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- 3341: Blaise Pascal
- ... 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 in ...
- 3342: Billy Sunday
- ... sought the applause of the crowd for his own praise. He often confused the will of God with his own social and political agenda. He even sometimes compared the gospel of Jesus Christ with special interest and American foreign policy. Nevertheless, Billy Sunday was a sincere man whose life was fundamentally changed by his response to an evangelist’s call to repent of his sins, to believe that Jesus Christ died ...
- 3343: Bill Gates
- ... in the early 1980s and has just increased in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. Bill Gates' first interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his "first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe"(Gates 1 ...
- 3344: Bill Clinton
- ... Science Degree in International Affairs and worked an intern in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. He then continued college in Oxford University in England and Yale University. At Yale, he maintained his interest in government by campaigning for a Senator candidate in Connecticut. He also met Hillary Rodham, whom he would later marry on October 11, 1975. He graduated and returned to Arkansas to teach law at the ...
- 3345: Antonin Scalia
- ... Rev. Code §26.10.160(3)" which "permits ‘any person’ to petition for visitation rights ‘at any time’ and authorizes state superior courts to grant such rights whenever visitation may serve a child’s best interest."* The Troxel family wanted visitation rights to their deceased son’s daughters, and Granville, the mother of the girls, didn’t oppose to visitation, but had a problem with the amount of visitation the Troxels ...
- 3346: Andrew Carnegie
- ... believes to be his childhood benefactor, established a public library in his hometown of Allegheny City. This library was the first opportunity for Carnegie to take advantage of free information, and he developed a vast interest for knowledge, checking out at least one book a week, and developing himself as a young boy. With Colonel Anderson’s generous contribution to his society molding Carnegie’s childhood, and his beliefs on how ...
- 3347: Alfred Nobel
- ... gained the fluency in 5 different languages, Swedish, Russian, English, French, and German, but was always proud of his Swedish Background. In his teens his father sent him to learn chemistry in France. He gained interest in explosive nitroglycerin. And studied until he founded the first ever nitroglycerin factory in the world, but found it was too volatile to work with, and too many miners were dying using it. He began ...
- 3348: Alexander The Great
- ... the Persians to accept him as their leader, he tried to treat them well. Trying to get along he learned the ways of the people which he lived amongst from that point on. "He found interest in other countries, philosophy, ethics, politics, plants, animals, and a wide range of other topics. " Alexander's attempts to get on the sides of the Persians, along with his increasing ego annoyed the men around ...
- 3349: Alexander Hamilton
- ... August of 1776. At White plains, in October of 1776, his battery guarded Chatterton's Hill and protected the withdrawal of William Smallwood's militia. On January 3, 1777, Hamilton's military reputation won the interest of General Nathaniel Greene. His cannon were brought to rear on Nassau Hall, and Hamilton gave the order to fire when the British troops there refused to surrender. Impressed by this, General Greene introduced the ...
- 3350: Albert Camus
- ... was raised in poverty by his grandmother and mother. He was forced to end his studies and limit his life in theatre as a playwright, director, and actor due to tuberculosis. He then turned his interest to politics and, after briefly being a member of the Communist party, he began a career in journalism in 1930. His articles reflected the suffering of the Arabs in Algeria. This led him to his ...
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