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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson (later ) was arguably the most famous member of the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He was born on the 26 June 1824 in Belfast Ireland, and was part of a large family whose mother died when he was aged six. His father taught Kelvin and his brothers ...

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All Quiet On The Western Front

The remains of Paul Baumer’s company had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul’s first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join ...

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The Infamous Watergate Scandal

"The Watergate Complex is a series of modern buildings with balconies that looks like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1). Located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. it contains many hotel rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972 early in the morning became a very ...

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso was the most famous artist of the 20th century. He was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city life and was fascinated by the circus. He also enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life ...

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Creative Writing: Apocalypse At The Nuclear Plant

Pete pulled up to the familiar sight of cooling towers overshadowing his car as he parked his car next to the multitude of his coworkers. His day began just like the others. If there was any plutonium to be expected, he was damn sure he would be the one to inspect it. He walked past George the ...

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The Causes Of World War 1, And The Battles

The First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and ...

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence

"The Cuckoo's Egg" is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being "recycled" to a computer analyst/webmaster. Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He ...

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The Infamous Watergate Scandal

"The Watergate Complex is a series of modern buildings with balconies that looks like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1). Located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. it contains many hotel rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972 early in the morning became a very ...

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Dear Mary

Dear Mary, It is 3 am, I cannot get to sleep. I miss you, more than anything in the world. These past two years have been torture. When I signed up for this I did not understand the difficulties I would be put through. I am constantly facing death, stress, and the trenches. I cannot believe ...

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How A Pitching Machine Works

Hitting a baseball is said to be one of the hardest things to do in all of sports. The exacting task is attained from constant repetition and complete dedication. But a father can throw only so many fastballs, and a coach has 15 other kids, the solution, a pitching machine. A pitching machine ...

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors and industrial leaders in history. Thomas Edison's inventions are still used today in many different ways. Although Thomas Edison received limited education and was mischievous, he made famous contributors to practical electric lighting and for ...

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Mythology and Architecture

Kayla Evenson Patricia FitzGibbon HUM115C18 October 1st, 2011 Mythology and Art/Architecture The Aeneid, a tale of both truth and beauty, parallels the art of John Gast. His work Manifest Destiny lays in the shadows of the Trojans conquering of cities to their quest for the Promised Land ...

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Gulag

The term "GULAG" is an acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) that operated the Soviet system of forced labor camps in the Stalin era. Since the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The ...

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Express Lane to the Chair

Express Lane to the Chair Each day, the headlines are filled with stories that range from petty crimes to unthinkable acts of violence. Stories are reported each night that used to make people cringe with chills running up and down their spine on the news. I have had to live through one of ...

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Sweatshops: The Not So Good, Bad and the Ugly

Asia Nyei 9-8-2013 ENGL 1302 Sweatshops: The Not So Good, Bad and the Ugly As of today there are about 7 billion people in the world. Of those 7 billion people 3 million are employed. Half of those employed are happy with their jobs while the rest are just trying to make ends meet in ...

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The Life of Pi

The Life of Pi A young Indian boy by the name Piscine Patel, also known as Pi, 16, was the son of a Zookeeper. However, so many faults and economy had downfallen; the father decided that they would leave India and move to America. Because of the currency difference between the two countries, ...

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O. Henry

O. Henry William Sydney Porter William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862. William's mother died when he was three years old, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother and aunt (O. Henry pp). He left school at the age of fifteen and ...

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Did Emily Davison Commit Suicide

‘Emily Davison committed suicide to further the cause of votes for women’ Do you agree. Explain. Emily Wilding Davison was a militant women's suffrage activist who, on 4 June 1913, after a series of actions that were either self destructive or heroic, stepped in front of the horse of King ...

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