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- 581: Alexander Hamilton
- ... s most trusted assistant. After Hamilton calmed down he investigated the rumor to find out who had spread such an awful rumor. He found out it was a Massachusetts clergymen. After an angry exchange of letters between the two Hamilton stopped just short of a duel between them. Although most people did not take the allegations seriously Hamiltons honor was deeply hurt. After this Hamilton was very depressed. Once he ...
- 582: Benedict Arnold
- ... why Gates had not "at least... condescended to acquaint me with the Reasons which you have sent me a Letter to the Hon'ble John Hancock, Esq. which I have returned. If you have any letters for that Gentleman which you think Proper to Send Sealed, I will take charge of them." Later on the same day Gates answered in a letter: " You wrote me nothing last Night but what had ...
- 583: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- ... State of New York, 1962; Mundelein College, 1963; and Trinity College, 1963; the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Michigan, 1958; and University of Massachusetts, 1963; the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Northern Michigan College, 1962; the degree of Doctor of Public Service from George Washington University, 1962; and the degree of Doctor of Public Administration from the University of Puget Sound, 1963. In 1942, Dr ...
- 584: Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
- ... Some said Babbage hated music. He tolerated its more exquisite forms, but abhorred it as practiced on the street. He calculated that street nuisances, many of them intentional, had destroyed 25% of his working power. Letters to the Times and the eventual enforcement of "Babbage's Act", which would squelch street nuisances, made him the target of ridicule. The public tormented him with an unending parade of fiddlers, Punch-and-Judys ...
- 585: John Quincy Adams
- ... in his lifetime. One as an enemy of British oppression and champion of independence. As an American diplomat in Europe and as the first vice-president and second president of the United States. His diary, letters and speeches showed him to be very patriotic, a stong family man and tough-minded philosopher. Adams was born in Quincy, Mass. on October 30, 1735. He was born in a small house that is ...
- 586: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... periodic architectural endeavors, ushered in the Classical Revival in the United States; he also designed the Virginia state capitol and several fine homes. In 1813 he began what became an extended and remarkable exchange of letters with his old political adversary, John Adams; both died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. A complex man, happier when at intellectual pursuits than as an ...
- 587: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... Writing Style In the March 1995 edition of the Boston Book Review, Joan D. Hedrick argues that "Stowes career as a writer emerged from the "parlor culture" of domestic space: the round of conversation, letters, readings, and informal literary clubs with which the improving middle - class men and women passed their leisure time." All of those events kept her mind busy with ideas to write about. Soon she began converting ...
- 588: Mark Twain
- ... 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 ...
- 589: William James: The Later Years
- ... half a dozen kinds of well-established experimentation. The duration of simple mental processes for one, could be estimated introspectively and then verified by reaction-time experiments; the introspective report of how many digits or letters one could simultaneously keep in mind for another, could be verified by apperception experiments. And while introspective reports of the more complex and subtle mental states might be impossible to verify experimentally, James said that ...
- 590: Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
- ... he opposed the war and American imperialism. As the president of the Anti-Imperialist League, he was an outspoken critic. From 1900 until shortly before his death, he expressed this opposition in numerous essays, stories, letters and speeches. Twain's impassioned involvement with Anti-Imperialism was one of his most significant and longest political affiliations. He was widely recognized during his lifetime for inspiring countless editorials and political cartoons. Sadly today ...
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