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Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 and raised in Shadwell, Virginia. Jefferson’s original birthdate is April 2, 1743 but it was later pushed back 11 days due to the British wanting to catch up with the rest of Europe and changed their calendar from the Julian system to the Gregorian calendar. Due to…

From the late 18th to mid-19th centuries, an extensive network conducted an endless amount of African American slaves out of southern bondage, and into the freedom of the Northern United States, and parts of Canada. This network came to be known as the Underground Railroad. From its name, the Underground Railroad appears as if it…

Elvis Presley is one of the most influential Rock and Roll musicians of the 20th century. His legacy lives on even after forty-two years after passing. Presley, known as the King of Rock and Roll, was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935. He had slick back black hair (dyed) that was significant, but…

In 1896, two students entered the Swiss University, one of whom was Albert Einstein, who went on to become one of the greatest scientists we’ve ever had. The other student was Mileva Marić, a 20-year-old Serbian. Both of them studied Physics, taking some of the same courses and in many of those, getting comparable course…

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879 although he started primary school In Munich after his family moved there. He was a top student in mathematics but average in his other subjects. In 1896, when he was 17 he graduated from school and enrolled in the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology or…

In Harold Livesay’s Biography of Andrew Carnegie the narrator, Livesay, takes the reader through Carnegie’s life in a linear fashion from childhood to death and similarly humbling desperation to copious success from early 19th century to early 20th century. I believe that Livesay’s goal is to reinforce the idea that through determination, hard work, effort…

Ernest Hemingway, an American newspaper writer, novel writer, and short-story writer, was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. Hemingway won the Pulitzer for his novel The Old Man and the Sea in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingway was best known for his style of writing that was simple, and…

Edgar Allan Poe was a great American author, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and murder. Poe went through a lot of trauma as a child. Poe is truly an inspiration. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19,…

The life of Adolf Hitler was a crazy one. He didn’t show any motivation of what he was going to do when he was a child. He rose to power quickly.his childhood and teenage years might of been what motivated him to do what he did.have you ever wondered why he did what he did…

Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 around the German Rhineland. According to Kunkel (2017), Marx was raised in a Jewish house, but his family later converted to Christianity so that Marx’s father could continue with his law profession in Prussia. Early on, Marx dreamt of becoming a professor. He attended the University of…