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Amelia met with both George Putnam and Amy Guest in New York. They both thought she was perfect. Attractive. Polite. Well-educated. She got the job. The job was actually not nearly as good as it sounded. Amelia wouldnt get paid. A man named Wilmer St
What brought Lincoln back to politics was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. For a long time, Americans had been arguing about slavery. Should it be legal? And if so, where? In 1820, Missouri had become a state. Slavery was legal there. At that time, C
As the war neared the end of its second year, more than one hundred battles had been fought, with many thousands of men wounded and killed. And still, neither side was winning. In the North, it became harder and harder to find men who were willing to
Lincoln was in trouble before he even took office. The slave states hated him. Almost no one in the South had voted for him. As soon as the news came of his election, seven states seceded from the Union. They said they were no longer part of the Unit
In the mid 1800s, a man in France and a man in Massachusetts both came up with ways to record soundbut as a pattern on paper much the way the dots and dashes of Morse code look on paper. Nobody had figured out how to record sounds and play them back
In the fall of 1929, the stock market crashed. Many people lost a lot of money. Many also lost their jobs. It was the start of the Great Depression. Amelia worried about her parents who had split up again. Her mother was living with Amelias sister an
RAPHAEL SANZIO WAS BORN IN URBINO, ITALY, ON APRIL 6, 1483. HE FIRST LEARNED TO DRAW FROM HIS ARTIST FATHER. WHEN HE WAS TWENTY-ONE, HE WENT TO FLORENCE, WHERE HE STUDIED THE WORKS OF LEONARDO AND MICHELANGELO. IN HIS DAY, RAPHAEL WAS THE MOST POPULA
Some people are enormously talented and then there is Leonardo da Vinci. He lived at a time when there were many extremely talented people all around him. Even so, he stood out. He could draw and paint better than anyone. One of his paintings, the Mo
Of all the pharaohs who ruled Egypt, Tuts father had to be among the strangest. First of all, there was the way he looked. Amenhoteps head was oddly shaped. It was very long and narrow. And his hips were very large for a man. Was a rare disease the c
During the 1930s and early 1940s, Eleanor Roosevelt was our countrys first lady. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was president of the United States then, was her husband. There have been more than forty first ladies of the United States. What made Ele
Shortly after her seventh birthday, Eleanors life suddenly changed. When she was a child, many of the medicines we have today had not yet been discovered. Many diseases that now can be cured often killed people. One such disease was diphtheria. Peopl
By the time Anne turned fifteen, the families had been in hiding for almost two yearsmore than 650 days. It was June 1944. The war was drawing to a close. Italy, once an ally of Germany, had surrendered. The Allied forces were freeing France. On a ma
Amelia worked in a Toronto hospital until World War I was over. Then she came back to the United States. She wanted to study science. Maybe she would become a doctor. Amelia decided to enroll at Columbia University in New York City. At that time, mos
TIMELINE OF TOMS LIFE 1847 Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11 1854 The Edisons move to Port Huron, Michigan 1859 Works as a newsboy on the railroad 1863 Works as a telegraph operator in cities around the U.S. 1868 Moves to Boston, Massachusetts; inv
Tom was a man who never ran out of ideas. Although Tom was hard of hearing, he never lost his hearing completely. He didnt let it become a problem, even when his hearing got worse as he got older. In fact, he said it was a good thing because he could
Vanessa-Mae 陈美 Vanessa-Mae has been called a Paganini in hot pants. Or, to put it another way: she dresses to kill, but you aint seen anything yet till you see her pick up a violin. 陈美曾被称为穿热裤的帕格尼尼,或者换种说法:
Luc Besson 吕克贝松 Out of boredom, Luc Besson started to write stories, including the backdrop to what later became one of his most popular movies, The Fifth Element. Besson directed and cowrote the screenplay of this science fiction thriller wi
Neil had been younger than nearly all the other students when he first enrolled at Purdue. But hed been away for three years. When he returned in September of 1952, he was twenty-two and older than most students. He was more mature. He was ready to s
When Neil started college, he had just turned seventeen. For the first time he was living away from his family. He got decent grades, as he had in high school. But he wasnt focused on his studies, and the science classes were hard. He described his f
Harpsichord The harpsichord was the most popular of the early keyboard instruments. The strings were made of metal and plucked with quills. The metallic sound was not pleasing to musicians ears, but Mozart figured out a way to make music sound more b