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- 6681: Pythagoras
- ... very significant person in the history of the world. He made many contributions to the fields of math, music, and astronomy. Pythagoras's teachings and beliefs that were once taught by him in his own school in ancient Greece, are still taught today. The thing that Pythagoras is probably the most famous for is the Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean Theorem is used in the field of mathematics and it states the ...
- 6682: Martin Luther King Jr. 6
- ... of desegregating busses. Building on the success of the Bus Boycott, King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and emphasized the importance of black voting rights when he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. King's renown grew as he became Time magazine's Man of the Year and, in December 1964, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Among many other things he also organized ...
- 6683: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... by ending the long-standing convertibility of the dollar into gold. Shortly afterward he rescinded the import surcharge. Under a Supreme Court decision of 1969, communities had been required to start busing students from one school district to another to achieve racial balance as soon as so ordered by a federal district court. Congressional approval was given in June 1972 to legislation that would delay for up to 18 months the ...
- 6684: James Buchanan
- ... 1783. At the age of six his family moved to Mercersberg PA. where his father would open a general store . James was the second of eleven in his family. James was able to go to school where he lived but when he was not studying he was helping his father in the shop. James father made James work hard and taught James that he must be ready to take care for ...
- 6685: Herman Melville
- ... common. Melville was a New Yorker, born in 1819, one of eight children of a merchant of distinguished lineage. His father, however, lost all his money and died when the boy was 12. Herman left school at 15, worked briefly as a bank clerk, and in 1837 went to sea. For 18 months, in 1841 and 1842, he was crewman on the whaler Acushnet. Then he jumped ship in the South ...
- 6686: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
- ... pressure of them due to the fact of defending their region. Lincoln had difficulties growing up because of the deaths early in his childhood, poverty, and little education. Davis; however, studied at a Roman Catholic school in Kentucky and at Transylvania University, and entered West Point in 1824. Davis seemed to have had an outreaching environment to his success. The major difference, personality wise, was Davis's weakness in his inability ...
- 6687: Charles Babbage
- ... the mechanics of everything and in the supernatural. He reportedly once tried to prove the existence of the devil by making a circle in his own blood on the floor and reciting the Lord's Prayer backward. In college, he formed a ghost club dedicated to verifying the existence of the supernatural. When in Trinity College in Cambridge, Charles carried out childish pranks and rebelled because of the boredom he felt ...
- 6688: Maya Angelou 2
- ... dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent ...
- 6689: Citizen Soldiers: A Comparison
- ... experienced war of any kind first hand, has a different tale to tell. Citizen Soldiers contains several accounts of the battling of Normandy, France during the war with the Germans. For the most part high school and college students entered the war. Some drafted, some enlisted voluntarily in 1942, 1943, and 1944. As the title suggest, these men were citizens, everyday men sent to war. The Allied campaign against the Germans ...
- 6690: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Poe started at "The University of Virginia". Although he was a good student he didn't succeed due to his gambling, fighting and drinking. When Mr. Allan found out about this Poe had to finish school and start working in Mr. Allan's tobaccoshop. After some time Poe moved to Boston where he started publishing his small poems and short stories in newspapers. In 1827, Poe's first book "Tamberlane and ...
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