.... an adolescent he was much more interested in sports than writing, especially rowing. Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he entered the French civil service. He first served with the Ministry of Navy and later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During the between 1873 and 1880 he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his skills as a writer of prose fiction. .....

.... The Standard Oil Company along with his brother William, Andrews,and others. By 1872 Standard Oil had purchased and thus controlled nearly all the refining firms in Cleveland, plus two refineries in the New York City area. Before long the company was refining 29,000 barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business in the US in t .....

.... room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had a pl .....

.... They had him focus more on athletics. After Pasadena Junior College Jackie got a scholarship to the University of California at UCLA. Jackie's true passion was playing sports. He excelled in every sport he played. His favorites were football, track, baseball and basketball, which earned him a scholarship. Jackie was the first student to play on four varsity teams. At UCLA in 1940 he met his future wife Rachel Isum. He did not complete his senior year at UCLA. Instead at age of 21 he joined NYA (national Youth Administration.) where he played baseball to entertain camper .....

.... War began in 1846. (Scaturro 2) In 1847, Grant took part in the capture of Mexico City. By the end of the war he was promoted to first lieutenant for his skill and bravery. Grant's experiences in the Mexican War taught him lessons that will later help him during the Civil War. Grant was almost 39 years old when the Civil War began in 1861. He strongly opposed secession and as soon as war broke out he knew he had a duty to fight for the Union. He had been retired from the Army for seven years, but when President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers, Grant rejoi .....

.... famous Russian composer, and one of ’s idols, at the time. In another failure to succeed, reluctantly joined a circle of famour writers and painters, led by the Russian painters Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. During this time, did succeed and indeed felt he had finnaly found his place in life. He founded AND edited a progressive art journal – "Mir Iskusstva" ( The World of Art) from 1899 – 1904. In 1899, as a project, became the artistic adviser to the Imperial Theatres in Moscow, where he produced and co-produced several operas and ballets. It was .....

.... the University of Wisconsin. While at Wisconsin he majored in mechanical engineering. During his time at the university he paid more attention to the growing field of avaion than he did to his studies. In 1924 enlisted in the United States Army so he could begin studying on how to be a fighter pilot. One year later he graduated from the Army flight training school that was held on both Brook’s field and Kelly’s field. He graduated as the number one pilot in his class. After that he bought his own airplane and for the next six years of his life he spent flying an airplane .....

.... and secured him a teaching spot in the University of Pisa. During the years immediately following, taking advantage of the celebrated leaning tower, he laid the foundation experimentally of the theory of falling bodies and demonstrated the falsity of the peripatetic maxim, which is that an objects rate of descent is proportional to its weight. When he challenged this it made all of the followers of Aristotle extremely angry, they would not except the fact that their leader could have been wrong. , in result of this and other troubles, found it prudent to quit Pisa and move to .....