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- 271: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
- ... forth was the growing period, and summer was the harvest period. They also determined a year to be 365 days so they were very close to the actual year of 365 Ό days (Gillings 235). When studying the history of algebra, you find that it started back in Egypt and Babylon. The Egyptians knew how to solve linear (ax=b) and quadratic (ax2+bx=c) equations, as well as indeterminate equations such ...
- 272: Al-Razi
- ... eagerness for knowledge, he became more interested in the study of alchemy and chemistry, philosophy, logic, mathematics and physics. But it was the field of medicine that he spent most of his life, practicing it, studying and writing about it. Due to his fame in medicine he was appointed head of the physicians of the Ray Hospital, and later put in charge of the Baghdad main Hospital during the reign of ...
- 273: Omar Khayyam The Enigma
- ... is known about this time period in his life except that this is when he is thought to of written the Rubaiyat . The story of Omars death is said to be that Omar was studying a work on metaphysics when he marked his page with a gold toothpick and prayed his last prayer and then died. His tomb is still standing in Naishapur6. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, OR EDWARD ...
- 274: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... position at a small boarding school in Ramsgate, England. In 1880 Van Gogh started to focus on art as a career and not just a hobby. After a brief stay at the University of Amsterdam studying theology, Vincent chose art as a vocation and became dependent on his brother Theo for money. In the spring of 1880 his brother wrote to him and said, Vincent, what is the matter? (Burra). In ...
- 275: The Atomic Bomb
- ... the field of physics and mathematics. They are as follows: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feyman, Enrico Fermi, Joseph C. Carter, And Neils Bohr. J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904. He thrived on studying and was not a very social type of person. He went to Harvard and completed a four-year chemistry degree in only three years. Robert also studied subatomic physics at Cambridge. At Cambridge, he suffered ...
- 276: Nikola Tesla
- ... Now, a little about that inventor, Nikola Tesla: NikolaTesla was born in Smijlan, Croatia in 1856. He had an extraordinary memory and spoke six languages. He spent four years at the Polytechnic Institute at Gratz studying math, physics, and mechanics. What made Tesla great, however, was his amazing understanding of electricity. Remember that this was a time when electricity was still in its infancy. The light bulb hadn't even been ...
- 277: Karl Marx
- ... he wanted me to be. I have an incredibly tough time believing my ancestors were hairy, aphonic monkeys running around with no ideas about life, or anything for that matter. Throughout the last week of studying and reading about Charles Darwin, I did find I disagree with him tremendously about almost every view he has. I did however learn a lot. He was a very interesting man. Not one that I ...
- 278: American Studies
- ... that it was easy to pick up the information. These two articles were very much related, but at the same time they were very different. This leads into the past and current methodological approaches in studying American culture and what different authors have to say. The methodology of early American Studies practitioners in the 30s, 40s, and 50s was named the symbol myth school approach. They came up with a set ...
- 279: African Diaspora
- ... suggesting the formation of Afro- American rather than "Afro-centric" communities. This approach to the slavery and the slave era is relatively young and will have to be developed. A conclusion that is clear after studying works of Peter Wood, Gwendolyn Hall and Richard Price, is that the early arguments suggesting no connection of African heritage to the Americas are entirely invalid. Word Count: 1649
- 280: Why The North Won The Civil Wa
- ... did: more specifically, New England Americans. It was people like Samuel Slater who can be credited with beginning the revolution of the textile industry in America. A skilled mechanic in England, Slater spent long hours studying the schematics for the spinning jenny until finally he no longer needed them. He emigrated to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and there, together with a Quaker merchant by the name of Moses Brown, he built a ...
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