James Ussher (sometimes spelled Usher‚ 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific scholar‚ who most famously published a chronology that purported to establish the time and date of the creation as the night preceding Sunday‚ 23 October 4004 BC‚ according to the proleptic Julian calendar.In 1619 Ussher travelled to England‚ where he remained for two years. His only child‚ Elizabeth‚ was born in London
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A famous Spanish scientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal 1852-1934 He was one of the greatest Spanish scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. His study of the brain and nerve cells laid the groundwork for neuroscience. He was not a man who kept his studies to one specific field‚ but rather made lasting important contributions to several fields. He was highly rewarded not only for his laboratory work‚ but also for his scientific writings and illustrations. Cajal tells his
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Obviously‚ parents were too worried about that they didn’t send their children to school for many days. Besides‚ sensationalism affects everyone involved in‚ even your relatives. This is the case of Jean Paul Santamaria and Angie Jibaja. They were a famous couple‚ but since he was besieged by paparazzi when
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I often wonder about teachers who educated famous people such as Einstein‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ and the like. Were these teachers specially qualified to inspire their students to achieve fame and success? Or were these teachers just plain lucky to have exceptionally talented students? Do some teachers have the rare quality of turning dust into gold? The answer may not be easy to find. Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people
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Famous Canadian Entrepreneurs James Hillier and Albert Prebus (Electron Microscope) James Hillier‚ one of the entrepreneurs of the electron microscope‚ was born on August 22nd‚ 1915 in Brantford‚ Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto‚ where he received a PhD in 1941. After graduating‚ Hillier spent most of his career at the Radio Corporation of America (or RCA)‚ discovering the principle of stigmator‚ which is used to correct astigmatism in a microanalyser‚ while being the first person
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“10 famous physicist and their contributions” 1. Isaac Newton quantified and qualified the laws of motion and gravity. He also invented the reflecting telescope and co-invented the mathematic process of calculus. 2. Albert Einstein developed theories of relativity‚ and won a Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect. 3. Galileo Galilei improved on the refracting telescope and discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter‚ but he is most well-known for standing up
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For my famous entrepreneur I decided to do Bill Gates. Bill Gates started the company called Microsoft. Bill Gates was at one point the richest person in the world. He took interest in software when he was only 13 years old. Bill Gates wrote a payroll program for Science Inc. when he was in high school. He scored an almost perfect score on the SAT. He was accepted by Harvard to study pre-law‚ but he spent most of his time on the school computers. He met Steve Balmer at Harvard who is the current
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tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing them". These lines are the opening to one of Hamlet’s soliloquies. In fact‚ these lines are possibly the most famous lines in English literature‚ but do people know what Hamlet meant by these lines. Hamlet is more than just contemplating suicide‚ he is also thinking about death and how to combat his pain. As he spoke those lines‚ he believes suicide is a way to
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Jeffri Fernandez Annotated Bibliography Ancient Greece was the birth place of many sciences‚ famous philosophers and the arts. A time where humans where constantly discovering many different things‚ forming new ideas and opinions about life each and every day. Various gods ruled these different city states. Mythology was very huge in Ancient Greece. There are so many different myths from Ancient Greece. Do you ever wonder if any of those ancient Myth’s were true? Ever believe that
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A Famous Singer (Zhou Jie Lun) (2010-08-10 11:22:44) Tell me about a famous singer in your country. You should say: who the singer is how you found out about him/her what is special about him/her and explain why you like this singer. - Zhou Jie Lun: from Taiwan + extremely famous - Age + appearance + fans - Music styles = modern + traditional - Creative songwriter + musician -
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