Alexander the great was born July 356 BC‚ Pella Greece. Alexander the great spent his childhood watching his father transform Macedon into a great military power‚ winning victory after victory on the battlefield throughout the Balkans.At the of age 12 he showed his special skill to his father and all who were watching when he tamed Bucephalus‚ an unruly stallion horse‚ unable to be ridden and devouring the flesh of all who had tried. Although the theory of leadership belongs to the scrapheap of history
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Alexander Hamilton: The Other Side of the Revolution Often when one thinks of the American Revolution or the American Enlightenment‚ the philosophies and contributions of men like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are taken into consideration. Indeed they were great thinkers and very pivotal figures in our country’s liberation from Great Britain‚ however more people played a role in accomplishing this great task. America’s founding fathers consisted of several of men‚ all of whom contributed
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Imagine having your father leave your family and your mother die at the age of twelve. Imagine after all of that‚ spend years studying in the Caribbean alone and finally being sent to America. That is what happened to Alexander Hamilton. All of that time he spent reading and writing helped him in the future. He used the skills he created to make a brilliant financial system that would be used hundreds of years later. In addition to a financial system‚ Hamilton wrote most of the Federalist Papers
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Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology‚ immunology and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928‚ for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Alexander Fleming was born August 6‚ 1881 at Lochfield‚ a farm near Darvel
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Analysis of Federalist Paper No.15 Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Paper No.15 expressed how he felt about the people and the government. Hamilton argued non-stop about the Constitution problems and how he would like to solve them. Hamilton had his own beliefs‚ fears‚ and assumptions about the arguments he faced with the Constitution‚ but he was not afraid to speak up and speak out about how he would solve them himself. In the Federalist paper No. 15‚ Alexander Hamilton argues that a stronger central
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Synopsis Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3‚ 1847‚ in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father’s work on Visible Speech for the deaf. Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the design and patent of the first practical telephone. In all‚ Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 that he shared with collaborators. He died in 1922. 2 Early Life Alexander Graham Bell was born Alexander Bell on March
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Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history; by the time of his death‚ he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Alexander was one of the greatest generals of all time‚ noted for his brilliance as a tactician and troop leader and for the rapidity with which he could traverse great expanses of territory. His fame has endured the passing of centuries‚ and he will forever be lauded as the "greatest military genius of all times". His achievements
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Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology‚ immunology‚ and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928‚ for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. In 1999‚ Time magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most
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Why was Alexander the Great so Great? Alexander the Great like most heroes in history have traits that makes it possible for him to be able to do great things. Alexander of Macedonia was a 20 year old leader who got his empire from passed down from family‚ Macedonia and city-states in Greece. Alexander decided to attempt to conquer the entire Persian Empire‚ from Egypt to India‚ In this process he did things historians question made him great or not. Alexander the Great was great because of his
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Compare and contrast Alexander II and Alexander III Although they were father and son‚ the reigns of Alexander II and Alexander III took off in completely different directions. Alexander II was committed to his empire by vowing to reform Russia‚ making it more in line with nineteenth-century western society. His son‚ on the other hand‚ was the unprepared tsar‚ whose actions were literally reactions to his father’s unexpected assassination. Consequently‚ Alexander II went down in history as much
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