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Albert Einstein
528 Words - 2 Pages.... he was in school, his teachers thought he was
mentally retarded because he ignored whatever bored him and attacked anything he
had interest in.
Einstein was twenty-one years old when he got married. His marriage
almost didn't take place because Mileva, his fiance, thought he had an affair.
Einstein decided to go to America to tell other scientists about his
theory of relativity. He brought his wife and several freinds with him. When
they got there, they were stormed with reporters and camera-men who wanted to
know about his theories. He went around to different areas and gave speeches
and lectures. When he appeared at Union Station to lecture, there was almost a
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
349 Words - 2 Pages.... support. Later on he
was dismissed from West Point for disobedience. His fellow cadets helped to
contribute the funds for publication of his poems.
Poe later on took up residencecy in Baltimore with his widowed aunt
Maria Clemm and her daughter, Virginia. He later on started writing fiction
aas a way to support himself. In 1832 the Philadelphia Saturday Courier
pulished five of his stories. Poe his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond
in 1835 and became editor of the Southern LiteraryMessenger and married
Virginia who was not yet 14 years old. In January 1837 Poe annouced his
withdrawl as editor in the Messenger.
He stayed in New York City then in Philadelphia and a ....
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Adolf Hitler
2577 Words - 10 Pages.... with love and affection. When Adolf was three years old, the family moved to Passau, along the Inn River on the German side of the border. A brother, Edmond, was born two years later. The family moved once more in 1895 to the farm community of Hafeld, 30 miles southwest of Linz. Another sister, Paula, was born in 1896, the sixth of the union, supplemented by a half brother and half sister from one of his father's two previous marriages. Following another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery. The monastery's coat of arms' most salient feature was a swastika. As a youngster, Adolf's dream was to enter the priesthood. While there is ....
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Ghengis Khan The Great
1620 Words - 6 Pages.... town. By the time he was four, he was already using a bow and arrow set. He was very good because he practiced for hours everyday. By the time he was seven he was excellent in battle skills. However tragedy struck that year. Yisugei was murdered by a local tribe. His family tried to overcome it but the people left the tribe and joined other tribes. A few people stayed but they also left after a while. Temujin and his family lived off berries, animals, and plants.
Temujin started working harder on his archery. He was one of the best in the land by the time he was eleven. By eleven seventy-three, Temujin had risen, he became chief of a tribe. People noted how fi ....
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Shel Silverstein
1527 Words - 6 Pages.... Luckily, the girls didn't want me; not much I could do about that. So, I started to draw and to write." Because of his rejection by some of his peers, he found his own hobby: entertaining others. During the 1950’s, Silverstein even served as a member of the United States Armed Forces. While in this position, he was employed as a cartoonist to help cheer up the troops during the Korean War. In 1956, the writer worked again as a cartoonist, but this time for a little-known magazine called Playboy. Despite this wide range of literary audiences, Silverstein’s main purpose was to entertain.
Two of his major collections of works of literature are the cri ....
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Adoph Hitler
652 Words - 3 Pages.... paintings on the streets in order to survive. In August 1914, Hitler volunteered for the army. Later in his army career he received two of the most honorable awards, the first class iron cross. A man told Hitler of a rumor stating the Bavarian government is going to break away from Germany and join Austria. Outraged, Hitler gave many persuasive speeches on why the government shouldn’t break away. Later Hitler took over a group and renaming it NSADAP, which is infamously known as the Nazi party. Hitler tried taking over the Bavarian government by force. This invasion caused his imprisonment of five years, but he happened to be released after about six months. While in priso ....
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Prince William
4966 Words - 19 Pages.... his personality will be discussed. His childhood schools will be mentioned and a description of Eton College will be included. The public can often obtain as much information on a famous person's life as they want and because of this abundance of information, 's life will be detailed along with his influences in his life like Princess Diana, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, and Alexandria "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke. "History-to-History" will include another member of the royal family born in 1066 named William I "the Conqueror," who was as famous during his ruling period as much as is in the 1990s. This essay will cover the above topics.
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Aaron Copland
799 Words - 3 Pages.... financial status, he started formally training
as a teen, and moved to Paris where he became the first American student of
Nadia Boulanger. It was here that Copland developed much of his neo-classical
style. Although he enjoyed the precise structure that Boulanger had taught him,
Copland's heart was truly in creating music that people other than musicians
could appreciate. It was upon his return to America in 1924 that he decided that
he would write ". . .truly American music." He traveled throughout America,
getting a taste of what the "common man" was listening to. During these travels
he strayed into Mexico, and wrote the highly successful El Salon Mexico. A quote
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