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Stephen Biko
Number of words: 609 - Number of pages: 3

.... was caught going to a white area and he was arrested. While in prison, Stephen was severely beaten to death, but the police said that his death took place because he went on a hunger strike. Stephen Biko achieved many great feats during his life. One of these feats was his acceptance to the University of Natal. He entered the institute to study medicine, though he did not complete the course because of his political activities. Mr. Biko also put forth many ideas to help the black people understand what the whites were doing to them. He said that treating of the blacks poorly itself w .....

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B.b. King
Number of words: 418 - Number of pages: 2

.... returning to Memphis to stay. King's trademark is the trilling vibrato he developed in an attempt to duplicate the stinging sound of the steel slide. With the help of the late Sonny Boy William- son he began singing radio commercials and became a disc jockey. Later he played in small clubs, and then in larger venues in the mid-1960's. He has toured extensively through- out the United States and around the world, appearing in concerts, at blues festivals, on television, and in films. How did Riley B. King receive the nickname ? Well, he was known as " the blues boy from Beale Street," .....

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Saint Francis Of Assissi
Number of words: 3721 - Number of pages: 14

.... of any ethical code, were then strictly subordinated to accepted moral standards, as is clearly shown in the writings of Leo Battista Alberti, a century and a half later, or in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas. Bernardone was not in Assisi when his son was born. At first the child was called John but upon his father's return he was christened Francis, in memory of France, whence Pietro di Bernardone had just returned. More than any other character in history, St. Francis in after life retained the qualities most characteristic of childhood, so that it is not difficult to imagine .....

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Florence Nightingale
Number of words: 917 - Number of pages: 4

.... because the idea of nursing was associate with working class women and it was not considered a suitable profession for well-educated women. While the family conflicts over Florence’s future remained unsolved it was decided that Florence would tour Europe. In her travels, Florence undertook months of nursing training, unbeknownst to her family. Florence returned home, still with the dream to become a working nurse, and again voiced this idea to her parents. Her parrients finally agreed and Florence was allowed to become a nurse. Florence, now thirty-one went to work at Kaserwo .....

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Sergei Grinkov And Ekaterina Gordeeva
Number of words: 1610 - Number of pages: 6

.... in 1982 Sergei's coach and mother decided to pair him with Ekaterina Gordeeva, who at the time was 10 years of age. Ekaterina was born on March 20, 1972 to Alexander and Elena Gordeeva. Ekaterina's mother Elena was a computer specialist and a swimmer, and her father, Alexander was a member of the military- dance theater ensemble. As a child Ekaterina showed the same interest in figure skating as Sergei had done. Since Ekaterina's father, Alexander, was a member of the dance ensemble, he often helped her with her dance positions and maneuvers. Ekaterina or Katya (nickname) was often calle .....

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Frank Lloyd Wright 2
Number of words: 701 - Number of pages: 3

.... of windows. His plans were centered on massive brick or stone fireplaces at the heart of the house. His rooms became wide open to one another and the overall configuration of his plans became more and more alike, reaching out toward some real or imagined expansive horizon. In contrast to the openness of those houses and as if in conflict with their immediate city environment, Wright’s urban buildings tend to be walled in with light entering primarily from above, through skylights. These features contrasted with those of his mentor’s, Sullivan, work. Wright’s distaste .....

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John Dalton 3
Number of words: 466 - Number of pages: 2

.... had to talk John out of becoming a doctor due to the lack of money in the families income. They also did not feel that John would like being a physician in the long run. Later at the age of twenty six John discovered that he was color blind. This occurred when his mother and he were fighting about the color of a skirt. In 1793 John moved to Manchester to tutor. This is where he began working on his greatest work. He then joined a group called Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. In 1773, he published his first book, Meteorological Observations and Essays. What he wrote in t .....

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Number of words: 1053 - Number of pages: 4

.... to keep Black America down. The government kicked them off the high horse to the ground, and as a Black Nation we jumped back on the saddle and rode on to victory. Dr. King started with the Civil Rights Movement, and from there he kept on going. This movement started with a phone call about Rosa Parks being arrested for not surrendering her seat to a white bus rider. King and other leaders felt that a protest of some kind was needed. A meeting in the community was called, they agreed that the only way to fight back would be to boycott the bus company. The people in the .....

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Francesco Petrarch
Number of words: 1940 - Number of pages: 8

.... a career. Giovanni, his son, was born illegitimately in 1337. The relationship between the two was disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as: \"Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally intelligent, but he hates books\" He let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to live in Avignon, at the age of 20. It wasn\'t until just before Giovanni\'s death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch\'s friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He neve .....

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Bill Gates: Biography
Number of words: 649 - Number of pages: 3

.... Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft, and plays an important role in the technical development of new products. A significa .....

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