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Henry FordElliot Keene
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in a small farm town in Dearborn, Michigan. He grew up in a successful farm family. At an early age he enjoyed the typical things kids of his age would enjoy, but he also showed interest in mechanical activities. ...
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Marilyn MonroeI always thought Marilyn Monroe was a very intriguing person. She lived a very exiting glamorous life. She was a role model to many girls in her life time. She also has many very famous quotes. She was well known for many things like her lisp, breathless voice, platinum blonde hair, and voluptuous ...
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Thomas EdisonDid Thomas Edison really invent the light bulb? Well, this is a very controversial matter. There are three theories about it. The first theory is that Thomas Edison was an absolute genius, and he invented the light bulb, and no one else even received a thought about anything called a lightbulb. ...
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George Washington(Born February 22 [February 11, Old Style], 1732, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died December 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and subsequently first president of the United States ...
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Walter GropiousWalter Gropius could be considered a triple threat since he was an educator, designer and architect, but he’s mostly known for the founding of the famous Bauhaus School. He was also one of the most important architects of the 20th century. Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was born on May 18, 1883 in ...
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John BrownJohn Brown was an abolitionist and insurrectionist. He and several others seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harper s Ferry. Brown was really into the slave thing, he hated it. One night he and three son s killed three men who were for slavery. During the raid, many of Brown s men were ...
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The PianistThe Pianist is a movie based on the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman. In the beginning of the Pianist, we see young Wladyslaw playing his piano, on a radio station, when suddenly, the sound of bombs dominate the scene. The bombings get closer, but young Wladyslaw continues to play, despite the warning ...
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Martin LutherMartin Luther was the founder of the Protestant church. Martin Luther was born on November 10,1483 in Eisleben in the province of Saxony. His view of Christianity started what is called the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Luther sought out to inform people of what he thought were the churches ...
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John D. Rockefeller, Villain or Role Model?It was the turn of the twentieth century, cities were growing, industries were developing, and the economy was booming. It was the industrial age and at a time in history when there were few governmental restraints or regulations. People with a drive to succeed soon saw a multitude of ...
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Clara BartonClarissa Harlow Barton, otherwise known as Clara Barton, was born on Christmas day in the year of 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest in the family of five children and a daughter to abolitionists, meaning that her parents wanted to do away with human slavery. Clara was raised in a ...
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Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci was born on April 15,1452, in a small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. Leonardo was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary named Vincier Piero and a peasant woman named Caterina Piero. Leonardo had seventeen half brothers and sisters.
In the mid-1460s the family settled in ...
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Sojourner TruthStrong, phenomenal, and courageous are but a few words that describe the woman known to the world as Sojourner Truth. While her latter life screamed triumph, the tragedies of her past served as a constant reminder of what could have been a great defeat. However, she was determined to live a just ...
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Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st of December, 1879. He was the fourth child from his mother to be born in less than four years. The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad health, his mother feared several times that he would also die. Understandably, given this background, ...
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Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st of December, 1879. He was the fourth child from his mother to be born in less than four years. The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad health, his mother feared several times that he would also die. Understandably, given this background, ...
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Alexander The GreatAlexander the Great was one of the greatest conquers in all of the history of Rome. His genius and ability to think in hard situations helped greatly to the country of Macedonia, which he ruled. Most of his life he lived as a fighter and warrior. Alexander was a smart, brilliant man who used his ...
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Truman CapoteCapote’s: In Cold Blood
Introduction
The United States was advancing through many social changes in the 1960’s with the beginning of rock n’ roll, the influence of drugs, and new forms of literature. One of the new forms of literature was the nonfiction novel which was revolutionized and ...
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King Henry VIIIKing Henry VIII was one of the greatest king with his daughter queen Elizabeth I of England, in 2009 we are celebrating the 500 years from his crowning, he was the fruit of a reconciling marriage of Henry VII or Henry Tudor of the Lancastrian house with Elizabeth of York in 1486 that wanted to ...
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Wilham RontgamWilhelm Conrad Rontgen was a physicist who developed the first X-ray. He was born on March 27th 1845, in Lennep, Germany. He studied at many different schools, one of which was the university of Munich where he spent most of his time as the chair of physics. In 1895 he was studying the phenomena ...
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Leonardo Da VinciLeonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 near Vinci, Italy. For the first four years Leonardo lived with his poor mother, Catherina, until his father, Ser Piero da Vinci, realized his potential and took him to ...
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David BeckhamThe Golden Boy of English Football
In order to reach the highest point of greatness a man has to endure and overcome unexpected obstacles placed on the way to the peak. David Beckham, also known as England’s Golden Boy of the 20th century, has achieved God like status in the football world not ...
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Charles DickensWas the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the ...
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Sally Eisner: Holocaust SurvivorSally Eisner was born in Poland, in 1922. She and her brother survived the holocaust. Her father was an accountant, and her mother helped her father with their small business. They lived a happy life until it was destroyed by the Nazis.
Sally and her brother were hiding with a Gentile family, ...
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R.L. StineStine was born in Columbus, Ohio[5] to Anne Stine, a homemaker and Lewis Stine, a shipping clerk.[6] He began writing at age 9 when he found a typewriter in his attic, subsequently beginning to type stories and joke books.[7] He graduated from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 1965 with a ...
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Wilhelm Conrad RontgenWilhelm Conrad Rontgen was a physicist who developed the first X-ray. He was born on March 27th 1845, in Lennep, Germany. He studied at many different schools, one of which was the university of Munich where he spent most of his time as the chair of physics. In 1895 he was studying the phenomena ...
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H.H HolmesHerman Webster Mudgett was born May 16,1861 Gilmanton,New Hamphire where his father was wealthy and respected citizen and had been the local promaster for nearly 25 years. Early in life Mudgett dropped his given name and became known as H.H Holmes a name which he attended medical school and ...
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