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Study the biographies of people who have significantly influenced global change. Such people have appeared at all times throughout human history to give the world something new and unexplored.

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  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt was a man on a mission. Maybe he didn№t know it, but he was. He affected millions of people throughout his life in many different ways. He was the leader of a famous military group, he was an author, a lawyer, and he was also the 26th president of the united states, all of these things ended up bringing him fame. He was born in new York city on October 27 1858 into

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  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt was a man on a mission. Maybe he didn№t know it, but he was. He affected millions of people throughout his life in many different ways. He was the leader of a famous military group, he was an author, a lawyer, and he was also the 26th president of the united states, all of these things ended up bringing him fame. He was born in new York city on October 27 1858

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Janna
  • Theodre Roosevelt and Harry Truman

    Theodre Roosevelt and Harry Truman

    Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman have many similarities and differences. They both had great impacts on the United States of America during their presidential terms. These two individuals have greatly affecting American history today. Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman were both great presidents during their times. Theodores presidential term was in the early 1900s to 1909 and Truman became president because of the sudden death of FDR in 1940s. Both of these men had experience

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • Theory of a Natural Man

    Theory of a Natural Man

    Theory of Natural Man Rousseau saw a fundamental divide between society and human nature. Rousseau believed that man was good when in the state of nature (the state of all other animals, and the condition humankind was in before the creation of civilization and society), but is corrupted by society. This idea has often led to attributing the idea of the noble savage to Rousseau, an expression first used by John Dryden in The Conquest

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Fonta
  • They Said I Should Write a Book

    They Said I Should Write a Book

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Janna
  • Think135

    Think135

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  • Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931 Thomas Alva Edison is one of Americas most famous inventors. He invented the sound recording device, motion picture, and the light bulb. Thomas Edison was an amazing man who accomplished many historically important successes during his lifetime. Edison obtained 1,o93 United States Patents in telegraphy, phonography, electric lighting and photography. Some of the inventions that Edison Discovered were improvements of other inventions, some were things that he invented himself, some things

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    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931 Thomas Alva Edison is one of Americas most famous inventors. He invented the sound recording device, motion picture, and the light bulb. Thomas Edison was an amazing man who accomplished many historically important successes during his lifetime. Edison obtained 1,o93 United States Patents in telegraphy, phonography, electric lighting and photography. Some of the inventions that Edison Discovered were improvements of other inventions, some were things that he invented himself, some things

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Thomas Eddison

    Thomas Eddison

    Thomas Edison The blue-collar inventor Born 1847 Died 1931 Thomas Edison only had 3 months of formal education, and his schoolmaster thought that Edison may have been retarded. And no one not even his family could envision that Edison would become the inventor that he would eventually end up to be. Born in Milan, Ohio, youngest of 7 children, Edison would often ask questions that his father and mother both could not answer. So naturally

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison Thomas (Alva) Edison was one of America's most important and famous inventors. Edison was born into a time and place where there wasn't much technological advancements. His inventions helped a lot of things quickly change in the world. His inventions contributed to many inventions today such as the night light, movies, telephones, and records and CDs. Edison is most famous for the development of the first electric light bulb. Like I said Edison

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    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison - born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio, U.S. d. Oct. 18, 1931, West Orange, N.J. American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record 1,093 patents. In addition, he created the world's first industrial research laboratory. Edison was the quintessential American inventor in the era of Yankee ingenuity. He began his career in 1863, in the adolescence of the telegraph industry, when virtually the only source of electricity was primitive batteries

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    Submitted: March 2, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison It was on February 11, 1847 that a person was born that forever changed America. Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio to a family that was part Dutch and part British. He lived in Milan with his family until 1854 when his family settled in Port Huron, Michigan. There he attended a public school for three months. These three months would be the only form of public schooling that Edison would

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jack
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Edison, Thomas Alva, American inventor, whose development of a practical electric light bulb, electric generating system, sound-recording device, and motion picture projector had profound effects on the shaping of modern society. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. He attended school for only three months, in Port Huron, Michigan. When he was 12 years old he began selling newspapers on the Grand Trunk Railway, devoting his spare time mainly to experimentation with

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Mike
  • Thomas Edison - 1847 to 1931

    Thomas Edison - 1847 to 1931

    Thomas Edison (Inventor) 1847- 1931 Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was a poor student and was often put down by his teacher because he was "slow" so his mother decided to take him out of school and home school him. She read him lots of books and was the main reason he became fascinated with mechanical and chemical experiments. At the age of ten he already had a

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    Submitted: December 18, 2008 By: Jon
  • Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 at the Village of Upper Bochampton. He was the child of a country stonemason. Hardy was the third Thomas of his family. His mother's maiden name was Jemima Hand and she and her husband let Hardy to have an unusually happy childhood. His early years were a seed-bed to his later creative development. His mother knew what real poverty was when she was young because she lost

