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Martin Luther
Number of Words: 2864 / Number of Pages: 11
... from the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, Luther felt his suggested reforms York-3 could be implemented within Catholicism. If this had taken place, the Protestant Reformation would probably not of ever seen the light of day--nor would it have been necessary. But the theological practices being what they were in the Roman Church, there was little chance at that time for any great variations to occur within its folds. The Church of Rome was thoroughly monolithic and set in its ways and was not about to mutate into something else. If a metamorphosis had occurred within the Roman Catholic Church, Lut ...
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Mary Shelley
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... in Italy, but their two children William and Clara Shelley died there. Mary never really recovered from their deaths. However, Percy empowered Mary to live as she most desired. In 1822 Percy drowned in a boating accident, leaving Mary penniless. For her remaining years she worked as a professional writer to support her father and son. She died in 1851 of a brain tumor.
combined the ethical concerns of her parents with the Romantic sensibilities of Percy Shelley’s poetic inclinations. Her father’s concern for the underprivileged influenced her description of the poverty-stricken D ...
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William Marshall
Number of Words: 1282 / Number of Pages: 5
... training for the knighthood. William De Tancarville was known throughout Europe as one of the grander patrons of knighthood. In the Tancarville household, William would learn courtliness in addition
to all other prerequisites found in a professional soldier of the day. After six years of being a squire in the Tancarville Household, Marshall was knighted in 1166.
In 1170, King Henry II appointed William to the head of his son’s mesnie or military household. William was responsible for protecting, training, and maintaining the military household for Prince Henry. In 1173, William knig ...
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Samuel Colt
Number of Words: 665 / Number of Pages: 3
... to see their reaction. This was also the time Samuel got interested in guns. He would always take his father's guns apart. One year at the public picnic Samuel filled a beer keg with gun powder and put a long wick on it. Then he put it in the river and lit the fuse, then pushed it down the river. It exploded in the river in front of all the villagers.
Early Years in Business
Samuel's first model was of wood in 1832. In 1835 Samuel Handed in his first patent to the United States Patent Office for his revolving fire arm. Samuel's company had a very good first year. The military ad ...
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Einstein
Number of Words: 1131 / Number of Pages: 5
... of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to believe he was disabled. ’s elementary education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. Here he first encountered the “German spirit” through the school’s strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to his reputation as a bad student and a rebel. It was probably this kind of education that caused to search for knowledge on his own. Surprisingly he did not be ...
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Booker T. Washington
Number of Words: 1124 / Number of Pages: 5
... and they felt that they
should change their names and leave their plantations either for a
couple of days or weeks in order to really feel free.
As Washington grew older he gets a job working at a
salt-furnace, working with his stepfather, he asked if he can go to
school, his stepfather said no that your responsibilities are here
now. Washington decided, that he would learn something anyway
and applied himself into mastering the blue-beck speller. This
wasn’t helping so he made arrangements for night school with a
teacher and felt that he learned more than any other kids. Then ...
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Wilson, Woodrow
Number of Words: 1912 / Number of Pages: 7
... and Wesleyan University
in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as
professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer,
Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division
and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People
(1902). In 1902 he was the unanimous choice of the trustees to become
Princeton's president. His reforms included reorganization of the
departmental structure, revision of the curriculum, raising of academic
standards, tightening of student discipline, and the still-famous
preceptorial system of in ...
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Andrew Jackson
Number of Words: 741 / Number of Pages: 3
... competent and honest men. He wanted to have loyal and trustworthy men that he could depend on to help him while in office. Such men as Martin Van Buren, Senator Eaton, John Branch, John M. Berrien and Samuel D. Ingham were all men appointed cleverly by Jackson that did their job superbly under him.
In foreign affairs, Jackson scored two diplomatic triumphs, one with Great Britain and one with France. These triumphs ended the long-standing disputes with those countries. Since the end of the American Revolution, Great Britain had restricted and sometimes barred American trade with British ports in ...
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Sergey Bubka
Number of Words: 1303 / Number of Pages: 5
... late arrival in the 1983 World Championships. At the height of five point five meters he cleared the bar with out a problem. At five point six meters he cleared on his final attempt at that height. When he cleared the bar at five point seven meters he was the only competitor to clear and was suddenly world champion. It was a start to a long and victorious career.
Battling through injuries and other problems he presented himself to be the best pole vaulter to walk the land. During his career of twelve years he would break the world record seventeen times. Breaking it by small increments, only because h ...
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Wyatt Earp
Number of Words: 365 / Number of Pages: 2
... In the fall of 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Earp and three of his brothers, together with the American frontiersman Doc Holliday, participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfighter in 1881, during which they killed several suspected cattle rustlers.
The following year, Ike Clanton attempted to kill Wyatt and Morgan while they were playing pool; Morgan was killed. Wyatt k ...
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