Scottish trader and his mother‚ Sehoy‚ a creek woman. McGillivray grew up as a member of the Creek Wind clan just like his mother. His father would teach him about the colonial people. Before returning back to Creek society in 1777‚ he had lived in Augusta‚ received an education in Charleston‚ South Carolina‚ and held a business in Savannah. Near the start of the American Revolution war‚ McGillivray permanently returned to Little Tallassee because the Patriots confiscated his father’s property in South
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I am writing this essay upon the request of the Augusta County Juvenile Court System. I believe that during the time for which I have lost my license I have learned many facts. Facts on why it is unsafe to speed and on the importance of following the speed limits set. For example‚ one quote which I found to be very true is‚ "The faster you go‚ the more likely you are to crash. The faster you crash‚ the more likely you are to die." While auto accidents themselves injure a person in the
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to go‚ but a teacher in Colorado who had heard of hear paid for her to go. Mary Graduated in 1894 and she went to Dwight Moody’s Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago. She later moved back home and went to the Haines Institute in Augusta‚ Georgia. There she met and married Albertus Bethune in 1898‚ and had their only son Albertus McLeod Bethune‚ Jr on February 3‚1899. Her marriage soon failed ‚ so in 1904 she left her husband. She was only 29 years old and she had a young son to
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What makes golf the phenomenal sport it is today? Is it the game itself? Some say golf started in fifteenth century Scotland by men hitting a pebble with a wooden stick. Currently‚ graphite drivers routinely send the ball soaring 300 yards. Perhaps it was the golfers who made the game great. Arnold Palmer brought golf to the masses in the 1950’s and Jack Nicklaus has set records that have yet to be broken. However‚ today sports commentators‚ pro golfers‚ and weekend duffers‚ generally agree
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Electrolux Major Appliances is a nationwide appliance company that was established through its sister company Frigidaire. The company has been in business for over 50 years. Electrolux’s corporate office was located in Augusta‚ GA and it was relocated to Charlotte‚ NC in 2011. The company is known for its world class stainless steel appliances. Which include ranges‚ over the range microwaves‚ single and double wall ovens‚ cooktops‚ and refrigerators‚ stand alone ice makers‚ counter top microwaves
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The Archer of Stonehenge Near Stone Hedge the grave of the Amesbury Archer was discovered in 2002‚ the grave was different as this one was not Roman but much earlier‚ dating back to when the first sarsen stones were erected there. What made him interesting were the gold hair tresses‚ which are the oldest dated cast gold in Britain‚ and the fact that he was a foreigner from the region that is now Germany or Switzerland. Art for personal embellishment‚ like hair clasps‚ raised him above his peers
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Ben Bernanke was born in Augusta Georgia on December 13‚ 1953. Although born in Georgia Ben Bernanke was raised in Dillon‚ South Carolina. Ben has two siblings who have gone on to have careers of their own. His sister Sharon is an administrator at Berklee School of Music in Boston and his brother Seth works as a lawyer in North Carolina. His father worked as a pharmacist and his mother school teacher in the town of Dillon while raising Ben and his siblings. As a child Ben attended the local synagogue
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later committed suicide due to political turmoil with his last saying‚ “What a showman the world is losing in me.” [1] Pax Romana Pax Romana in Latin means (Roman peace); it was inaugurated by Caesar Augustus and sometimes would be called Pax Augusta. The Pax Romana provided peace with very little expansion of military force in over two centuries. It was during this time of peace; traveling on the road was safe and quick. This peace allowed the Romans to build a network of 53‚000 miles of road
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10 Inventions that changed the World The Telephone The telephone is an instrument that converts voice and sound signals into electrical impulses for transmission by wire to a different location‚ where another telephone receives the electrical impulses and turns them back into recognizable sounds. In 1875‚ Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice. The History of Computers There are many major milestones in the history of computers
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Humans are naturally savage‚ but their savageness is under constraint by society. This means that people change when civilization is no longer around to constrain their savageness. In Lord of the Flies‚ there is no civilization when the boys are stranded on a jungle island and Golding shows that this allows savage behavior to take over. The boys then become savages and everything becomes chaotic. The constraints of society do not allow for savage behavior‚ and the society created by the boys on the
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