... meaningless and dumb. We had many hours before the nights events started. I remember thinking to myself that I was going to be in trouble If I didn't slow down on the liquid courage, a feeling that I was very accustomed to, but something wasn't right to night I felt a foreign feeling that I quickly dismissed and chased with another drink. Finally 10:30p.m. rolled around, A little over seven hours since we had started drinking. Like drunken fools we wandered out the door of the house and figured out the driving situation to the bowling ally. I didn't volunteer, refusing to drive knowing that it would only cause trouble for all of us. Matt said he would drive ...
... acting and abandoned his family. He died a short time later (Harrison 22). Soon afterward, Edgar’s mother, Elizabeth, became ill and died (Nilsson). A young woman named Frances (also known as Fanny) and her husband, John Allan, took in Edgar. Soon thereafter, John, a tobacco trader, moved the family to England. There, Edgar began his first formal education. In 1820, when the tobacco market in London collapsed, the Allan’s returned to New York (Benfey; Nilsson). Edgar continued his education, excelling in Latin and French. During this time he was also in search of a maternal figure. Although fond of Fanny Allan, her poor health limited her abilit ...
... about them. So, when he was 14, he read a book about the Stone Aged man, and he was hooked. After reading the book he began to search for, and collect these tools and classify then by the book as he found them. Leakey then knew "he would spend the rest of his life devoted towards discovering the prehistoric ancestors of humankind." Secondly, a rugby accident also contributed to success in his field. Leakey was accepted to Cambridge University in 1922, but "numerous blows to the head during the rugby season left him unable to study." He experienced recurring headaches and dizzy spells and left school to recover. This event, although bad at the time ...
... Benito Mussolini annexed Albania. He then told the British ambassador that not even the bribe of France and North Africa would keep him neutral."2 The British ambassador was appalled and dismayed. On May 28, 1937, Mussolini strongly gave thought to declaring war. He then attacked the Riviera across the Maritime. "On September 13, 1937 he opened an offensive into British-garrisoned Egypt from Libya."3 On October 4, 1937, while the offensive still seemed to promise success, Benito Mussolini met Adolf Hitler at the Brenner Pass, on their joint frontier. "The two of them discussed how the war in the Mediterranean, Britain's principal foothold outside its islan ...
... himself a Black Muslim and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Because of his religious beliefs, Ali took a controversial stand against the Vietnam War. Consequently, the New York State Athletic Committee suspended Muhammad Ali’s boxing license. Muhammad’s recognition as a champion was withdrawn and he was also suspended from the Nation of Islam because he planned to return to boxing. After being barred from the ring, Muhammad displayed his tenacity by touring colleges and giving lectures to earn money while filing suit against the New York State Athletic Commission for violating his 14th amendment rights. When Ali won his lawsuit and his boxing license wa ...
... of the king of Spain to bring peace between the two countries. Mazarin died March 9, 1661. On March 10, Louis claimed supreme authority in France. Not since Henry IV had such a claim been made. Louis saw himself as God's representative on earth, therefore, infallible. He oversaw roadbuilding, court decorum, defense, and disputes within the church. He had the support initially of his ministers, then that of the French people. He had given France the image it desired-youth and vitality surrounded by magnificence. Louis won the favor of the nobles by making it evident that their future depended on their ability stay on his good side. This weakened the nobility ...
... of an enemy tribe and died. Temujin inherited his father’s position, but the rest of his tribe did not accept their new leader and abandoned a teenaged Temujin and his family. For a short time the family lived in poverty, owning only a few sheep and other livestock and digging up roots for food. Temujin, however, managed to somehow preserve a considerable fund of prestige among certain members of the tribe that had rejected him. Soon, Temujin began to attract followers, form important alliances with other tribes, and was able to build his own army. He employed rigorous training and strict discipline to create a supreme fighting force. He also made sure ...
... I did not Hitlers physical standards. Also Hitler himself did not have blond hair and blue eyes. Next, I don’t think that you should judge anyone by the way they look or what they do; that is very wrong. Hitler’s idea of one dominate race was a very bad one. Adolf Hitler was born in an Austrian town known as Braunau am Inn. Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler’s father was a Custom official’s, and his mother was named Klara. Alois was illegitimate, first of all he used his mother’s name, Schicklgruber until 1876, when he adopted the name Hitler. Adolf’s father was very strict with him, and ignored him most of the time because Ado ...
... in Australia directing a new gold-mining venture. During the next two decades he traveled through much of Asia, Africa, and Europe as a mining entrepreneur, earning a considerable fortune. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 he was in London. Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public service. He volunteered to direct the exodus of American tourists from war- torn Europe and then to head (1915-19) the Commission for Relief in Belgium. This position brought him public attention as the "great humanitarian," a well-earned reputation that he lost ...
... she married the New York University English teacher Vincent Hopper. Her computer technology life would soon begin following her graduation. Upon graduating, Grace was accepted to the Bureau of Ordinance at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]"… not a problem for Grace. She would then be the third person ever to program the Mark I. At that same time, the Mark I was being used to calculate the an ...
