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Frank Liszt
Number of words: 717 - Number of pages: 3.... virtuoso (1839-1847); he was admired everywhere, from Ireland to Turkey, Portugal to Russia. In 1848, he took up a full-time job conducting post at the Weimar court. Living with Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, he wrote or revised most of the major works for which he is known, conducted new operas by Wagner, Berlioz and Verdi and, as the teacher of Hans von Bülow and others in the German avant-garde, became the figurehead of the 'New German school'. In 1861- 1869 he lived mainly in Rome, writing religious works taking minor orders in 1865; from 1870 he traveled regularly betwe .....
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Alexander Graham Bell
Number of words: 314 - Number of pages: 2.... Watson produced a twang when trying to loosen up a wire.
Alexander working on the transmitter was able to send sounds that resembled that
of a human voice. Next, Alexander discovered that a wire vibrated by speech
when placed in a conducting liquid, like mercury and would produce a current.
Basically speech could be transmitted by wire. On March 10,1876 Alexander and
Watson were working on the machine when Alexander knocked over battery acid. He
shouted, "Mr. Watson, come here. I need you!" and Watson working in the
receiver room heard his voice coming through the wire.
Later, t .....
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Tupac
Number of words: 1468 - Number of pages: 6.... really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he said he did. So was influencing all of these people. was rich and famous now. He was showing off his own style now and didn't need his popular friends. This is the time that many people saw the real and loved him. He was now very influential to fans. They wanted to be just like him. He starred in more movies and could be who he really was. He .....
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The Unjust Execution Of Socrates
Number of words: 884 - Number of pages: 4.... is a free-thinker, and his
beliefs are those of private and intimate thoughts of Gods. Socrates also states
that he is not a teacher, however he was not at all happy with the analogy, but
took it as a compliment and used it in his defense. He used these accusations
to his advantage by saying that he never charged charged anyone for believing or
listening to them. The combination of these arguments should have cleared
Socrates of the charge of heresy.
The second charge brought against Socrates was that of corrupting minors.
Socrates battled this charge through the use of the same argum .....
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Alexander Hamilton
Number of words: 466 - Number of pages: 2.... long as the states owed money to other nations, it could not be truly an independent nation. Hamilton's program had great success in restoring the credit of the United States. His vision of a centralized economy provided the basic model for a system that has survived to the present day. Yet, in the implementation of his political ideas, Hamilton encountered many attacks against his character and beliefs.
I believe that Hamilton was a failure as a politician because he had many political ideas that were irrational and caused controversy amongst groups of people. He was against democracy and .....
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Mohandas Gandhi And His Life
Number of words: 1035 - Number of pages: 4.... at
school, or in sports, he also missed a year of school at age 13, when he
got married. Life got very stressful for him when his father became sick.
He was forced to take care of him. To cope with is problems he started to
smoke shoplift and eat meat.
In 1887 he started collage at the University of Bombay. He did not
like it there and decided to go to England and become a barrister and
return for a job like his fathers. When he arrived in England he joined the
University Collage. He had a bad time switching cultures, and one of the
most difficult obstacles to overcome was that he was a .....
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Francisco Franco
Number of words: 707 - Number of pages: 3.... revolts in Morocco, and at the age of 33 he was made brigadier
general. Having quelled a leftists revolt in Austria in 1934, he became army
chief of staff in 1935.
In February of 1936 the leftist government of the Spanish republic exiled Franco to an obscure command in the Canary Islands. The following July he
joined other right-wing officers in a revolt against the republic. In October they
made him commander in chief and head of state of their new Nationalist regime.
During the three years of the ensuing civil war against the republic, Franco
proved an unimaginative but careful a .....
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Poore Brothers 3
Number of words: 1410 - Number of pages: 6.... a couple of bold flavors that were real winners, Salt & Vinegar and Jalapeño. Soon, all of Arizona could buy their products. In order to serve all their Arizona customers they started a distribution company. Today Poore Brothers Distributing is the premier snack food distributor in the State of Arizona.
It was only a matter of time until the products found their way across the Arizona border into California and other states. Eventually Don and Jay licensed the brand and manufacturing process to companies in Minnesota and Tennessee. In the early 1990's, the snack food business began to .....
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Comparing Adolf Hitler And Saddam Hussein
Number of words: 2508 - Number of pages: 10.... weimenrepub proclaiming himself chancellor of a new authorization regime. Without military support, however, the Putsch collapsed. As leader of the plot, Hitler was sentenced five years imprisonment and served nine months writing his book Mein Kampf (my struggle). “The failure of the uprising taught Hitler that the Nazi party must use legal means to assume power” (Dorpanlen 2). Released as a result of a general amnesty in December 1924, he rebuilt his party without interference with those whose government he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression, struck in 1929, h .....
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The Maturing Of Achilles
Number of words: 842 - Number of pages: 4.... fight not because the Trojans had ever wronged him. Achilles starts in this fight for one reason, glory. The easiest place to acquire large quantities of glory is in war. Nobody has ever heard of a farmer becoming famous for raising the largest pig. But people have heard of the famous captain that planted the American flag on Hamburger Hill. Achilles was out to become famous and this was the best way.
Achilles was the Argives main fighting force against the Trojans up until Achilles was shamed and refused to fight. The Leader of Men, Agamemnon was forced to return his prize Chryseis to he .....
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