.... a grand tour of the Continent as tutor to the young duke of Buccleuch. Smith's major thesis in the Wealth of Nations was that, except for limited functions (defense, justice, certain public works), the state refrained from interfering with the economic life of a nation. Smith did not view favorably the motives of merchants and businessmen. "People of the same trade," he wrote, "seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." He suggested, however, that businessmen seeking their own interest are led "as if by an invisible hand" to promote the well-b .....

.... to study medicine and enrolled in the University of Pisa to do so, but soon turned to mathematics and mechanics. He left the university without a degree. In 1592, he was offered achair in mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained until 1610. (1:1) “Galileo wanted to study gravity-and how it affected acceleration-in great detail.” (3:1) “First of all, the theory which virtually everyone accepted at the time was the traditional theory of Aristotle, who believed that heavier objects fall more quickly than lighter ones.” (4:2) In order to prove Aristotle wrong, Galileo would perform an experiment. “It was at Pisa, of course, that the famous lean .....

.... which left three scares scars on my face. Soon after, I joined the James Street gang, which was headed by a guy named Johnny Torrio. In 1920, Torrio asked me to go to Chicago and work with his uncle who controlled the city’s largest prostitution and gambling ring at the time, and boy did I like that idea. Later that year the Prohibition act came into affect and I became interested in selling illegal whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. Torrio’s uncle did not agree with this idea but within the next month he was shot and killed. Torrio and I took over Torrio’s uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After To .....

.... $182,857,480.90 to it. Another foundation he gave to was the General Education Board. He contributed $129,209,167.10 to it. In his life time he gave away a total of 550 million dollars. The New York Times also stated he was a dedicated to giving his fortune away. I also felt he was a Captain of Industry because of Allen Nevins (Historian). He talked about Rockelfeller being a "Bold Innovator in industry and philanthropy" he also said he was "an organizing genius." Allen Nevins, Historian 1940. Another person who swayed my decision was William H. Vanderbilt. He felt Rockelfeller had a monopoly because he was "Enterprising, Shrewd, Able, and Smart." .....

.... dream to become an artist. He was a fairly good artist, as some of his surviving paintings and drawings show but he really didn’t have any originality. To fulfill his dream he moved to Vienna where the academy of arts was located. Adolf failed to be accepted to the academy in 1906. In 1907 he tried again and was confident that he would make it in. To his surprise he failed again to be accepted into the academy. The dean of the academy told Adolf that he could never be a painter (Smith 29). This rejection crushed him, as he now had nowhere else to go. I like to speculate what would have happened if he had been accepted into the academy. Would the worl .....

.... the same dreams, visions, and the enthusiasm for them. Russell and Yeats soon founded the Dublin Hermetic Society for the purpose of conducting magical experiments. They promoted their idea that "whatever great poets had affirmed in there finest moments was the nearest we could come to an authoritative religion and that their mythology and their spirits of wind and water were but literal truth." This sparked Yeats’s interest in the study of the occult. After his experience in the hermetic society he joined the Rosicrucians, Madam H.P. Blavavtsky’s Theosophical Society, and MacGregors Mather’s Order of the Dawn. Yeats consulted spiritualists frequ .....

.... written her first epic poem, which consisted of four books of rhyming couplets. Two years later Elizabeth developed a lung ailment that plagued her for the rest of her life. Doctors began treating her with morphine, which she would use until she died. While riding a pony when she was fifteen, Elizabeth also suffered a spinal injury. Throughout her teenage years, Elizabeth taught herself Hebrew so that she could read the Old Testament. Her interests then later turned to Greek studies. Accompanying her appetite for the classics was a passionate enthusiasm for her Christian faith. She became active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church. In 1826 Eliz .....

.... teachers came to the conclusion that he was mentally retarded and his classmates thought he was a stupid freak. How could a freak be known to every person in the world today for his extravagant contributions to Math and Science? He began high school at the age 12. He was only interested in Mathematics and Philosophy. Therefore he made no effort to work in his other classes. His father, Hermann Einstein, didn't want him to study Philosophy. He wanted him to take over the family business and study electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to scho .....