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Francisco Pizarro
Number of words: 530 - Number of pages: 2

.... the capitol of the Inca Empire, Cuzco7. Pizarro and other Spaniards were migrating to Cuzco and inconspicuously taking over the Inca Empire. The complete takeover of the Inca's was a very big accomplishment because the Incas had the most formidable and successful military societies of the Americas, served by generals, with inexhaustible supplies and more than 50'000 armed soldiers8. Pizarro only had 180 men. The downfall of the mighty empire was on August 28, 1533 when, on display in the center of the mighty Incan capitol city, the ruler of all Incas, Atahualpa, was strangled to deat .....

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Lee De Forest
Number of words: 894 - Number of pages: 4

.... in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricity, particularly the study of electromagnetic wave propagation, then being pioneered chiefly by the German Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and the Italian Guglielmo Marconi. De Forest's doctoral dissertation on the "Reflection of Her .....

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George Meade
Number of words: 582 - Number of pages: 3

.... Taylor. To sum up, General accomplished many things during his time at war. Each of General 's accomplishments had one major effect on how life is today. To start, if Meade had not defeated Lee at the Second Battle of Bull Run the war would not have started off positively for the North. This was important because the soldiers gained their confidence when they won this battle. If the North would have lost the entire war the U.S. would be two different countries. Secondly, Meade's defeat of Lee at the accidental Gettysburg. This was a battle that turned the war around and gave the North the .....

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Louis Armstrong
Number of words: 1187 - Number of pages: 5

.... the center. He went out and got jobs to help get him to be able to afford an instrument. His jobs included, selling papers, unloading boats, and selling coal from a cart. On his off times he would go around to clubs like the Funky Butt Hall to listen to bands play. A jazz musician named King Oliver saw him and was impressed at his attendance at so many of the local clubs that he inquired of him as to if he wanted to learn to play the cornet. Armstrong said yes. He picked it up very quickly and soon was playing in bands for people that were absent. This soon lead to him starting .....

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Frederic Douglass
Number of words: 1314 - Number of pages: 5

.... history of repeated injuries and ununsurpations, all having direct object the establishment of Tyranny over these states." When the Constitution was written the first ten amendments were a bill of rights. The amendement the was most powerful was the ninth. "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This amendment means that any rights that were not mentioned in the constitution are still held by the people. This includes any god given rights that all human beings are given. All of these rights to .....

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Harriet Tubman
Number of words: 590 - Number of pages: 3

.... food, and shelter, when they got to the first stop in the farmhouse the man said they were a lot of slaves and that it was not safe, because the farmhouse had been searched a week ago before they arrived there, so they didn't had what she had promised them. The slaves didn't screamed at her or complained. When they arrived to Canada I think that even though they went through difficulties they got what they always dreamed, FREEDOM which means the condition of being free of restraints. They had to pay a valuable price in able to get freedom which is their lives. They could been killed if th .....

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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 1143 - Number of pages: 5

.... and Great Britain. Jefferson was admitted to the bar in 1767. He successfully practiced law until public service occupied most of his time. At his home in Shadwell, he designed and supervised the building of his home, Monticello, on a nearby hill. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1769. Jefferson met Martha Wayles Skelton, a wealthy widow of 23, in 1770 and married her in 1772. They settled in Monticello and had one son and five daughters. Only two of his children, Martha and Mary, survived until maturity. Mrs. Martha Jefferson died in 1782, leaving Thomas to take care of .....

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The Time Period And People Of
Number of words: 695 - Number of pages: 3

.... oaths and feed animals over people. For “She used to weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feeding.” The Monk was also not a typical Monk. He wore gold jewelry and had classy attire. The Host “saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand With fine gray fur, the finest in the land.” The three rioters in the Pardoner’s Tale were also condemned. They became greedy stopped and were willing to stop at nothing to get the ‘florins’. This caused their death. They caused their own death There were also a few people who .....

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Tiger Woods
Number of words: 847 - Number of pages: 4

.... States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him "Tiger". took interest in golf at a young age. He would watch from his crib as his father would practice his swing. He began playing golf since before he could walk. When he got a few years older, he began to compete in the Junior Nationals tournaments against older boys. He didn't hav e the strength to drive the ball far, but he had skill; he was blessed. Earl made Tiger some miniature clubs out of his old ones and from that moment on, he was obsessed with the .....

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Wilson, Woodrow
Number of words: 1912 - Number of pages: 7

.... taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer, Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People (1902). In 1902 he was the unanimous choice of the trustees to become Princeton's president. His reforms included reorganization of the departmental structure, revision of the curriculum, raising of academic standards, tightening of studen .....

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