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Isaac Newton
Number of Words: 690 / Number of Pages: 3
... saw the doors were blown right off the hinges. She found Isaac jumping,
again and again, from an open window. He would measure the length of the
jump, and measure the force of the wind.
Soon she realized that Newton was not cut out for farmwork, and
sent him back to King's School. He graduated in 1661.
When he was eighteen, he went to Trinity College. The teacher's
were impressed by him. Isaac read every book he could find, especially on
mathematics and physics. From this Newton knew most of the things they
taught, before they taught it.
In 1665, Newton worked out a basic formula called t ...
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Vincent Van Gogh
Number of Words: 1503 / Number of Pages: 6
... loving him had never entered her head.
In 1875 Uncle Cent arranged for him to be transferred to the Paris office in the hope that his spirits might be revived by a change in scene. Here he became increasingly careless in his work. He was given three months notice, and then six years of training as an art dealer came to an end. He was almost twenty-three, unemployed, and had not the slightest idea what he would do next. Vincent decided to return to England, where he found a job as a teacher in a boarding school. After he gave up that job, he took another teaching job at a school in Isleworth.
As a ...
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King Arthur
Number of Words: 397 / Number of Pages: 2
... the British Isles and
much of Europe Introduced by Geoffrey are Guenevere, Merlin, information
about Arthur's strange birth and death and the concept of chivalry. Due to
the tremendous popularity of Geoffrey's book, authors like Robert Wace and
Chretien de Troyes continued on with the development of King Arthur and his
life, adding yet more detail and depth to the story. Robert Wace
concentrated on the Arthurian aspect of the story while Chretien
concentrated on the romantic aspect of Arthur's life. Some of the new
elements added include d the Round Table, courtly love and the love affair ...
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George Frideric Handel
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... in his house. Every
night he would sneak up to the attic after everyone was asleep and he'd
play it until he finally mastered it. The instrument could not be heard
through the closed doors. When he was about twelve, he went to Berlin to
study and while there he became well-known for playing the Harpsichord.
Handel's parents wanted Handel to grow up in the profession of law, but
music was in Handel's blood. When Handel's father soon realized this, he
sent Handel away to study in Berlin. In Berlin, Handel was taught under the
great composer Frideric Wilhelm Zachau.
One of the great influences on Han ...
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James Watt
Number of Words: 1286 / Number of Pages: 5
... himself in instrument making.
In 1755 he set out on horseback and arrived in London after either twelve days or two weeks. He tried to get a job in the instrumentation field although the shopkeepers could not give him a job as he did not do an apprenticeship and was too old. Finally though he found John Morgan of a company called Cornhill who agreed to bend the rules and offer an apprenticeship for a year. knuckled down and wanted to learn everything he wanted in one year that would have normally taken three or four years. After six weeks Watt learned that much he outstripped another apprentice who ...
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Charles Dickens
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... he was fifteen, he attended school off and on, and then dropped out. In 1934, after studying shorthand for 18 months, Dickens got a job as a newspaper reporter for the Evening Chronicle. Two years later, Dickens had his first work published named Sketches by Boz, which consisted of his works from the Evening Chronicle and Monthly Magazine. The 24 year old Charles Dickens then married Catherine Hogarth. Later that year, and clear through the next, Dickens had monthly writings, The Pickwick Papers, which brought his name to be commonplace in English households. After many writings, and ten child ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 1936 / Number of Pages: 8
... superpersonalvalue. It seems to me that what is important is the force of this superpersonal content and the depth of the conviction concerning its overpowering meaningfulness, regardless of whether any attempt is made to unite this content with a divine Being, for otherwise it would not be possible to count Buddha and Spinoza as religious personalities. Accordingly, a religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance and loftiness of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation. They exist with the same necessity and ...
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Shoeless Joe
Number of Words: 574 / Number of Pages: 3
... that was one of the greatest baseball players of all times. became a symbol of the powerful over the powerless. did not play with running shoes because he could not find a small shoe size to fit him. That is why he wears the name .
4. The first impression I get from the main character, Ray Kinsella, is that he is a man who loves baseball. He lives for it. He is a great father and husband. He plays ball with his family and he brings them to ball games. He likes to dream. He could sit all day long and dream. He also likes to improve the things that he loves to build. He worked hard at makin ...
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George Washington Carver2
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... earned a bachelor of science degree and, in 1896, a Master of Science degree in agriculture and bacterial botany. That same year, Booker T. Washington offered Carver a job teaching at Tuskegee Institute. During his first few years at Tuskegee, he made many improvements in the agricultural program. With the help of other colleagues, he created the Farmers’ Institute. This was a group of farmers who met monthly to acquire agricultural advice from the Tuskegee staff.
As well as creating the Farmers’ Institute, Carver also helped the farmers of Alabama and the southern states a great de ...
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Charles Manson Aka Jesus Christ
Number of Words: 450 / Number of Pages: 2
... for his motto?? Charles Manson has said "In love, you do no wrong." Wouldn't Jesus agree? In fact, would Jesus apply to that? In truth, yes!
Now, it's time to unveil the infamy of Charles Manson and Jesus Christ. Yes, both of them are wanted for influencing murder. Charles Manson has led the Tate-LaBianca murders as Jesus Christ led the city of Jericho, town of Salem murders. In both incidents, people were to die for their "sins".
Because of this, both Manson and Christ have been the victims of injustice due to the courts and trials. During the trial, Manson was denied the right to defend himself. In ...
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