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- 5101: Knute Rockne - Coach and Legend of Notre Dame
- ... 4 years of college, and took vacations together during school breaks. Rockne didn't make the varsity squad until his third year. There were many theories about why this was. Some said he was too short and caused too many turnovers as a freshman. Whatever the reason, Knute palyed on the scrubs for two years. A new coach entered the picture by his junior year and gave Knute a chance at ...
- 5102: Gailileo
- ... a mathematicians and a workman, Galileo made a series of telescopes whose optical performance was much better than that of the Dutch instrument. The astronomical discoveries he made with his telescopes were described in a short book called Message from the Stars published in Venice in May 1610. It caused a sensation. Galileo claimed to have seen four small bodies orbiting Jupiter. These last, with an eye on getting a job ...
- 5103: John Muir: His Achievements/Journeys
- ... right eye. His left eye grew dim to the reaction. John's friends and neighbors tried to help him and brought doctors. Some friends read to him. Children brought him flowers and listened to his stories. He finally began to regain his sight. His employer, grateful for the work that he had done for his company, offered John a job as foreman and a future partnership. But John gave up the ...
- 5104: James Earl Jones: A Voice in the Crowd
- ... Josh Greenfield, Clandestine on the Morning Line. The production opened in the Actors Playhouse to mixed reviews that generally agreed that Asome likable characters (were) interrupted by a story@(Gelb 30). The show had a short run and helped Jones land a role in another experimental drama, Jack Gelber=s The Apple. The production opened at the Living Theatre in December 1961 and was billed as Experimental theatre with a vengeance ...
- 5105: George Bush
- ... George, W as many refer to him, was not interested in any of the political organizations at the University. George W. Bush seemed to be more concerned with social matters than political matters. He knew stories about most people that would pass him by on the campus and was a fan of his schools sports teams. In the late 1960s he joined a fraternity of Delta Kappa Epsilon, a ...
- 5106: Peter The Great
- ... ideas on the Russians immediately. When he saw men wearing beards, he personally cut them off or made them pay a tax. If a man's robe was long and extravagant he'd cut them short and tear off the jewelry. He forced everyone except the peasants to dress in the European style. The women of Russia were brought out of seclusion and encouraged to join in public gatherings. Also fathers ...
- 5107: Post World War I
- ... lifestyle and enjoy life. The 1920s were definitely the American dream come true. Before World War I, women wore their hair long, had ankle length dresses, and long cotton stockings. In the twenties, they wore short, tight dresses. They wore flashy lipstick and other cosmetics. Eventually, women were even granted the right to vote with the passing of the 19th Amendment. It was up to this time period that women were ...
- 5108: Robert E. Lee
- ... opponents and for comprehending their weaknesses. He made skillful use of interior lines of communication and kept a convex front toward the enemy so that his reinforcements, transfers, and supplies could reach their destination over short, direct routes. His greatest contribution to military practice however was his use of field fortifications as aids to maneuvering. He recognized that a small body of soldiers protected by entrenchments can hold an enemy force ...
- 5109: Peter The Great
- ... of his tutors was Nikita Zotov, who was a kind clerk, literate man who knew the Bible well but was not a scholar. While Zotov was teaching Peter to read and write, he told him stories of Russian history; of battles and heroes. Peter's education was less classical then that given to Feodor or Sophia. By the time Peter reached manhood, he was basicaly a self taught man since he ...
- 5110: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... outlet for his writing, and talent. During his junior year he left Princeton and entered the army in 1917. Though he was never sent to battle for his country, there he began work on the short story, The Romantic Egoist, which was published as This Side of Paradise. Though rejected it later returns as a imitated nationwide sensation. When time and America began evolving, then was his work beginning to receive ...
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