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Richard Warren Sears And Sears, Roebuck, & Company
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1300.... get into the mail-order business in 1886
when a shipment of watches from a Chicago wholesaler was refused by a town
jeweler. Therefore, the shipment sat in the railroad station until Richard
contacted the wholesaler, who offered him the watches for twelve dollars each.
He bought the watches and sold them by sending letters to other station
attendants describing the watches and offering them at the discount price of
fourteen dollars each. He sold those watches and ordered more to sell. To sell
these he advertised in a small way in St. Paul newspapers. He made a large
profit fr .....
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Shoeless Joe
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1189.... feet and they hurt so badly that he just played in his stocking feet. Although he played only one game without the spikes, he was known as “” from then on (McGee 1).
made his major league debut later that year, in 1908, with the Philadelphia Athletics. He only played there a short time before being transferred to the Cleveland Indians. Finally, in 1915 he was sold to Charles Comiskey and the Chicago White Sox. It was here that he played his last few years of professional baseball and his life would be forever changed.
From the years 1917 to 1919 the Chicago White Sox w .....
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Harriet Tubman 3
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2104.... children split apart by the slave trade. Araminta had barely any clothes to wear; usually just a soiled cotton dress. She slept as close to the fire as possible on cold nights and sometimes stuck her toes into the smoldering ashes to avoid frostbite. Cornmeal was her main source of nutrition and occasionally meat of some kind as her family had the privilege to hunt and fish. Most of her early childhood was spent with her grandmother who was too old for slave labor.
At age six, Araminta was old enough to be considered able to work. She did not work in the fields though. Edwar .....
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Rush Limbaugh
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 859.... job as a shoeshine boy at the age of
13.” (People 7-24-95 pgs. 166-168) At the age of 16, serving as a disc jockey,
Rush got his first taste of radio. From there, Rusty began to work at several
different stations, none of which were getting him anywhere. During one of his
first radio jobs Rush went by the name Jeff Christie while working for KQV in
Pittsburgh. He was fired by a man named Jim Carnegie, who now says that he was
instructed to fire him, but as soon as Jim got his next job, he hired Rush again.
At the age of 28 Rush took a job organizing community events fo .....
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Archimedes
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 709.... billion zeros.
One of accomplishments was his creation of the lever and pulley system. proved his theory of the lever and pulley to the king by moving a ship, of the royal fleet, back into the ocean. Then, moved the ship into the sea with only a few movements of his hand, which caused a lever and pulley device to move the ship. This story has become famous because said, "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth. Another invention he invented was the Archimedean screw. This machine was built for raising water to highland areas in Egypt that could not receive .....
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Charles Shults
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1596.... He’s an stong willed boy who is afraid of arguments. Although he is concerned with the true meaning of life, his friends sometimes call him "blockhead." Other than his knack for putting himself down, there are few sharp edges of wit in that head of his; usually he’s the butt of a joke, not the joker. He can be spotted a mile away in his sweater with the zig zag trim, head down, hands in pockets, headed for Lucy’s psychiatric booth. He is considerate, friendly and polite and we love him knowing that he’ll never win a baseball game, or the heart of the the little .....
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Alexander The Greats Struggles
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 738.... how much pulling and tugging went on to win Alexander’ favor that enviably killed Phillip by not knowing who to be loyal to. Upon their return three years later, Alexander’s mother requested to be allowed to rule with him, once Alexander became king. She knew that would be the only way she could regain power. When Alexander turned twenty, his father was brutally murdered by Alexander’s friend. This demonstrated once again how loyal Alexander was to his father, and how difficult a decision it was to pick sides between his father and mother.
Alexander had .....
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Napolean
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1074.... the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. Also in 1796, Napoleon was made commander of the French army in Italy. He defeated four Austrian generals, each with superior numbers, and forced Austria and its allies to make peace. In northern Italy he founded the Cisalpine Republic (later known as Italy) and strengthened his position in France by sending millions of francs worth of treasure to the government.
In 1798, to strike at British trade with the East, he led an expedition to Turkish-ruled Egypt, which he conquered. The British admiral Horatio N .....
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