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- 151: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- ... under his arms to teach him to keep his elbows to his side while he ate. His father would make Arnold and Meinhard compete to see who the best was in boxing matches, races, and studying. His father humiliated the loser with scornful remarks. Each Sunday Arnold and Meinhard were permitted to choose among hiking, visiting a farm, seeing a play, museum, or art show. After their Sunday excursion, their father ...
- 152: Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
- ... articles from were collected in a 1929 book entitled Hello Towns. Anderson and Elizabeth separated in late 1928 and in 1933 Anderson married Eleanor Copenhaver. With her he traveled throughout the South, touring factories and studying labor conditions. Because of his tours with her, he began writing about labor conditions in the 1930s. The four short stories I read by Sherwood Anderson were Hands, The Triumph of the Egg(1921 ...
- 153: Sir William Lawrence Bragg
- ... Born in Adelaide, Australia, William Lawrence Bragg studied at Saint Peter's College in Adelaide and at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1908. He enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, in 1909 to continue studying mathematics, but switched to physics at the suggestion of his father. Lawrence Bragg began research under the direction of British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson in 1912. Bragg served in the British army during World ...
- 154: George Washington Carver
- ... kidnappers. From early on Carver was determined to get himself an education. Carver began his schooling in Newton Country, and while attending school he also worked very hard as a farm hand. While working and studying Carver lived in a one-room schoolhouse, and as time went on he excelled as sought out for higher education. Because of his race Carver was denied on attending Highland University. In 1887 Carver got ...
- 155: General George Patton
- ... in the target. Still, Patton finished fifth overall, an excellent finish in an event traditionally dominated by European marksmen. After the Olympics, Patton kept busy by visiting the French cavalry school as an observer and studying French sword drill. The latter studies helped him become the U.S. Army's Master of the Sword when he was assigned to teach the use of the blade to fellow officers. Patton, also designed ...
- 156: A Dictionary Of Modern Revolut
- ... world as Che Guevara or simply Che. The interesting twist that makes Che so interesting is that he was a high class Cuban . He was set out to be a well paid doctor and was studying Freud. One day his life was about to change. He and his best friend at the time drove through some of the poorest regions of Cuba. It was clear to him that he had to ...
- 157: Oliver North
- ... Marine Corps, North led a detachment of Marines who were to assist the rescuers of the aborted mission to free U.S. hostages in Tehran. A little more than a year later, while North was studying at the Naval War College in Providence, he came to befriend Navy Secretary John Lehman. Lehman helped North get a spot on the National Security Council. Among several military officers sent to the National Security ...
- 158: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top honors in French and Latin. On May 26, 1827, Poe enlisted in the US Army under the name Edgar A. Perry. He joined Battery H of the 1st Artillery, then stationed at ...
- 159: Carol Causs
- ... enthusiastic about the move, but Gauss, who did not like change, decided to stay in Gottingen. Minna died in 1831 after a long illness. In 1832, Gauss and a colleague of his, Wilhelm Weber, began studying the theory of terrestrial magnetism. Gauss was quite enthusiastic about this prospect and by 1840, had written three important papers on the subject. These papers all dealt the current theories on terrestrial magnetism, absolute measure ...
- 160: Cicero
- ... the Senate when he was murdered. On March 17 he spoke in the Senate in favour of a general amnesty, but then he returned to his philosophical writing and contemplated visiting his son, who was studying in Athens. But instead he returned to Rome at the end of August. It was in May that Octavian learned of Cicero's unfortunate remark that "the young man should be given praise, distinctions... and ...
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