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Blaise Pascal
1516 Words - 6 Pages.... to two right angles. When his father discovered this he then allowed Blaise a copy of Euclid. At the age of 14 Blaise began accompanying his father to Mersenne's meetings. Mersenne was a member of a religious order of Minims. His cell held many meetings for the likes of Gassendi, Roberval, Carcavi, Auzout, Mydorge, Mylon, Desargues and others. By the time he was 15 Blaise admired the work of Desargues greatly. At 16 Pascal presented a single piece of paper at a Mersenne's meeting in June 1639. It held many of his geometry theorems, including his mystic hexagon. In December 1639 he and his family left Paris and moved to Rouen where his father Etienne was appointed tax ....
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John Lennon: Biography
469 Words - 2 Pages.... to break up for a number of
artistic, business, and personal reasons (World Book 190).
I, like the other former Beatles members, continued to perform as a solo
artist. Yoko Ono, whom I married in 1969, became my partner (World Book 197).
Yoko and I, being extremely opposed to the war, performed together making peace
our theme (Rolling Stone 229). As our taste for war bittered, Yoko and I became
involved in many anti-war protests. We recorded "Give Peace a Chance" in our
hotel room in Montreal, and I had it rush released (Rolling Stone 229). In
January of 1970 I wrote and recorded "Instant Karma" in one day and had it
released (Rolling Stone 229). Three months lat ....
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King Arthur
397 Words - 2 Pages.... he book supposedly covered history from 1200 B.C. to
689 A.D. Geoffrey includes many sources of information with his work but
most scholars believe it to be a fictional bibliography added only to give
his book some credibility. Therefore his work is considered to be
literature not factual history. Geoffrey is the one responsible for the
portrayal of Arthur as a splendid King who conquered the British Isles and
much of Europe Introduced by Geoffrey are Guenevere, Merlin, information
about Arthur's strange birth and death and the concept of chivalry. Due to
the tremendous popularity of Geoffrey's book, authors like Robert Wace and
Chretien de Troyes continued on ....
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William Wodsworth
597 Words - 3 Pages.... and some word choices in the two renderings are identical. However, when one looks closer at these two works, the smaller, less obvious, similarities become noticeable. For example, both Dorothy and William refer to the daffodils as dancing in the wind, William's daffodils "dancing in the breeze," while Dorothy's "danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them." (Norton, 186, 293-294) Also, both describe the heads of the daffodils, instead of say, the tops, or buds. The difference in this is, however, that Dorothy Wordsworth has her daffodils "rest [ing] their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness" (Norton, 293) while William ....
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Sir Thomas More
667 Words - 3 Pages.... be against the King divorce to Catherine of Aragon. He shows this when Cardinal Woolsey summons him to attend a matter concerning the "Kings business". In their meeting the topic of the Kings re-marriage is what the Cardinal wanted to talk to More about, When Woolsey says "...that thing out there is at least fertile, Thomas". More shows that he is against the divorce by saying "But she's not his wife". More again shows his beliefs that a dispensation was given so that Henry could marry Catherine and Thomas knows that the Pope will not give a dispensation on a dispensation. More believes that the Pope should make the decision about the divorce. And More chooses to go against ....
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Rutherford Hayes
1106 Words - 5 Pages.... South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana were disputed due to the protest that blacks were not given the equal chance to go to the polls and vote. Congress created and electoral commission, which carefully decided that Hayes would receive all twenty votes. Facing the possibility that the country would be left without a president, both parties were considering taking the office by force. In spite of all the conflict, a deal was finally struck. Republicans made a secret deal with Democrats in congress, who agreed not to dispute the Hayes victory in exchange for a promise to withdraw federal troops from the south and end reconstruction . Hayes made good on the deal. He sw ....
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Martin Luther And His Teachings
357 Words - 2 Pages.... and social factors, his writings proved to be a powerful weapon in the inciting of a religious revolution.
A main reason for how his teachings led to a revolution was printing and its effect on the disseminating of propaganda. Without it, the revolution would never have occurred. Between 1518-1524 the amount of books printed increased seven times and between 1517-1520, thirty Lutheran tracts sold 300,000 copies. Another reason was the financial and political difficulties experienced by the Church of Rome. Many people were worried about the prevalence of corruption and bribery and also critical of certain practices such as indulgences. The papacy was open to considerab ....
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Vespasian
2436 Words - 9 Pages.... who rose to hold an important command on the Danube about AD 48
and was prefect of Rome for many years under Nero. Although Vespasian is
said to have hesitated before following his brother into the Senate, his
career was in no sense retarded; for, after military service in Thrace and
a quaestorship in Crete, he reached the praetorship in the earliest year
allowed him by law, namely AD 39, the year in which his elder son, Titus,
was born.
Vespasian ingratiated himself with the ruling emperor, Caligula (Gaius
Caesar); and in the next reign, that of Claudius, he won the favour of the
powerful freedman Narcissus. He became commander of the Legio II Augusta,
which took part in t ....
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