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- 1011: Mark Twain 5
- ... the Sacramento Union and materials for the first lecture, on his return, in a long and successful career as a public speaker. The following year he traveled to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land, providing letters to the San Francisco Alta California that, in their revised form as The Innocents Abroad (1869), won immediate international attention. In 1870, Twain married Olivia Langdon of Elmira, N.Y. After serving briefly as editor ...
- 1012: Malcolm X 4
- ... most important influence in Malcolm's life, by far was being introduced to the Muslim faith by his family. The religion went so well with Malcolm because of his experiences with the white race. The letters from Elijah Muhammad just caught Malcolm by his soul and just pulled him in the religion, being one of it's most important followers. What ever Elijah Muhammad said Malcolm did, he did not even ...
- 1013: Louis Pasteur 3
- ... his career, Pasteur maintained a meticulous record of his laboratory work, in which he noted every day all his observations: description of experiments, new projects, notes on techniques of brewers, wine growers, sericulturists, drafts of letters, papers to scientific societies. Due to the extreme rigor and care with which Pasteur used to write his notes, they became an essential work tool. Pasteur's seventieth birthday in 1892 was celebrated in a ...
- 1014: Louis Pasteur 2
- ... 1827 the family moved to nearby Arbois, where Louis went to school. He was a hard-working pupil but not an especially brilliant one. When he was 17 he received a degree of bachelor of letters at the Collège Royal de Besançon. For the next three years he tutored younger students and prepared for the École Normale Supérieure, a noted teacher-training college in Paris. As part of his studies he ...
- 1015: Louis Leakey
- ... theoretical study"." Many dinosaur bones were dug up although a complete skeleton was never found. After several months Leakey was forced to leave, leaving Cutler to continue. Back in England, Leakey wrote many articles and letters about the dig. Cutler, however, died in Africa a few months later, a victim of Blackwater fever. Leakey returned to Cambridge and studied anthropology. From these studies and independent ones, Leakey developed the view that ...
- 1016: Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
- ... was a subeditor of The economist from 1848 to 1853, and then ventured into a full-time career as a free-lance author. As early as 1842 Spencer contributed to the Nonconformist a series of letters called The Proper Sphere of Government, his first major publication. It contains his political philosophy of extreme individualism and Laissez Faire, which was not much modified in his writings in the following sixty years. Spencer ...
- 1017: Lewis And Clark
- ... the expedition. In April of 1805 the Corps set off again this time in canoes because the keelboat was too large to navigate the rivers. The keelboat was sent back to St. Louis with reports, letters, and maps written by Lewis and Clark. The Yellowstone and Musselshell Rivers were passed on the way to a fork in the Missouri. Upon reaching the fork the Corps split into two groups headed by ...
- 1018: Kerouac
- ... past, present, and future. Everything is very detailed throughout the book. According to Deck: Ann Charter s Kerouac, taken as straight biography or as an evocation of perhaps one of the liveliest periods in American letters, is a pleasure. It is about men and ideas that changed everything. That s reason is enough o read it (23). Deck s statement is true, the book is a pleasure to read. Kerouac was ...
- 1019: Karl Marx 3
- ... between the working class and the higher class, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. It also discusses the importance of Communism, and the differences between his ideas and other parties . The document ends in bold capital letters WORKINGMEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! The days of November 1850 fall almost exactly in the middle of Marx s liffe and they represent, not only externally, an important turning point in his life s work ...
- 1020: Jackie Robinson 4
- ... of playing brought excitement back to the game. As much of the world like to watch him there were some who hated him. He received much hate mail from all kinds of people. He received letters threaten to kill him if he was to step on their hometown field with the other white players. A fellow baseball player from the opposing team slid into him putting a big gash in his ...
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