Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon was born on April 30‚1916 in Petoskey‚ to Claude Elwood and Mabel Wolf Shannon‚ His parents move to Gaylord‚ Michigan and spent the rest of his life there. His father Claude Elwood was a judge at Gaylord‚ Michigan. His mother was a high school principle. Even though his father interest wasn’t for science‚ his grandfather was the one that was really into science. Shannon’s grandpa was an innovator and agriculturist. On 27‚ 1949 March Shannon married Mary Elizabeth
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Marco Polo was born in 1254 into a rich Venetian merchant family‚ just North of Italy. When he was 17 years old‚ he left with his father and uncle on a journey to China‚ which lasted 3.5 years. Once he was there‚ he immersed himself in Chinese culture and language. He was impressed by their inventions‚ such as gunpowder‚ porcelain‚ and paper money. He went from governor‚ to a tax collector‚ to having an official seat in the Khan’s privy court. He stayed in China for 17 years before starting his trip
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Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 15‚ 1894 in the small Russian town of Kalinovka. As a young man he worked as a metalworker‚ before he joined the Bolsheviks in 1998. He moved up the party ranks rather quickly and became one of Stalin’s trusted advisors. In 1938‚ Khrushchev was sent to govern Ukraine and he served as a commissar during World War II. After Stalin’s death in 1953‚ there was a struggle for power and in 1956 Khrushchev’s "Secret Speech" was published. In the speech Khrushchev
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On January 26‚ 1958 Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairies‚ Louisiana and was raised by two working parents. When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up‚ Ellen initially said that she aspired to be a veterinarian but later discarded the idea because she wasn’t “ book smart.” Before she discovered her comedic talents‚ Degeneres used to sell vacuum cleaners‚ paint houses‚ wait tables‚ and work as a legal secretary. Her older brother‚ Vance‚ inspired DeGeneres to become the actor/comedian that
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The importance of the Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio is that his paintings went beyond the previous work of his contemporary‚ Michelangelo‚ by combining subtleties‚ a greater clarity of form and softer shading to create a more realistic rendering of his figures. He also infused his own sense of grace into his figures and avoided the air of tension often found in Michelangelo’s depictions. Raphael’s work is known and admired for his ability to visually capture the Neoplatonic and Renaissance ideal
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The Titanic was a ship built in Belfast that set sail on the 10th of April 1912 from Southampton to New York‚ this was the Titanic’s maiden Voyage but disaster struck on the 14th April as the ship hit an iceberg and started to sink. It sank in early hours of the morning on April 15th. One of the main reasons why it was a such a disaster was because of human error for example Harland and Wolf didn’t spend all of the money they were given and bought cheap materials‚ for example they bought cheap
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El Greco was a painter‚ sculptor‚ and an architect. When in Spain he was the first great genius of his Spanish school. El Greco’s real name is not the one you see on all of the paintings his real name is Domenikos Theotocopoulos. El Greco was born in 1541 and died in 1614. None know of his childhood. In 1566 he became a master painter and moved or traveled to Venice. Later in 1570 he traveled to Rome to meet Giulio Clovio a miniaturist. Very few of his pieces survived the years. One of the surviving
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In the short story "Miss Brill‚" the author Katherine Mansfield is writing about an old lonely lady named Miss Brill. This story shows how an average day in the park becomes a play in the eyes of an old lonely lady. Miss Brill is lonely‚ but she uses her imagination to hide it. In her eyes she sees the world‚ in a happier light. However‚ by the end of the story you can gather that the fur really represents what Miss Brill is really feeling. The story starts with Miss Brill taking her old fur out
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“Gene-ius” Scientists Discover DNA By DiNA Madan idfjdj James D Watson Watson was born on the 6th of April 1928 in Chicago and studied at the Universities of Chicago‚ Indiana‚ Copenhagen and Cambridge University where he joined Francis Crick in the attempt to find the chemical structure of living matter. http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUceZSNxrQ7_IAvEm3D1SuT4wWb-g7jm-xI4fOMKI2mJvSMixaUg The Double Helix In 1953 Watson and Crick presented the three dimensional double-helical
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“Life is a dream for the wise‚ a game for the fool‚ a comedy for the rich‚ a tragedy for the poor” said by Sholom Aleichem. The quote implies that one can have a good life if one has power or if one is judicious. Also‚ it is a game for the illiterate‚ a joke for one that is rich and powerful‚ and misfortune for needy. In the book‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller has a character a that is a part of a huge calamity. It was labeled as the Salem Tragedy because in Salem‚ plebeians and uninvolved people
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