguration, Lincoln was assassinated and but a month later on April ninth 1865, did General Robert E. Lee surrender his army to the Union. The great life of Abraham Lincoln was only polished off by his magnificence in the time of war, and the abolition of slavery. He was a great man in every sense of the word and showed his dignity and grace in everything he did. Not until much later was the legend of him solidified in the Lincoln monument, which now stands proudly ...
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