John F.Kennedy: Biography
.... a disease where ones liver becomes bad and the poisons in your body back up, and was forced to drop out of the university. A year later, when Kennedy felt better, in 1936 he entered Harvard University. Kennedy's major was in government and international affairs.
In 1939, John went to Europe. He visited many different countries and interviewed politicians and statesman. Kennedy sent his father their views of the upcoming war, World War II.
During World War II Kennedy enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After the Pearl Harbor attack Kennedy applied for sea duty. He got it and was assigned to Patrol just off the Solomon Islands. On .....
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Wyatt Earp
.... life of Wyatt Earp. At least two references, Editor Glenn Boyer's comments in Josie Earp's memoirs states that Urilla died in childbirth. I married Wyatt Earp, page 38, note 4 Bob Boze Bell notes the same on page 19 of his book, "The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp". But in Lake's 1931 book, "Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal", he notes very briefly on page 29 that Urilla died in a Typhoid epidemic. In the 1994 A&E Network documentary, "Wyatt Earp, Justice at the OK Corral", Doctor Paul A. Hutton, Professor, University of New Mexico, echoes the same cause of a death. One could postulate that perhaps complications of Typhoid .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
.... thought himself to be invincible and God-like. He felt that he had a destiny to be one of the greatest military leaders to ever live. The man thought that he could not be killed on the battle field, he was right. He went from a soldier to the Emperor of France in just ten short years; he fell in less than three.
Napoleon led an army of six-hundred-thousand men into Russia (Reihn 159). Napoleon was always very concerned about his soldiers and made sure that they were well taken care of (Segur 58 ). Napoleon attacked Russia from the Neims River on June 24, 1812. As soon as they crossed the Neims, a Cossack surprised t .....
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Presdent James Abram Garfield
.... her girls learned to card wool and weave cloth. James early showed a love for books and his mother determined that he should have an education. When he was four years old, a log schoolhouse was built on the Garfields' lot.
The Boy on the Towpath
When he was 15, James was big enough and strong enough to do a man's work. He hired out to the neighbors for chopping wood, washing sheep, planting, plowing, and sowing. When he was 16, he decided to become a sailor and see the world. "Nautical novels did it," he said, " . . . especially the 'Pirates' Own Book'."
Unable to get a job on a lake steamer, the boy hired out for thre .....
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Stalin
.... aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. Young Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings.
In 1888 Stalin began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilis Theological Seminary in the Georgian capital in 1894. Stalin began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer in Orthodox Christianity. He was soon exposed to the radical ideas of fellow students, however, and began to read illegal literature based on the works of German political philosopher Karl Marx. In 1899, just as he wa .....
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Genghis Khan
.... and digging up roots for food. Temujin, however, managed to somehow preserve a considerable fund of prestige among certain members of the tribe that had rejected him. Soon, Temujin began to attract followers, form important alliances with other tribes, and was able to build his own army. He employed rigorous training and strict discipline to create a supreme fighting force. He also made sure that they were well equipped and that they did not hesitate to adopt new tactics and weapons. He appointed the officers in his army based on their achievements rather than their family connections. Through this, he gained officers who .....
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John Grisham
.... Grisham an excellent education, going to some very good schools. He went to high school in Southaven, Mississippi. He was not the best student, but Grisham found his passion in high school sports, especially baseball (Hubbard 44). After high school Grisham found himself in the situation of choosing where he wanted to go to college and what to major in. He chose to attend Mississippi State University and found he wanted to become a tax lawyer. After earning his B.S. degree in accounting, Grisham enrolled at the University Law School. After his first class in tax law, Grisham transferred out and into criminal defense law. I .....
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Ernest Hemingway
.... him. In the hospital he met a girl and fell in love with her, but she threw him over for another guy. He later met Elizabeth Hadley and married her on September 3, 1921. Later that year he went to France as a correspondent for the Toronto Star. InFrance he made friend with several expatriates, such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.
Hemingway's first wife, Elizabeth left him because of his interest in other women. She took their son with her. On January 27, 1927 he married Pauline Pfeiffer. At this point in his life he spent time in Key West Florida, Spain and Africa. He returned to Spain during the Spanish Civil War from 19 .....
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Galileo Galilei
.... wrong, Galileo would perform an experiment. “It was at Pisa, of course, that the famous leaning tower might well have suggested Galileo's most famous experiment.” (4:1) “What the leaning tower of Pisa type of experiment demonstrates, when actually performed, is that Aristotle was wrong, and that no matter what the difference in weight, two heavy objects will fall simultaneously at virtually the same speed.” (4: 2-3)
Recently it has been fashionable to question whether or not Galileo dropped anything off the campanile-or leaning tower--of the Duomo in Pisa. If he did so, it certainly could not have been an “experiment” in the mod .....
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The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher
.... who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas. This was remarkable because he had never had any math courses after high school, where he had learned only the basics. As his work developed he read more about mathematics and showed in his art an understanding of projective geometry and non-Euclidian geometry. He was also fascinated with the idea of " impossible" figures and used this to make fascinating art. For the mathematician Escher's art shows the application of two theories; the geometry of space and the logic of space.
The main subjects of Escher's early art are Rome and the Italia .....
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John Muir
.... visiting friends in Oakland, California, he met Louise Wanda Strentzel. They married in the spring of 1880. John became a grape and pear farmer. They had two daughters and named Wanda and Helen. As soon as they were old enough John taught them John taught them about plants and animals.
John's farm did well and he was able to continue travelling around the country. As he traveled he saw how man was hurting the animals, land, mountains and forests. Men were cutting down to many trees and herds were eating all the grass. John said,"everything is hitched together." He knew if man hurt the earth that the earth would eventually .....
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Richard Wright
.... him about the problem and supposedly being helpful, told him to hold on to the car for a ride. So Richard did, with one hand on the car and the other on the bike. The men were drinking and one of them offered him a drink from inside the window. Richard immediately thought about his unpleasant experiences as a six-year-old drinking alcohol and instinctively said, "Oh, no!" That was the nearly fatal mistake that he was sure to never make again. As soon as he said that without a sir, he was hit in on the head with an empty whiskey bottle and was sent crashing to the ground all entangled with his bike. The white men came rus .....
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