AUTOBIOGRAPHY: SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING... On a farm in Scotland on August 6‚ 1881‚ an amazing person was born. This amazing person was Alexander Fleming. As a boy he roamed the countryside with his 8 siblings who lived with him in a desolate area of Scotland. The Fleming children had a love for the flora‚ fauna and merry weather that surrounded their farm for miles. Fleming won a scholarship to St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. He went on and passed exams and completed his
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Sir Arthur Currie the soldier of the past and the hero of today Nationalism is defined as the sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational group in the Webster dictionary.(Merriam‚ Webster. Webster’s dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationalism). However that is just a technical term used in books. Nationalism is not just a
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Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist. He was considered one of the greatest scientists in history. Newton was also the culminating figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. Newton was best known for his discovery that the force called gravity affects all objects in space and on earth. .Isaac Newton was born on December 25‚ 1642‚ in the hamlet of Wollsthorpe‚ Lincolnshire (R.S.W. 17) His Father died only three months before he was born (Sir Isaac Newton 1). When
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Who is he‚ when and where did he live? What have they done that impacted Australia Sir William Patrick Deane‚ was born on the 4th January 1931‚ he was an Australian judge and the 22nd Governor-General of Australia. * | William Deane was born in Melbourne‚ Victoria. He was educated at Catholic schools including St. Joseph’s College‚ Hunters Hill and at the University of Sydney‚ where he graduated in arts and law. He also attended the Hague Academy of International Law. After graduation
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son) = good. Celia (Corvino’s wife) = heavenly. Act II scenes tow summery While discussing the death of Master Stone‚ a clown who Sir Politic believed to be a spy‚ Sir Politic and Peregrine are interrupted by the entrance of Mosca and Nano‚ in disguise‚ who begin to set up a mountebank’s platform. Though Peregrine protests that mountebanks are "lewd impostors"‚ Sir Politic insists that "They are the only knowing men of Europe!" Volpone enters in the guise of Scoto of Mantua‚ a well-known mountebank
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Sir Walter Raleigh‚ an English poet‚ dabbler in music and science‚ a member of parliament and a coloniser of the new world during the Elizabethan era which shows that he is an outstanding example of a universal renaissance man. Raleigh strived for greatness and became well renowned for his colourful personality as well as his attitudes and beliefs and his many accomplishments in his various occupations. Walter Raleigh’s personality gave a strong insight into his attitudes and values. He endorsed
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1.3) “A lie gets halfway around the world before truth has a chance to put its pants on” Sir Winston Churchill Lies are so powerful that they outweigh the truth. The reason for this is‚ because truths and lies walk hand in hand‚ they are together. The difference between them is like a spilt second. People won’t lie so dramatically that it is unbelievable‚ they will lie so close to the truth that you won’t even realise it’s a lie. This is the reason why a lie can get half way around the world
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railways. The Ayer had three sons and five daughters of whom Chandra was the oldest son. In 1916‚ the family moved to Madras where Chandra grew up. Chandrasekhar came from a highly educated South Indian family. He was the nephew of Indian Nobel Laureate Sir C.V.Raman. Chandra was a brilliant student. At 15‚ he entered Presidency College‚ the most prestigious in Madras; in 1927‚ he started their physics honors course‚ graduating in 1930 at the top of his class. He read far beyond the curriculum‚ for instance
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When one reads the nonfiction work of Robert Louis Stevenson along with the novels and short stories‚ a more complete portrait emerges of the author than that of the romantic vagabond one usually associates with his best-known fiction. The Stevenson of the nonfiction prose is a writer involved in the issues of his craft‚ his milieu‚ and his soul. Moreover‚ one can see the record of his maturation in critical essays‚ political tracts‚ biographies‚ and letters to family and friends. What Stevenson
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000 men served in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Within the first two days of the war‚ the Canadian forces had started organizing themselves under Sir Sam Hughes‚ the Minister of Militia and Defense. He appealed to the people of Canada‚ "I call for volunteers - volunteers‚ mark you. I have insisted that it be a purely volunteer contingent." Sir Sam Hughes was Minister of Militia and Defense from October 1911 to November 1916. His decisive attitude strongly influenced the organization of the Canadian
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