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John Haigh
Words: 487 - Pages: 2.... a man collecting the blood into a cup. The man would offer the cup to Haigh, but he always awakened before he could take a drink.
It was the dream, Haigh would confess to the police after his arrest, that made him believe he needed blood in order to live.
Early adulthood was a problematic time at best for Haigh. He was imprisoned several times for fraud and forgery. But his true criminal nature began to manifest in middle adulthood, just after World War II had ended.
In 1944 Haigh rented a basement in London to use as a workshop. It would soon become the grisly testament to his growing need for blood. He killed his first victim in .....
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William Henry Gates
Words: 1326 - Pages: 5.... their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major computer corporation. Other computer companies wanted Microsoft to produce software for their computers, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple computers. With the operating system establis .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. 3
Words: 2593 - Pages: 10.... He entered nearby Morehouse College at age 15 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1948. After graduating with honors from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania in 1951, he went to Boston University where he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology in 1955.
King’s public-speaking abilities—which would become renowned as his stature grew in the civil rights movement—developed slowly during his collegiate years. He won a second-place prize in a speech contest while an undergraduate at Morehouse, but received Cs in two public-speaking courses in his first year at Crozer. By the end of his .....
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Albert Einstein From Start To Finish
Words: 1114 - Pages: 5.... high school at the age 12. He was only interested in
Mathematics and Philosophy. Therefore he made no effort to work in his
other classes. His father, Hermann Einstein, didn't want him to study
Philosophy. He wanted him to take over the family business and study
electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for
hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to
school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he
was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When
he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein.
When Albert was going t .....
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Alexander The Great 3
Words: 675 - Pages: 3.... of conquered people. This leaves Napoleon. Napoleon like Alexander was generally welcomed by the people he conquered .
Alexander fled from his father Philip II when he divorced Alexander's mom. Alexander then remained isolated and insecure fearing his father until he eventually took control of his father’s empire. Alexander the great came to power in 336 B.C. after his father was mysteriously assassinated. He was supported by the army who immedialty recognized him as King. He used his influence with the military to have all potential rivals killed and then worked on gaining the allegiance of Macedonian nobles. He succeeded in th .....
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Geoffery Chaucer
Words: 2362 - Pages: 9.... that is not the case. Today man is able
to take percautions against many of the dangers which face him. Fears
of that sort, exceedingly violent in themselves, bred a species of
violence in the medieval mind. So in the writings of the times this
eminent fear was a influence of writing for all.
Though Chacuer was an amazing writer most of his life is
fragmentary, but there is a lot of it. A lot of people's lives back then
were difficult to document. He was an extraordinary man, a great poet
who was courtier, soldier, learned man, much travelled minor diplomat.
The range of his experience and interests is amazing, from commo .....
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Biography Of Elizabeth Blackwell
Words: 1022 - Pages: 4.... and married Miss Major.
In 1837 hard times came to America. In 1838, Elizabeth's father
went to see the Ohio River Valley, and when he came back he announced that
they were all moving to Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a long hard trip, but
when they got there they found a house and furniture. They had asked a
friend back home to sell their house and send them the money, but the
friend sold the house and disappeared with the money. Suddenly,
Elizabeth's father died leaving the family with debts, bills, and only
twenty-five dollars in cash. The family had to make money quick, so the
girls opened a school and the boys got jobs. The boys made .....
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Jack Kevorkian
Words: 1717 - Pages: 7.... process, and effects of Dr. Kevorkian¹s questionable first patient, Janet Adkins, have a very detailed story in them.
Janet Adkins led a very productive life up to and even after she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer¹s, but she couldn¹t handle losing control of her brain (Filene 188). She was 54 years old and lived in a wealthy Oregon suburb with her stock broker husband, Ron. She was also the mother of three sons, taught English and piano, went hang gliding, trekked in Nepal, climbed Mount Hood, and generally behaved with a lot of energy (Gutmann 20). She and her husband were longtime Hemlock society members, which advocates E .....
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Anne Frank
Words: 580 - Pages: 3.... In 1940, the Germans invaded and conquered Holland.
Anne's life had changed by the Germans taking control. She could not go to her school, and was to attend the Jewish Lyceum. No Jews were allowed out on the streets at night. Her life changed again. It was not a happy one for herself or her family.
In 1941, the Germans had there first round up of Jews in Amsterdam. 5 months later, the Germans summoned 16-year-old Margot Frank to report for deportation. Otto Frank had contacts with some Dutch friends, and they were able to hide out in the attic of a house. The morning after Margot was summoned they left Amsterdam and went to the attic of th .....
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Leonardo Da Vinnci
Words: 3276 - Pages: 12.... everything he could in nature. Leonardo used what he learned from nature and science to make his paintings look real. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. His notes were written backwards, probably because he didn't want people to read about his discoveries and observations. In order to read Leonardo's notes, one has to hold them up to a mirror. In 1472 he entered a painters' guild. His earliest extensive works date back to this time. In 1482 Da Vinci worked for Duke Lodovico Sforza in Milan for 18 years. He fulfilled the position as court artist, but also worked as an engineer and architect. While in Milan Leonardo devel .....
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