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    Submitted: March 2, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 at the Village of Upper Bochampton. He was the child of a country stonemason. Hardy was the third Thomas of his family. His mother’s maiden name was Jemima Hand and she and her husband let Hardy to have an unusually happy childhood. His early years were a seed-bed to his later creative development. His mother knew what real poverty was when she was young because she

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Thomas Harris

    Thomas Harris

    Thomas Harris From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Thomas Harris. Thomas Harris (born 1940 in Jackson, Tennessee) is an author, most famous for his book The Silence of the Lambs, which was made into a motion picture starring Jodie Foster as trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in an Oscar-winning portrayal of psychopathic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The book and successive movie is the sequel to the book Red

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: July
  • Thomas Henry Huxley

    Thomas Henry Huxley

    Thomas Henry Huxley Anthropology 101 9:30 a.m. MW Thomas Henry Huxley was born May 4, 1825 in Ealing England. Although he was the son of a schoolmaster, Huxley never had a real education as a child. He did however read plenty of books and started studying medicine at a young age. He later entered Charing Cross Hospital medical school, taking his degree in 1845 (Huxley 1992). Huxley was made assistant surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at

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    Submitted: January 7, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia. He was born in a simple four-room house in Shadwell, Virginia, what is now Monticello. His father, Peter Jefferson, was a planter who was a bright, brave, and strong man. His mother was a very gentle lady. She was boring under one of the most distinguished families in the area. His family had prospered since the first Jefferson arrived in America from Whales

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Monika
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson: A Biography Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, the writer of the Declaration of Independence and an avid philosopher whose thoughts and ideas founded the nation we know today. The political leader, the architect, archeologist, author, and inventor- however many titles he has, not one can describe him alone. As a polymath, Jefferson had an affinity for languages, designed his own house, and had a passion for books, once

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Monika
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was Born on April 13, 1743,on a farm called Shadwell, what is now called Monticello, in the county of Albermarle, Virginia. Jefferson was the third child in the family and grew up with six sisters and one brother. At the age of five, Jefferson was placed by his father, Peter Jefferson, at an "English school, for four years, where he developed an interest in botany, geology, cartography, and North American exploration". After English

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Jon
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Jon
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell Virginia on April 13, 1743. He was the third child out of six sisters and one brother. He did have two other brothers but they both died in infancy . His father was Peter Jefferson and died when he was only fourteen. His mother was Jane Randolph Jefferson. After his father died, he became the head of the household and inherited 2,500 acres of land and at

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson is remembered in history not only for the offices he held, but also for his belief in the natural rights of man as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and his faith in the people’s ability to govern themselves. He left an impact on his times equaled by few others in American history. Born on April 13, 1743, Jefferson was the third child in the family and grew up with six

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia. He was born in a simple four-room house in Shadwell, Virginia, what is now Monticello. His father, Peter Jefferson, was a planter who was a bright, brave, and strong man. His mother was a very gentle lady. She was boring under one of the most distinguished families in the area. His family had prospered since the first Jefferson arrived in America from Whales

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), is best remembered as a great president and as the author of the Declaration of Independence.  He also won lasting fame as a diplomat, a political thinker, and a founder of the Democratic Party.  Jefferson's interests and talents covered an amazing range.  He became one of the leading American architects of his time and designed the Virginia Capitol, the University of Virginia, and his own home, Monticello.  He greatly appreciated art

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    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was born on 13 April 1743 into a wealthy, the third of eight children. His mother was Jane Randolph, daughter of Isham Randolph, and a cousin of Peyton Randolph. Jefferson's father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor who owned plantations in Albemarle County (Shadwell, then Edge Hill, Virginia.) n 1752, Jefferson began attending a local school run by William Douglas, a Scottish minister. At the age of nine, Jefferson began studying

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    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Janna
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    1789 law that created the Judicial Branch of the federal government. Among the things provided for in the Act: the number... whiskey rebellion 1794 western farmers refused to pay excise tax on whiskey (important part of hamiltons revenue program) washington sent out federal militia and rebellion evaporated. strengthened credibility... Hamilton's financial Program 1. pay off national debt @ face value, have fed gov assume the war debts of states2. protect nation's young industries and collect

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  • Thomas Robert Malthus

    Thomas Robert Malthus

    Thomas Robert Malthus is one of the most controversial figures in the history of economics. He achieved fame chiefly from the population doctrine that is now closely linked with his name. Contrary to the late-eighteenth-century views that it was possible to improve people's living standards, Malthus held that any such improvements would cause the population to grow and thereby reverse these gains. Malthus also sparked controversy with his contemporaries on issues of methodology (by arguing

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    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Max
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