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Alfred Nobel Family Moved Chemistry
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Alfred Nobel The inventor of dynamite was a very
important roll to take part in. The ultimate
inventor of it was a mane named Alfred Nobel.
Before dynamite, miners had to use nitrogen to
blow holes in rock and other things. However it is
too volatile and can explode incredibly easily.
Alfred changed all this. Alfred Nobel was born on
October 21 st 1833 in Stockholm. He studied their
until 1842 when his family moved to St. Petersburg
in Russia. Since his father was an influential
inventor and ind...
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Theory Of Relativity Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein was a great man who contributed
many theories and ideas to the world of science.
Some people considered him one of the smartest
human beings alive. The theory of relativity is
also said to be "held as the human thought of
highest quality. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm,
Germany in 1879. In 1894, Einstein's family moved
to Milan. Einstein went to Switzerland, and he
attended Aarau Secondary School. There, he
received his Swiss Citizenship. Afterwards,
Einstein returned back to hi...
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Edouard Manet Manet Paintings
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The paper discusses Edouard Manet's influence on
the history of painting. The paper analyses
Olympia and other works of Manet to explain how
the artists works show the spirit of time and
culture in which they were created. The paper
discusses whether works of Manet lie at the origin
of Impressionism, because his paintings arose out
of depths of which Impressionism had no idea yet.
Outline Introduction Body Manet's style Manet's
paintings in Saloon Olympia Influence of Manet's
paintings Impressio...
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Yasser Arafat Yitzhak Rabin
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Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat The Middle East,
once an area of severe fighting and active
terrorism, is now free of violence due to the
actions of one man, Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat
has helped create a place where the Palestine and
Israeli people can live together. This peaceful
environment did not come easily though. It took
years of work and controversy for Yasser to make
the two Arab nations live peacefully together.
Through Yasser Arafat's successful leadership
qualities, the once warr...
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Roman Catholic Church Middle Ages
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In the year 1305 the Roman Catholic Church was
relocated from Rome to France. With this the power
of the papal states was divided among the regions
leading families. Starting near the year 1300 the
demand for reform began to grow at a rapid pace.
By the 1600 s close to half of the practicing
Catholics in western Europe had left the Church to
join one of the new reformer religious groups.
This reform brought about new ways of thought and
new attitudes towards religion and the human race.
The youn...
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Matter How Hard Faith In God
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ELIE WIESEL RESEARCH PROJECT Elie Wiesel was born
in the town of Sighet in northern Transylvania on
September 30, 1928. His real name was Eliezer
Wiesel. His family spoke Yiddish at home; they
read newspapers and conducted their grocery
business in German. Elie had begun religious
studies in classical Hebrew almost as soon as he
could speak. Elie s life centered entirely on his
religious studies. He loved the mystical tradition
and folk tales of the Hassidic sect of Judaism, to
which him and his...
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Jackson Pollock Abstract Artist Paintings
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Essentials Jackson Pollock Matt Frank Essentials
of Art Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock was an
American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in
1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers.
Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked
a cow and he was terrified of horses because he
grew up in California. He dropped out of high
school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to
move to New York City with his older brother,
Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at
the Art Students Lea...
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Fourth Of July Homer
1,753 words
Homer Winslow and Jules Breton, two men painting
the canvas of the nineteenth century. Comparing
their art gives birth to numerous differences and
unique qualities hidden within their work and
lives. Dressing For The Carnival, Homer 1877, and
The Weeders, Breton 1868, are fine examples of
their careers as artists. Beyond the aesthetic
merits of his work, Breton is significant as the
painter whose vision of French rural life best
embodies a set of late nineteenth- century ideals:
the charm and wh...
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Emilie Du Chatelet Du Chatelet Voltaire
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Born in Paris on December 17, 1706, Emilie du
Chatelet grew up in a household where the art of
courting was the only way one could recieve a
place in society. During her early childhood,
Emilie began to show great improvement in the area
of academics that soon she was able to convince
her father that she needed attention. She studied
Latin, Italian and English. She also studied
Tasso, Virgil, Milton and other great scholars. In
spite of her talents in the area of languages, her
true love was mat...
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Gunter Grass Gunter Gunter Grass Gunter Grass Wrote
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Gunter Gunter Grass Gunter Grass Gunter Grass is a
German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and
printmaker. Grass describes himself as a
Spataufklarer, a belated apostle of enlightenment
in an era that has grown tired of reason (Gunter).
He was born in Danzig, Germany (currently Gdansk,
Germany) on October 16, 1927. Grass wrote his
first unpublished novel when he was only thirteen.
Like many teenagers during World War II, Grass was
a member of the Hitler Youth. He served under
Luftwaffe when...
