Thomas Jefferson
.... began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia
House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill
allowing owners to free their slaves.
The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine
affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed
the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for the Boston Tea Party of the
preceding year. Jefferson and other younger members of the Virginia
Assembly ordained a day of fasting and prayer to demonstrate their sympathy
with Massachusetts. Thereupon, Virginia's Royal Governor Dunmore once again
dissolved the assembly .....
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Martin Luther King And Malcolm X - Two Views, One Cause
.... could actually support equality for all men. "Usually, it's
the white man who grins at you the most, and pats you on the back, and is
supposed to be your friend. He may be friendly, but he's not your friend"
(261).
However, in a later work of his, "1965," one can see that Malcolm was
learning to accept whites as possible allies.
I tried in every speech I made to clarify my new position
regarding white people - 'I don't speak against the sincere, well
meaning, good white people. I have learned that there are some.
I have learned that not all white people are racists' (367).
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Pablo Casals
.... style increasingly more and more popular.
Because of his popularity, at the time, the solo cellist performer became a
very highly thought of occupation. After his long tour, Casals met and then
joined up with two other famous and acclaimed French performers. These
were the violinist Jacques Thibaud and the pianist Alfred Cortot. Together,
these three became a trio that gained international fame as they began
touring again for a long period of time.
Casals began his second career as a conductor in 1908. Then in the
year 1919, he founded and he subsidized the "Orquestra Pau Casals" in
Barcelona. This was designed specificall .....
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Biography Of Dr. Maria Montessori
.... in the student. Mental work would not
exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her
observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the
Montessori Method of education. She experimented with materials that would
awaken the childŐs potential. It was a radical departure In MontessoriŐs
time.
A new housing project was being built in a part of Rome. The
tenants of the housing project where day laborers who left their children
of five years of age home alone and unsupervised. Dr. Montessori was given
a room for the children in one of the buildings and named the director of
it. Up to 60 .....
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Linus Carl Pauling
.... the
public of the biological dangers of radioactive fallout, and presented a
petition to the United Nations in 1958 signed by over 11,000 other scientists.
In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the second person, after
Marie Curie, to win two Nobel Prizes.
Throughout his scientific career, Pauling has followed his creative
hunches, no matter how controversial they were. In 1970, for example, he
advocated large doses of vitamin C to treat the common cold-a belief, however,
that few medical authorities have endorsed.
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George Frideric Handel
.... 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 Handle was while he was writing the
Messiah in three weeks. Handle, before writing the Messiah, had rented a
thea .....
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Biography Of Samuel Clemens
.... He said he
knew retreating better than it's inventor did.
He soon decided to travel 1,700 miles from the Missouri Territory ,
to the Nevada Territory. He passed through Overland City, Horseshoe City,
and many large and small cities in between.
Clemens commented that Salt Lake City was healthy. He said that
the city had one doctor who was arrested once a week for lack of work.
Virginia City was very lively from all of the gold and silver found near.
He commented that the saloons, courts and prisons were busy and there was a
whiskey mill every fifteen steps.
Inspired by the vein of silver as wide as a .....
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Marie Curie
.... temperature above which the magnetic properties disappear, this is
called the Curie temperature.
Marie Curie was interested in the recent discoveries of radiation, which
were made by Wilhelm Roentgen on the discovery of X-rays in 1895, and by Henri
Becquerel in 1896, when he discovered uranium gives off similar invisible
radiation as the X-rays. Curie thus began studying uranium radiation and made
it her doctoral thesis. With the aid of an electrometer built by Pierre, Marie
measured the strength of the radiation emitted form uranium compounds and found
it proportional to the uranium content, constant over a long peri .....
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Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
.... Bronya, had to leave school early to take
care of the family. Despite all these hardships and setbacks, Manya continued
to work hard at school.
Although her sister Bronya had stopped going to school to act as the
family's housekeeper, she desperately wanted to go on studying to become a
doctor. This was almost impossible in Poland, however. In Poland, women were
not allowed to go to college. Many Poles took the option to flee from Russian
rule and live in France; this is exactly what Bronya did. She had set her
heart on going to Paris to study at the famous Sorbonne University (The
University of Paris). The only p .....
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Max Planck
.... quest for
absolute laws. His favorite absolute law was the law of the conservation of
energy which was the first law of thermodynamics that stated that you could take
any equal amount of energy and transform it into the same equal amount of energy
ideally, meaning no energy was lost. The second law of thermodynamics led him
to discover the quantum of action or Planck's constant h. How he came upon his
formula for quantum mechanics well be explained as follows. Planck saw that
blackbody radiation acted in an absolute sense because it was defined by
Kirchhoff as a substance that could absorb almost all radiating energy and emit
a .....
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Benito Mussolini: Biography
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Robert Andrew Millikan
.... was offered a
position in the Physics department at the University of Chicago and Millikan
took it. After teaching for a period Millikan decided that physics could only
be taught properly through the practice of experimentation and getting your
hands in it just as many other things are. Thus, he began writing better
textbooks for the University of Chicago, "In fact he spent the morning of his
wedding day reading proofs of his textbooks" (
http://physics.uwstout.edu/sotw/millikan.html )
During his 12 hours of teaching each day Millikan spent half of his time
doing research. In 1909 he constructed his first oil drop apparatus .....
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