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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Do you like having GPS‚ Weather Reports‚ and TV Broadcasts? Well you can thank the Nazi’s for that and the tireless efforts of Werner Von Braun. The analysis of the piece of literature I chose “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space‚ Engineer of War” by Michael J. Neufeld is quite difficult because there is a lot of controversy surrounding Von Braun and his contribution to the United States of America becoming the first country to put a man on the moon. There is‚ perhaps‚ no one in the history of spaceflight
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The Political System & Cultural Problems in Mexico Alexander Morton Cross-Cultural Perspectives SOC 315 Dr. John Theodore April 1‚ 2013 Before the Spanish arrival in 1519‚ a large number of Indian groups with very different social and economic systems occupied Mexico. In general‚ the tribes in the arid north were relatively small groups of hunters and gatherers who roamed extensive areas of sparsely vegetated deserts and steppes. These people are often referred to as Chichimec‚
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his wife‚ Harriet. Mitchell. William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell grew up on an estate near Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. Alexander Mitchell‚ his grandfather‚ was one of the wealthiest people in Wisconsin for his generation and established what became the Milwaukee Road along with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mitchell Park and the street Mitchell Boulevard were named in honor of Alexander. Billy Mitchell was the eldest of ten‚ and coming from a wealthy family he attended Columbian College (now George
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effect the overall process of learning; although‚ Michael Halliday proposed a theory that stated language development works through three main stages: learning the language‚ learning through the language‚ and learning about the language. Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was born‚ 1925‚ in England where he remained all throughout his childhood. Halliday decided to attend the University of London to study modern Chinese language and literature (Mandarin) for a BA. After London‚ he decided it best
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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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Thirty Years’ War: Ernst von Mansfeld Ernst von Mansfeld was a German military commander in the Thirty Years War. Although he fought for the Protestant cause‚ Mansfeld was a Roman Catholic. He was considered one of the most dangerous opponent of the Catholic League. He was born in 1580 as the illegitimate son of Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort and Dorothea von Solms- Lich. In 1594 he served under Archduke Leopold. Then‚ in 1610 he joined Frederick V and the Protestant Union. At the age 36
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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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