Albert Einstein
.... twice.He was seperated
from his first wife after he arrived in Berlin.During World War I he married his
first cousin,Elsa.She shared his life with him until she died in Princeton in
1936.He had two sons from his first marriage.He also had two stepdaughters from
his second marriage.In 1933 while Einstein was visiting England and the United
States the Nazi government of Germany took his property and deprived him of his
positions and his citizenship.Even before this happened he had been asked to
direct the school of mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton,New Jersey.He accepted this position and he directed .....
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Geoffrey Chaucer
.... that the defenses had loosened. Houses perched upon
the walls, and Chaucer in fact, lived for a time in a house built over
Aldgate, (one of the gates of the city).
London was a city less than three-quarters of a square mile in size: It
ran east and west along the Thames less than one and a half miles, and
extended northwards less than half a mile. Over 20,000 people were packed
into this small area; the diversity of the inhabitants was overwhelming.
Londoners ranged from wealthy to impoverished, from small to large, from
shoemaker to blacksmith to minstrel to priest. The city was thus fairly
close. Stone building mingled wi .....
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The Work Of Poet And Philosoher Archibald Lampman
.... in his darkest moments we get the main topic of this essay "The City of
The End of Things". Like most great poets, Lampmans moods and feelings had
a direct effect on the nature and topic of his poetry. Lampman chief
poetry was done after a great joy in his life, or a great sadness. Sadly,
Archibald was not a rich man and lived not a happy life, and most of his
poetry reflects that. "The City of The End of Things" was written in a time
of great sadness and hate for the world. Published one year after his
death many people fail to realize the direct connection to themselves in
the poem.
Lampmans poetry was divided into .....
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Biography Of Arthur Clarke
.... including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to
Space; The Sands of Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night;
Childhood's End; Expedition to Earth; Going into Space; and Earthlight.
Arthur has also written a few Nonfiction books, like Interplanetary Flight,
and The Exploration of Space. Also, one day, he had an argument with a
colleague, and said, “ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states
that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states
that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” (Science Digest )
Arthur has won many prestigious awards, including the UNESCO
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Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, And J. Cooper
.... one at that.
Jefferson helped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence.
He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana
Purchase for 15 Million dollars, what a deal! Napolean definately needed
money to finance his little war, tsk tsk.
A real thinker in the enlightenment also.
Washington Irving, named after George Washington was a famous writer who
very possibly invented the short story. Irving created such characters as
Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle.
James Fenimore Cooper possibly the first American author that used fiction.
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Famous Explorers Of Africa
.... to reach Timbuktu and reach back. He had reached Timbuktu. During
Callie's trip he did not find it easy to prove to the French Authorities
that a young man with no experience could discover Timbuktu. On his way
back Callie had joined a Arab Caravan preparing to cross from Western
Sahara to Morocco. Callie had stated "I am the first European to cross from
the sandy ocean from the south to the north". On his return to Paris,
Callie was known as a hero. Later, questions were asked if he was telling
the truth or not.
Johann Rebmann
Johann Rebmann was a German missionary, who was not like Mungo Park o .....
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Sir Rich Arkwright
.... cunstructed a
replica of the water frame, or otherwise known as throstle.
Arkwright showed off the model to several people to seek financial aid.
He eventually prevailed on Mr. Smalley to fund the project.
In April of 1768 he hired Kay and took him along with him to Nottingham
where he built a factory turned by horses. On July 3, 1769, he obtained a
patent for "spinning by rollers." By doing this, he solidified his hold
over the water frame preventing Highs from ever gaining the immense profits
made by the water frame.
In 1771, Arkwright built another factory in Cromford. The power for
this factory was supplied .....
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
.... his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises was his
health program, the purpose of this was to give people with not so many
money a chance to get treated at a hospital. In US you are supposed to pay
hospital-bills yourself. It is something like our public health insurance
where the government pays for the ho¬ spitals. In US it is a problem that
the poor can not afford the medicine and therefore they sometimes do not
get any. This healthprogram was unfortunately voted down by the republican
majority in the Congress
The US government has also an extreme materialistic way of getting people
in work and thereby h .....
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Biography Of Ogden Nash
.... Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse:
"Hard Lines" and "Free Wheeling." Contemporary American Poets made an
interesting statement on these first two books by Nash: "These two books
show poetry of remarkable freedom of scansion (rhythm pattern) and
uncoventional feelings of thoughts." Contemporary American Poets showed
clearly that Nash "paved" the way for authors of free verse with absolutely
no pattern.
After working on other poetry books such as Happy Days (1933), The
Bad Parent's Garden of Verse (1936), and I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938),
Nash retired from his job at Doubleday to focus all of his tim .....
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Biography On Guy De Maupassant
.... After the war was
finished, he entered the French civil service. He first served with the
Ministry of Navy and later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During
the between 1873 and 1880 he also served as a literary apprentice under
Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and
concentrated on developing his skills as a writer of prose fiction.
Maupassant wrote a collection of short stories that were published with a
writers such as Bola, and Huysmans. Maupassant work outshone all the
others by far. This is Maupassant became recognized as a writer. He
became one of the most famous and well pa .....
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
.... of his final exams in December 1916, he was back in uniform.
Within a few months, he was serving in the Canadian Army Hospital at
Ramsgate, England. He then voluntarily transferred to the front line near
Cambrai, France because he felt he was not doing enough. He used his
intelligence to capture three fully armed Germans without any use of
weapons! This earned a rank of the Captain.
He kept working at the frontline. On the morning of September 28,
1918, a shell burst close by and a piece of shrapnel buried itself in
Banting's right arm. It was so bad that a doctor informed him that they
had to amputate his arm. .....
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Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
.... odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent. (1)
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against
Batista. On January 1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista government.
Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat Batista had failed
to accomplish. This promise was looked upon benevolently but watchfully by
Washington. Castro was believed to be too much in the hands of the people
to stretch the rules of polit .....
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