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- 5401: Was Colonial Culture Uniquely
- ... took advantage of the long growing season and tobacco became the number one crop (Brinkley, 1995). Society of the southern colonies most closely resembled that of aristocratic England. Plantations contained a virtual monarchy, each with school, a church, and servants (Brinkley, 1995). Many Virginians sent there children to be schooled in England (Brinkley, 1995). To the west was the frontier and a wholly different set of conditions. The environment consisted of ...
- 5402: A Brief History Of Clocks: Fro
- ... having been the first mechanized globe, Archimedes' sphere became a model for later Greek astronomers. For example, Posidonios of Rhodes, a contemporary of Cicero, built a mechanical globe based on Archimedes' sphere. Members of the school of Posidonios created a device to compute the positions of the sun and the moon-what we now call "The Antikythera Mechanism." Challenged by the same, mechanical difficulty Archimedes faced in representing the synodic month ...
- 5403: Adolf Hitler
- ... in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art ...
- 5404: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-18
- ... to Paris so Herve de Tocqueville could assume his position in the royal court of the Bourbon king Louis XVIII. In 1820, Tocqueville was sent to Metz were he studied rhetoric and philosophy in secondary school and the college royal. He then returned to Paris to study law in 1825. He was then appointed as a juge auditeur (mediator) in Versailles were he met Gaustave de Beaumont, who became a life ...
- 5405: American Reconstruction
- ... had only come for their gain, and called them "carpetbaggers." African Americans made up close to one-third of the Republican delegates. These delegates wrote new constitutions based on Northern examples. They set up public school systems and gave the vote to all adult males. By 1869, voters had approved all these constitutions and the ex-Confederate states were let back in the Union. Fourteen African American congressmen and two African ...
- 5406: Allen Ginsberg
- Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey on June 3, 1926. His father, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet and a high school teacher. His mother, Naomi, was a radical Communist, paranoid, psychotic, and died in a mental institution in 1956. Ginsberg also had a brother who became a lawyer in Paterson, New Jersey. Ginsberg’s childhood was ...
- 5407: Amelia Earhart
- ... In 1914 Amy and the girls left Edwin after he was fired from The Rock Island RR, and went to live with friends in Chicago. After visiting her sister in 1917 at a college preparatory school in Canada, Amelia decided to train as a nurses aid in Toronto and served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at a military hospital until the Armistice in November 1918. In the fall of 1919 ...
- 5408: Aldous Huxley
- ... the theory of evolution.” Huxley’s aunt, Humphrey Ward, was a novelist. His mother was the niece of Matthew Arnold, a poet, and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and headmaster of Rugby school (Aldous Huxley-Biography). When Huxley was fourteen years old, his mother died of cancer. He said his mother’s death “gave him a sense of the transience of human happiness” and “he felt that heredity ...
- 5409: Beethoven
- ... and began teaching him piano and violin. But Beethoven was a hard learner, he was self-involved and impatient. This probably led to why he was a loner and why he only went to academic school for three years. Beethoven’s father wasn’t the only one who saw Beethoven’s talent, Gottlob Neefe (a German Organist) become young Beethoven’s mentor. Gottlob thought Beethoven was the next Mozart, so he ...
- 5410: Aristotle
- ... the importance of moral virtues as the key to happiness and a successful government. Aristotle thought that the need for government and authority developed on its own from nature. He taught in the Lyceum, a school he founded in Athens, how a just person should live and how a just state should rule. His messages of virtue and moderation transcend time and still are a great influence on modern western thought ...
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