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- 3461: Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin was the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgewood. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England where his father practiced medicine. He attended Shrewsbury Grammar School which was a well-kn own secondary school which concentrated on teaching classic languages. Even as a boy Darwin loved science and his enthusiasm for chemical studies earned him the name "Gas" from his friends. The headmaster at Shrewsbury, Dr. Samuel Butler noted ... sixteen, his father removed him from Shrewsbury and entered him in the University of Edenburgh to study medicine. He found all of his classes except chem istry dull. After two years at Edenburg, he quit school and went to live with his Uncle Josiah Wedgewood. After he abandoned medicine, his father urged him to attend Cambridge University to study to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow ...
- 3462: Maya Angelou
- ... and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent ...
- 3463: Michael Jackson
- ... town, broke down, he paid expenses for forty disadvantages children from ‘The Thelma Marshall Children’s Home for Orphans, foster children and abandoned children, The Hoosier Boys Home and The Donzels Work Study Program for High School students working toward a college education, to attend the three date in Detroit. After he visited his home town he performed in a concert at Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, donating money to the needy ...
- 3464: The Works and Influence of Christopher Marlowe
- ... writers in history because of his great plays and poems. “Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as William Shakespeare” (Biographical par. 1). “Marlowe was the son of a shoemaker and attended King’s School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College”(“Christopher Marlowe” par. 2).” In 1584, he received his Bachelor of Arts. He then left his studies to work for the government as some sort of secret agent or spy ... the world, the flesh, and the devil so magnificently”(“Christopher Marlowe”, par. 6). Marlowe was essential in paving the way for future poets and playwrights. His contribution to the drama was complete. He had returned high poetry to its rightful place on the stage and left us characters as fiery and passionate as their creator, preparing the way for a poet even greater than himself, Shakespeare(“Christopher Marlowe”, par. 8). Along ...
- 3465: Rachel Carson
- ... By halting the transmittal of typhus through fleas DDT saved many lives during the war. Being an organic, synthetic insecticide of the chlorinated hydrocarbon group, DDT was so popular due to it’s low cost, high availability, potency, and apparent safety. Although as time went on DDT was showing signs of harm toward the environment, the majority of the public continued purchasing the deadly chemical.2 Rachel was familiar with pesticide ... the increased numbers of children suffering from leukemia around the year 1979, when state investigators discovered that the two municipal wells that supplied drinking water to certain neighborhoods were contaminated with industrial solvents. Harvard Medical School’s research showed a clear relationship between contaminated water and Woburn’s elevated leukemia rate. An audacious proposal by a young lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann to make the companies presumed responsible for the contamination pay ...
- 3466: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... Death is perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door rarely left ... or family, peeking perhaps with the death of the two men she loved (Waugh 100). But, as documented by several critics, Dickinson viewed death, as she did most ideas, in circumference. She was careful to high light and explore all the paradoxes and emotional extremes involved with death. One poem expresses her depression after discovering her two loves had passed away. She wrote, “I never lost as much as twice, and ...
- 3467: Biography of Ogden Nash
- ... Strudwick Nash and Mattie Nash. During his childhood years, Nash was educated at several private schools. At these schools, he enjoyed writing his own comical and dramatic free verse poems. After graduating out of grammar school, Nash moved on to one of the best private high schools in the east: St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. Moving on in his life, he enrolled at Harvard at the age of 18 (from 1920-1921). Contemporary American Poets stated that Nash then ...
- 3468: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... on Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 at Chateau de Miromesnil in France. He was a descendent of a very old French family. As a boy, Maupassant went to school at Yvetot in Normandy, and then attended Lycee at Rouen. During his childhood and youth in Normandy, he picked up a great deal of experiences that he later put to use in many of his ... This is Maupassant became recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French authors of his time. In the years 1984 through 1985 he produced a great number of high caliber fiction. Most of these stories dealt with his experiences as a child in Normandy. During 1886-1887 Maupassant began to show signs of mental illness, probably the results of venereal disease. A sea voyage ...
- 3469: Woodrow Wilson
- ... Wilson also taught Woodrow respect for other people.His mother[Jessie Wilson] was shy and reserved,but looked and acted like Woodrow. Woodrow's life was different from mine by the way he went to school.His father taught him till he was nine,and then he went to school. Woodrow spent some of his spare time with his gang, called the Lightfoot Club.Also when Woodrow was fourteen,his education was continued at a private school with fifty boys enrolled that cost seven dollars an hour. One of the parts of the book that I liked was when Woodrow Wilson won the Presidency.One of the things that helped him ...
- 3470: Firearms
- ... because of its big weight, unreliability, and limited mobility. Mini-machine-gun – is a portable automatic weapon, (halfway between a pistol and a machine-gun) which is capable of shooting pistol bullets continuously at a high rate. There’re lots of types of mini-machine guns, but the principle of operation is the same – they all use reverse motion of their freely moving shutters. The advantages of mini-machine guns are low cost, very high rate of fire, portability and reliability – that’s why “Tommy” guns were so beloved by Chicago gangsters. The range and accuracy of mini-machine guns are quite limited – and that’s why they are not ... of a firearm nowadays. They use bullets bigger than those of a pistol (which are quite forceless) and smaller than those of a rifle (which are too powerful). This allows machine-guns to maintain a high rate of fire in addition to a long range. Of course, everybody is familiar with Kalashinikoff (or more exactly, AK-47). Effective, reliable, uncomplicated, and easy-to-use, it became the most popular firearm ...
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