John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy was born May 29‚ 1917 to Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Joseph Patrick Kennedy. He had 8 other sibling 5 sisters and 3 brothers. John F. Kennedy was named in honor of his mother’s father‚ John Francis Fitzgerald‚ the mayor of Boston. When John was at a young age his family and friends called him Jack. He wasn’t three years old when he became sick with scarlet fever which is very contagious and very life threating. Throughout his life John F. Kennedy was never very healthy
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Dr. John Andraos‚ http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/Elements-Discoverers.pdf 1 NAMES OF SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATED WITH DISCOVERIES OF ELEMENTS OF PERIODIC TABLE © Dr. John Andraos 2002 - 2005 Department of Chemistry‚ York University 4700 Keele Street‚ Toronto‚ ONTARIO M3J 1P3‚ CANADA For suggestions‚ corrections‚ additional information‚ and comments please send e-mails to jandraos@yorku.ca http://www.chem.yorku.ca/NAMED/ Z‚ Element Symbol Discoverer Dates Nationality Place
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Commodore John Barry‚ also known as “Father of the American Navy”‚ was born in a modest cottage‚ 1745 at County Wexford‚ Ireland. Barry’s father was a poor farmer. The family was forced to move back to the village of Rosslare because they got evicted. Barry started out as a ship’s cabin boy‚ and graduated to seaman. Barry grew up to be tall‚ muscular‚ and a well-respected seaman. At a young age Barry learned of the massacre of some 3‚000 Wexfordians under an invading force led by Oliver Cromwell
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John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley is an American artist born in 1738 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Copley’s parents came to Boston in 1736 and the death of his father who is said to have become ill shortly after arriving in the colonies and traveling to the West Indies around the time of Copley’s birth in 1738. William H. Whitmore gives Copley’s father’s death as 1748‚ the year his mom remarried ("John Singleton Copley Biography"). James Bernard Cullen says: “Richard Copley was in poor
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John Wayne Gacy Junior John Wayne Gacy Junior was no ordinary man. He was born in Chicago‚ Illinois he was the second of three children (Amirante). He was married twice during his lifetime and divorced both times. He had two kids with his first wife that he never saw again after the divorce. He started his own company and was a clown as a side job‚ which was part of his numerous clubs that he was in (Amirante). During a three year time period‚ he viciously murdered and raped over thirty boys and
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John Peter Zenger Born in Palatinate‚ Germany‚ John Peter Zenger (1697- 1746) was a New York printer and journalist. He arrived in New York City at the age of 7 and was trained for eight years by William Bradford‚ one of the more known writers of American printing. After he completed his training with William Bradford he moved to Chestertown‚ Maryland to live on his own. In 1722‚ he returned to New York due to the lack of success he had in Maryland and began his own business in 1726. In 1732
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John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun was born March 18‚ 1782 in South Carolina. He was known as the "cast iron man" for his rigid defense of Southern beliefs and practices. Calhoun was elected into legislature in 1808. Two years later Calhoun moved into the House of Representatives. Calhoun is part of the Democratic Party. He also went to serve as a U.S Secretary of War and helped steer the United States into war with Great Britain. John C. Calhoun was elected into Congress in 1811. Calhoun supported
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meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” This famous quote is said by British Philosopher‚ John Stuart Mill. (1806-1873) Growing up with his father‚ James‚ Mill’s had an intense (lack of a better word) childhood education. Soon‚ he wrote about freedom of expression and was active in women’s rights‚ which is an idea far ahead of his time. John Stuart Mill’s famous work “On Liberty” is a classic text on modern liberalism. Mill’s was a principle idealist on the philosophy
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Family backround John F. Kerry was born on December 11‚ 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora‚ Colorado outside Denver. His father‚ Richard Kerry‚ was an Army Air Corps test pilot during World War Two and his mother‚ Rosemary Kerry‚ also served during that war in the Red Cross in Paris. Childhood years Kerry’s family returned to their home state of Massachusetts shortly after his birth. Because his father was a Foreign Service Office the family moved often when John was young and so he
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seaside had only really been a privilege and luxury to the wealthy‚ however that changed with the development of the railways. In the spring of 1906‚ John Fletcher Dodd opened Britain’s first holiday camp‚ Caister Holiday camp‚ on the seaside resort of Caister. However‚ the camp was more of socialist camp than the holiday camps we know today. John Fletcher Dodd had many strict rules throughout the camp‚ including no talking after 11pm and swearing would not be tolerated. The camp was separated
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