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Leonhard Euler
Number of words: 544 - Number of pages: 2.... he elaborated continuum mechanics, but he also set forth the
kinetic theory of gases with the molecular model. With Alexis Clairaut he
studied lunar theory. He also did fundamental research on elasticity, acoustics,
the wave theory of light, and the hydromechanics of ships.
Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father, a pastor, wanted his
son to follow in his footsteps and sent him to the University of Basel to
prepare for the ministry, but geometry soon became his favorite subject. Through
the intercession of Bernoulli, Euler obtained his father's consent to change his
major to m .....
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Grace Murray Hopper
Number of words: 461 - Number of pages: 2.... Navy Secretary John F. Lehmann Jr. presented Admiral Hopper with the Distinguished Service Medal. More than 40 colleges and universities have conferred honorary degrees on Admiral Hopper, and she has been honored by her on several occasions. She was the recipient of the first Computer Sciences "Man of the Year" award presented by the Data Processing Management Association. Her entry in "Who's Who" requires 34 lines to thumbnail her accomplishments, appointments, and honors.
spent a lot of time tring to prove that something that's never been done before isn't impossible. This lead Hoppe .....
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Leo Tolstoi
Number of words: 363 - Number of pages: 2.... started a school for peasant children. He investigated during further travels to Europe (1860-61) educational theory and practice, and published magazines and textbooks on the subject. In 1862 he married Sonya Andreyevna Bers (or Behrs). Between the years 1865 and 1869 appeared Tolstoy's major work, War and Peace, an epic tale depicting the story of five families against the background of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's other masterpiece, Anna Karenina (1873-77), told a tragical story of a married woman, who follows her lover, but finally at a train station throws herself in front o .....
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Ray Bradbury
Number of words: 1251 - Number of pages: 5.... stories. As a child he was first inspired by seeing "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as a electrical lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. He sold newspape .....
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Abraham Of Chaldea
Number of words: 3051 - Number of pages: 12.... saying, "Go
forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father's
house, to the land which I will show you." 3 He obeyed and left Haran
with his brother Nahor's family and his Nephew Lot without really knowing
where he was going. At this time, God did not reveal to him he was going
to Canaan. God only told him "the land which I will show you." 4 When he
did arrive in Canaan, he camped in the plains of Moreh, between the
mountains of Ebal and Cerizim. It was here he was given the second
promise from God that his seed would possess this land. Abram built "an
altar there .....
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Cultural Anthro - Karl Marx
Number of words: 1291 - Number of pages: 5.... fits into the pattern of modern capitalist society. Marx argued that the whole of capitalist society was constructed in order to support this idea including the society’s infrastructure. Marx believed that social classes arise when a group gains control of the means of production. This group also has the power to maintain or increase its wealth by taking advantage of the surplus value of labor. Many people question why a worker would labor under such conditions. The reason is quite simple according to Marx. The reason is political and social representation. Members of this class .....
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of words: 925 - Number of pages: 4.... dominant element, giving the action inflections of meaning the words alone couldn’t reflect. Furthermore, until Mozart’s emergence, operatic characters where generalized and typical. Mozart was the first to put real people up on the stage, people who had real emotions that were inconsistent and whose personalities were evolutionary.
In 1767, the Mozarts went to Vienna where Wolfgang was commissioned to compose his first opera, La finta semplice, K. 51. Intrigues created by envious composers, prevented this first opera from being performed. However, another charming early the .....
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John Wayne
Number of words: 767 - Number of pages: 3.... Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw
Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in
the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from
military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the
film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate
side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers
(1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan
(1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes to fill.
The movies that he made at the end of the decade
were the ones that established him as an actor of merit.
Howard Hawks emphasized t .....
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Simon Bolivar
Number of words: 573 - Number of pages: 3.... were formed to fight against the Spanish King and Joseph Bonaparte. That year Caracas, Bolivar hometown, declared independence from Spain.
BACK IN S. AMERICA
In 1808 Bolivar, Bello and Mendez were sent to England on a diplomatic mission. It was a failed attempt to gain an alliance. He returned to Venezuela in 1811 and won a battle in Valencia. Quickly he looses the port of Puerto Cabello to the Royalists during the First Republic. However he was able to recoup his troops in 1813 and institute the Venezuelan Second Republic with himself as the ruler. By this time Bolivar had not full .....
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Carl Gauss
Number of words: 1509 - Number of pages: 6.... reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct answer. Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication .....
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