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Time Of Death Young Woman
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Forensic Entomology: A New Type of Detective The
use of Forensic Entomology is quickly becoming
recognized and accepted as a valid form of
forensic identification. Although some problems
have been found with the method, many police
departments want to add its use to their
crime-solving arsenal. Some people cannot
understand how a simple bug can be used to solve a
crime. Nevertheless, forensic entomology has been
documented and proven very effective in crime
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Mohandas Gandhi Karamchand Gandhi
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Satyagraha Gandhi Mohandas K. Gandhi Satyagraha
means force or firmness of truth. (web) Mohandas
K. Gandhi worked and lived by this word. By
peaceful, non-violent demonstrations he little by
little took hold of the people of Indias love and
honor and freed them from British rule. Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in
Poorbandar, Gujarat, a region of Queen Victoria in
West India. He was the son of Karamchand Gandhi,
the chief minister of Poorbandar, and his fourth
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Astronomy And Physics University Of Gottingen Gauss
441 words
Gauss was a Gauss Gauss Gauss was a German
scientist and mathematician. People call him the
founder of modern mathematics. He also worked in
astronomy and physics. His work in astronomy and
physics is nearly as significant as that in
mathematics. Gauss also worked in crystallography,
optics, biostatistics, and mechanics. Gauss was
born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick. Brunswick is
what is now called West Germany, He was born to
peasant couple. Gauss father didnt want Gauss to
go to a University. ...
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Georgia Okeeffe Alfred Stieglitz
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Filling a space in a beautiful way. That is what
art means to me (Georgia OKeeffe). Born in 1887 on
a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia OKeeffe
became an important American artist as early as
the age of 17. After high school she studied for
one year at the Chicago Art Institute under John
Vanderpoel. She continued her studies in New York
City at the Art Students League with William
Merritt Chase. Also in New York she attended
Columbia Teachers College. There she studied with
Arthur Dow, wh...
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President Of The United States United States Of America
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John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the
United States. He was born in Braintree (now
Quincy), Massachusetts to John and Abigail Adams
on July 11, 1767. He was their first child. His
father, John Adams, was the second President of
the United States. In 1778 and 1780, when he was
only 11 and 13 years old, John Quincy accompanied
his father on diplomatic missions to Europe. He
studied in Paris in 1778 and 1779. In 1780 he
studied at the University of Leiden. When John was
14 years old he b...
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San Francisco Couldn T
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Julia Morgan A. A book was written about Julia
Morgan because she was the first woman licensed
architect. She lived from 1872 until 1957. Many
people at that time thought that women couldn t do
many jobs, especially to be an architect, but
Julia proved them wrong. She was the main
architect for places like the huge Hearst s Castle
and many YWCA s (Young Women s Christian
Association. ) Julia has encouraged women to
become architects, and now there are many women
architects, but Julia is still th...
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Physical And Mental Thousands Of Years
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Recently, the practice of massage therapy has
grown remarkably in the United States. It has
become more widely accepted as a medical practice
by doctors as well as the general public. Massage
is defined as: ? the systematic manual or
mechanical manipulations of the soft tissues of
the body by such movements as rubbing, kneading,
pressing, rolling, slapping, and tapping, for
therapeutic purposes such as promoting circulation
of the blood and lymph, relaxation of muscles,
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Hall Of Fame Arts And Sciences
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MARIA MITCHELL The person that I chose for the
Women 61501; s History Month report is Maria
Mitchell, who was a self- taught astronomer. She
discovered Comet Mitchell and made amazing
achievements throughout her life. Maria Mitchell
was born on August 1, 1818 on the Massachusetts
island of Nantucket to William and Lydia Mitchell.
When Maria Mitchell was growing up in the Quaker
community, few girls were allowed to study
astronomy and higher mathematics. Even though the
Mitchells werent rich Ma...
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Quot Quot Selected Poems
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Jay Print Strand was born in Canada on Prince
Edward Island. He studied at Antioch College,
where he took a BA. He also received a BFA from
Yale, where he studied painting. At the University
of Iowa, he worked closely with poet Donald
Justice, completing an MA in 1962. He spent a year
in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship, and later
taught at Iowa for three years. In 1965 he spent a
year as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of
Brazil, where he was deeply influenced by
contemporary Latin America...
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Scout Ants Army Ants Man
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In Queen Ant We Trust Is man the only true patriot
or do animals too have this sense of pride that
sets them apart from other realms of their own
species? Mark Twain seems to think, based on his
essay The Lowest Animal, that man is the only
patriot and that he will kill his own kind only
too later wash the blood off of his hands (176).
However, man, contrary to Twain s beliefs, is not
the only patriot of the animal kingdom. It is true
that man does set himself apart in his own
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