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Abraham Lincoln 2
Number of words: 1911 - Number of pages: 7

.... seeing other men. Around a year later in Springfield on November 4, 1842 Abraham and Mary got married. In 1844, Abraham and his wife were able to purchase their own house in Springfield. It was a one-and-a-half story frame cottage. In May 1843, the Lincoln’s had a son and named him Robert, after the addition to the family they made the house a full two story house. Lincoln had three more sons Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas. Edward died at the age of three, the cause of death was either consumption or pulmonary tuberculosis. In 1832 Lincoln announced himself .....

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Benjamin H. Latrobe
Number of words: 1535 - Number of pages: 6

.... individuality. During Latrobe's partnership with Cockrell he also met other renowned architects of the time. Two of which were Gorge Dance and John Soane. Both of these architects were very influential to Latrobes own work. In fact, all three architects were very influential. They all helped mold and create Latrobe's architectural style. During this advancing time period in architecture there were mainly three distinct styles of architecture. The first style was Old school. This style was strict Palladianism which was inspired by Palladio himself. The second school was Roman in orig .....

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John F. Kennedy
Number of words: 397 - Number of pages: 2

.... 1960 Kennedy ran for president against Nixon, and because Kennedy looked good on TV he won the vote. But by less then 115,000 popular votes. For Kennedy the most important part of his presidency came on October 16, 1960 when he found out about the Russian missiles being moved into Cuba. Some of the missiles that they were moving in were, MRBMs, which are medium range ballistic missiles, and IRBMs which are intermediate range missiles. The Executive Committee, A group of advisers to the president, then asked why Khrushchev put the missiles in Cuba. He said that it was because of the Ju .....

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Isaac Newton
Number of words: 690 - Number of pages: 3

.... was taking him so long. She looked at the barn, and saw the doors were blown right off the hinges. She found Isaac jumping, again and again, from an open window. He would measure the length of the jump, and measure the force of the wind. Soon she realized that Newton was not cut out for farmwork, and sent him back to King's School. He graduated in 1661. When he was eighteen, he went to Trinity College. The teacher's were impressed by him. Isaac read every book he could find, especially on mathematics and physics. From this Newton knew most of the things they taught, before they tau .....

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Gandhi
Number of words: 480 - Number of pages: 2

.... clothes that were simple and made from hand-woven wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India. gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once was weak and now burned brightly. By his actions and protests and rallies for nationalism, he helped to try to unite Muslim and Hindu against their oppressors. gave speeches on god attempting to show him as one entity as opposed to being separate through religion. These speeches helped to give Muslims and Hindus common ground on which to fight. The theory was good b .....

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Ferdinand Prosche: Life And Achievements Of A Pioneer
Number of words: 592 - Number of pages: 3

.... the famed S (Sportlich) and SS (Super Sportlich). Prizes and university degrees did not take long to appear, and in the same year he joined Daimler, 1923, he was named Sir Ferdinand Porsche by the Italian government and recieved an Honoris Causa from the Stuttgart Technical Institute. Porsche worked in the design of Mercedes-Benz cars until 1928, when he left because of disagreements the other other chief engineer of the factory, Hans Nibel. But his last development in the factory was probably one of the most important: The curious, exotic and fast SSKL. After Porsche left .....

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Czar Nicholas II
Number of words: 711 - Number of pages: 3

.... brown, was streaked with golden highlights as if the sun had reached out and stroked it with a kindly finger. The Czar had a nervous habit of brushing his mustache up with the back of his hand. In time, this gesture would become his distinct signature. Because of his sheltered life under the fear of terrorists, Nicholas grew up secluded from the world. Unfortunately, this caused him to never had the self-confidence and self-reliance he would need later in his life as the last czar of Russia. Though seemingly weak, his first love was Russia and the second his family. He refused to have secret .....

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Costly Mistake 2
Number of words: 1190 - Number of pages: 5

.... I didn't slow down on the liquid courage, a feeling that I was very accustomed to, but something wasn't right to night I felt a foreign feeling that I quickly dismissed and chased with another drink. Finally 10:30p.m. rolled around, A little over seven hours since we had started drinking. Like drunken fools we wandered out the door of the house and figured out the driving situation to the bowling ally. I didn't volunteer, refusing to drive knowing that it would only cause trouble for all of us. Matt said he would drive my car. Being one of the most responsible of all of us, I didn't have a se .....

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Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
Number of words: 2852 - Number of pages: 11

.... family consisted of the mother, Klara, the father, Alois, and two children, Alois and Angela. Klara gave birth to a baby boy named Adolf on April 20, 1889 at the Pommer Inn. The Hitlers soon moved to Braunau. His godparents were Mr. and Mrs. Prinz and Maria Matzelbeger. As a child little Adolf was babied and his mother protected him from his father, Alois Hitler. Alois was quite a tyrant, but he usually ignored Adolf. In 1892 Adolf's father earned a promotion and the family was forced to move to Passau. Here Hitler enjoyed playing Germans and French or cowboys and Indians. At about t .....

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Elizabethan Food
Number of words: 1375 - Number of pages: 5

.... She had hoped to marry Thomas Seymour (brother to the late Queen Jane), but she caught Henry's eye. She brought both Elizabeth and her half-sister Mary back to court. When Henry died, she became the Dowager Queen and took her household from Court. Because of the young age of Edward VI, Edward Seymour (another brother of Jane's and therefore the young King's uncle) became Lord Protector of England. Elizabeth went to live with Queen Dowager Katherine, but left her household after an incident with the Lord Admiral, Thomas Seymour, who was now Katherine's husband. Just what occurred between the .....

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