Sonya Kovalevsky was born on January 15‚ 1850 in Moscow‚ Russia. She grew up in a very intellectual family. Her father was a military officer and a landholder; her mother was the granddaughter of a famous Russian astronomer and an accomplished musician. She grew up living a lavish life‚ and was first educated by her uncle‚ who read her fairy tales‚ taught her chess‚ and talked about mathematics. She even bumped into the subject of trigonometry while studying elementary physics. She achieved
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the early 19th century connected to a series of murders in the town of Whitechapel (Bio.com). The name Jack the Ripper was coined in the middle of the line of murders‚ thanks to an anonymous letter that was sent to the police officers in September of 1888 (Casebook). After a couple of weeks‚ some journalists found out about the story and it spread like wildfire‚ making Jack the Ripper the first serial killer to create a worldwide panic. Jack the Ripper did a lot of things in his murderous years‚ he
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The Dear Boss Letter was dated September 25th‚ and was received on September the 27th‚ 1888‚ by the Central News Office. two days later‚ the letter was sent to Scotland Yard. “Though initially viewed as a prank‚ the Dear Boss Letter quickly gained attention after Catherine Eddowes’ murder on September 30th” (Whitechapel Jack.) In the letter‚ the author said that he was going to cut off his next victims ears. Catherine Eddowes was found with a severed ear lobe. After the Dear Boss letter went public
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expedition. Lewis and Clark faced difficult weather along their journey from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Plains. The weather caused many hardships for their party. They endured sudden thunderstorms‚ extreme heat‚ bitter cold‚ raging blizzards‚ hail‚ and dust clouds. They trekked range after towering range through extremely cold‚ snowy‚ and wet conditions with little food to be found. Captain Clark described the huge mountains they were to climb: “The hills or mountains were
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Since I was a child‚ my passion for computer programming started to develop. When I was seven‚ I started to play a strategy game called star craft from Blizzard Entertainment. That game grabbed my attention because I wanted to understand how it was created. I was astonished by all the thought process behind it and how everything was linked. Even though I was still young‚ my interest for computer software started to flourish. At a young age‚ I decided I wanted to become a computer programmer. As
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Dear‚ Tom Cierra and I think that the best option for a place for you to live is in the ocean on a submersible floating yacht‚ we have sent a picture (seen above) to show you what it would look like. When I read your letter‚ I didn’t see a price range and we assumed‚ since you are willing to move anywhere in the world‚ you have an excess amount of money. With this home‚ you will be able to move around‚ so not only will the location vary‚ but you can avoid most natural disasters. You will not
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National Sport Well‚ it in least one country. Starcraft is one of the only games in the world that has become a self-proclaimed national sport of sorts. South Korea holds tournaments yearly‚ and it’s a big deal. Number Fourteen: Starcraft Saved Blizzard Blizzard’s publishing and releasing of Starcraft is the only reason why World of Warcraft is able to be in existence. The reason behind this is that the company was in financial duress at the
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than playing soccer on occasion‚ I am a big computer-game type of guy. I love to play big game titles such as World Of Warcraft‚ Starcraft II‚ and recently League Of Legends. I remember always imagine myself working for a type of big company like Blizzard or Valve‚ but I am not quite sure if I just want to jump into the gaming industry just yet. One of the only honors that
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they still hadn’t returned. The teacher asked me to go with a classmate to check on them. One of the sinks was running like the Niagara Falls‚ and there were random wet toilet paper bombs being thrown from every direction that it looked like a blizzard. Shrieks and squeals filled the bathroom as we stepped inside. My classmate gasped at the same time as my friends.
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"The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent " John L. O’ Sullivan At the time of the mid- 1800’s most Americans thought that it was destiny for the United States to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. There were many reasons why people wanted to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A few reasons were free farmland was offered to people out west. As well as the growing population along the Atlantic‚ gold‚ and other
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