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Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist

... anyone involved in education, as both Manya's parents were. Manya's mother was a headmistress of a girls' school. The Russians insisted that Polish schools teach the Russian language and Russian history. The Poles had to teach their children their own language and history in secrecy. Manya enjoyed learning but her childhood was always overshadowed by depression. At the young age of six, her father lost his job and her family became very poor. In the same year of 1873, her mother died of tuberculosis. As if that wasn't enough ...

Number of words: 2908 | Number of pages: 11

Cortes 2

... Yucatan and landed in Tabasco. Here he learned of Montezuma II and the Aztecs. During this time Cortes found a mistress named Marina. She helped as an interpreter, guide and counselor for the Spainards. Cortes then established a town, Veracruz. Here he removed the authority of Velaquez . He also burnt the ships which had brought them to prevent people from returning. Hernan Cortes and his men marched for weeks to reach the acclaimed Tenochtitlan. On his way he met up with the Tlaxcalanc who formed an alliance with him against the Az ...

Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2

Euclid And His Works

... Euclid but the organization of the material and its exposition are certainly due to him. The Elements begins with definitions and axioms, including the famous fifth, or parallel, postulate that one and only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to a given line. Euclid's decision to make this an axiom led to Euclidean geometry. It was not until the 19th century that this axiom was dropped and non-Euclidean geometry's were studied. The Elements is divided into 13 books. Books 1-6, plane geometry: books 7- 9, number theory: book ...

Number of words: 448 | Number of pages: 2

History Of Womans Education

... is possible that her father, Samuel Hart, could have squashed her inquizitiveness when it was just beginning to ripen. On the contrary, he encouraged it. He had a very libral frame of mind in his day, and he educated his little girl as much as he could. When Emma was twelve she started to teach herself geometry, a study previously thought incapable for a female mind. Her father helped her study and even engaged her in philosophical discussions. When Emma was in her late teens she first attended, then eventually taught at several "girls acad ...

Number of words: 834 | Number of pages: 4

Elvis

... married on June 17, 1933. Gladys was 21 and Vernon was only 17. His mother worked as a sewing machine operator while his father was farm hand. When was 3 years old, his father was convicted of forgery, along with two other men, for a hog they had sold. Vernon was sent to Parchman Prison where he served 9 months. Due to family hardships, and his family had to move to Memphis, Tennessee. was raised in a religious home. He grew up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which em ...

Number of words: 1397 | Number of pages: 6

Charles Shults

... It is now the longest running and most popular of all comics. It was also one of the first comics ever to have more than a few characters. In fact in Shultz’s strip there were about twelve actual reoccurring characters, of which I am about to share with you along with a brief description of each. First off, of course, is Charlie Brown. He wins your heart with his losing ways. It always rains on his parade, his baseball game, and his life. He’s an stong willed boy who is afraid of arguments. Although he is concerned with ...

Number of words: 1596 | Number of pages: 6

The Life And Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

... 409). He was born to a southern family that were in a traveling company of actors (Inglis 505). His father, David Poe, was from a Baltimore family. He was an actor by profession and a heavy drinker. Soon after Edgar Allan Poe was born, he left his family. Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a widow at the age of eighteen. Two years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to E ...

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Michelangelo

... this time, he needed to make money, like all people did. So, his first job was painting bureaus on fresh plaster. He made enough money doing this, he was happy. had many talents in art. His best were with the brush, and the hammer and chisel. After painting on fresh plaster, painted from life. He also sculpted from life. A great man in Italy named Lorenzo lived in a palace and was wealthy. liked him, so he sculpted a wonderful mystical fawn head for him. Lorenzo was speechless. He asked to live with him in his palace. After two ...

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Isaac Asimov

... seas was not as easy as it is today. The Asimovs had to endure a horrible boat ride with horrible food, seasickness, and the anxiety of what the future had in store for them. They made their home in Brooklyn, New York where they opened a candy store (Erlanger 9). When he was nine years of age, after school he worked in his parent's candy store. It was then that began reading science fiction magazines. He had to struggle to read these magazines because his father would not permit him to read "such junk"(Erlanger 9). " Isaac you shoul ...

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"Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam"

... 1985 Gough Whitlam was perhaps Australia's most controversial Prime Minister ever, and the Australian with arguably the most reason to resent our country's ties with Britain. For on Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor General, Sir John Kerr, invoked his reserve powers to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister, something he could only do because he was supposedly acting on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. Thus, it is to be expected that out of all of Australia's leading figures, Whitlam would have the most reason to feel strongly, one w ...

Number of words: 2138 | Number of pages: 8

Biography Of John Dalton

... temperature, not by a change in atmospheric pressure. Dalton's most important contribution to science was his theory that matter is composed of atoms of differing weights that combine in simple ratios by weight In 1808 Dalton published a book called A New System of Chemical Philosophy, in which he listed the atomic weights of a number of known elements, relative to the weight of hydrogen. His weights were not entirely accurate though , but they formed the basis for the modern periodic table of the elements. Dalton arrived at his atomic theor ...

Number of words: 539 | Number of pages: 2

Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

... memory consumed this scenery for later use in many of his paintings. He was horrifically indifferent towards his education at the Christian Brothers' Immaculate Conception primary school which likely gave him ample time to expand his imagination. Perhaps the only knowledge he acquired while being taught there was the French language. This was the sole language spoken at the school, and he was forced to adapt to the communication. The first flame of creativity was sparked by Siegfrid Burmann, who gave Dalí his first set of oils a ...

Number of words: 1094 | Number of pages: 4

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