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- 4731: Henry David Thoreau
- ... spot and wonder the world and find their place in it. For many, Walden served as a touchstone. Thoreau said that he went to the pond to write a book in memory of his brother, John, who had died three years earlier. Thoreau also stated, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn ...
- 4732: Henry Ford
- ... valuable knowledge regarding business, engines, management, and most importantly cars. Now it was time to take a leap of faith. In 1903 the Ford Motor Company came to be. Ford, along with other investors including John and Horace Dodge raised $28,000 and in the first 15 months produced 1700 Model A cars. These cars were known for their reliability, yet were still too expensive for the average American. Over the ...
- 4733: Joan of Arc
- ... in other locations along the Loire ( Paine 211). Fear of troops under her leadership was so formidable that when she approached Lord Talbot's army at Patay, most of the English troops and Commander Sir John Fastolfe fled the battlefield ( Nolan 69). Although Lord Talbot stood his ground, he lost the battle and was captured along with a hundred English noblemen and lost 1800 of his soldiers. Charles VII was crowned ...
- 4734: Henry Ford
- ... the Edisons were down. The two families enjoyed their time away from it all in the tropical serenity of Fort Myers, Florida. Camping expeditions into the Everglades, with Harvey Firestone and his family, plus naturalist John Burroughs, became a special treat. Henry Ford died April 7, 1947. Editorial tributes were favorable to Henry Ford. He was praised as a patriot, philanthropist, philosopher, reformer, economist, and teacher and depicted as a symbol ...
- 4735: Charles Darwin
- ... 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 who helped him regain his interest in nature. It was Henslow who was influential in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The Beagle. In April of 1831, he graduated from ...
- 4736: Henry Ford 2
- ... as well. Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan. His father, William Ford, and his mother, Mary Litogot Ford, lived and worked on their family farm. Henry also had three brothers, John, William, and Robert, as well as two sisters, Margaret, and Jane. Henry was the oldest of all the kids. As Henry grew up he was assigned chores to do around the farm just like all ...
- 4737: The Works and Influence of Christopher Marlowe
- ... par. 5). Marlowe was also known for being a secret agent back in his day. Being a spy and a writer, Marlowe is an early link in a long tradition through Ben Johnson, Daniel Dafoe, John Dickson Carr, and Alec Waugh( Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593), par. 8).
- 4738: Abraham Lincoln
- ... the Republican National Conven-tion, in Chicago, Lincoln won the nomination and went on to win the presidential election. Lincoln's victory in that election changed the future of the United States. It also agitated John Wilkes Booth to be-gin first to abduct Lincoln, and then to kill him. On April 14,1865, Lincoln went to attend a movie, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C ...
- 4739: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... it is necessary to leave the ministry. Emerson broke ties with the church. After removing himself from the church Ralph Waldo Emerson traveled to Europe. While there he studied great authors such as Coleridge and John Stuart Mill. Through German Idealism, Emerson arrived at a set of ideas he would practice and educate if the opportunity ever presented itself. These ideas were the building blocks of Transcendentalism. This small hope that ...
- 4740: Rachel Carson
- ... love of nature and literature. Her family said she was born with a seashell in her ear. She graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 with a degree in Marine Biology and from John Hopkins University in 1932 with a masters degree. The death of her father and family was responsible for preventing her from pursuing any further higher education. She took a job from the Fish and Wildlife ...
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