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- 4641: Summary: Jurassic Park
- ... of years. The scientists who witnessed the evidence, Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant, both foremost in the fields of paleontology, were soon requested to fly down to a private island off of Costa Rica by John Hammond, founder of InGen. A little later on in the second section, the story unfolds somewhat, when the scene shifts to a meeting of the Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino, where they explain that InGen was ...
- 4642: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- ... group of Central and South American rightists called the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL). CAL in turn was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), lead by a retired U.S. Major General, John Singlaub. Singlaub boasts WACL is the coordinating body for raising private aid for the Contras, a task support ed explicitly by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and glowing letters of support ...
- 4643: Abraham Lincoln
- ... President Lincoln insisted on attending an evening performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater. Since General Grant was expected to attend the play with President Lincoln, the President's attendance was highly publicized. John Wilkes Booth, a staunch Southern supporter, was a well known and popular actor who felt it necessary to redeem the lost cause of the Confederacy. He had previously planned to kidnap President Lincoln, but when ...
- 4644: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... passed the bar within the state of Georgia. After a few boring cases that had come from clients his mother had found, he grew bored and decided political science would be of more interest. Graduating John Hopkins, he received his Ph.D. Wilson then ascended the corporate latter. He began teaching Brynmaur, where his fame as a great orator soon spread. Princeton soon hired him and Wilson taught there again demonstrating ...
- 4645: Albert Einstein 4
- ... Although his death left many questions and revelations unanswered, his legacy influenced others to follow his footsteps and discover the secrets of many aspects of the universe. Bibliography Brian, Denis. Einstein: A life. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1996. Berstein, Jeremy. Einstein. New York: Viking Press, 1974. Highfield, Roger, and Paul Carter. The Private Lives of Albert Einstein. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
- 4646: Life Of Baruch Spinoza
- ... both the American and the French Revolutions. This concept had generally been discarded as a theoretical basis of political life but was revived in the 20th century by the United States of America’s philosopher John Rawls. In my opinion, Baruch Spinoza, was one of the great philosophers of all time. He brought many changes into the world. He exhilarated the world with his phenomenon concepts and theories. I believe that ...
- 4647: Andy Warhol
- ... can be taken as comments on the banality, harshness, and ambiguity of American culture according to Warhol. In 1965 he started working with a rock band called "The Velvet Underground" formed by Lou Reed and John Cale. Andy introduced them to the model and movie star Nico and she sang on their debut album in 1967 called "The Velvet Underground and Nico". Andy would travel around the country, not only with ...
- 4648: B.b. King
- ... influence came through religion. He was a member of the Church of God In Christ. He was forbidden to play blues at home. He sang in spiritual groups like the Elkhorn Singers and the Saint John's Gospel Singers. A relative who was a guitarist and a preacher showed King his first chords on the instrument. As a teenager he began playing streetcorners for coins, combining gospel songs with the blues ...
- 4649: The Battle of Antietam
- ... Joseph Mansfield, counterattacked and by 9 o’clock had regained some of the lost ground. Then, in an effort to extricate some of Mansfield’s men from their isolated position near the Dunker Church, General John Sedgwick’s division of Edwin Sumner’s corps advanced into the West Woods. There Confederate troops struck Sedgwick’s men on both flanks, inflicting amazing casualties. Meanwhile, General William French’s division of Sumner’s ...
- 4650: George Washington
- ... in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732. He was the oldest son of a hardworking Virginia farmer, Augustine Washington, by his second wife, Mary Ball. The Washington family got their name from two brothers, John and Lawrence Washington, who emigrated from England to Virginia in 1657. The families became rich in three generations and it was the result of steady commitment to farming, land buying, and development of local industries ...
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