.... stop him from engaging in sarcasm. One story relates that one of his students complained that he had no use for any of the mathematics he was learning. Euclid quickly called to his slave to give the boy a coin because "he must make gain out of what he learns." Another story relates that Ptolemy asked the mathematician if there was some easier way to learn geometry than by learning all the theorems. Euclid replied, "There is no royal road to geometry" and sent the king to study. Euclid's fame comes from his writings, especially his masterpiece Elements. This 13 volume work is a compilation of Greek mathematics and geometry. It is unknown ho .....

.... of his peers, he found his own hobby: entertaining others. During the 1950’s, Silverstein even served as a member of the United States Armed Forces. While in this position, he was employed as a cartoonist to help cheer up the troops during the Korean War. In 1956, the writer worked again as a cartoonist, but this time for a little-known magazine called Playboy. Despite this wide range of literary audiences, Silverstein’s main purpose was to entertain. Two of his major collections of works of literature are the critically acclaimed Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. They have no real historic significance; they .....

.... the years of strife between Britain and her colonies, but it was not published until 1776. In the passages which follow, Smith points to the impossibility of monopolizing the benefits of colonies, and pessimistically calculates the cost of empire, but the book appeared too late to have any effect upon British policy. Because the Declaration of Independence and The Wealth of Nations, the political and economic reliations of empire and mercantilism, appeared in the same year, historians have often designated 1776 as one of the turning points in modern history. The text On the cost of Empire, the eloquent exhortation to the rulers of Britain .....

.... London, but he was largely family-trained and self-taught. He moved to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. 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 repres .....

.... calls it a “proper vehicle for conveying instructions among the common people.� This book had Whig ideals spread throughout it. This was a way for him to spread information about anything he wanted to the common people. He also published a newspaper. He also used this as a vehicle to send information to people. He solicited out the bad things, “IN the conduct of my newspaper I carefully all libeling and personal abuse….� He tried to display just the good in society. But in the same right he mentions his newspaper as a stagecoach, saying, “in which anyone who would pay had the right to a place.� This shows his ideals on writi .....

.... Purchase (from France), which almost doubled the United States in size. The United States was forming different sections during the early 1800s. In the Northeast big cities and industry thrived, and the South consisted of large farms. These different sections had different views. Slavery was the biggest issue that the north and south disagreed on. People in the south said that they needed slaves for help with harvesting crops. But people in the north wanted slavery to be abolished. I was born September 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine. Maine is the northern most state on the Atlantic coast of the continental United States. I grew up on a 10 .....

.... and the Red Sea Regions. In August 1667, he made an unsuccessful attack on ships sailing with mocha coffee from Yemen, but later Kidd’s crew took several small ships. Kidd captured his most valuable prize, the Armenian ship Quedagh Merchant, in January 1698 and scuttled the unseaworthy Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April 1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City. There he tried to persuade the colonial governor of New York, the Earl of B .....

.... book he ever wrote 2. Had a lot to do with his socialist views. C. Died in 1950 1. Asked that no biography be written about him Thesis statement: George Orwell, one of the most significant writers of the 20th century, was greatly influenced not only by his English heritage but also by his many life experiences. It was August 1914, right after the start of World War One. Three children were playing in a garden at the end of the summer holidays, on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames River. The children saw a young boy about their age standing on his head from across the street. The children asked the boy why he was on his head. T .....

.... in political science. His widely acclaimed book, Congressional Government (1885), was published a year before he received the doctoral degree. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson; they had three daughters. Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer, Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People (1902). In 1902 he was the unanimous choice of the trustees to become Princeton's preside .....

.... found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age of 22, Bach became fed up with the lousy musical standards of Arnstadt (and the working conditions) and moved on to another organist job, this time at the St. Blasius Church in Muhlhausen. The same year, he married his cousin .....