Hello! My name is Anders Celsius. I was born in Uppsala‚ Sweden on November 27‚ 1701. I was born into a very highly scientific and scholarly family. My grandfathers were both astronomers and my father‚ Nils Celsius‚ was an astronomy professor at the Uppsala University. Also‚ I studied at the University of Uppsala‚ became secretary of Uppsala’s scientific society‚ and succeeded my father as the professor of astronomy there in 1730. I traveled for several years to further
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Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala to Nils Celsius who was a professor in astronomy. His two grandfathers were also professors’‚ one taught mathematics and the other was and astronomer. In 1732 he began his grand tour and visited almost all of the notable European observatories of the day‚ where he worked with many of the leading 18th century astronomers. Celsius went on an expedition with the French astronomer Maupertuis. The expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian
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Anders Celsius South Texas College Chem1411- General Chemistry I For Dr. Joe Studer Anders Celsius Although his name sounds like the conversant unit for temperature‚ he is also known for being a Swedish astronomer and a mathematician. His works contributed a lot to the scientific industry. From the beginning of his life‚ he always had the heart and brains of being very successful in his life. From accomplishing an expedition to making his mark in his hometown‚ Anders Celsius was very prosperous
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Samuel Adams "The Father of the American Revolution" Samuel Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was one of the leaders of the movement that became known as the American Revolution. He changed American history just from signing the Declaration of Independence. Samuel Adams was born in Boston in the year of 1722‚ September the 16th. He was born along with 12 other children‚ three of them who died shortly after 3. When Samuel Adams was younger he attended the Boston Latin
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Samuel Adams Samuel Adams is one of America’s founding fathers and helped the nation come together at its beginnings. He was born on September 27‚ 1722 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Adams was one of twelve children born to Samuel Adams‚ Sr.‚ and Mary Adams; in an age of high infant mortality‚ only three of his siblings lived past their third birthday‚ luckily Samuel Adams was one of them to survive. Adams’s parents were devout Puritans‚ and members of the Old South Congregational Church. The family
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that ’if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty‚ we encourage it‚ and involve others in our doom. ’ It is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." - Samuel Adams Thesis: Few people realize the effect Samuel Adams has had on our country‚ they know of him only that he was a politician at the time of the revolution‚ but he is indeed the father of American independence. "Among those who signed the Declaration of Independence
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Samuel Slater Samuel Slater was born in Belper‚ Derbyshire‚ England on June 9‚ 1768. He became involved in the textile industry at the age 14. Samuel Slater worked in the industry for 8 years‚ which is why he is an English-American industrialist. Mr. Slater is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution”‚ a phrase brought up by Andrew Jackson. He also was known as “Father of the American Factory System” and “Slater the Traitor” (In the UK) because he brought the British textile
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SAMUEL RICHARDSON (1689 – 1761) [pic] Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761) was a self-educated tradesman who had little formal literary training‚ yet he made an impact on English literature which is nothing the less remarkable. He expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel through an inventive use of the letter form (thus contributing to the emergence of the so-called “epistolary novel”) and was the promoter of sentimentalism[1]. Together with Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding‚ he is credited
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Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel P. Huntington Review by: A. F. K. Organski The American Political Science Review‚ Vol. 63‚ No. 3 (Sep.‚ 1969)‚ pp. 921-922 Published by: American Political Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1954438 . Accessed: 14/01/2014 15:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Samuel Barber ! It would seem‚ when comparing the lives of some of the most accomplished composers of music in history‚ that many of them struggled a great deal‚ both in the music world and in their own personal lives‚ to make their way to fame. Samuel Barberʼs life‚ early and late‚ was no different. He came of age beset by war‚ of the generation that suffered the greatest global unrest yet known. While his parents eventually supported his musical endeavors‚ his mother for awhile insisted that
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