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    Augustus De Morgan was known as a British mathematician and logician. He is known for creating De Morgan’s Laws and showing us the term mathematical induction. He also has a crater on the moon named after him. Augustus De Morgan was born on June 27‚ 1806 in Madras‚ India. His father was named Colonel John De Morgan‚ and he was employed by the East India Company ’s service. Just a few months after Augustus was born‚ he became blind in one eye. At seven months old‚ his father moved the family to

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    Garrett Morgan Garrett Augustus Morgan was born on March 4‚ 1877 in Paris‚ Kentucky‚ the seventh of eleven children to Sydney and Elizabeth Morgan. His parents had previously been slaves‚ freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. At the early age of 14‚ Morgan decided to travel north to Ohio in the hopes of receiving better education opportunities. During those times‚ there were better opportunities for blacks in the northern part of the country. Still‚ Morgan’s formal education never surpassed

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    straight lines because curved line could not be drawn in the wet clay. They used these tablets to aid in the calculations of problems. They studied math with the help of these tablets. They studied in mathematics because having a peaceful nation they had no need to specialize in military and warfare‚ so they learned math and discovered new forms of math. A tribe known as the Kassites began to attack Babylonia when Hammurabi’s son ruled the empire. Over the centuries‚ the Kassites weakened Babylonia

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    John Pierpont Morgan played an existential role in the foundation of the United States of America. Without Mr. Morgan‚ the world would not correlate the name of Edison to the creation of the light bulb. If Morgan ceased to exist‚ there would be no such cinematic need for the movie Night at the Museum. He was one of the four men who formed the basis of modern-America during the industrialization period (1820-1870). The four businessmen‚ three of which were corrupt‚ who developed industrial America

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    J.P Morgan J.P Morgan John Pierpont Morgan was born on the 17 April 1837 in Hartford Connecticut. He is one of America’s most famous businessman and his business and legacy still live on today. At the peak of his time he was worth 25 billion modern us dollars. J.P was born into a rich family as his millionaire father Junius made his fortune by investing other people’s money in stocks. His father taught him how to avoid risk at a young age by making handle a million dollars. Early life

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    With the research of the modern world‚ it has become quite clear that Rome was a massive military power in the Ancient World. They conquered all‚ and were unstoppable. Though‚ this only came to be through the change from a Roman Republic to the Roman Empire‚ and only one man could change this. Augustus. Augustus was the first Roman Emperor‚ and quite frankly the founder of the Roman Empire. Augustus commanded legions of Roman Soldiers‚ reformed the populous to run more efficiently and started the

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    the powerful ruler and of his achievements. Here‚ we will look at two vivid examples of such a pattern in the art of the ancient Rome: the statue of Augustus of Prima Porta and the colossal head of emperor Constantine. Even though

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    Morgan Hocking was born December 13‚ 1997. She was originally born in Crawfordsville Indiana‚ but at the age of 14 she moved to another city that is twenty minutes outside of Crawfordsville‚ Ladoga. Someone who she admires the most is her mother. She admires her mother because she views her as strong. Morgan’s parents divorced when she was six years old. Hocking’s father is frequently in and out of jail‚ which left her mother to raise two children by herself. Morgan Hocking is a freshman here at

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    Marquis De Lafayette’s Contributions to France The Marquis de Lafayette‚ sometimes known as the “Hero of Two Worlds”‚ held a powerful political and military influence over the people of revolutionary France (“Marquis De Lafayette”).  Lafayette has been credited as being America’s first celebrity and has even been granted honorary citizenship in some states (Klein). Lafayette’s accomplishments in America are celebrated‚ but not nearly as much as his contributions in France. The Marquis De Lafayette

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    introduction I chose accountant for the career to do my project on. The reason I chose accountant was because that is one of my options to become when I get older. There are a couple of things that I want to know about accountants. I want to know what kind of formulas they use or do they just use the basics like addition‚ subtract‚ multiplication‚ and division. I also want to know what the average salary for them a year. Those were just a few of the questions that I have for this project; hopefully

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