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Princess Diana
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 639.... She was also once awarded for the girl giving maximum help to the school and her school fellows. In 1977 she left West Heath and went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school when she moved to Coleherne. There she watched after a child for an American couple, while she began her job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England school in Pimlice, London. Like most teachers she didn't have a lot of spare time on her hands, but when she got the chance for a break her and her three room .....
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Ptolemy Of Alexandria
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 512.... that were discovered could
then predict the next occurrence of such an event. Ptolemy eventually
devised an ancient form of nautical almanac or "ephemeris". Mathematics
could now not only be used to predict but to demonstrate whether a
particular theory was correct or not.
Ptolemy developed several theories of his own contrary to the beliefs
of many other Greek astrologers at the time. He upheld that the "heavens"
consisted of bodies orbiting the earth in a celestial path - this idea was
supported for some time. Though his views were altered by the Renaissance
(t .....
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Allen Ginsburg In America
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1606.... poets and the like, including fellow students Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac and friends William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young philosophers, you might say were equally obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He began hanging around with Times Square junkies and thieves (mostly friends of Burroughs), experimenting with Benzedrine and marijuana, and cruising gay bars in Greenwich Village. At this point in Ginsberg life he and Kerouac thought they were working towards some kind .....
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Life Of Shakespear
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 333.... only theater within the limits of London. Shakespeare was a shareholder in both of these theaters. This suggests that Shakespeare might have been a businessman as well as an actor and playwright. In Shakespeare began to write plays for his troop Lord Chamberlains Company. In writing his plays he had to take several things into account. Some examples are the skills of the actors in his troop, and also that all of the actors were men, because of the fact that no women were allowed to perform at that time. By 1592 he was recognized as a successful actor, also as a poet. During his .....
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Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader Of Germany
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1341.... into the academy. The dean of the academy told Adolf that he could never be a painter (Smith 29). This rejection crushed him, as he now had nowhere else to go. I like to speculate what would have happened if he had been accepted into the academy. Would the world have been spared World War II?
While living in Vienna Adolf made his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold as post cards. He wasn’t successful and didn’t make any money. He was a regular reader of a small paper that claimed the Aryan race was superior to all and was destined to rul .....
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Lyndon B Johnson
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1457.... born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war came to Europe he backed .....
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Joseph Stalin
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 367.... was deported to Siberia (Amaricana). In 1912, Joseph was rewardedfrom Lenin by coopting him to the Bolshevik Central Commi ttee. He started going by the name of Stalin,which means "man of steel." Stalin was appointed to the mundane adminastrative posts (Grolier). In 1917, March 15, the Czar's abduction had led to even more social chaos in Russian. As a party member Joseph was chaired on April 11the national conference of Bosheviks delegates urged cooperation with the temporary existing successor goverment . The civil war in 1918 to 1921 had a huge effect on the new regime. It l .....
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2727.... his mother and rented a
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 neve .....
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