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Princess Diana 3
1087 Words - 4 Pages.... the Spencer family seat at Althorp in Northamptonshire, in 1975.
Diana first went to Riddlesworth Hall, a preparatory school in Diss, Norfolk, and then in 1974 went to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent, as a boarder. Diana Had a talent for music as an accomplished pianist, dancing and domestic science. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico.
On February 24, 198 ....
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Henry Ford: A Life In Brief
1442 Words - 6 Pages.... dreamed that one day he would build a smaller engine that
would power a vehicle and do the job that horse's once did.
Shortly after Henry turned thirteen, his mother died. Henry became
very discontent with living on the farm but he stayed for another three
years. When he was sixteen he finished his studies at the district school.
Against his father's will, Henry moved to Detroit, ten miles away.
In Detroit, Henry worked eleven hours a day at James Flower &
Brothers' Machine Shop for only $2.50 a week. As this was not enough to
pay for board and room, Henry got an evening job at Magill's Jewelry Shop
for $2 each week, at first only cleaning and winding the shop ....
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Political Policies Between The
2150 Words - 8 Pages.... the Soviets involvement in the Third World transformation to communism. In the United States, many saw accumulative series of Soviet interventions which involved military means; Angola, Ethiopia, Kampuchea, Afghanistan, as a pattern of Soviet expansion, which was not consistent with détente. Many actually believed that these expansionist moves were encouraged by détente. Ultimately, the expectations that détente would achieve more were held by both powers. It was the failure to satisfy these expectations which led to its demise. Kissinger suggested that "détente, with all its weaknesses, should be judged not against some ideal but against what would have happened i ....
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Martin Luther
598 Words - 3 Pages.... form punishment on earth.
Luther believed that salvation is a matter of faith in Christ and neither the church nor the state has the authority over the "individual conscience". He strongly believed that everyone is a free spokesperson in his relation with God. Luther believed that all the church authorities from the pope down must be overthrown.
Luther placed emphasis on personal Bible study. He was the first to bring personal Bible study to the life of the "common people". Because Luther had found the true way of salvation by studying the Bible, he wanted all the people to have the same opportunity. However, the Bible was not written in German, thus the people ....
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Vladimir Ilyich
590 Words - 3 Pages.... university and exiled to the village of Kokushkino in Kazan Province. In October 1888 he returned to Kazan, where he became a member of a Marxist society. In 1889 he moved to the city of Samara. In 1891 he took and passed extramural exams at the law faculty of St Petersburg University and got work as assistant to a justice of the law in Samara. In August 1893 he moved to St Petersburg. In Autumn 1895 he set up the St Petersburg "Union for the liberation of the working class". At the beginning of December 1895 he was arrested and in February 1897 exiled to Siberia for three years. In 1900 he went abroad, where together with G.V. Plekhanov he began to publish the newspaper " ....
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Thomas Edison
566 Words - 3 Pages.... Thomas got a job at the Grand Trunk Railroad. While working at Grand Trunk Railroad Thomas was a typesetter, press operator, editor, and publisher of his very own newspaper called the "Herald." Thomas got his news for his newspaper from telegraphers at other train stations. Thomas liked many things, but mathematics was not one of them. He enjoyed reading books about science and philosophy. His favorite book ever was Isaac Newtown's Principia Mathematica. Thomas was interested in inventing the light bulb. Thomas was a scientist as a kid. He like to test many things. When he was young he built a laboratory in the family's basement. Thomas did experiments he found in science ....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
1606 Words - 6 Pages.... Martin asked why. "Because we are white and you are colored," they said." (Robert Jakoubek, ) This incident was followed by others like it. Blacks were forced to attend separate schools from whites, could not play in parks where whites were playing, and cafe's and hotels where whites ate and slept. On sidewalks, they were expected to step aside for whites, and if a black man ever entered a white mans home, it had to be through the back door.
Even though Martin did not like these rules, he could not change it as a child. Even with them though, he still managed to live a normal life. He loved church and reading the bible. He decided to become a minister very early in his life ....
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Alexander The Great
629 Words - 3 Pages.... impregnated by the god Zeus in the form of a snake. She also made Alexander believe that he was a descendant of Achilles. Because of the affiliation that Alexander thought he had with Achilles, Alexander carried a copy of the Iliad with him wherever he went. It is also supposed that Olympia played a part in the assassination of Alexander's father Philip.
Within Alexander's childhood lay the beginning's of a true warrior's career. His favorite literature, the Iliad, was an epic battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Aristotle, made him an amazing strategist. This later helped him immensely when faced with insurmountable odds. A ....
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