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- 2221: Serial Murderer Ed Gein
- ... 1958, a judge found Gein insane and packed him off to Central State Hospital, at Waupaun, Wisconsin. A decade later, Ed was ordered up for trial, with the proceedings held in mid- November 1968. Judge Robert Gollmar found Gein innocent by reason of insanity, and he returned to Waupaun, where he died in 1984(Woods 81). Gein willingly confessed the murders for two, but were there others(A Horror Story Not ...
- 2222: Thomas Jefferson
- ... heart." Virginia promptly re- elected him and the part he took in draughting the Declaration of Independence is known to every school boy. His associates on the committee were Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. It was by their request that he prepared the document (see fac-simile, page 49,) done on the second floor of a small building, on the corner of Market and Seventh Streets. The ...
- 2223: Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- ... Mathematicians/Einstein.html http://www.aip.org/history/esva/einstein.htm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/nova/einstein/ http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Encyclopedia http://www2.elibrary.com/id/27/86/search.cgi 1 Robert Oppenheimer was the head of the Manhattan Project, the project given the instruction to harness the power of the atom in a destructive way. Einstein played a great role in laying the roadwork for this ...
- 2224: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... death spurs rush at retail; biz talk turns to bands unreleased work. Billboard April 23 1994. Pg. 9 Schoenberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York, London: WW Norton & CO., 1981 Seidenberg, Robert, The Day the Demons Won. Entertainment Weekly April 7 1995. Pg. 108
- 2225: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- ... is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Science Digest ) Arthur has won many prestigious awards, including the UNESCO Kalinga Prize, The Franklin Institute gold medal, the Robert S. Ball award, and the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award. An interesting fact is that Clarke proposed a belt of communication satellites, and now they exist. He also helped make the idea of space travel ...
- 2226: Biography of Aaron Montgomery Ward
- ... mailing and disaster struck. The great Chicago fire in the fall of 1871 sent his dreams literally up in smoke. In 1872, Aaron talked two fellow partridge employees into joining him - George S. Drake and Robert P. Caufield. With a total capital of $1,600, they rented a small shipping room on North Clark Street and published their first price list - the world's first general merchandise mail order catalog. The ...
- 2227: The Life of Sally Ride
- ... 1979, she completed her training and education and was designated as a mission specialist. In this position Sally would learn about future shuttle information, such as shuttle launching and the shuttle systems. In 1982, Commander Robert Crippen hand selected his crew for the launching of the Challenger, Sally Ride was included. Fifty-seven men had gone into space from NASA's program before Sally Ride. Only one woman in the entire ...
- 2228: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... for me, so all that follows is a simple outline. I would recommend further reading Ian Fleming was born in 1908 as the son of Valentine Fleming, and the grandson of the wealthy Scottish banker Robert Fleming. Ian Lancaster Fleming grew up as a member of a rare class of Englishmen for whom all options in life were open. The privilege of class and respect came not just from his grandfather ...
- 2229: The Life of George Armstrong Custer
- ... S. History. McPherson, James (1996, July 29). Big Little Big Horn., Vol. 215, New Republic, pp 38. Tschopik, Jr.,Harry (1996, February 28). CRAZY HORSE (c.1849-1877).," Vol. 7, Colliers Encyclopedia CD-ROM. Utley, Robert M. (1990, September). Custer Battlefield: Chapter 2 Road to the Little Big Horn., U.S. History.
- 2230: Vespasian
- ... Jewish War of Josephus (Eng. trans. by G.A. Williamson, 1959), written a decade after the events, contains differences from Tacitus both in emphasis and in detail. Of Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (trans. by Robert Graves), his Divus Vespasianus, written about 125, is one of the most fascinating; but it is brief and entirely deserts a chronological framework after Vespasian becomes emperor (the edition by A.W. Braithwaite, 1927, is ...
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