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- 541: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... Soon after being commissioned his father died, and he was forced to provide for his family. Napoleon spent the next seven years reading the works of the philosophers, and educating himself in military matters by studying the campaigns of the great military leaders of the past. The French Revolution and the European war that followed broadened his sights and presented him with new opportunities. Napoleon was a supporter of the French ...
- 542: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... After FDR died, the 22nd Amendment was passed saying no president can serve longer than 2 terms. He served longer than any other president did. FDR was born in 1882. His early life consisted of studying law at Columbia University. He never to the final exam so he didn't fully become a lawyer. He married his 2nd cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of former president Teddy Roosevelt ...
- 543: George Dantzig
- ... called him "a young Gauss" in class one day, referring to the great German mathematician. Nash switched from chemistry to math in his freshman year. Two years later he had a B.S. and was studying for an M.S. His graduate professor, R.J. Duffin, recalls Nash who came to him one day and described a problem he thought he had solved. Duffin realized with some astonishment that Nash, without ...
- 544: Napoleon Bonaparte: A Great Mastermind
- ... Soon after being commissioned his father died, and he was forced to provide for his family. Napoleon spent the next seven years reading the works of the philosophers, and educating himself in military matters by studying the campaigns of the great military leaders of the past. The French Revolution and the European war that followed broadened his sights and presented him with new opportunities. Napoleon was a supporter of the French ...
- 545: Kelly Flinn Biography
- ... she knew what she had to do and how to do it. She was going to go to the Air Force Academy and learn how to fly. She spent the next years in high school studying, joining clubs, and filling out applications. In late spring of her senior year, she finally got her acceptance letter. Then, a few weeks later, she received a letter from the Academy that she wasn’t ...
- 546: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... from something important for the good of mankind. Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. He forbad Ernest's sister from studying ballet for it was coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation". Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed ...
- 547: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... at the chance to print and edit a small temperance journal, the National Philanthropist. (Archer 22) Thus began a crusade against alcohol consumption. Garrison shunned sporting houses and taverns. His own ways of relaxation included studying the Bible. While northern newspapers were running sensational articles and stories about the kidnapping of William Morgan, a renegade Freemason, presumably by Masons seeking to silence him about the society's rituals, Garrison scoffed. "All ...
- 548: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... from something important for the good of mankind. Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. He forbad Ernest's sister from studying ballet for it was coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation". Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed ...
- 549: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... New York accepted her. Unfortunately, it turned out that they only voted her in as a joke because they did not believe a woman was capable of being a doctor. After two years of hard studying, she beat the odd and received her medical degree in front of 20,000 people. Although Elizabeth was a fully trained physician, no one would hire her because they did not take her seriously. She ...
- 550: Walt Disney
- ... pollen and sort of stimulate everybody." Replied Disney when a little boy asked him about his job. "I guess that is what I do." At the age of sixteen, Disney left school and briefly started studying at art schools in Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. By that time he really knew what he wanted to do after he was done with school. In 1923, at the age of twenty two ...
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