.... where he spent a few months in the court of Norway's king, Olav I Tryggvason. There he was educated and learned many new concepts, including Christianity. When he returned home, he converted his mother to convert to Christianity. She built the first Christian church in Greenland and its foundations can still be seen in Kagsiarsuk. There are a few different versions of how Leif came around to discovering America. According to the “Saga of Eric,” it occurred on of his return trips from Norway. His ship was blown to the south by a wind from the north. Since Leif was on a different longitudinal course without knowing it, he continued on his westward way. He ....

.... gadget called “blue Box” that allowed them to get free long distance calls from pay phones. Jobs helped “Woz” to sell a number of “blue boxes”. In 1972 Steve graduated from high school and registered at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After dropping out of Reed after one semester he hung around the campus for a year taking classes in philosophy and immersing himself in the counter culture. In 1974, took a job as a video game designer at Atari, Inc., a pioneer in electronic arcade recreation. After a few months he saved enough money to go to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with Dan Kottke, a friend from Reed College. In th ....

.... places, events, or persons. The second type of stories are impressionist stories, which are tales that shape and give meaning to the narrator. They are less objective and more subjective, giving them less of a realistic point. An example of this is Rip Van Winkle, a story about a man who runs from his abusive wife and finally gets away and falls asleep, for twenty years. Other stories Irving accounts for, are: Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, A Chronicle of Granada, The Crayon Miscellany, Astoria, Bonneville, and concludes with The Life of Washington. The reason his stories are considered “romantic,&# ....

.... headed a weekly newspaper that was a major Socialist channel in Trent. Practicing journalism, in which he had always thought as his first passion. This gave Mussolini an opportuninty to establish a name in the Socialist Party and with the people in general. He wrote articles that would get the people's blood racing on church issues. One thing was not afraid of was the rage of other men. For these articles he spent time in prison and was then deported back to Italy. In Italy he persisted and gave public speeches, the people loved his ideas. He became one of Italy's most intelligent and menacing young Socialist. In November 1914 he published, Il Popolo d'Italia, and the ....

.... of misery due to the mistreatment - beatings and general victimization - he faced there. Due to this sudden change in environment and the evil treatment he received, he suffered from insomnia for the rest of his life. This played an important part in his literary imagination. His parents removed him from the Calvinistic foster home and placed him in a private school at the age of twelve. The English schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team. Returning to India in 1882 he worked as a newspaper reporter and a part-time writer and this helped him to gain a rich experience of colonial life which he ....

.... the University of Colorado and graduated from San Francisco State College in 1957. He is associated with the Democratic party. He had a couple of jobs before he became a writer. He served in the United States Air Force for a few years. He spent one of those in Korea during the war as an editor for an Air Force newspaper. He has had numerous other works published. His most famous is Helter Skelter. Most of his other works have gone without much notice. The hardcover sleeve of the book states that he is coproducing a movie based on this book. That is really all I could find on the man. I do not believe the man had any relation to the subject at all before he wrote ....

.... global fashion scene. She was given the very fitting middle name of Bonheur, meaning happiness, by a nun in the convent hospital where she was delivered. The young Gabrielle enjoyed being in the company of friends and was always filled with stories, although they were often falsities (Current Biography 1). But there was one story that proved her intent to participate in fashion, and that was the habitual action of cutting up the curtains in the living room to make dresses for her dolls (1). What a magnificent way to prepare for a life of style. In February, 1895, Chanel¹s mother, Jeanne, was found dead, presumably because of her constant pregnancies (Chanel, A Woman of Her ....

.... young Carl gradually learned from his parents how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet. Carl then set to teaching himself how to read by sounding out the combinations of the letters. Around the time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations. When reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Car ....