Peter Minuit Peter Minuit a man that had a huge part in helping bring America into the land we know today by being apart of the founding of the original thirteen colonies. Minuit’s birthdate is not exactly known but studies believe that it was somewhere between the years of 1580 and 1589. On the date of August the 20, 1613 Minuits life changed forever. He married the love his life Gertrude Raedts. The Raedts family was a very wealthy family, some believe that being apart of this family helped Minuit start his life as a broker.…
Benjamin Bannecker, a most influential african american that influenced many things that make today what it is. Without him american schools, farmers, and many related scientific teachings may be different. Banneker was born in Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland on November 9, 1731. (biography.com). His father's name was Robert Bannecker and his mother’s name was Mary Bannecker.…
Livi Glaser is currently a senior at Sullivan High School. She has been student of the month 3 times, received 8 “Doin’ It Right” awards and has been nominated for entry to Missouri Girls State all while in high school. She is the Senior Class President, Yearbook Editor, DECA Treasurer and Boosters Director of Fundraising. As the president, she is responsible for managing all aspects of the senior class. The responsibilities include planning graduation and other events to make the seniors last year great.…
Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell. His maternal ancestry traces back to passengers on the Mayflower; his father's, to colonists who arrived about a dozen years later. Bryant and his family moved to a new home when he was two years old. The William Cullen Bryant Homestead, his boyhood home, is now a museum.…
Throughout Randy Pausch's childhood, he was influenced by the details around him. These details would help Randy Pausch become successful later on in his life. For instance during his childhood, Randy Pausch’s football Coach helped Randy become successful. Coach Graham was a very strict coach that would always push Randy to his limit. During Randy Pausch’s first day of training, Coach Graham made Randy practice without any footballs.…
“Notorious B.I.G is an American rapper and was a East coast rapper legend (Hal Marcovitz #). “He was born on May 21,1972 in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York” (Hal Marcovitz 15). He was a legendary rapper and was well known for his songs. He was a legendary rapper and was well known for his songs. “In the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant” (Biography.com).…
I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Paul Schultz as Chief of Police of the Canon City Police Department for the past four years. During this time, Chief Schultz has done an outstanding job. He was hired as a change agent after the City’s police department fell into a state of disarray. Upon his hire, he was given many goals, all of which intended to make the Cañon City Police Department not only one of the best departments in the state but also one that is in alignment with the community values.…
Lindsay Czarniak wiki, married, husband, salary, net worth and bio Lindsay Czarniak Bio Lindsay Ann Czarniak, popularly known as Lindsay Czarniak, She is a very popular American sports anchor and reporter. She was born on November 7, 1977 in Harrisburg in Pennsylvania to father Chet Czarniak and mother Terri Czarniak. As per Lindsay Czarina’s bioavailable online, she moved to Northern Virginia at the age of 5 with her family. Her father worked for a local newspaper.…
Sharing is caring, and there are a lot of things you share with family—a name, a home, food, traditions, genes, and hopefully, love and respect. The Lamaskos are a family of three people: Francine, John, and their father. They live in the little town of Freeland, Pennsylvania, in a big house they’ve shared since 2005. Sources state that on the paternal half of her family, Francine has two aunts and one uncle, as well as a grandmother who loves to bake and knit. Her grandmother, Nancy, introduced Portuguese heritage and genes to the family, as well as exposing her children to arts such as cooking, knitting and sewing, and wood carving.…
Judge Robert Bork was nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 by President Ronald RJudge Robert Bork was nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 by President Ronald Reagan. He was a Senior Judicial Advisor to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and solicitor general under President Richard M. Nixon. He fired Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in what became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre”. He opposed the Supreme Court’s one man, one vote decision on legislative apportionment. He wrote an article opposing the 1964 Civil Rights law, requiring hotels, restaurants and other businesses to serve people of all races (Totenberg).…
Vik Muniz was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1961, but lives and works in New York City and Rio de Janeiro. He is a Brazilian contemporary artist and photographer. Muniz was previously a sculptor who became fascinated with photographing his works of art, eventually concentrating on photography. He is extremely creative in the ways he portrays his art because he uses different types of mediums such as wire, thread, chocolate, junk, garbage, chocolate, jewelry, magazine strips, and photography, etc. Some artworks he has created and photographed are in series named Pictures of Wire, Pictures of Thread, The Sugar Children, Pictures of Chocolate, Pictures of Junk, Pictures of Earthworks, Pictures of Clouds, Pictures of Magazines, Verso, and Pictures…
“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself” Berenice…
Leif Eriksson was an Icelandic viking with two brothers and a sister. His father, Erik the Red, had been exiled soon after Leif was born. Erik had taken his wife and kids, along with minimal supplies, and sailed to the west, since he had previously been exiled from Norway as well. He landed in what he named Greenland, to make it sound nice so people would settle there. Leif’s sister’s name was Freydis, and his brothers were Thorvald and Thorstein.…
1848-1928 Lewis H. Latimer was a leading engineer in the formative years of the electric power industry at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. He was a key member of the legendary group of inventors led by Thomas Edison. Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, to George Latimer and Rebecca Smith. Latimer’s father was well known as the central figure in a cause célèbre in Boston in 1842 when he was arrested as an escaped slave and ordered returned to his owner in Virginia. Thousands of Bostonians, with Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison leading the way, took up his cause.…
Imaging catching the winning pass in a football game. For Dante Lampkin that is what he does. He’s a wide receiver for Hempfield Area High School. Dante Lampkin is 17 years old. He a football player and has loved it since he was 5.…