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- 5041: Henry Ford Essay
- ... later the Model A was introduced. This model included such improvements as hydraulic shock absorbers, automatic windshield wipers, a gas gauge, and a speedometer. The success of these was limited to 5 million, 10 million short of the Model T. It was at this time that the Ford Foundation was introduced. It was established “for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes, all for the public welfare.” This organization basically attempted to further ...
- 5042: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- When stories are told about the American Indian it is usually the Indians that are looked upon as the heathens. They are portrayed as savages who spent most of their time raiding wagon trains and scalping the ...
- 5043: Ben Hogan
- ... in his lungs, the doctors said he would probably never play competative golf again. However in the months of recovery that followed, Hogan practiced the things he could do with his injuries like practice his short game. For the next thirteen months Hogan practiced to the best of his ability, gradually improving. Thirteen months later he entered the L.A open and finished second this demonstration shocked the world, for it ...
- 5044: The Accomplishments of Alexander the Great
- ... He was now encamped on a wide plain near Gaugamela. Alexander could only field 7,000 horsemen and 40,000 footmen. His men were superior in discipline and experience in the field, but he was short in numbers and well aware of it. Alexander delayed the attack until he had seen the battle field with his own eyes. Scanning the terrain for advantageous positions to make up for the lacking number ...
- 5045: Thomas Hobbes
- ... In 1651, Thomas Hobbes wrote his famous work, "Leviathan" which put into writing his views on democracy and monarchy. In this work, he said that life in the state of nature is "nasty, brutish, and short" and without government, we would be living in this state of nature. Hobbes ideas that people should decide how they should be ruled set the stage for the "social contract" proposed some years later by ...
- 5046: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... However, intent on doing the proper thing, she did not heed this advice and went along-side her parents. Her father's older brother, Edward VIII, would thus assume the throne. His reign would be short lived ,however, as he would meet an American woman who had already divorced twice, and ask her hand in marriage. As this was not acceptable behavior for a king Edward was given the choice to ...
- 5047: Columbus
- ... Santagel”, “chancellor of the royal household of Aragon and prior Juan Prez (the Queen’s confessor). As a result of this Queen Isabella approved to Columbus’s project. Columbus’s first was to find a short voyage to the Indies by sailing west, and the second goal was to convert any foreign inhabitance to Christianity. There were three ships the first was the Santa Maria, which can hold up to forty ...
- 5048: Charlemagne
- ... known family. Charlemagne’s grandfather was Charles Martel, the man who was responsible for the defeat of the Saracens. Charlemagne was also the eldest son of Bertrade (also known as Bertha Greatfoot) and Pepin the Short, the first to become king of the Franks. With the almost full extinction of schools in the 8th century, many historians say that Charlemagne received very little education, but did learn the art of reading ...
- 5049: Floating Point Coprocessors
- ... external to the unit. Because the FPC is memory mapped in CPU space, these registers are directly accessible to the programmer within the register space of the host MPU. In addition to the standard word, short and long (16, 32 and 64-bit) integer operations, the MCP supports four new operand sizes: single precision real, double precision real, extended precision real and packed binary coded decimal strings. All on-chip calculations ...
- 5050: Oliver North
- ... wants, one-on-one. Up to this point, Oliver North was looked at as a can-do Marine officer with fervent patriotism and was a personal favorite of President Reagan. But after a whirlwind of stories flew around the Reagan administration, Lt. Col. Oliver North found himself locked out of the place where he had worked for the last five years and was under the suspicion of America. He was being ...
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