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- 971: James Cameron
- ... moved to Orange County he learned that getting a career in movies might not be the easiest job to obtain. He let the hope of becomming someone in the movie business fade and he started studying physics and english at a local university. He later dropped out of both studies because the math in the physics course had been to hard for Cameron to deal with. James Cameron got a job ...
- 972: Jules Verne
- ... continue law, so he disconinued the money he was giving him to pay for his expenses in paris. This forced Verne to make money by selling his stories. After spending many hours in Paris libraries studying geology, engeneering, and astronomy, Jules Verne published his first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. Soon he started writing many more novels novels. Some of his more famous novels are Five Weeks in a Balloon ...
- 973: John Harlan
- ... to do his graduate work, and returned to the United States upon completion in 1923. After returning from England, Harlan began working for a law office in New York. At the same time, he was studying law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he ...
- 974: John Dalton 4
- ... John established a relationship between vapor pressure and temperature. John s interest in gases arose from his studies of meteorology. He had weather equipment that was with him at all times and he was constantly studying weather and atmosphere. He also kept a journal throughout his life in which he wrote over 200,000 observations. In 1803, John made his biggest contribution to science: The Atomic Theory. On August 3, 1803 ...
- 975: John Dalton
- ... also established a relationship between vapor pressure and temperature. In 1803, while attempting to explain his law of partial pressures, John started to formulate his most important contribution to science the atomic theory. He was studying nitrogen oxides for Dr. Priestley's test for percentage of nitrogen in the air. Among the reactions he studied were those of nitric oxide with oxygen. He discovered that the reaction can take place in ...
- 976: Joan Of Arc
- ... death, the Catholic Church canonized Joan, or declared her to be a saint. Her feast day is celebrated the day of her death, May 30. Today many authors write about Joan of Arc. Patriots, people studying the super natural, supporters of women's rights, and many more admire her.
- 977: Jane Addams 2
- ... she so very much loved and admired passed away. Feeling lost and a sense of uncertainty that fall, Jane enrolled at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. For a woman in the 1880's, studying to become a doctor was more unusual than going to college. Her passion for the sciences and medicine had never left her heart. Jane's goal was to provide medical care for the poor. Due ...
- 978: Jacques Louis David
- ... was killed. He was never a good student in school- in his own words, "I was always hiding behind the instructors chair, drawing for the duration of the class". When David was 16 he began studying art at the Académie Royale under the rococo painter J. M. Vien. After many unsuccessful attempts, he finally won the Prix de Rome in 1774, and on the ensuing trip to Italy he was strongly ...
- 979: Isadora Duncan
- ... to Paris. He encouraged his family to come to Athens, Greece with him, and they excitedly agreed. When the family arrived in Greece, they thought for a long while that they would stay there forever, studying about the Greeks and dancing in the Greek temples. But, unfortunately, because they had no income, they were soon left homeless. The Duncan family decided to go to Berlin, Germany where many performances were being ...
- 980: Harriet Stowe
- ... including Oldtown Folks and The Pearl of Orr's Island contain another picture, one of the domestic lives of the northeastern region that Stowe grew up in and was familiar with. We can find, by studying all of her works, a more complete portrait of her as a writer, and we can possibly understand more about Uncle Tom's Cabin when we read all of Stowe's writing. -----end----- Harriet Beecher ...
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