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Andrew Carnegie was born, on November 25,1835, in Dunfermline,Fife,Scotland. He grew up to become one of the wealthiest businessmen in America. His family once believed in the importance of books and education, although he didn’t have a formal education when he was a kid. His father was once a weaver and a profession. he once was replaced by robots for his job. His father also led the chartist movement in Dunfermline. At the age of 13, on 1848, Andrew and his family migrated to the US, and…

Un Bel Di Vedremo: “is a soprano aria from the opera Madama Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San, when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon.” (Wikipedia, Un Bel Di Vedremo). It is an extraordinary soprano aria sung by Madama Butterfly in the moment act of Giacomo Puccini's appalling opera, Madama Butterfly. The lyrics was composed by Luigi…

Margaret Mcmillian and Rachel Mcmillian Rachel Mcmillian was born on the 25th March 1859. Margaret Mcmillian was born on the 20th of July 1860. Their original birth place was New York but their parents came from inverness and had moved to America in 1840 where the two sisters were born. In 1865 Rachel and Margaret’s father and sister died of scarlet fever. After the death of her husband and daughter their mother decided to move them back to scotland. In 1874 Margaret recovered her hearing after…

his connection with the outer world. It was stated by The Indian Universities commission (1902) that the students joining college after matriculation find difficult to comprehend the lectures in English. Later, The Government of India Resolution (1904) suggested that English should not be taught till the learners do not develop a thorough grounding in the native language. However, English was suggested to be continues…

Tarbell is best remembered for her work on Standard Oil and its Rockefeller. Between 1902 and 1904, she wrote a series of articles that exposed the lengths to which Rockefeller went to build and maintain his oil empire. Concerned that modern day political machines and laissez-faire capitalism were undermining traditional American values, Tarbell committed herself to rooting out and exposing corruption. In 1904, she published The History of the Standard Oil Company. In it, she tells the story…

Introduction Historian Mr. Philip Schaff mentioned that Protestant Reformation marked the end of the middle ages and the beginning of the modern world (Dr. Jack L. Arnold, 1999). Protestant Reformation was the chief force in the history of the modern civilization. It contributed to the capitalism, the growth of secularism, democracy, and new social structure. The historian Ms. ÁoDài mentioned that Protestant Reformation witnessed the formation of the modern nation-state which from the feudal…

Wolf is a historical nonfiction book written by Jack London. It is a harder level of reading skill, because not all of the words are spelled like normal. There are also some hard words in the book that someone might not understand. It is based during 1904, with the main character Humphrey Van Weden. It is when Humphrey is picked up by a passing sealing ship. This ship he has been picked up by is known as “Ghost”. He then meets the captain of the ship, Captain Larsen, and gets his nickname,…

On August 6, 1945 at 2:45 a.m. a United States Air Force propeller-driven, four-engine Boeing B-29 aircraft lifted off from the unassuming island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. The plotted course of the aircraft that we now know infamously as the Enola Gay was due north with instructions to drop its contents. Inside, as was customary for a Boeing Super Fortress, was a bomb. However, unlike the bombs that the U.S. Air Force had scorched Japan for roughly a year with during World War…

Compare and Contrast Iseri (2009) and Mackinder (1904) In 1904 Sir Halford John Mackinder wrote the journal ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ which influence nearly three generations of strategists and changed the way politicians and military men saw the world. Mackinder saw history as a battle between the land-based powers and the sea-based powers. Over time all the land in the world had been discovered, fought over and claimed so the world had now become a ‘closed’ system. Therefore…

George Balanchine was born on January 22, 1904, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was son of a composer, so he had a well understanding of music from a young age. In 1914, he enrolled at the Mariinsky Theatre's ballet school, also known as The Vagonova Academy. He graduated in 1921 and afterwards attended the Petrograd State Conservatory of Music, leaving the conservatory three years later. In 1922, George Balanchine married a 15-year-old ballet student named Tamara Gevergeyeva. This was the first…