... before Franklin¡¯s 26th birthday. Further, Franklin had given up her fellowship to become a physical chemist at the British Coal Utilization Research Association at age 22. She was indeed an efficient and driven researcher. Franklin utilized the X-ray diffraction techniques (that she has become most famous for) while working in a Paris laboratory between 1947 and 1950, with crystallographer Jacques Mering. X-ray crystallography helped determined the three dimensional structure of DNA when Franklin returned to England. She became the first person to find the molecule¡¯s sugar-phosphate backbone w ...

... Elle MacPherson, and Linda Evangelista. was major trendsetter in America during the sixties even though she was born in England. She was found by Nigel Davies in a salon, while working as a shampoo girl. He saw her potential and immediately took her to get a haircut at a Mr. Leonard’s trendy salon in London. Mr. Leonard put her picture in his shop window, and a short time later that picture was featured in the London Daily Express with a caption that read “This is the face of 1966� (Wilson). Davies, who preferred to be called Justin De Villeneuve, was quite an interesting character with his past resume cont ...

... book. He was sent next to the governor of Piombino, Pacopo IV Apiani and Catarina Sforza Riario. This is because of the Pisa war. There created absolute necessities and he had to function as an ambassador with unimportant assignments. On May 1500, with a more important assignment he was sent to the king of Fr ance and lived away from Italy for six months. After he returned to his country he was assigned to many important political jobs in Toscana. One of the most important of these jobs was the one he got on 1502, June and November, when Valantino tried to separate the unity of Florence with the help of the rebelli ...

... and threw his to the floor. Knowing that he was no match for the much bigger and older blacksmith he drew his gun and shot the blacksmith who died the next day. He was arrested but the escaped and began running from the law, something he did all of his life. eventually moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico were he began working for J.H. Tunstall. Tunstall was a rich farmland owner who had an ongoing feud with L.G. Murphy and J.J. Dolan over farmland and grazing rights. looked at Tunstall as a father and would do anything for him. But on February 18, 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a group of deputies wh ...

... to fairly affluent parents. Because of his family's financial status, he started formally training as a teen, and moved to Paris where he became the first American student of Nadia Boulanger. It was here that Copland developed much of his neo-classical style. Although he enjoyed the precise structure that Boulanger had taught him, Copland's heart was truly in creating music that people other than musicians could appreciate. It was upon his return to America in 1924 that he decided that he would write ". . .truly American music." He traveled throughout America, getting a taste of what the "common man" was listeni ...

... as the 1960's, Grice has already propounded in Harvard his Cooperative Principle, with the definition as such: "Make your conversational contribution such as required at the stage at which it occurs by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged." He further worked four maxims in support of the principle by making it more concrete: 1.The Maxim of Quality: try to make your contribution one that is true, or one that has adequate evidence to testify to its very truth; 2. The Maxim of Quantity: try to say as much, and just as much as necessary in your contribution; 3. The Maxim of Rel ...

... of William and Mary, then read the law. Thomas Jefferson was a man of many different talents. He knew several languages, including Latin and Greek. He was an expert mathematician who was even able to calculate when eclipses of the sun and moon would occur. He could design buildings, perform medical operations like an experienced surgeon, survey land, and play the violin. Despite his thinness, he was strong enough to tame a wild horse and chop wood like a lumberjack. Most important of all, he was know to be a superb writer. Though surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson was not a man of many words. Not known for ...

... still make a profit. Many people, though, accuse Carnegie of being a "Robber Baron". One might say he monopolized the steel market (owning 25% of it), made a bigger and bigger profit by cutting his workers' salaries and forcing his partners to return their company stock if they resigned or retired; and that is mostly true. His workers had a lot of potential injuries waiting to happen… and they had to work twelve hours a day, 7 days a week. When they started to form a labor union, he tried to stop it. He had to go to Scotland for a couple of days and told his partner to stop the strike by any means. Whether it was ...

... twice but was rejected for lack of talent. Staying in Vienna until 1913, he lived first on an orphan's pension, later on small earnings from pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions. In World War I (1914-1918), Hitler, by then in Munich, volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. He proved a dedicated, courageous soldier, but was never promoted beyond private first class because his superiors thought him lacking in leadership qualities! After Germany's defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich, remaining in the army until 1920. His commander made him an education of ...

... eighty seven when he was Gotti's underboss. Today he admits taking part in nineteen Mafia style slayings, including the murder of his brother-in-law. His reward for ratting on his boss, John Gotti, was a sentence of less than five years for a life of crimes that includes nineteen murders. He has been free since March Nineteen ninety five although he was hiding from the mafia in the Witness Protection Program until nineteen ninety seven. This self-confessed mafia underboss helped to put away 36 fellow mobsters. Among these 36 men one really stuck out. That man was Gambino crime boss John "The Teflon Don" ...