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War Of 1812 Income Tax
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429 wordsTheodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States. He served in office from 1901 to 1909. With the assassination of President McKinley, Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nations history. Roosevelt's youth was very different from most of the other Presidents. He was born in New York City in 1858 into a wealthy family. His life was plagued early on by health problems and illness which he overcame. The conquering of his ill health led to Roosevelt su...
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Austro Hungarian Austria Hungary
1,552 wordsThe Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia The Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Berchtold, to the Minister at Belgrade, von Girl: Your Excellency will present the following note to the Royal Government on the afternoon of Thursday, July 23: On the 31 st of March, 1909, the Royal Serbian Minister at the Court of Vienna made, in the name of his Government, the following declaration to the Imperial and Royal Government: Serbia recognizes that her rights were not affected by the state of...
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Twentieth Century James F
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The Life Of William Carlos Williams
1,147 wordsNothing whips my blood like verse. These are the famous words of the great poet, William Carlos Williams. Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. He spent most of his life in Rutherford, so today he is a local hero. Williams mother was Puerto Rican and almost had pure Spanish blood. His father was American. As a child, Williams dad was a salesman and was often away from home. Thus, they didnt see each other very much. When Williams was four, he attended school in Switz...
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Poor Laws Moral Character
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Recreation Of The Eiffel Tower In California
1,087 words... iles supporting the bridge had to be sunk in eighty feet of rushing water. Working sixteen hours a day trying to sink the piles with excavation, Eiffel realized that a new method had to be designed. He carefully plotted each detail and devised a way to sink the piles without excavation which saved weeks of precious labor. The bridge was completed ahead of time due to Eiffel's pure genius. Gustave Eiffel had plans other than to just design the tower for the entry to the Paris Exposition of 18...
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Famous Works Of Pablo Picasso
846 wordsPablo Picasso was a famous Spanish-French Painter in the late 19 th and early 20 th century. Pablo Picasso's works can be seen in many museums and galleries all over the world today. He is best known for co-creating the art style of cubism. His most famous works of art were possibly The Old Guitarist, which was in his Blue Period and Les Demoiselles d Avignon, which was in his Cubism Period. Picasso was not just a famous painter, but also did some sculpture and printmaking as well. He is better ...
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Imagination Without Strings Words In Freedom Manifesto
622 wordsFuturism (1909 - 1944) was perhaps the first movement in the history of art to be engineered and managed like a business. Since its beginning, Futurism was very close to the world of advertising and, like a business, promoted its product to a wide audience. For this reason, Futurism introduced the use of the manifesto as a public means to advertise its artistic philosophy, and also as a polemic weapon against the academic and conservative world. The poet F. T. Marinetti, founder of the movement,...
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Turn Of The Screw Cambridge Massachusetts
1,233 wordsIn 1860, with the outbreak of the Civil War, The James family moved back to the United States and settled in Newport. James was unable to enlist in the Union army with his two younger brothers due to a back injury he received when putting out a fire. In 1863, James and his older brother William attended Harvard. James did not complete his studies to pursue his writing career. William graduated from Harvard and became one of the most prominent American philosophers and psychologists of his time. ...
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Theory Of Relativity Albert Einstein
527 wordsAlbert 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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Ballets Russes Twentieth Century
1,234 wordsHe fancied a Diaghilev Diaghilev He fancied a career in music, but was a terrible composer. He wanted to be a painter, but lacked vision and aptitude. He wanted to change the face of dance, but had no dance training whatsoever. By his own admission, this poor, misguided soul had no real gifts. He went on to become one of the most influential artistic figures of the twentieth century. Despite his claim to the contrary, Serge Diaghilev, founder of the famous Diaghilev Ballets Russes, had many gift...
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Arden Elizabeth Arden Elizabeth Arden Elizabeth Arden Make
391 wordsElizabeth Elizabeth Arden Elizabeth Arden Elizabeth Arden, formally known as Florence Nightingale, changed her name in 1909 with the introduction of her first shop selling facial creams. She began as a normal working girl, taking different odd jobs here and there. Then she was introduced into the cosmetic world by Eleanor Adair, who hired Arden on as a clerical consultant at her London firm in Saks Fifth Ave. There, Arden learned to give facial treatments and studied the basic formulas of make-u...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Wright
750 wordsFrank Lloyd Wright was born as Frank Lincoln Wright on June 8, 1867. He was born in Richland Center, which is in southern Wisconsin. His father, William Carey Wright, was a musician and a preacher. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones was a teacher. It is said that his mother placed pictures of great buildings in young Frank? s nursery as part of training him up from the earliest possible moment to be an architect. Wright spent some time growing up on a farm owned by his uncle, which was located near sp...
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National Academy Kansas City
575 wordsFrederic Remington was born on October 4 th 1861 to Seth and Clara Sackrider Remington in Canton, New York. During his time of birth in American history there were conflicts between the whites and the Indians over the plains. In August of 1873 Remington moves to Ogdensburg, New York. His father is appointed Collector of the Port. On September of 1875 he enrolls at Vermont Episcopal Institute, Burlington. He attends this institute for 3 years and this is where he discovered his talent and love fo...
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19 Th Century Union Pacific
822 wordsMaury Klein? s? A Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad, ? gives a new perspective of reliable transportation. During much of the 19 th century railroads dominated the American industrial landscape. The railroad enabled people to travel farther and also more widely. The railroad was one of the greatest technological advancements of the 19 th century. Two hundred thousand miles of track were laid by 1900. The railroad began to symbolize American prosperity. By the 1890 s the rail industry was near coll...
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World War Ii 18 Th Century
991 wordsPonders End? History Ponders End started out as a large hamlet in the parish of Enfield. The Enfield enclosure map (1803) shows a straggling L-shaped settlement. The High Street was built up from Red Lane (Lincoln Road) to just south of Farm Lane (Southbury Road). Houses were dotted along South Street as far as Ponders End Mill and the Lee Navigation. There was also a small settlement clustered around Scotland Green. There was no road access across the river to Chingford. (It was not until the e...
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20 Th Century Rite Of Spring
1,236 wordsIgor Igor Stravinsky IGOR STRAVINSKY Igor Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20 th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera singer, Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He grew up hearing his father...
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Nobel Prize Immune System
997 wordsI. A World To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn t been interested in chemistry and biology as a young boy. If Ehrlich hadn t combined so many different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affect...
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Webster Collegiate Dictionary Anti Social Behavior
2,907 wordsProfessor Socialization Of Children Sociology Professor Napoli 28 November 2000 The Socialization of Children: Home Schooling Over Public Schooling Every parent who makes a decision to home school can be assured that they are going to hear the dreaded S word. What about socialization? Often thats the extent of the question without any major elaboration. It seems to me that there are 3 basic implications in the question: Socialization is necessary. Socialization is good. And finally, to be proper...
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