George Westinghouse was an American entrepreneur and engineer. He was responsible for the introduction and development of altering current for light and power. Westinghouse invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. He was one of Thomas Edison’s main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system. This man founded 60 companies‚ eventually receiving over 100 patents for his work with the desire to turn ideas into enterprises. George Westinghouse
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George Eliot George Eliot taking the life of a woman and making it into something big. Mary Ann Evans also known as George Eliot was an English literature writer. In 1819 on November 22 Mary Evans was born. People that she was around for a long time were later put into her books. In the days that George Eliot was writing was when women couldn’t choose writing as a profession (“George Eliot.”www.kirasto.sci.fi web.‚ Kirkpatrick‚ D.L…). Eliot’s first fiction book was Scenes of Clerical Life (Kirkpatrick
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George Whitefield George Whitefield was a Methodist preacher during the First Great Awakening. He was born in Gloucester‚ England on December 16‚ 1714 and was buried in Newburyport‚ Massachusetts on September 30‚ 1770. Whitefield took voyages to the New World seven times‚ voyages whose one-way trips took two months. He called both sides of the Atlantic “home”. He was the most traveled preacher of the gospel up to his time and many feel he was the greatest evangelist of all time. His diligence
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Kristen Coury Mr. Mulcahy George Washington Paper June 9‚ 2013 From the late 1600s to the 1800s‚ many great leaders and influential people have shaped America to make it what it is today. All the great generals‚ presidents‚ and even inventors all played a major role‚ each contributing something significant to society. The most important person‚ however‚ the man who contributed the most to society‚ was the first president‚ George Washington. George Washington was the most influential person
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George Washington George Washington was born February 22‚ 1732 in Westmoreland County‚ Virginia. His mother and father‚ Augustine Washington and his second wife Mary Ball‚ got married in 1731. George was the oldest of their six children. He also had an older half-brother‚ Lawrence Washington. Augustine Washington moved his family from Potomac River to another Washington home called Little Hunting Plantation later named Mount Vernon in 1738. In 1738 the family moved once again to Ferry Farm on
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George Washington George Washington was one of the greatest leaders in American history. He is recognized for his bravery and honorable acts. His life began in February 22‚ 1732. He was born near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County‚ Virginia. His parents were Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. During Washington’s time‚ Virginia was a slave society. His father was a slave-owning tobacco planter. During his youth‚ Washington’s family was ranked “middle” in society. When
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Professor Deering Research Paper December 10‚ 2012 George Washington: An American Icon George Washington was the only United States’ president to not live in the White House. He lived in the capital which was Philadelphia and New York at the time of his Presidency. He has accomplished so much from the time he was a young boy‚ to a general in the army‚ and later becoming president of the United States. Throughout the successful career of George Washington; with the assistance of his raw determination
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May 30th‚ 2008 Per . 5 Painting George Seurat Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2‚ 1859‚ in Paris‚ France. He was the youngest of three children in the family. His father was a wealthy lawyer‚ Chrysostome-Antoine Seurat‚ and his mother named Ernestine Faivre‚ she came from a prosperous Parisian family. During the early 1870s‚ Seurat was taking private drawing lessons from painter and uncle Paul Haumonte. His uncle took him on regular art expeditions. From 1875‚ he studied drawing
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2.1‚2.3 #28 English George Lucas 11/3/11 Greatest Producer of all Time‚ Mr. Lucas George Lucas‚ the man who created Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Lucas was born in Modesto‚ California on May 14‚ 1944. Lucas was a single child while his father sold nuts on his Walnut Farm. Before graduating Modesto high school in 1958‚ Lucas was in a car accident that left him in the hospital for three months. Lucas then became interested in movie making
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Georges Braque Georges Braque (May 13‚ 1882 August 31‚ 1963) was a French painter and sculptor who‚ with Pablo Picasso‚ developed cubism and became one of the major figures of twentieth-century art. Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine‚ France. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator as his father and grandfather were‚ but he also studied painting in the evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre from about 1897 to 1899.Braque’s paintings of 19081913
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