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Jean De La Fontaine
Number of Words: 1434 / Number of Pages: 6
... family from Poitou. He also had a younger brother who was born two years after La Fontaine. He also had an older step sister named Anne de Jouy on his mothers side of the family. (Carter, pg. 46)
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The education and formative years of young la Fontaine are not documented. Most biographers state that, in all likelihood, he attended château-
Thierry "college". This is a secondary institution where humanities were taught to the sons of the middle class. (Encarta n.pag.) He then attended a school at Reims. From there he went to Paris to study medicine and theology, but was drawn into th ...
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George C. Marshall
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... State from 1947 to 1949, he developed an economic program, the Marshall Plan, to help bring relief to war torn nations in Europe. The plan stipulated that the United States war prepared to assist Europe on certain terms. The European countries were to (1) Confer and Determine their needs on a continental basis; (2) show what resources they could put into a common pool for economic rebuilding; (3) stabilize their currencies; and (4) try to remove trade barriers so that goods could flow freely throughout the continent. With the assistance of the Marshall Plan, Western Europe began to recover from the ...
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Gregor Johann Mendel
Number of Words: 367 / Number of Pages: 2
... 1900. They named the units Mendel described "genes." When the gene has a
slighty different base sequence it is called an "allele."
Mendel also developed 3 laws or principles. The first principle is
called the, "Principle of Segregation." This principle states that the traits of
an organism are determined by individual units of heredity called genes. Both
adult organisms have one allele from each parent, which gives both organisms 2
alleles. The alleles are separated or "segregated" from each other with the
reproductive cell formation. Mendel's second principle is the, "Principle of
independ ...
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Antoine Lavoisier
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... and physical properties. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1768. On 1771 he married Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze. She helped Lavoisier by drawing diagrams for his scientific works and translating English notation for him. Unlike earlier chemists, Lavoisier paid particular attention to the weight of the ingredients involved in chemical reactions and of the products that resulted. He carefully measured the weights of the reactants and products. He noted that the weight of the air in which combustion occurred decreases. He found that when the burning material combined with the air ...
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Columbus
Number of Words: 466 / Number of Pages: 2
... ships with Lateen sail, but it was a miracle that he did what he did. was accused of cruelty to animals and humans, but so was everyone else at his time. Just like today everyone goes to school, everyone in ’ time was cruel. Yes, wanted to enslave the Native Americans, but other people also wanted to enslave Africans. He should not be condemned because he was a man of his time when he was able to do so many great things.
More over, without ’ courage, we would all be living in Europe. Thanks to him, mankind is distributed throughout the entire world. Life would be a lot different ...
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The Wright Brothers
Number of Words: 522 / Number of Pages: 2
... successfully an airplane must operate on three axes.
In 1900 they built their first glider that traveled 300 feet. In 1901, using aerodynamic tables compiled by Samuel Langley and Lilienthal, they constructed new wings for a larger glider; the flight was poor so they set out to test the tables. They made 200 model wings and tested them in a small wind tunnel. The tables were proven wrong and the Wrights painstakingly computed new ones. In 1902 their third biplane beat all other records for glider flight.
For the construction of their first powered airplane, Flyer I, they had to design a lighter gas ...
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Life Of William Shakespeare
Number of Words: 917 / Number of Pages: 4
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teachers were strict disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably
fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known
to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large
fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford
also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the opportunity to
hunt and trap small game. The River Avon which ran through the town
allowed him to fish also. Shakespeare's' poems and plays show his love of
nature and rural life which reflects his childhood.
On No ...
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The Reign Of Hitler
Number of Words: 1931 / Number of Pages: 8
... again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less ...
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... Harvard Law School and received his degree in 1845. Hayes began his practice in a small town called Lower Sandusky. Not finding many opportunities here, he left for Cincinnati in 1849 where he became a successful lawyer.
In 1952, Hayes married Lucy Ware Webb, a graduate from Wesleyan Women’s College. She would later become the first wife of a President to have graduated from college.
When the Civil War began, Hayes offered his services to the State of Ohio. Knowing the Governor, William Dennison, he became the major in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Throughout his career in the army, he r ...
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Donatello
Number of Words: 1389 / Number of Pages: 6
... 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 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 functional organism. The same qualities came in the ser ...
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