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Biographies Essays
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
Mr. Mojo Risin’ and Fallin’: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
He is often referred to as the "electric poet" for his tantalizing words and mesmerizing music, and called to be the "L...
David Poursalimi
David Poursalimi
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, and past away in 1974. Lindbergh was an aviator who made the first solo nonsto...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all t...
Eliot Ness
Eliot Ness
Who was Eliot Ness? Nearly anyone knows Ness’ accomplishments in Cleveland when he went up against Al Capone. Most also know Capone eventually went to jail for tax evasion, but what happened to Ness and his Untouc...
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. Knows not the vivid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear...
Czar Nicholas II
Czar Nicholas II
On May 6, 1868, an event happened that would change the fate of monarchy in Russia. Czar Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov II was born in the Blue Bedroom of the Alexander Palace. Ominously, this occurred on t...
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric a...
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480, in a stone farm house in Portugal. His father's name was Dom Ruy Magellan, and his mother's name was Donha Alda De Mesquite. His father was a Portuguese nobleman and ow...
Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson
For this project I chose as the quintessential Canadian, Paul Henderson. He is representative of
the entire 1972 Team Canada. Before this famous series, it was assumed that Team Canada was
unbeatable,...
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Introduction
Thomas Jefferson spent most of his career in public office and made his greatest contributions to his country in the field of politics. He loved liberty in every form, and he worked fo...
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
On August 2, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was vacationing at his father's home at Plymouth,Vermont when one night he was awakened by the tragic news of Warren Harding's death. Harding ,who had been on a public spe...
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleleyev
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleleyev
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleleyev was born in the town of Tobolsk, Siberia on February 8,1834. He was the youngest of the 14 children . His father was the principal of a gymnasium ( a school w...
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
INTRODUCTION
This report will talk about the life of a famous author, Charles Dickens. It will tell you about his early, middle, and later years of his life. It will also talk about one of his great works of...
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the greatest inventors in history. He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847 and died in 1931. During his life he patented 1,093 inventions. Many of these invention...
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden
(July 19, 1860-June 1, 1927)
It is best described by the closing arguments for Lizzie Borden's defense, made by her attorney, George D. Robinson:
The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and ...