Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer born in Northern Portugal in 1492. His parents ‚ were very wealthy and powerful and members of the portuguese nobility but died when he was only 10 years old. Before he became an explorer Magellan was first a soldier. During a Battle Magellan lost an eye after being shot in it and was injured and lost his leg‚ the wooden leg given to him didn’t fit properly causing him to walk with a limp. He sailed for his native Portugal‚ but a dispute with the
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Medical Explorers is a program that will give me the ability to learn from a more hands on experience in learning about the medical field. I have many goal in life that I wish to accomplish through my life. Some of my personal goal are to graduate high school‚ graduate from college‚ and one day get married and raise a family of my own. Some of my career goals are to finish college with my PHD in psychology and my masters in forensic science. With my degree‚ I would like to work in the court system
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money in the world‚ it can be tough to spend it all. It will be even tougher to spend when you’re dead. If you’re Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page‚ though‚ you already know how you want your money to live on after you’re gone: support innovators like Tesla CEO Elon Musk. That’s what Page said at the TED conference in Vancouver‚ Canada this week‚ anyway‚ adding that the already-wealthy Musk is worthy of the Page billions because he’s one of the people who can change the world. Page said: He
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Arnold Palmer: Introducing the World to Golf Years before Jack Nicklaus‚ decades before Tiger Woods‚ Arnold Palmer was the face of golf. His followers grew so large‚ they became somewhat of an Army. He was the first golfer to earn $1 million in his career. His emergence onto the golf scene coincided with the rise in televised coverage‚ so the young man from Latrobe‚ Pa.‚ attracted millions of fans to the sport. Arnold Daniel Palmer was born in Youngstown‚ Pennsylvania‚ the oldest of Milfred
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Laswell ’s ’World Music Supergroup ’ Tabla Beat Science.[3] Hussain participates in the Silk Road collaborative musical
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Arthur Helps "For an impenetrable shield‚ stand inside yourself." - Thoreau "Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "What does not kill me makes me stronger." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." - Henrik Ibsen "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough" - Og Mandino "Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it’s letting go." - Unknown "The
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In this paper I chose to visit the virtual museum of fine arts in Boston‚ MA. I chose‚ Predictive Dream‚ by a world famous artist by the name of Aoki Katsuyo. This piece of art is currently on display at Exhibition of Fine Arts Boston‚ New Blue and White. This happens to be a ceramic porcelain piece of work from a series the artist created named Predictive Dreams‚ where skulls decorated in an excessive asymmertrical ornamentation style from cast porcelain formulate the series‚ . This work is neo-ornamentalism
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For my famous entrepreneur I decided to do Bill Gates. Bill Gates started the company called Microsoft. Bill Gates was at one point the richest person in the world. He took interest in software when he was only 13 years old. Bill Gates wrote a payroll program for Science Inc. when he was in high school. He scored an almost perfect score on the SAT. He was accepted by Harvard to study pre-law‚ but he spent most of his time on the school computers. He met Steve Balmer at Harvard who is the current
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Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci worked on his masterpiece over a period of 20 years. He carried it with him everywhere. The enigmatic smile has captured the imagination of the world. I love this painting because it is very human‚ but also gives a glimpse of the world beyond‚ the transcendental. Artist | Leonardo da Vinci | Year | c. 1503–1519 | Type | Oil on poplar | Dimensions | 77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in) | Location | Musée du Louvre‚ Paris | Creation of Adam - Sistine
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Their Own Freedom" (Malay Women Creating Your Own Freedom). When the term of his leadership from 16 July 1981 until 31 October 2003‚ he managed to bring development through policies and planning success inspired other countries to lift Malaysia to the world stage as one of the more viable in Southeast Asia to have named as one of the countries ’Asian Economic Tiger’. His most memorable effort Malaysia and the international community as to bring Malaysia out of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
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