Wilt Chamberlain Wilt Chamberlain‚ a hall of fame basketball player died yesterday‚ October 12‚ 1999 at his house in Bel Air‚ California. Standing at 7’1" he is remembered as one of the most dominant centers in NBA history. Chamberlain broke many records in his long‚ successful career‚ most notably scoring 100 points in a game. Wilt Chamberlain was born on August 21‚ 1936 in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. He played basketball at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia scoring 2‚200 points in his high
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Love. Several of his songs have been featured in films such as Wonder Boys and Natural Born Killers‚ which opened his music to new generations. Leonard Cohen was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and he has also received the Order of Canada and numerous other awards over the years. With 13 studio albums under his belt‚ including the most recent‚ Popular Problems launched in September 2014. He has also
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The New England Patriots are one of the teams that many says have two potent QB in the league today‚ Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo. Brady is hailed to be the greatest quarterback of all time by many analyst and experts. Having won 4 Super Bowl championship‚ 3 Super Bowl MVP‚ and 2 NFL MVP‚ there’s no doubt that Brady will be a Hall of Famer one day. On the hand‚ Garoppolo was seen to be one of the quality quarterbacks on the list during the draft day. And true to his billing‚ he became a dependable
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Pete Rose Hall of Fame Pete Rose was arguably one of the greatest baseball players to ever play the game. Many people believe he should be in the Hall of Fame‚ but others do not want him in the Hall of Fame because of his gambling. The reasons why Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame are‚ his statistics‚ his leadership‚ and how he left his mark on the game. One of the reasons why Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame is‚ because of his statistics in baseball. Pete Rose won the Rookie
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Dear committee of the Hero Hall of Fame‚ I’m sitting here shocked at the fact; Beowulf seems to be missing from hall of fame. Beowulf is the greatest hero of his time. He possesses the most important qualities of a hero being courage‚ in-human abilities‚ and selflessness. Furthermore this heroic legend puts on a display of ridiculous amount of courage many times. He stated‚ “I have heard too‚ that the monster’s scorn of men is so great that he needs no weapons and fears none. Nor will I.”(166-169)
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In the article "Vermeer‚ Fame‚ and Female Beauty: The Art of Painting‚" Eric Jan Sluijter claims the predominant interpretation of the work puts "many scholars on the wrong track‚" (Sluijter‚ 265). Instead‚ he proposes Vermeer was focused on fame‚ rather than history. Sluijter supports this argument by providing historical context and comparisons. Art of Painting was painted by Johannes Vermeer from 1666-1667 in Delft‚ Netherlands. This work follows the Dutch tradition of close observation of the
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The competitive advantage of the College Football Hall of Fame has the potential to be very strong. What makes the CFHOF hard to duplicate is that it offers a hands-on‚ personalized‚ customer experience that is driven by technology. The CFHOF also has an ideal sized facility‚ which allows for the technology-driven attraction to get a good value for the cost of operations. An attraction that is too big might find it too expensive to depend so heavily on similar technology‚ while a facility too small
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Pebbles Franks Handelman English 1101 24 June 2013 Shame to Fame: Teenage Pregnancy The Pregnancy Trap by Gerry Garibaldi creates the idea that society has become more accepting of teenage pregnancy (634-38). When Garibaldi learns all of his favorite girls are pregnant‚ he asks some of them‚ “Do you think getting pregnant when you’re a teenager is a good thing or a bad thing
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15 Minutes of Fame Andy Warhol‚ in February 1968‚ showed his first exhibition at the Moderna Museet gallery in Stockholm. The quote “In The future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes‚” appeared in the exhibition catalogue. This quote is known as one of Warhol’s most famous quotations. The quote soon became tiresome because at every interview Warhol was asked about it‚ but in the end his quote became quite true. Warhol stated that “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen
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some were/are the captain. If you say these names to somebody who knows football‚ they will know who you are talking about and will know how they were/are the greats of the Packers. Two of these players were even inducted into the Football Hall of Fame. Reggie White is One of the best Packers‚ actually he is one of the best football players in general. Reggie was born in 1961 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. In high school he played football at Howard High School
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