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ROBBERY OF FREEDOM:The Ultimate Injustice
Number of words: 2587 - Number of pages: 10.... let that be it! I was released in April 10,2001, and my quest for justice has only gained momentum.
I am the victim of small town politics where the locals have met very little resistance in doing things their own way, regardless of the law. In fact, I am the first one who has ever been known to challenge that state court of Bullock County, Alabama (City of Union Springs) for their misconduct and gross miscarriage of justice.
I feel that I must preface my story with events that led up to the conspired, bogus lie, and malicious accusation against me.
My accuser, John Will Waters, whom I wa .....
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Niels Bohr
Number of words: 301 - Number of pages: 2.... fission that led to the first atomic bomb, and then returned to Denmark in 1940. In 1943, he was still in Copenhagen when the Nazis occupied his country. He left Copenhagen, because of his Jewish background, and went to Los Alamos, North Mexico, were he helped scientist who were working on the first atomic bomb. Before he left, he dissolved his golden Nobel medal in acid. In 1945, after the war was over, he returned to his country, and precipitated the gold from acid and recast the medal. Bohr worked very hard on the peaceful uses of atomic energy and organized the first Atoms for Peace .....
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The Life And Career Of Babe Ruth
Number of words: 506 - Number of pages: 2.... League. Babe pitched for
Boston until the 1919 season, 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 Dodge .....
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Robert Mannyng Of Brunne
Number of words: 282 - Number of pages: 2.... his old age in 1338. Brunne translated
both Handlyng Synne and Chronicle from French or Latin works, altering them
considerably in the process. Like many translators of this era, Brunne
took many liberties with the works he translated. He adopted for his
audience (the ordinary people of England), often adding in large tracts of
his own material and using simplified language that they were likely to
understand. Brunne's style is sometimes cumbersome and repetitive,
sometimes full of snap and punch, and often epistolary. But he always
writes a good story, meant to entertain and instruct the o .....
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William Shakespeare 2
Number of words: 1020 - Number of pages: 4.... According to many he was labeled as one of “the greatest dramatists the world
has ever known and the finest poets” who wrote in the English language.
Shakespeare’s work relied mostly on his instincts of nature. His understanding of other people allowed him to fully grasp the quality he wrote of. (Wadsworth 342)
John Shakespeare married Mary Arden in 1557. Both the Shakespeare’s
and the Arden’s were farmers, and sold their products to make a living. (Brown
23) Shakespeare had two sisters. Joan died in 1562; Margaret died at infancy.
Then in 1566, Gil .....
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Aristotle Vs. Copernicus
Number of words: 1467 - Number of pages: 6.... Upon the death of Alexander in 323 bc , strong anti-
Macedonian feeling developed in Athens, and Aristotle retired to a family estate
in Euboea. He died there the following year.
His works on natural science include Physics, which gives a vast amount of
information on astronomy, meteorology, plants, and animals. His writings on the
nature, scope, and properties of being, which Aristotle called First Philosophy
( Prote philosophia ), were given the title Metaphysics in the first published
edition of his works (c. 60 bc ), because in that edition they followed Physics.
His treatment of the Pr .....
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Howard Hughes
Number of words: 966 - Number of pages: 4.... the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools.
His father’s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father’s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling
which made much money. In 1925 Howard got married to Ella Rice, he was twenty . He got divorced in 1928 and that same year he got his first pilots license.
Howard had two careers that made him very successful in life. He started .....
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Indira Gandhfemalei
Number of words: 3231 - Number of pages: 12.... freedom struggle. Both Jawaharal and Motilal were drawn to Gandhi. They believed in Gandhi’s nonviolent noncooperation. The family also supported Gandhi’s policy of promoting domestic cottage industries by boycotting all foreign goods(Jayakar 67-68).
Motilal’s involvement with the Congress made his home the hub of the freedom movement. It became the place where earnest, khadi-clad men came and went at all hours of the day and night; it became a place that rang with drafts, declarations, and debates. Indira absorbed the tension and excitement of those days and became a .....
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Descartes
Number of words: 4665 - Number of pages: 17.... an important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The
second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the
intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic outlook. This
scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of the Pyrrhonians as
handed down from antiquity by Sextus Empiricus, which claimed that, as
there is never a reason to believe p that is better than a reason not to
believe p, we should forget about trying to discover the nature of reality
and live by appearance alone. This attitude was best exemplified in the
work of Michel de Montaigne, who mockin .....
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Five Against The World - Perl Jam
Number of words: 8827 - Number of pages: 33.... hills of outside San Francisco offered privacy and focus. Keith Richards had recorded here; his thank-you note to the studio framed on the living room wall. This is gorgeous country, where locals look out at the expansive green horizon and say things like "George Lucas owns everything to the left." This is where Pearl Jam would face the challenge of following up "Ten," one of the most successful debut albums in rock. There was only one problem.
"I f---ing hate it here," says Vedder, standing in the cool blur room where he is about to sing. "I've had a hard time." He places the lyric sheet .....
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