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    Florida is a big place, but it’s also nice and there is a lot of places to visit and see, Florida is mostly known as a vacation spot. In this article I, the typist will tell you the economy, tourist attractions, both historical and general, and political standings, now I start... Top Five largest cities are Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and St. Petersburg There are a lot of historical sites in Florida, I’ve got myself a few places to list, and they are Veterans Memorial wall, located in…

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    1957 Thalidomide disaster revolutionised the drug industry. As an over-the-counter medicine, Thalidomide has been sold in 46 countries, starting with Germany, and has soon become popular among the sedatives available at the time. Moreover, it was discovered to lessen morning sickness which led to doctors recommending it to pregnant patients. Four years later, in 1961, the drug was associated with severe side affects. Babies were born with phocomelia, a condition involving the malformation or…

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    employees and still manage to operate the business on their terms and have vowed to continue to do so to protect the environment (Ferrell, Hirt, & Ferrell, 2009). Yvon Chouinard started his entrepreneurial career as a self-taught blacksmith, in 1957. The only pitons available at the time were made of iron and had to be left in place once installed. The number of pitons required for longer climbs presented a problem for those like…

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    Other roles included Van Van Dorn in High Tor in 1937, Lilliom in Lilliom(1940), Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World (1946), and Adolphus Cusins Major Barbara(1957). Winterset by Maxwell Anderson was his first debut film in the year 1935. For Broadway staging of Ulysses in Nighttown, he won a Tony Award nomination in 1974. Because of investigation of House Committee on Un-American Activities, Burgess was Hollywood…

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    The biography is split into three different parts. The first part narrates the story of Franklin's childhood, education, and the successful career at King's College, London. She was known in the family for being very clever and outspoken. Her parents sent her to St. Paul’s Girls’ School, a private school known for rigorous academics, including physics and chemistry. She displayed exceptional intelligence from early childhood, knowing from the age of 15 that she wanted to be a scientist. Her…

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    Rose Brown Case Study

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    In 1957, an Oxford University professor - Dr Lambert - demonstrated a case of female hysteria on Rose Brown to his class. She was an innocuous woman, who was driven insane by her sexually addicted husband, and protested that she was sane. “Touché!”... “All mental patients claim to be sane, just as all criminals claim to be innocent”, emphasized the professor. He advised his students to believe nothing that they heard and only half of what they saw. To them they saw a hysterical lunatic, but to…

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    Berry went to a secondary school called Millersburg Military Institute. He went to the University of Kentucky, where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in English (Wikipedia). He completed his M.A. in 1957 and married Tanya Amyx. Later on, he attended one of Stanford University's creative writing program. Nathan Coulter was published in April 1960. In 1961, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship took Berry and his family to Italy and France. When he came…

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    Luis Garavito was born January 25, 1957 in Genova Columbia. He was the oldest of 7 boys. He had a rough life style. He was beaten by his father and raped by 2 male neighbors several times. He left home when he was only 16 year’s old and started working as a store clerk. He also had only 5 years of school which put him behind a lot. As the years went by Luis went from job to job in time he started to drink a lot at a young age to the point nobody wanted to be around him. He eventually ended up…

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    Stories Behind Celebrity Fragrances It all started in 1957, when Givenchy created a fragrance for Audrey Hepburn, which was not allowed to be sold to the public at first but Hepburn eventually gave in. In that same year, Elvis Presley also came out with a fragrance called “Teddy Bear” which is a collector’s item today. In the 1980’s, film actress, Sofia Loren, singer and actress, Cher and actress, Elizabeth Taylor all came out with their own personal perfume fragrances. As a result of these…

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    The Man Called Cash The man called Cash is a Biography of the life of Johnny Cash. In the early years of 1931 – 2003 Cash was know for his time as a country singer Cash was born to a devout mother and a rather rigid father. He was exposed to suffering and death when he was young. This authorized biography provides blunt details of country singer Johnny Cash’s life. His father’s siringency and his religious mother’s approach helped Cash endure his poverty stricken childhood in Dyess,…

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