Alexander Fleming Biography… Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield a farm near Darvel in East Ayrshire Scotland. After the war Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents‚ having witnessed the death of many soldiers from septicemia resulting from infected wounds. Unfortunately antiseptics killed the patients’ immunological defences more effectively than they killed the invading bacteria. In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I‚ Fleming described
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Being a Creek leader in the 1780s and 1790s‚ Alexander McGillivray was one of many Southeastern Indians with a Native American mother and European father. He used his European powers to protect Creek interests‚ and created nationalist reforms within Creek society. He used trade to increase his own position on the southern frontier. McGillivray was born in 1750 in Little Tallassee which is located near present-day Montgomery‚ Alabama. His father‚ Lachlan McGillivray‚ was a Scottish trader and his
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My most recent obsession of 2016 is the Tony Award-winning musical‚ Hamilton‚ written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It wasn’t the clever rhymes or the casting of people of color which won my praise completely‚ but the overall theme surrounding Alexander Hamilton’s life is what made me feel connected to this founding father. His story is inspiring‚ a typical "underdog" tale that was written beautifully in a series of raps and ballads. Each song reincarnates the people present in Hamilton’s life at the time
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THE MUGHAL PERIOD 1526 Babur lays foundation of Mughal Empire; wins First Battle of Panipat. 1556-1605 Akbar expands and reforms the empire; Mughals win Second Battle of Panipat. 1605-27 Reign of Jahangir; in 1612 East India Company opens first trading post (factory). 1628-58 Reign of Shah Jahan. 1658-1707 Reign of Aurangzeb‚ last great Mughal ruler. 1707-1858 Lesser emperors; decline of the Mughal Empire. BRITISH PERIOD 1757 Battle of Plassey--British victory over Mughal forces
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Students in a normal high school setting might not know of a culture and hit that is played out now in the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The show is about American history and about the life of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is an American musical that should be used as a history lesson for high school students. With all the education material out there I found something that was very interesting to why this show has as an educational took. Educational work Magazine tell us this “the decline
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After creating a Bill of Rights‚ the new United States congress turned its focus to the issue of financing the new government. Alexander Hamilton was hired to be the Treasury Secretary by president George Washington. Hamilton made it his duty to develop an economic structure for the United States that would ensure public confidence in the government’s financial affairs. Hamilton didn’t want to implement the constitution verbatim rather using the loose interpretation of it. He believed that a solid
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We are not alone. Alexander Rousseau. A man with questionable driving skills. He waits tables everyday from 9-5 only to hate it and come back to it. He was tall‚ moderately good looking with slicked back brown hair and brown eyes. He was lean and frail and looked like a shadow at times. 13th September 2017 They watch from afar. The other ones. Not necessarily those who are superior but the one who came before. They watch from afar. . . . It was just another day at the restaurant. 50 covers
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Akbar "The Great" was one of the greatest rulers in Indian history. He was born when Humayun and his first wife‚ Hamida Bano‚ were fugitives escaping towards Iran. It was during these wanderings that Akbar was born in Umerkot‚ Sindh‚ on November 23‚ 1542. Legend has it that Humayun prophesied a bright future for his son‚ and thus accordingly‚ named him Akbar. Akbar was raised in the rugged country of Afghanistan rather than amongst the splendor of the Delhi court. He spent his youth learning to
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Alexander III of Macedon‚ also known as Alexander the Great‚ is known for being one of the most successful military commanders in history. It is often said that he never lost a battle and some of his military tactics are still used today. In the novel‚ The Golden Mean‚ by Annabel Lyon‚ we are given an inside look on the relationship of tutor and pupil between the famous philosopher Aristotle and a teenage boy who would become Alexander the Great. Aristotle tells this story in first person‚ and the
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or to love it. History made by the winner of interest and focused on one side activities. For all that we have been hate history. My first reading for this Summer II class of History II was very interesting in title "The Betrayal of History" by Alexander Stille that reviewed on New York Review of books in 1998 and he was raises a lot of issues according to the American history. The first thing that I found an interesting reading was about the mistaken of publishing of text books and mis-conceptual
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