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- 2131: Babe Ruth
- ... s. He would often weasel his way out of speeding tickets by offering a signed baseball if the officer let him go. The Yankee's owner was often reluctant to suspend Ruth, knowing the negative effect it would have on his team's performance. In this particular Biography, the author's intent is to provide the most detailed, in depth Biography on Ruth ever. That he does, in masterful accounts of ...
- 2132: Martin Luther King
- ... before the age of six. He had already set academic standards for himself by stating that he would finish school priorr to his year older sister. In my opinion this could have had a major effect on King's life by encouraging him to learn faster and better. Martin was first exposed to racism at an early age, (probably six, none of my sources specified his exact age at the time ...
- 2133: Abigail Adams
- ... that was bigger than the original building to make room for the children, servants, and visitors. When I say servants it means that they were probably slaves but were called servants to avoid the dehumanizing effect that the word 'slave' can mean. Their house was a sight of luxury in the eyes of the common folk in the parish. Though they lived well, the Smiths had no fortune. Abigail's father ...
- 2134: Charles Dickens
- ... sign's of marital discontent. From May 1858, his wife, Catherine Dickens lived apart from him. This separation jarred his friendships and began to shrink his social circle, yet to his surprise, it didn't effect his social popularity. Catherine Dickens stayed silent and most of Dickens family and friends were unwilling to talk about it. He dated the unhappiness of his marriage to 1838, calling his wife "perculliar", and sometimes ...
- 2135: Abraham Lincoln - Civil War President
- ... people. Finally, there was the Emancipation Proclamation on the first day of the year 1863. It released all the slaves in the states that were still in rebellion. Though it did not have much real effect at the time, it pointed a way to a brighter future. President Abraham Lincoln handled the end of the war admirably. He put the nation back together and did not punish the south as wanted ...
- 2136: Ptolemy of Alexandria
- ... and other lunar events were timed with water clocks. Other phenomena were not always reported in the greatest scientific detail and some accounts were exaggerated. Astronomers made a several series of observations to reduce the effect of one individual error. Little thought was given to formulating new methods of accurate and scientific data recording. Ptolemy carefully distinguishes between forecasts related only to the sky and those connected to the human world ...
- 2137: Blaise Pascal
- ... proved that the level of mercury column in a barometer is determined by the increase or decrease in the surrounding atmospheric pressure. This discovery verified the hypothesis of the Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli, concerning the effect of atmospheric pressure on the equilibrium of liquids. After publishing Essay pour les coniques (Essay on conic sections), Pascal temporarily abandoned the study of mathematics due to poor health. He lived in Paris for a ...
- 2138: The Henchmen: German Government Officials in WWII
- ... Ernst Roehm remained the only person to ever die by Hitler's bullets. Another henchman of Hitler's, Joseph Goebbels, born in 1897, in Rheydt, Germany and the son of peasants, probably had the most effect on Germany's society and public life. A childhood bone disease stunted his growth, so he didn't grow more than 5 feet and he walked with a limp. His actions are well documented since ...
- 2139: The Life Story of Nikita Khrushchev
- ... remove him from power in the end, the vast changes this peasant-turned-Premier had unleashed in the U.S.S.R. could not be undone, and his years in power have had a lasting effect on the Soviet Union ever since.
- 2140: Albert Einstein
- ... where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. World War I had a strong effect on Einstein. While the rest of Germany supported the army, he felt the war was unnecessary, and disgusting. The new weapons of war which attempted to mass slaughter people caused him to devote much of ...
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