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- 12271: Isaac Asimov
- ... he graduated Boys High School in 1935, he applied to Columbia University and took on Chemistry as a major (Erlanger 18). This prompted his father to buy him a used typewriter. Although Isaac showed a great deal of interest in science fiction, he only considered it a hobby. His real goal was to become a doctor. However, he started to show more interest in his science fiction. On May twenty-ninth ...
- 12272: Isaac Newton
- ... into a final written form. In the summer of 1693 Newton showed symptoms of a severe emotional disorder. Although he regained his health, his creative period had come to an end. Sir Isaac Newton's great discoveries left us with a unified system of laws that could be applied to an enormous range of physical phenomena. These applications let Newton predict precisely the motion of the stars, and the planets around ...
- 12273: Jackie Robinson 2
- ... of the Brooklyn (now Los Angeles) Dodgers. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., on Jan. 31, 1919. He grew up in Pasadena, Calif. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he demonstrated great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He continued to excel in sports at the University of California at Los Angeles. He left school in 1941 and was drafted the following year for Army ...
- 12274: Jackson, Andrew
- ... hands. Since his death, historians have looked at Jackson as very controversial. He was an aggressive, charismatic, and intimidating person. He is either disliked or liked, but almost all historians will agree that he was great president. Jackson took on a more heroic character as a leader of frontiersmen who in the end made life better for the common man, and the nation as a whole.
- 12275: The Industrial Heartland
- ... Transportation is extremely important in this area. Most mines and mills are located by waterways to make transportation readily available for it's transport's. Coal, limestone, and many other kinds of mines use the Great Lakes to transport, which happens to be in the middle of the Industrial Heartland. They usually have tons of material to move so water transportation can carry lots of material, it's cheap, but it ...
- 12276: The Colorado River
- ... making water easy to divert for irrigation. The Alamo Canal diverted water from the Colorado River to the Alamo River, and traveled 60 miles through Mexico across the Mexicali desert to the Salton Sink, a depression in the Imperial Valley. For this, Mexico received the right to take half the water from the canal, the rest went to the Imperial Valley. Although it may have seemed like an easy way to ...
- 12277: James Watt
- ... stay constantly hot reducing the fuel by almost 75%. He also worked on a condenser which re-uses five-sixths (5/6) of the wasted steam by condensing it back to water. He was also great at adapting a leather washer inside of the piston cylinder to provide a neat seal and prevent steam with leaking which it was previously. In 1767 Watt proceeded to go into a partnership with Dr ...
- 12278: Peru
- ... in most South American countries. The principal exports are petroleum, copper, lead, coffee, silver, fish meal, zinc, sugar, and iron ore. The chief export markets are the United States, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and Great Britain. Exports earned about $2.7 billion annually in the late 1980s. The leading imports of Peru include electrical and electronic items, foodstuffs, metals, chemicals, and transportation equipment. The principal sources of these goods are ...
- 12279: The Five Themes of Geography
- ... race, or religious belief reside. A region can also be a defining physical characteristic of a place. The Sahara and Sahel of Africa is a desert region. Defined by its consistently hot and dry climate. Great Britain of old encompassed one of the greatest regional empires of the world, which extended from Australia, to Belize, to the North American Continent, and finally to her own islands. A region simply put, is ...
- 12280: Jane Addams 2
- ... not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the war widows, the desolate old couple who had lost all five of their sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar depression, and the newcomers who could never really get started. And when she visited the neighboring town, she was shocked by the appearance of the dwellings and, characteristically, wondered what could be done to make them ...
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