"I may be compelled to face danger‚ but never fear it‚ and while our soldiers can stand and fight‚ I can stand and feed and nurse them"-Clara Barton. She is known as Clara Barton but she was born Clarissa Harlowe Barton‚ and Clara was a smart‚ and intelligent women. Her mother Sarah Barton gave birth to her on December 25‚ 1821 in a North Oxford hospital in Massachusetts. Her parents‚ Stephen and Sarah‚ knew she was a special baby because she was born on Christmas Day. Clara was the fifth of four
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Hannah Cannon‚ 15‚ passed away on the 31st of August‚ 2017‚ due to a rock climbing accident. She was survived by her mother and father‚ Christian and Corenna. She has 6 siblings; Brooke‚ 10‚ Abby‚ 17‚ Sarah‚ 20‚ Alice‚ 23‚ Sam‚ 25‚ Emily‚ 27. She has two in-laws‚ Chelsie‚ 24‚ and Joe‚ 27. She also has two nieces; Emma‚ 1‚ and Giselle‚ 9 months. Family has been a major part of her childhood. They all were very close to one another. Her youngest sister‚ Brooke‚ has been her best friend throughout
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Napoleon Bonaparte was short for his time however; he was considered normal height for the time period he lived in. Many say Napoleon had short man syndrome. Short man syndrome is conditions were a person has to deal with a feeling of inadequacy. Napoleon Bonaparte was born August 15 1769 in Ajaccio‚ Corsica. His parents’ names were Carlo Bonaparte and Marie Letizia. Napoleons family was very wealthy. Carlo was a lawyer and political opportunist. Napoleon had 4 brothers Joseph‚ Lucien‚ Louis
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The Hardships and Upcoming of Django Reinhardt Django Reinhardt once said “Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music‚ but which popular music doesn’t have.” Reinhardt had worked very‚ very hard to get to the peak of his career. His life was like a story in the genre of “Rags to Riches” because he wasn’t born with the best of beginnings‚ but he still accomplished the impossible and became the first important European
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James Hutton A report done by Sarah Lynn Brixey James Hutton was a Scottish geologist‚ naturalist‚ and experimental farmer. He is considered the father of modern geology. His theories of geology and geologic time‚ are also called deep time‚ and came to be included in theories which were called plutonism and uniformitarianism. Plutonism is the disproven theory that all rocks formed by solidification of a molten mass. Uniformitarianism means of or pertaining to the thesis that processes that operated
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What makes golf the phenomenal sport it is today? Is it the game itself? Some say golf started in fifteenth century Scotland by men hitting a pebble with a wooden stick. Currently‚ graphite drivers routinely send the ball soaring 300 yards. Perhaps it was the golfers who made the game great. Arnold Palmer brought golf to the masses in the 1950’s and Jack Nicklaus has set records that have yet to be broken. However‚ today sports commentators‚ pro golfers‚ and weekend duffers‚ generally agree
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James Dean was a famous actor in the 1950’s who also loved to race cars. Dean was an up and coming new actor when tragedy struck. James was traveling in California when he rammed into the back of another car‚ and he was pronounced dead at the scene. This changed the movie world and it made people realize that tragedy can strike whenever‚ wherever. James Dean was born on February 8‚ 1931‚ in Indiana‚ to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Soon after James was born‚ his dad became a dentist
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correspondent for the Chicago Tribune‚ in 1927 he joined the staff of the New Yorker‚ a magazine with which he would be associated for the rest of his life (as a freelancer from 1936). His stylish wit marked by psychological insight‚ Thurber produced droll short stories‚ a comic play about college life‚ and a number of works of gentle satire on various subjects. He is probably best remembered today for his cartoons and drawings‚ of which there are many collections. These often depict hapless middle-aged men
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Dexter Gordon was a Jazz saxophonist. He was born February 27‚ 1923 in Los Angeles California. Many people know Mr. Gordon because of bebop. This style of play is what brought him fame. Gordon played amongst many jazz greats like Charlie Parker‚ Charles Mingus‚ and Buddy Collette to name a few. Gordon started to play at the age of 13. His first instrument was the clarinet but quickly after he decided to take up the tenor saxophone at the age of 17. Music was always popular around the Gordon household
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Contemporary conviction slates General Nathanael Greene as a component within George Washington ’s military array of tools. However‚ such a characterization drastically understates Greene ’s true importance to the American Revolution. Greene ’s uncanny list of accomplishments is both alarming and incredible: his steadfast leadership helped carry a budding nation ’s hopes of liberty when it was most needed in northern and southern campaigns‚ a poignant relationship with George Washington serviced
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