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Lewis Latimer
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... one daughter.
, the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. George Latimer disappeared shortly after the decision became known. Because he had no official papers to prove he was a free man, he possibly feared for his safety and that of his family.
With his father gone and his moth ...
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Jim Thorpe
Number of Words: 1501 / Number of Pages: 6
... in 1904, he was learning a trade as an electrician.
One day in the spring of 1907 Jim walks by the athletic fields and watches the track team practicing the high jump. Jim's only 5'9" and 144lbs. He asks if he can try. So wearing a pair of overalls he clears the jump. The boys run and tell Pop Warner that Jim just broke the school record. Soon enough Jim's on the track team. That year Jim dominated the field at the PA Junior College Interscholastic meet in Harrisburg.
In fall Jim wanted to go out for the football team. Pop tried to discourage him, he was too small. "You're my most valuable track m ...
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The Life And Career Of Babe Ruth
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... when his unusual ability as a batter and a
fielder caused the Boston management to convert him into an outfielder.
From 1920 to 1935 he played the outfield for the New York Yankees of the
American League. In the1932 World Series Babe pointed his bat in the
outfield and hit a home run.
In 1935, he became vice president of the Boston Braves in the
National League and played numerous games as an outfielder. Babe was
getting paid more than the president of the Boston Braves was. Three years
later he was a coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League.
Babe was one of the best ...
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John A. MacDonald
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... American Act which was an agreement to united the five provinces in the Maritimes. After this he was appointed Prime Minister of Canada and then won the federal election the next year in 1867 for the Conservative Party. He wanted to build a strong nation so he began the Intercolonial Railway in 1871 that ran from Halifax to the Pacific Coast, and included Canada's two new provinces Manitoba and British Columbia and the North West Territories. It is because of him that we have the Canadian Pacific Railway today as well as Banff National Park in Alberta.
John A. McDonald help to protect Canada produ ...
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The Presidency Of Gerald Rudolph Ford
Number of Words: 1213 / Number of Pages: 5
... in the 1976 presidential election.
During World War II, Ford served four years in the Navy as an aviation operations officer, including two years aboard the aircraft carrier USS Monterey. He was discharged as a lieutenant commander. After practicing law again, Ford ran for congress in 1948 with the support of Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich.). he defeated an isolationist republican, Rep. Bartel J. Jonkman, in the primary and then defeated the democratic candidate in the general election.
Ford first received national attention when he was elected chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1963. ...
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Cervantes
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... brothers were captured by Barbary pirates. During his imprisonment, the pirates sent them to Algeria and sold them as slaves. They were held there for ransom. In 1580, he family and friends paid the ransom to free ’ brother. They did not have enough money to free . After he tried to escape and got caught, they released him because of his bravery for taking all the blame. could not find a job so he decided to become a writer. During 1582 and 1585, he wrote and produced many poems and plays. One of his greatest works of literature is La Galatea. was unable to survive of the money he was ...
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ON Doc Hollidays Death Bed
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... matter where he went. This handkerchief in his eyes may have shown people his intelligent, well educated side. This educated side is a side of Doc that few people know about today. Usually when someone hears the name Doc Holliday, they think about fighting, drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and French languages. Amazingly Doc’s favorite subject
was rhetoric, his teachers claimed that Doc had a way with words
unsurpassed by anyone i ...
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Galileo Gallilei
Number of Words: 995 / Number of Pages: 4
... to allow Galileo to study mathematics on the condition that after one year, all of Galileo’s support would be cut off and he was on his own.
In the spring of 1585, Galileo skipped his final exams and left the university without a degree. He began finding work as a math tutor. In November of 1589, Galileo found a position as a professor of mathematics at the university of Pisa, the same one he had left without a degree four years before. Galileo was a brilliant teacher, but his radical ways of thinking and open criticism of Aristotle’s teachings were not acceptable to the other professors at the un ...
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John Lennon
Number of Words: 784 / Number of Pages: 3
... While Paul projected the
sweet image and who was underneath an injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced by many things in 1965-1966 such as psychedelia,
marijuana, and Bob Dylan. Many felt that these years were the best song writing
years of John Lennon's life.
1966---The Beatles had been touring for over four yea ...
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Caravaggio
Number of Words: 1829 / Number of Pages: 7
... neighborhood
which suited his personality well. Caravaggio struggled to live in Rome
for the first five years. According to biographers he was needy and
stripped of every thing. Caravaggio never held a job for more than a
couple of weeks during this time, but when he did, he usually was an
assistant to painter of much less skill. Despite the poverty he worked
under, during this time he created over forty works. These early pictures
"reveal a fresh, direct, and empirical approach; they were apparently
painted directly from life and show almost no trace of the academic
Mannerism then prevailin ...
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