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Ozzy Osbourne
Words: 1630 - Pages: 6.... Ozzy has done because of the fact that it just made him mad is that one day Ozzy’s wife Sharon came home one day and found Ozzy on the floor underneath the piano with a shotgun in one hand and a bloody knife in the other with seventeen dead cats all around him. What happened is Ozzy had drank and smoked and done all kinds of drugs and he didn’t like the cats to begin with so he shot and stabbed every one of them. He just didn’t care if they died or not. If that’s not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesn’t care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking he .....
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Mozart
Words: 1789 - Pages: 7.... on the 27th of January, 1756. The paternal ancestry of the family has been traced back with some degree of certainty to Fndris Motzhart, who lived in the Augsburg area in 1486; the name is first recorded, for a Heinrich Motxhart in Fischach, in 1331, and appears in other villages south-west of Augsburg, notably Heimberg, from 14th century. The surname was spelled in variety of forms, including Moxarth, Mozhrd and Mozer. His mother’s family came mainly from the Salzburg region, but one branch may be traced to Krems-Stein and Wien. They mostly followed lower middle-class occupations; some were gardeners. 2 Though did not walk until he .....
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Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
Words: 974 - Pages: 4.... to Rome in AD
26, Julia had been banished for adultery. The death of both of Augustus'
grandsons within two years led him to adopt Tiberius as his son and heir.
Tiberius then went into active service in northern Germany against the
Marcomanni. Tiberius succeeded in securing the northern border with the
dangerous German tribes. Tiberius made two more marches into the heart of
Germany. On his return to Rome he was awarded a triumph, the highest official
tribute that was given to honor a victorious warrior.
Augustus died in AD 14 and Tuberius assumed sole power of the whole
Roman empire. Tiberius was a large, strong man, and very tall. .....
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Nicholas: The Last Tsar
Words: 942 - Pages: 4.... met during the wedding of her second sister, Ella, to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. Alexandra was only twelve and Nicholas was only sixteen, but he stated in his diary that he fell in love with her a first sight. Nicholas' father, Tsar Alexander III, did not approve of Alexandra, because of the fact that she was the granddaughter of the English Queen. Instead, he suggested that Nicholas marry a princess from the House of Orleans. His decision was basely mainly on politics, as he was striving for an alliance between Russia and France. Alexander's suggestion did not have any effect on Nicholas, as he seemed certain to marry his childh .....
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J.D.Salinger
Words: 1298 - Pages: 5.... They where concerned about his grades. He flunked out one year
later. Salinger was then enrolled in Valley Forge Military Academy in the
Pennsylvania Hills. It was here that certain biographical facts begin to
build up in accounting for Salinger as a writer. It was at Valley Forge
that Salinger developed a sense of being a misfit, of having been sent away
to become part of an alien institution, and that what is needed, what is
missed, is a larger, closer family.
It was after graduating from Valley Forge that Salinger wrote some
of his first works. Salinger was deeply emotionalize by World war two. This
had a great deal to do with his .....
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John F Kenendy
Words: 735 - Pages: 3.... several days he risked his life swimming into dangerous waters,trying to find a rescue ship.Then he encountered two friendly islanders.He sent them to find people with a message he carved on a coconut.They were rescued and he received a Purple Heart,Navy and Marine Corps medal,but his earlier back injury was aggravated and he contracted Malaria.He had to have an operation on his back which was successful but he would not be able to walk for months,and after that would have to walk with crutches,and he had to leave the war.While having the operation he found out that his oldest brother Joe jnr was shot down and killed while piloting R.A. .....
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Mahatma Gandhi
Words: 935 - Pages: 4.... Other tributes compared Gandhi to Socrates, to Buddha, to Jesus, and to Saint Fancis of Assisi.
The life of Mahatma (great soul) Gandhi is very documented. Certainly it was an extraordinary life, poking at the ancient Hindu religion and culture and modern revolutionary ideas about politics and society, an unusual combination of perceptions and values. Gandhi’s life was filled with contradictions. He was described as a gentle man who was an outsider, but also as a godly and almost mystical person, but he had a great determination. Nothing could change his convictions. Some called him a master politician, others called him a saint, a .....
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Patton
Words: 794 - Pages: 3.... Rommel, the desert fox, was a disaster. The American forces needed a leader who could whip the troops into a fighting machine. That man was . took control of the Second Armored Division, in January 1942. [Biography] When he learned, that Rommel's forces were going to ambush his troops, through an intercepted message, staged his own ambush. This was the first American victory in Northern Africa. The Allied forces, Gen. Montgomery, and Gen. , had divided and destroyed the German North African Core. recommended a plan used by the Ancient Greeks for the invasion of Italy.
wanted to lead the attack on Sicily. This plan was reject .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
Words: 1496 - Pages: 6.... to beat the bully in school- work as well. Soon Isaac had the best grades in his class.
In 1656 Newton's stepfather died.
His mother returned to Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she didn’t have enough money, so she could not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and was sent home to help her. Poor young Isaac could not farm for his life. He abandoned the necessary chores and only thought about mechanical things to make and books to study. There are many stories about him at that time that show how forgetful he was becoming. One of the stories is about when he was once leading a h .....
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H.R. Gieger
Words: 740 - Pages: 3.... of Interior and Industrial Design.
As Giger went through college, he produced many drawings, with ink and other mediums like glue and chalk, and ink paintings with such a large amount of ink that a razor was used to scrape out the details. Underground magazines and the occassional reputational art magazines published many of his work, and eventually one of Giger's freinds helped him create posters. He even had a 10 minute interview done on him by a freind who was a movie director. Soon, Giger began getting work on movies, in creating the monsters and sometimes environments. His residences for the most part were all in conde .....
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