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- 5081: Abraham Lincoln
- ... our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he taught himself law and became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the ...
- 5082: Woman of the Year: 1953-Queen Elizabeth II
- ... both sides. When she spent it with the Strathmore it would sometimes be at the Glamis Castle. It was a rugged, rambling old Scottish fortress. It looked like something out of a child's adventure stories-paradise of echoing rooms, long passage and mysterious stairways. (Trease 1953, 231) Elizabeth enjoyed exploring the castle when she was young. She was 13 when World War II occurred. A year later bombs started falling ...
- 5083: Maya Angelou
- ... International women's Year. Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African -American woman to hit the bestseller lists with her 'I know Why the Caged bird Sings " helds the Great Hall audience spellbound with stories of her own childhood. Maya Angelou's second achievement was in 1971 when she produced "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of water 'Fore I Die", in 1975"Oh Pray My Wings Are Going to ...
- 5084: Werner Heisenberg
- ... the atom observationally. As Heisenberg pointed out in his analysis of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, an electron can be observed inside an atom only with a gamma-ray microscope which, because of the short wavelength of gamma rays, has a high resolving power. This microscope shows us where the electron is at any moment, but at least one gamma-ray photon must be reflected from the electron. In this ...
- 5085: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... brother for cash. Indeed, for the next 10 years Theo, who had also gone to work for Goupil, sent an allowance to Vincent, encouraged him to work, and wrote regularly. Vincent's thinking during his short career (approximately 750 paintings, 1,600 drawings, 9 lithographs, and 1 etching) was documented in more than 700 letters that he wrote to Theo and others. Van Gogh's early years includes all his work ...
- 5086: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... as the"Rough Riders" . Later he became the leader of the Rough Riders and led charge up Kettle Hill during the battle of San Juan Hill. His success in the Spanish-American war and the stories in the newspaper he became sort of a national hero . In 1898 , when he came back , he was nominated for governor two weeks after he came back. He won the election and he fulfilled all ...
- 5087: Pablo Picasso
- ... into creating one of his great paintings, the "Mouilin de la Galette". It was here, in Paris, that most of his success was accomplished. Three months later, Picasso returned to Spain and co-founded the short-lived magazine "Arte Joven" (first issue March 31, 1901 - "Young Art"), in Paris. On a second trip to Paris, in the summer of 1901, he exhibited his works at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in the ...
- 5088: Presidential Anomalies
- ... by his suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who had communist membership and various pro-Cuban affiliations. In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected to the presidency on his supply side economic plan called Reaganomics. After a short recession in his first term the economic program seemed to work. From late 1982 to 1988, America enjoyed the longest peacetime economic explanation in its history. After only serving 70 days in office, a would ...
- 5089: Ted Bundy
- ... commonplace, and to facilitate an understanding of the aforementioned definition, it is helpful to differentiate serial murder from other types of murder, such as mass murder, which involves,"four or more victims killed within a short time span," and spree killings, which Ressler et al. defines as "a series of sequential homicides connected to one event committed over a time period of hours to days and without a cooling off period ...
- 5090: The Life of Sylvia Plath
- ... love with the writer while she continued her studies at Cambridge on a Fulbright grant. Hughes was also a student at Cambridge, and a fellow poet. The couple married four years later, and after a short stay in the States, returned to England. After returning to London, Plath' s first book of poetry, Colossus, was published in 1960. Plath's best known work, The Bell Jar was published following the birth ...
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