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James Francis
Number of Words: 656 / Number of Pages: 3
... him. He caught the punted ball and returned it with ease, not once but twice. Warner came up to Jim and told him it was suppose to be a tackling drill. Jim replied, “Nobody tackles Jim.” 2 From this point on he led this small time school to national fame in football. He was an outstanding runner, place-kicker, and tackler, and because of his greatness in each of these positions he won all America honors in 1911 and 1912. When Thorpe played Army, another college, he played against the to be 34th president of the United States. In that game Dwight Eisenhower injured himself in the ...
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David Letterman
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... to him was his mother and father. His father, Joseph Letterman, and
Dave went fishing quite often when he was young. Dave looked up to his father
tremendously. When Joseph had his first heart attack when he was thirty-six,
Dave and his father started to drift away. Later, Dave's Dad died when he was
fifty-three. One of David's top regrets was never spending a lot of time with
his dad. As for his mother, she is the classical conservative mother of the
fifties. She was always very hard on Dave when he got into mischief in school--
which was quite often. She is still a part of Dave's life, ...
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Michelangeo - Renaissance Man
Number of Words: 1676 / Number of Pages: 7
... his own artistic vocation. When Michelangelo was thirteen, his father was a minor Florentine official with connections to the Medici family. At this time his father reluctantly agreed to apprentice him to the city's most prominent painters, the Ghirlandajo brothers (Compton's, 1998). Unsatisfied, because the brothers refused to teach him their art secrets, he played hooky and discovered the gardens of the Monastery of San Marco. Lorenzo the Magnificent, head of the Medici family had brought many ancient Greek and Roman statues to these gardens. These works and those commissioned, were intended ...
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President Andrew Jackson
Number of Words: 1811 / Number of Pages: 7
... moved to Nashville Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794.
Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign and return to Tennessee in less than a year. Later he served as a Tennessee superior court judge for six years starting in 1798. In 1804 he retired from the bench and move ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... patent office in Bern.
While he was employed there from 1902 to 1909, he completed an extraordinary
range of publications in theoretical physics. Most parts of there were written
in his spare time. In 1905 he submitted one of his many scientific papers to the
University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree. In 1908 he sent another
scientific paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there.
In 1914 Einstein returned to Germany but did not reapply for citizenship.
He was one of only handful of German professors who was opposed the use of force
and did not support Germany's war aims. ...
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Life And Times Of Alexander The Great
Number of Words: 1643 / Number of Pages: 6
... legends have been based on his life.
When Julius Caesar visited Alexandria, he asked to see the body of the
greatest warrior of all time-Alexander the Great. Such was Alexander's
reputation, able to impress even the powerful Caesar. He was, without a doubt,
one of the most remarkable men that ever walked the face of this Earth. And
this is the story of his life.
The Life and Times of Alexander the Great
The story of Alexander the Great is one of courage, genius, and great
accomplishment; but it is also somewhat of a bittersweet one, ending with his
tragic death during the p ...
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Freud 2
Number of Words: 1287 / Number of Pages: 5
... his medical degree. Unwilling to give up his experimental work, however, he remained at the university as a demonstrator in the physiological laboratory. In 1883, at Brücke's urging, he reluctantly abandoned theoretical research to gain practical experience.
Freud spent three years at the General Hospital of Vienna, devoting himself successively to psychiatry, dermatology, and nervous diseases. In 1885, following his appointment as a lecturer in neuropathology at the University of Vienna, he left his post at the hospital. Later the same year he was awarded a government grant enabling him to spend 19 we ...
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James Joyce
Number of Words: 1714 / Number of Pages: 7
... and John Stanslaus Joyce. He
was christened James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. His mother was a mild woman who
had intelligent opinions but didn't express them. His father was a violent,
quick tempered man who was a medical student and politician. He was educated
in Dublin at Jesuit school's his whole life. In 1888, he went to Clongeswood
College, but his father lost his job and James had to withdraw. He graduated in
October of 1902, from Royal University. He was fascinated by the sounds of
words and by the rhythms of speech since he first started school. He was
trained by the Jesuits who ...
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... he
formulated systematic and widely influential concepts and methods of number
theory -- dealing with the relationships and properties of integers. This book
set the pattern for many future research and won Gauss major recognition among
mathematicians. Using number theory, Gauss proposed an algebraic solution to the
geometric problem of creating a polygon of n sides. Gauss proved the possibility
by constructing a regular 17 sided polygon into a circle using only a straight
edge and compass.
Barely 30 years old, already having made landmark discoveries in
geometry, algebra, and number theory Gauss wa ...
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Life Of Charles Robert Darwin
Number of Words: 1232 / Number of Pages: 5
... death of his wife. At the age of nine Charles went to Shrewsbury School, where his older brother Erasmus was already attending school. The school was very strict, and Charles found the lessons mindless and boring. No Science was taught, and perhaps the only thing he felt joy in was famous literature. He read all the great works of Shakespeare, enjoying them immensely.
When Charles was 16 he was sent off to Edinburgh University in Scotland. Like the rest of the men in his family, his family he was to become a doctor. Erasmus attended there as well. He also was to be doctor. Unlike his younge ...
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