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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 2
Number of Words: 2357 / Number of Pages: 9
... (Reddaway and Schapiro, pg 40) His brother's death influenced his tactics and thoughts about revolution throughout his lifetime.
Lenin was admitted to the University of Kazan but did not stay long. He was expelled for having his name on a petition of grievances. The school authorities looked up his background, and the connection with his brother was made, he was kicked out of school because of it. Not only did they expel him he was exiled from the city too. His mother tried desperately to get him back into school with no avail. (Wolfenstein, pg 104) During this time Lenin continued to study ...
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Karl Gauss: Biography
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... Gauss began to gain recognition from countries all over
the world. He was invited to work in Leningrad, was made a member of the Royal
Society in London, and was invited membership to the Russian and French
Academies of Sciences. However, he remained in his hometown in Germany until
his death in 1855.
Acomplishments
During his Teen years, Karl Gauss developed many mathematical theories
and proofs, but these would not be recognized for decades because of his lack of
publicity and publication experience. He discovered what we now call Bode's Law,
and the principle of squares, which we use to find ...
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The Rule Of Halie Selassie
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... after his country was in war with the Italians. It was at this war that Tafari's father, Ras Makonnen fought next to Emperor Menelik, the emperor of Ethiopia at that time. The Emperor swore their relationship hoping that he would pass the throne to Ras Makonnen when Menelik's time had come.
Ras Makonnen wanted a good education for his son "Ras" Tafari. Ras is an Ethiopian title given to people of royal blood. Fortunately, Mokonnen saw to his son's education early, because in 1906 he became sick and soon after died. He left the fourteen-year-old son Tafari to be raised in the house of Meneik. The Em ...
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Bill Gates
Number of Words: 1635 / Number of Pages: 6
... early programs that he likes to brag
about was written at this time. It was a program that scheduled classes for
students. "I surreptitiously added a few instructions and found myself nearly
the only guy in a class full of girls"(Gates 12).
In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates
attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the chip did not contain enough
transistors to handle it. Gates and Allen found a way to use the 8008 and
"started Traf-O-Data, a computer traffic analysis company"(Clayton 452) ...
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J.P. Morgan
Number of Words: 2994 / Number of Pages: 11
... grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartford with Springfield. Finally he became one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. Joseph's first son was Junius Spencer Morgan, also destined for the life of a businessman. He spent a number of years as a dry-goods merchant before moving to Boston and into the foreign trade business. Junius was invited to join the firm of George Peabody & Co. in 1854. In 1864 Junius took over the Peabody Company and c ...
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Martin Luther King Jr
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... Conference that was formed to carry on civil right activities in the south. But later in 1963 he was put into jail during a successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of many public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama.
Martin later became the youngest person ever to get the Nobel peace prize. In 1965 . led a drive to register black voters in Selma, Alabama. But to get this drive protesters did a five-day march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
He combined his civil right compains with a strong hand against the Vietnam war because he believed that the money and effort which was spent on the ...
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The Biography Of John Marshall Harlan II
Number of Words: 851 / Number of Pages: 4
... he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the B ...
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Lincoln
Number of Words: 1079 / Number of Pages: 4
... called “milk sickness”, along with several other relatives. The hardest years of ’s life were yet to follow. After a short time it became apparent that Thomas could not cope with his family by himself. Thomas went back to Kentucky to seek a wife. He married Sarah Bush Johnson. They made a businesslike arrangement for her to move to Indiana to take care of his family and for him to pay for her debts. Sarah ’s arrival marked a turning point in Abraham ’s life. Sarah brought her three children of her own into the family. The children felt that they had joined the world of ...
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
Number of Words: 2060 / Number of Pages: 8
... around historic Boston learning about American revolutionary history. Both parents impressed on their children that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the country they were told, must be returned by performing some service for the country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Rosemary, and Kathleen. Joe, Jr., was a significant figure in young John's life as he was the figure for most of John's admiration. His older brother was much bigger and stronger than John and took it upon himself ...
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The Health Of President Boris Yeltsin
Number of Words: 289 / Number of Pages: 2
... has stopped the bleeding and surgery will not be required. It will, however, keep Yeltsin in the hospital for at least two to three weeks.
The impact Russia has had on the world is astounding. They took the idea of Communism and turned it into a type of government that is still used today. President Boris Yeltsin has played a major role freeing Russia from Communism and still does today. His health could interfere with how the country is run and the whole world would be effected in some way. If Yeltsin was forced to leave office, who knows what kind of person would take his place. With the ...
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