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Robert Fulton
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... on the Improvement of Canal Navigation. This dealt with the system of inland water transportation based on a small canals extending throughout the countryside. He thought of things such as aqueducts for valley crossings, boats for specialized cargo, and bridge designs featuring bowstring beams to transmit only vertical loads to the piers. Although some of his bridge designs were used to build bridges in the British isles, his ideas for building canals were not accepted.
Then in 1801 Fulton meet a man by the name of Robert R. Livingston. The two men decided to share the expense of building a steamb ...
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Descartes Sixth Meditation
Number of Words: 1379 / Number of Pages: 6
... internal experience holds any truth or existence. As he is very sceptical he raises the problem whether any of these given experiences contain truth or objectivity at all. Since we never have the chance to stand outside our own perception, it is impossible to contrast it with the external world.
Descartes is hopeful to prove subsistence of the external world (physical objects located in space), and so he returns to a very basic stage and acknowledges the existence of minds as an immaterial substance and God. He then accepts that matter exists as long as it is not a projection of his own mind or G ...
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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 969 / Number of Pages: 4
... Captain Robert Fitzroy, Darwin visited Tenerife, the Cape Verde Island, Brazil, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Chile, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Tasmania. In the Cape Verde Island Darwin devised his theory of coral reefs.
Another significant stop on the trip was in the Galapagos Islands, it was here that Darwin found huge populations of tortoises and he found that different islands were home to significantly different types of tortoises. Darwin then found that on islands without tortoises, prickly pear cactus plants grew with their pads and fruits spread out over the ground. On is ...
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Winston Churchill
Number of Words: 1433 / Number of Pages: 6
... child. He was sent to boarding school, where he was constantly doing badly in his schoolwork, and also getting into trouble. Even though Churchill did badly in many areas of school, it was noted that he had a phenomenal memory. When he was thirteen he won a prize for reciting 1,200 lines from Macauley’s Last Days of Ancient Rome, without a mistake.9 was an individualist. He disliked team games such as cricket or football. He did however, excel in fencing, which earned him a silver medal in a school competition.
After finishing school, Winston went on to fight in the British Army. ...
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Charles Lindbergh 2
Number of Words: 674 / Number of Pages: 3
... to weigh as little as possible, thus increasing the flight range. This also meant he would be going alone.
By 1927, Ryan Airlines offered to build him a single-engine plane that met his specifications for only $6,000, excluding an engine. Lindbergh met with them and despite the unimpressive headquarters, he walked away impressed. Lindbergh wanted the plane done in two months, rather then the three months Ryan Airlines had wanted, but after much overtime, they finished the Spirit of St. Louis by the deadline.
Because it was being built customized for Lindbergh, the single goal of the Spirit of St. Loui ...
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The Life Of George Armstrong Custer
Number of Words: 568 / Number of Pages: 3
... get away
with without being dismissed from the academy, and he enjoyed going to the
edge but not over it. The fellow cadets loved Custer for his fun-loving
and joking ways. Though Custer was frequently punished for his behavior,
he understood why he was at the Academy, and wanted to make something of
himself. At the Academy, Custer became a good writer. He felt the need
to write throughout his lifetime, and it was an integral part of his
character as was his courage, ambition, and joyful nature. He ended up
graduating last in his class, but graduating last in a class from the
Academy was sti ...
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Donatello
Number of Words: 1406 / Number of Pages: 6
... stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. From the sixteenth century on, the gigantic "David" of Michelangelo, which served the same purpose, eclipsed it. More of 's early works which were still partly Gothic are the impressive seated marble figure of St. John the Evangelist for the cathedral and a wooden crucifix in the church of Sta. Croce.
The full power of Donatello first appeared in two marble statues, "St. Mark" and "St. George" which were completed in 1415. "St. George" has been replaced and is now in the Bargello. For the first time, the human body is rendered as a functio ...
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Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
Number of Words: 2549 / Number of Pages: 10
... his ancestry, though not so prosperous as on his mother's, was equally
distinguished. Major Thomas Melvill, his grandfather, was one of the “Indians”
in the Boston Tea Party during the events leading to the war and who had then
served his country creditably throughout the hostilities. The Melvill family
kept on their mantelpiece a bottle of tea drained out of Major Melvill's clothes
after the Tea Party as a momento of this occasion.
Herman attended the New York Male High School from about the age of
seven until 1830. By that time, Allan Melvill's business had begun to fail, due
to his credit being ov ...
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The Writings Of Cicero
Number of Words: 3723 / Number of Pages: 14
... through Scipio (in the
commonwealth). Although Cicero presents very convincing arguments for a
Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his
belief in the roman structure of government.1 Cicero was limited to roman
borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his
disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. Cicero was
unable to think on the level of Aristotle's logic. He quite simply used
roman history as a mapping of the paths of the decay of states.
In contrast, Aristotle understood the underlying forces and influences that
transpi ...
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Stonewall Jackson
Number of Words: 520 / Number of Pages: 2
... Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good teacher of math. Many students mocked him and made fun of how religious he was. In 1853, he married Elinor Junkin, who died a year later. In 1857, he married Mary Anna Morrison.
Jackson joined the Confederacy and soon made his reputation as at the First Battle of Bull Run, also called Manassas. When his men were retreating he stood still while enemy soldiers were firing at him. His troops saw him and one of them shouted "There is Jackson standing like a stonewall." Only then did his men have the courage to fight on and eventuall ...
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