Henry was a well known scientist during the 1700’s. He is most famous for the discovery of hydrogen, although he calculated the composition of atmospheric air, and the properties of different gases. Henry Cavendish was a British scientist, natural philosopher, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. Cavendish was born October 10, 1731 in Nice, France. He later died at the age of 79 on died February 24, 1810 in London, England. At age 11, Cavendish attended a private school called Hackney Academy, located near London. , he entered the University of Cambridge in St Peter's College, at age 18, on 24 November 1748 ,but left three years later on 23 February 1751 without taking a degree (which was a common practice at
Anson Jones was an important part of the annexation of Texas. Without the help of Anson, it wouldn’t have been possible for Texas to be annexed to the U.S.
Today was the day a man who fled to London with me on the same ship passed away. Thomas Hutchinson, was great man with a vision. He was a businessman, historian, and a politician. The news of his demise made my old memories fresh again. I still remember those days I spent on the place now they called The United States. The war between the English and the Americans began from 1775. King George the third, after defeating the French found his empire very large. The involvement of the king in too many wars put him in a huge national debt. To pay for his debt taxes were levied on the colonies without consenting the people living there.
Henry McCarty, born around 1859 in the Manhattan area of New York, was more commonly known as Billy the Kid or William Bonney. His mother, Catherine, was an immigrant from Ireland who worked odd jobs to support their family. Soon after the death of her husband, Catherine, Henry, and her younger son Joseph moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she met her future husband William Antrim. The family accompanied Antrim to Kansas, and then New Mexico after Catherine was diagnosed with tuberculosis and advised to seek a warmer, drier climate. Antrim and Catherine were married soon after the move to New Mexico.
Sir Isaac Newton, an astronomer, mathematician, and a scientist is described to be "one of the greatest names in history of human thought.” According to biography.com, Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, and was interested in creating mechanic toys as a young boy (2016). He even invented an impressive, small windmill, which would grind wheat and corn, at a young age. Newton explored beyond the secrets of light and color, found gravity, and even discovered a new form of mathematics, called calculus. It was Newton who had explained why a rock is heavier than a pebble, and how earth's gravity could hold the moon in its orbit. Isaac Newton’s discoveries proved him
When the United States of America joined World War 1 in 1917 the rst of the world had been at war for three years. The U.S. deployed an estimated 4,355,000 troops to around the world. Around 204,004 of them returned home injured. Henry Johnson was one of those soldiers.
Who was Henry Alexander Wise? Henry was the governor of Virginia from 1856-1860 and the man who hung John Brown.
George Calvert(Also known as Lord Baltimore) was the first to dream of a colony in the new world where protestants and catholics alike could live in peace together.George Calvert was born in Yorkshire, England little is known about the ancestry of the calverts at his knighting it was it was claimed that his family came from flanders. His father Leonard calvert was a gentleman who achieved prominence as a tenant of Lord Wharton and he was wealthy enough to marry his Alicia or Alice Crossland George Calvert was born in 1579 he was born in Catterick New Yorkshire, England. His mother died november 28th 1587 when he was 8 years old. George went up to Trinity College in Oxford matriculating in 1593/94. He studied foreign languages and received a
William Brewster and Separatist Pilgrims’ Immigration to America “Elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower, was appointed ruling elder of the Pilgrims in Holland. He was a man of erudition and acted in the capacity of elder till 1629” (Savery 168). In a genealogy book written by my paternal great-grandmother, Henrietta Savery and through my interview with my paternal grandmother (Joyce Bradley), I learned that my ancestor, William Brewster immigrated to America on the Mayflower. Elder William Brewster was a great leader and the only person who had attended a university on the Mayflower (Gragg 64).
William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914. He was an American poet and pacifist. He married Dorothy Hope Frantz in 1944; they had four children, one of them Kim Stafford is a writer for Lewis and Clark College. During the Second World War, Stafford was a conscientious objector and worked in the civilian public service camps. He died of a heart attack in Lake Oswego, Oregon on August 28, 1993, having written a poem that morning containing the lines, "'You don't have to prove anything,' my mother said. 'Just be ready for what God sends. The Stafford family gave William Stafford's papers, including the 20,000 pages of his daily writing, to the Special Collections Department at Lewis & Clark College in 2008.
It was the year 1716, and I was ready to acquire more pieces o’eight. I was in Jamaica with one of my shipmates, Charles Vane. We both were getting low on pieces o’eight so we decided that we were going to do some plundering. We had chosen to raid a spanish salvage camp because we thought that they would have enough pieces o’eight to quench our desire.
Francis Drake, later Sir Francis Drake, was an incredibly interesting man. Born in Devonshire, England around 1540 (no birth records for him exist) as the eldest of twelve sons born to the farmer Edmund Drake.
Christian Tae Ms. Mitchell Sophomore English B3 28 April 2016 Sir Francis Drake: Elizabethan Admiral of the Sea The empire of Great Britain had become a major world power and a naval supremacy throughout the 17th to 19th centuries. Yet, if the Spanish Armada of 1588 had never encountered naval defeat, the British might never have explored the New World and inhabited the United States at all, thanks to one individual. Sir Francis Drake, an ordinary man whose ascent from a rural village to a mighty naval officer, was one of the most distinguished sailors within the Elizabethan Era.
Prince William popularly known as William the Silent or William of Orange lives during the 16th Century. He was born in 1533 in the Netherlands. He serves in the court of King Charles V of Spain. He soon won the admiration of the king and became his confidant. When King Philip II of Spain became king, William also enjoyed much privileges but not as an adviser to Philip. Because of the rebellion that took place, there was a bitter persecution of Protestants in the Netherland. William was both a Catholic and a protestant. He supported the reformation. He was shocked to see the inhuman treatment of people because of their religion. When he was sent on a diplomatic mission to France, he learned of a secret plot to exterminate the protestants. (link)
Isaac Newton was a scientific genius who helped the world understand many concepts. Isaac Newton is probably most famous for his discovery of the laws of motion which describe gravity for the first time. The laws of motion also described the force of an object depended on two things, mass and acceleration. With Newton’s help the modern world has been able to innovate and invent many things some that during Newton’s time was thought of as impossible. Isaac Newton was a scientific genius who was the first to describe gravity, he wrote three laws of motion, and finally helped modernize the world with the understanding of gravity.
“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Sir Isaac Newton (Brewster, Memoirs of Newton, 1855)