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The Marriage
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 390.... that he had deleted more than one file and a few more things. He had also changed the ports on the computer as well . I reset everything and headed back for the shop.
And of course we have the wild one ,Sam . Now Sam has mice.And as mice go, they love to eat. The mice had eaten almost all of Sams I.D.E. cables and tinkled over the rest.which in fact ruined most of her computer.Sam and I sat talked and decided to rebuild what she had . The parts that she did not have the money for I loaned to her.Everyday when the phine rang I knew without a doubt that Sam was on the other end o .....
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Albert Einstein And His Theories
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1938.... he finished
secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and entered the Swiss National
Polytechnic in Zürich. Einstein did not enjoy the methods of instruction there.
He often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play
his beloved violin. He passed his examinations and graduated in 1900 by studying
the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and would
not recommend him for a university position.
For two years Einstein worked as a tutor and substitute teacher. In 1902
he secured a position as an examiner in the Swiss paten .....
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William Faulkner
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1277.... were his three brothers. (American Writers; 55a)
Faulkner's great-grandfather was William C. Falkner. He was born in 1825.
He was a legendary figure in Northern Mississippi. Many details of his life
have shown up in Faulkner's writings. He was twice acquitted of murder charges.
He was a believer in severe discipline and was a colonel of a group of raiders
of the Civil War. He began as a poor youngster trying to take care of his
widowed mother, but ending his career as the owner of a railroad and a member of
the state legislature. He was killed by his former railroad .....
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Alexander Ghram Bell
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 914.... With each passing year, Alexander Graham Bell's intellectual horizons broadened. By the time he was 16, he was teaching music and elocution at a boy's boarding school. He and his brothers, Melville and Edward, traveled throughout Scotland impressing audiences with demonstrations of their father's Visible Speech techniques. Visible Speech was invented by their father but he didn’t have much luck with it. It is a technique were ever sound that comes out of a persons mouth can be represented with a visual character. In 1871, Bell began giving instruction in Visible Speech at t .....
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Susan B Anthony
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 656.... school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf of temperance.
This was one of the first expressions of feminism in the United States, and it delt with the abuses of woman and children who suffered from alcoholic husbands. In 1849, Susan gave her first public speech for the Daughters of Temperance, and then help found the Woman’s State Temperance Society o .....
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Thomas Hardy
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1660.... Hardy’s family was never poor and he summed up his happy childhood in a tiny lyric:
She sat here in her chair,
smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
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Bowing it higher and higher.
Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!
As a young child, Hardy mastered the violin learning over 100 tunes. He also sang in the Stansford Church every Sunday. It seems to be t .....
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Thurgood Marshall
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 809.... same organization that became the leading lawyer of. was born in the year of 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was prepped and raised by his mother, Norma Arica Marshall, and his father, William Canfield Marshall. Thurgood's mother was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Colombia University and his father was the first black person to serve on Baltimore's grand jury in the 20th century. Their accomplishments influenced young Thurgood in the years yet to come. Thurgood was always top of his game and graduating from an all black high school in Baltimore at 16 .....
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Duke Ellington 2
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 960.... their times with Duke (Holmes). Such players as Jimmy Blanton, the “doomed young virtouoso of the stringed bass”, and Ben Webster, adding to the sax section that already housed Jonny Hodges, Harry Carney, and Barney Bigard
(Holmes).
The trumpet section during this time in Duke’s orchestra comprised such
legends as Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams. Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence
Brown comprised the monster trombone section, and Sonny Greer rounded out the
orchestra on drums (Holmes). And of course, there the “piano player, as Duke often refe .....
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