... few years ago, in 1943 when he was chosen as one of them. He would be a part elite few who would win the war for the Allies, and save the lives of thousands of Americans. It sounded so powerful, so righteous, in fact to him it sounded perfect. He would be America's hero. Regardless of whether or not he would be known, after all, the project was deemed Top Secret, he would still know. That was all he believed he needed. He was wrong. He dwindled in his memories. It started like the soft but noticeable sound of white noise on the radio, but soon grew into voices. He began constantly hearing the dreadful and ho ...

... father moved to Hartford to trade. That is when he met Sarah. School Samuel Colt went to the local school in Hartford but did not go for long. At the age of ten he started to work at his fathers dyeing and bleaching factory. Then at the age of fourteen Samuel went back to school and later went to Amherst Academy in Amherst, Massachusetts. Teen Years When Samuel was a teen he worked at his father's factory. Samuel would often mix chemicals to see their reaction. This was also the time Samuel got interested in guns. He would always take his father's guns apart. One year at the public picnic Samuel ...

... Vox. She graduated from United College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946, and married John Fergus Laurence on September on September 13, 1947, in the Neepewa United Church. She then worked for a time as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen. In 1950, after living for a year in England, Margaret and her husband moved to British Somaliland. While there, she wrote a translation of Somali prose and poetry, "A Tree for Poetry." A travel book, "The Prophet’s Camel Bell," written some years later, describes the Laurences’ experience in Somaliland. They moved to Accra, Ghana in 1952, with th ...

... Brunelleschi and Jacopo dellla Quercia, as well as four other artists, to win the commision. He spent more than 20 years to make the doors, but during that time he trained students and also concentrated on other artwork. His students include Donatello and Paulo Uccello. Each door contains 14 quatrefoil-framed scenes from the lives of Christ, the Evangelists, and the church fathers. He also made another set of doors for the Baptistery. These bronze doors had 5 panels on each side, containing scenes from the Old Testament. They were dubbed “ The Gates of Paradise,� by Michaelangelo, and were Ghiberti’s gre ...

... of "ungodly" evolutionary thinking in schools. With today's social and political climate, this question is back with greater force than ever. This is why this subject is more important now than ever. In Jay Gould's book The Panda's Thumb, an overview of and an argument for Charles Darwin's evolutionary thinking is conducted with flowing thoughts and ideas. This essay titled "Natural Selection and the Human Brain: " takes a look directly at two hard fought battles between evolutionists and creationists. Using sexual selection and the origins of human intellect as his proponents, Gould argues his opinion in th ...

... of his class. When Newton's stepfather died, Isaac had to be drug out of school to help with the farm. Farmwork was not for him though. He couldn't do chores very well. When an idea that got in his head, that's all he cared about. One time his mother sent him out in a storm, to close the barn doors so they would not be torn off. His mother came looking for him, half an hour later, to see what was taking him so long. She looked at the barn, and saw the doors were blown right off the hinges. She found Isaac jumping, again and again, from an open window. He would measure the length of the jump, and measure the ...

... took part in the battle of Naseby, the decisive battle in the Civil War. In 1648 he came to the conclusion that Charles I should be held responsible for renewing the civil war. The king was tried and executed. In 1649, with the conflict in England settled, they could concentrate on the issue of Ireland. Cromwell and 12,000 troops landed in Dublin on August 15, 1649. Cromwell was so determined to rectify the atrocities against his fellow Protestants that his efficiency in wiping out the Irish Catholics made him the most feared man in Ireland. The purpose of his ruthlessness was to eradicate the revolt and to ...

... soon they were eager to sponsor him. While Fulton continued with his painting, it was not a successful living for him. He soon became well acquainted with boats and had a liking for them. He worked with inventions for propelling boats. He felt that several revolving paddles and stern would be most effective. After this, Fulton permanently changed his career towards canal engineering. He worked on extending the canal system by his Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation. This dealt with the system of inland water transportation based on a small canals extending throughout the countryside. He thought ...

... a sense of God as in the natural world. By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public in the fall of 1836. At the Atheneum she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her fathe ...

... with the industrialists and artists. His reasoning for this seemingly odd political structure was that it was not only important to fill the emotional needs of the people, it was also important to keep reason alive in both the minds of the people and those who govern them. He put these ideas into words in his book, Nouveau Christianne, which stated that a society organized by science must be balanced by the Brotherhood of Man. His doctrine was later turned into a religion by his followers. Even though many of his writings may seem extremely unrealistic, several of them were prophetic in nature. Not only did h ...