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Columbus 2
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In 1476 Columbus traveled to Lisbon, Portugal were there he an established Genoese population, including Bartolome, he was a noted to be a mapmaker. After a couple of years Columbus sailed with the Portuguese through the Mediterranen and the Atlantic as far south as La Mina (Present day Elmaina , Ghana) and as far north as England. Columbus also made a voyage to Iceland in 1477.
In 1479 Columbus married the Portuguese noblewomen Dona Felipa e Perestrello e Moriz and established land in Porto Santo were his son Diego was born in 1480. When his wife died somewhere between 1481 to 1485, Columbus returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 Columbus got a plan to sa .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
<view this essay>.... into the powerful and influential Kennedy
clan, much was to be expected of him. Kennedy was born on May
29,1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father, Joe, Sr., was a
successful businessman with many political connections. Appointed
by President Roosevelt, Joe, Sr., was given the chair of the
Securities and Exchange Commission and later the prestigious
position of United States ambassador to Great Britain(Anderson
98). His mother, Rose, was a loving housewife and took young John
on frequent trips around historic Boston learning about American
revolutionary history. Both parents impressed on their children
that their country had been good to the Kennedys. .....
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Antoine Lavoisier
<view this essay>.... great deal of interest in science. He received an excellent education and developed an interest in all branches of science, especially chemistry. Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaill taught Lavoisier about meteorological observation. On 1763 Lavoisier received his bachelor's degree and on 1764 a licentiate which allowed him to practice his profession. In his spare time he studied books all about science. His 1st paper was written about gypsum, also known by hydrated calcium sulfate. He described its chemical and physical properties. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1768. On 1771 he married Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze. She helped Lavoisier by drawing .....
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Archimedes
<view this essay>.... enclosed a sphere, with an explanation of this concept, be engraved on his grave. also gave a method for approximating pi. He was able to estimate the value of pi between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. Math wasn’t as sophisticated enough to find out the exact pi (3.14). was finding square roots and he found a method based on the Greek myriad for representing numbers as large as 1 followed by 80 million billion zeros.
One of accomplishments was his creation of the lever and pulley system. proved his theory of the lever and pulley to the king by moving a ship, of the royal fleet, back into the ocean. Then, moved the ship into the sea with only a few movements of h .....
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Benjamin Franklin
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At age 12, he started as an apprentice at his half-brother's printing shop. While working there, Ben wrote some poems that his brother printed and sold. Ben educated himself by reading the classic authors of his time. He also studied books on arithmetic, navigation, and grammar. He loved a set of papers by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele called the "Spectator" and would read the essays it contained and rewrite them in his own style. He found his writing style by comparing the original essay and his and finding the mistakes. Franklin loved to read. When he was 16, he tried to save money to buy more books by only eating veg .....
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Gregory Efimovich Rasputin
<view this essay>.... monk and the imperial family you will learn why the mad monk was loved, and why he was hated in the circles he traveled. I will also reveal the dark side of this so-called holy man; one of a man with a debauched, and endless sexual appetite.
Undoubtedly, the Empress Alexandra never had relations of a sexual nature with Rasputin; he was a healer to her son, Alex, the heir to the throne, when he had a bleeding crisis. Alexandra put her faith into Rasputin, she became dependent on him, and she saw no wrong in the his ways. Many of the Orthodox clergymen became skeptical of the monk and his close involvement with the imperial family, the Romanov family members of .....
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Davy Crockett
<view this essay>.... For many years he was nationally known as a political representative of the frontier.
John, Davy's father, moved to Greene County where Davy was born. While Davy was still in dresses, his father moved the family to Cove Creek in Greene County, Tennessee, where he built a mill in partnership with Thomas Galbreath. When Davy was eight years old, the mill was washed away with his home. After this disaster John Crockett removed his family to Jefferson County where he built and operated a log-cabin tavern on the Knoxville-Abingdon Road. (This cabin has been restored and is now located at Morristown, 30 miles Southwest of Greeneville.) The young Davy no doub .....
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Benjamin Harrison
<view this essay>.... the regiment was complete, the governor commissioned him a colonel, and Harrison set off with his troops. By day he drilled his men; at night he studied tactics. Always he looked after his soldiers' needs. They called him Little Ben.
General Harrison went back to his work at the Supreme Court and his law practice. He also took over again his large Bible class in the Presbyterian church, where his wife taught Sunday school.
In 1876 Harrison ran for governor of Indiana. The Democrats called him "cold as an iceberg" and nicknamed him Kid-Glove Harrison. The Democratic candidate, nicknamed Blue Jeans, won the election.
Four years later the Indiana legis .....
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