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Charles Lindbergh
Number of Words: 2209 / Number of Pages: 9
... time at the university he paid more attention to the growing field of avaion than he did to his studies. In 1924 enlisted in the United States Army so he could begin studying on how to be a fighter pilot. One year later he graduated from the Army flight training school that was held on both Brook’s field and Kelly’s field. He graduated as the number one pilot in his class. After that he bought his own airplane and for the next six years of his life he spent flying an airplane for Robertson Aircraft Corporation. The planes filled with mail he flew from St. Louis, Missouri to Chicago, Illinois. During ...
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Geroffrey Chaucer
Number of Words: 2544 / Number of Pages: 10
... book, which records the purchase of a suit of clothes for Geoffrey Chaucer, including a pair of red and black hose and a pair of shoes.”1 This being his first connection with royalty, he was trained to be a civil servant and a diplomat; at the same time he leant the ways of the court and the use of arms.2 Those days must have been lively days for the young page, for old records show that the countess and her household were constantly on the move from one palace or great mansion to another. 1 Two years later Chaucer was with a European army that Edward III led into France during the Hundr ...
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Richard Marcinko
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... the most important contribution Richard Marcinko made was his idea
of Seal Team Six. Seal Team Six was created as part of the CounterTerrorist
Joint Task Force, a group which includes one elite unit each from the Navy, the
Army, and the FBI. Marcinko was given permission and unlimited expenses from the
Pentagon to create this highly elite group. He was then named Commanding Officer
of Seal Team Six, which he served as for three years. This elite unit has went
on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea,
Africa, and beyond. Then Marcinko was given orders to create Red ...
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A Memorable Experience In Photography
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... picture was a snapshot of a courageous man in the act of
falling(Capa18). His own special talents and course of world happenings, led
him into a role as a professional photographer of war(Images of War20). To
really admire and understand Capa, you must have a fascination for dramatic and
emotional pictures of war. There probably has been thousands who admire the
work he does. Well you can include me in that group of thousands. Capa puts
into perspective in just one photograph, something my grandfather will never
forget. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor. The photograph that brings back these
memorie ...
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Wilhelm Roentgen
Number of Words: 2002 / Number of Pages: 8
... the Muses rest here) selected him as a member of their fraternity. Then on May 9 he joined a scientific society called "Natura Dux nobis et auspex" (Nature is our leader and protector).
Wilhelm didn’t like keeping house so, he found a room with the family of a cabinetmaker. There he started writing his first book, called "Question for the Inorganic Part of the Chemistry Textbook", under the pen name of Dr J. W. Gunning. As you probably figured out that was the name of the man he had lived with in the past. People tried to find the real author but all they could find we ...
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Ansel Adams
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... From that time on, Ansel returned to Yosemite National Park every summer. While he was there in 1919, he joined the Sierra Club. The purpose of this club was to explore and protect the wilderness areas of the Sierra Nevada. Ansel eventually worked in the park for four summers as the caretaker of the club's headquarters. While his time there, Ansel became an expert mountaineer and conservationist. He also gained a lot of experience shifting conditions as a photographer of landscape.
During this time until 1920, photography was just a hobby for Ansel. In 1920 he decided to make music his p ...
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of Words: 390 / Number of Pages: 2
... copy and paste it below. Please include a bibliography (if necessary). By submitting this report you are giving us permission to distribute and collect any, and all money acquired by it. You are also confirming that you have written this paper, and are not violating any © Copyright Laws. If you want to be given credit for your work, and you should!!! Please include your name and e-mail address. There is nothing wrong with submitting your paper. Teachers have no right to get upset with you for publishing your work. IT'S YOURS!!! To submit your report please copy and paste it below. Please include a ...
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The Works Of Graham Greene
Number of Words: 816 / Number of Pages: 3
... her what she wanted, children, because of his wife who will not
divorce him because of religious reasons, she leaves for Pyle. Fowler and
Pyle still remain friends, but Fowler always carries some envy for Pyle*s
youth and confidence. Fowler is against personal involvement in the war
and when he realizes that Pyle is supplying plastic bomb materials to a
"third force," he discourages him. Even then, Pyle does not listen and
Fowler kills him indirectly. While the novel*s theme lies in the issue of
personal involvement, the relationship of Fowler, Pyle, the American, and
Phoung, a Chinese woman, is a ...
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Pete Rose
Number of Words: 2648 / Number of Pages: 10
... his life. He walked in his first at bat, on 4 straight pitches. He said it wasn't because of nerves though, he just didn't want to swing. He got his first hit in the majors three games later, against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Pete played with the Cincinnati Reds from 1963 to 1978, and then he signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. He played in Philly from 1979 to 1983, and then he went to the Montreal Expos for 1984. He stayed only one half year in Montreal, having a desire to retire in his hometown Cincinnati. He played his final two and a half years, 1984-1986, in Cincinnati, and then he retir ...
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DR Daniel J Boorstin
Number of Words: 785 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the Massachusetts Bar and has practiced law. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.
Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans: The Democratic Experience, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His 1983 work, The Discoverers, a best sellin ...
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