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Andy Worhal
<view this essay>.... career opportunities." Upon graduating, Warhol moved to New York and began his artistic career as a commercial artist and illustrator for magazines and newspapers. Although extremely shy and clad in old jeans and sneakers, Warhol attempted to intermingle with anyone at all who might be able to assist him in the art world. His portfolio secure in a brown paper bag, Warhol introduced himself and showed his work to anyone that could help him out. Eventually, he got a job with Glamour magazine, doing illustrations for an article called "Success is a Job in New York," along with doing a spread showing women’s shoes. Proving his reliability and skil .....
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Abraham Lincoln
<view this essay>.... 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping
stories and making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the
Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he taught himself law and
became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to
his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery
prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate.
Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a
log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family
farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate h .....
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Robert E Lee
<view this essay>.... to New York. At the end of his first year at West Point, he was appointed Staff Sergeant. When he was twenty-two, he took his money that he earned; $103.58 in cash and he started a home.
On July 26, 1829, Lee's mother died. Robert was at her bed when she died. Then on June 30, 1831 Lee married Mary Curtis. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Curtis Lee. Then in 1835 they had their second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended episcopal Church where he was raised. .....
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Josef Stalin
<view this essay>.... for the Social-
Democratic party (A Marxist revolutionary group). He was caught and
arrested by the police in 1902, and spent more than a year in prison before
being exiled to Siberia. Stalin escaped in 1904, and married his first wife,
Yekaterina Svanidze. She died six years later, in 1910. After her death,
Stalin was subsequently arrested eight times, six in which he escaped. He
was last arrested in 1913, in which he spent four years in exile and was
released in 1917. He married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshev .....
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Queen Elizabeth
<view this essay>.... later that Henry realized he wasn’t going to get a healthy male heir from Anne Boleyn. She had miscarried twice before delivering a stillborn son. When Elizabeth was two her father had her mother beheaded for adultery and treason, this was just a way to rid himself of her rather then get a divorce. This was not Henry’s first wife; this was his second wife. His first wife had also born him a female child. He had divorced her in hopes that he would get an heir from Anne. With his first wife, Catherine, he had a daughter, which they named Mary. Between the time of Elizabeth’s mothers death and 1537 Henry married yet again. The woman was name .....
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Dr Daniel J. Boorstin
<view this essay>.... College, Oxford. More recently he
has been visiting professor of American History at the University of Rome,
Italy, the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and at Kyoto University,
Japan. He was the first incumbent of the chair of American History at the
Sorbonne, and was the Professor of American History and Institutions as
well as Fellow of Trinity College, at Cambridge University. He has been
director of the National Museum of American History and the Librarian of
Congress Emeritus. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and has
practiced law. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has
been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Por .....
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Hippocrates, The Father Of Medicine
<view this essay>.... of Marmara, and to Larisa and Meliboea in
Thessaly. He died, according to tradition, in Larissa, Greece; little else is
known about him. His name is associated wioth the Hippocratic Oath, though he
probably is not the author of the document. In fact, of the approximately 70
works ascribed to him in the Hippocratic Collection, Hippocrates may actually
have written about six of them. The Hippocratic Collection probably is the
remnant of the medical library of the famous Kos school of medicine. His
teachings, sense of detachment, and ability to make direct, clinical
observations probably influenced the other authors of these works and had much
to do with fr .....
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Albert Einstein 4
<view this essay>.... the young age of twelve he had taught himself and later mastered Euclidean geometry. Einstein disliked school and when his family’s business went bankrupt he decided to withdraw from school and traveled with his parents to Milan. Einstein in fact enrolled in a secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and entered the Swill National Polytechnic in Zurich. Again, Einstein was not in favor of the teaching methods and would often skip classes in order to study physics on his own or to play his violin. Although his professors did not think highly of him, Einstein graduated from school in 1900 by studying the notes of a classmate. For the next two years Einstei .....
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