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May 3, 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli
historyguide.orgHe is remembered for being the founder of Modern political Science. He is also a civil servant for the Florentine Republic. His writing were based in florence during the Renaissance. -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare ( British Lierature)
biography.comHe was porbably the most famous English poet and playwriter ever. He wrote the play Romeo and Juliet which most English classes today use. Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth are some more of his famous plays. -
Rene Descartes
renedescartes.comHe was a French philosopher and writer. After his military service, he explored the world of science and mathmatics. He created Cartesian Geometry. Frail individual.
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John Locke
newworldencyclopedia.orgJohn Locke is a English philospher who is widely know as the Father of Classical Liberalsim. He is widely used in World History anf government classes. Espically when the topic of the English Enlightenment. -
Adam Smith
adamsmith.orgHe was a Scotish social philosipher. He also was a pioneer of political economy. He was apart of the Scotish enlightnment. He is well known for his two classics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Weath of Nations. -
John Dalton ( Chemistry)
He discovered atoms. Then he claimed that everything is made up of elements which is made up of atoms, therfore everythoing is made of atoms. His heritage is English. -
Declaration of Independence (U.S History)
This document was signed by the Continental Congress, declaring that the 13 colonies in America were independent of Britian. -
The first constituion of The US The Articles of Conderation(US Government)
This was the first government that the US had. It soon failed and the Constitution was wrote in its place and still stands today. -
Benjamin Franklin
The founder of electricity. Banjamin was also one of the delegates at the Consitional Convention which created our supreme law of the Land the Constitution. He was also one of the 55 men who signed the Decleration of Indpendence. -
Ratification of Constituition (U.S.Government)
The Constitution was ratified on September 17, 1787 by a majority of the delegates. -
George Washington the first US president
George Washington was the first president of the US. He also was the General over all of the troops in the Revoltionary War against Britian. He is one of America's founding Fathers. If you havent noticed he is also on the one dollar bill. -
Nathaniel Hawthorne (American Literature)
Much of his writing center around New England, many of his works feature moral allegories with a Puritian insipiration. Many do not know that one of his ancestors John Hathorne was one of the only judges involved in the Salem Witch Trials -
Charles Dickens ( British Literature)
The beloved author who wrote many inspirational books, but was most famous for his novel A Christmas Carol. The movie(s) were very popular in the 20th and the 21st century. Disney recently made a animated film on the novel. -
Emily Brontë ( British Literature)
Wuthering Heights is her notable work. The book today is now considered a classic of English Literature. She is the third eldest of her four siblings. -
Walt Whitman ( American Literature)
Walt Whitman was an American poet ,essayist, and journalist. He is also callled the father of free verse. Though biographers love his work they question his sexuality as either homosexual or bisexual. -
Dmitri Mendleev (Chemistry)
Mendleev is one of the most famous scientist of all time. He sorted the periodic table, before there ever was one. He went mad during his work , but then again most scientist do. He is Russian. -
Mark Twain ( American Literature)
Mark Twain is not his real name if you didn't know that. The name Mark Twain is a pin name or a fake name is real name is Samuel Clemens. He is one of the greatest American authors of all time, writing great American Literature such as Tom Sawyer and The Adventure of Huckleberry Fin. -
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Civil War (U.S. History)
The Cicil War so an event in American history that will always be remebered. The war tore the United States aprt literally. The Southern states succeed from the union to form the Confederacy of The United States. They did this because they liked the slaves they had and the newly elected president Abraham Lincoln, wanted to let the slaves be free. The south just didn't like that. -
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln (U.S History)
Abraham Lincoln was called the greatest president of all time. He led the United States all the way through the Civil War, ended The Civil War, and ended Slavery. His only dream was to see the US put back whole again.This dream was literally shot down by a man named John Wilkes Booth -
Robert Frost ( American Literature)
Some of Robert's notable work is A Boy's Will, and North of Boston. He is a great American poet that his known his realistic depictions of rural life. -
Neil Bohr (Chemistry)
Neil Bohr is man that most people have probably heard of in science class. He is a Danish Chemist, that is responsible for creating the current model of the atom we use today. -
Erwin Schrödinger( Chemistry)
This Austrian scientist will always be a name to reflect on in the quantam phyisics. He is responsible for creating the quantam Theory. Which forms the basis of the wave equation. -
Henry Moseley (Chemistry)
Moseley was a English Physicist who made many contributions to the science and phyisics society. He is responsible for organizing the Periodic Table. He did this by the empricial and chemical concept of Atomic Numbers. -
William Faulkner ( American Literature)
William worte many things in his career such as novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays.He also was a Nobekl Prize laureate. -
Jean-Paul Sartre
Was one of the leading French Philosophers of the 20th century. he did many things while working; such as biographer, novelist, political activist, playwright, and screenwriter.His works influenced influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory. -
Manhattan Project (U.S History)
The manhattan projext is the projext the USA had to develop a bomb that would make peace with Japan. The bomb was created because the CIA said the only was to make peace with Japan is unconditional surrender. FDR was president at this time. -
Peter Singer
He is an Australian moral Philosopher who currently is a professor at Princeton University. He specializes in applied ethics. -
Douglas Adams ( British Literature)
Douglas Adams is the author who wrote the beloved Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Which started out as a simple radio comdey but soon spread to five books, a movie, and 15 million copies sold over his lifetime. -
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Vietnam War (U.S. History)
The war lasted from 1954-1975 but the U.S. entered the war around the time of 1968 to 1969. President Lyndon Johnson was running against Barry Goldwater for the presidency. Johnson promised that he would not send in troops but by the end of his four year term, he already had over 500,000 American Troops in Nam. -
Aral Sea ( Enviromental Science)
Formly one of the largest lakes in the world but shrink due to Soviet irrigation projects. The lake as you can tell in the image has been shurnk alot. This has been going on since the 1960's. -
The assassination of President Kenndy ( US Government)
JFK is regarded as one of the best presidents of all time. He led the USA through the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also was the president at time when we sent up Apollo 11 and had the first man land on the moon. He already had a speech made up if the brave astronauts did not return home from the moon. -
JK Rowling ( British Literarture)
JK is one of the most famous authors of all time. She wrote all of the Harry Potters; which turned into 8 movies which sold millions of dollars in the box office and over 400 million copies were sold world wide. -
Apollo 11 (U.S. History)
Was the greatest astronomical advancedment of all time. the Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon ever! The United State was in a so called Space Race with the Soviet Union. They had the first man in Space but, we had the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong. -
Three Mile Island ( Enivromental Science)
A nuclear meltdowmn that happened in Pennslyvania. It got so big President Carter went to the site himself. It is a date the American Nuclear Society will never forget. -
Chernobyl( Enviromental Science)
The Ukranine SSR was apart of the USSR at the time of the accidnet. the only nuclear reactor to have ever exploded (not due to nature). The site was immediatly on high alert and had all of its workers evacute the faculity. the site is still contamiated and is still condemnded it shouldnt be inhabited for at least anthor 50 years. The nuclear waste reached most of western Russia and Europe. -
September Eleven Attacks (U.S. History)
The 9/11 attacks was a grave day in American History. The attacks led to the ten year war in Afganistan. ASome say the leader was Osama Bin Ladan, overs say it was Sadan Hussan. We just happened to kill both! This will be an event Americans never forget. -
Yucca Mountain (Enviromental Science)
Yucca Mountain is a Nuclear Waste repository site before that plan was scrapped in 2010. The chemical sthat were dumped there were spent Nuclear reactor fuel and other high level radioactive waste. -
Barack Obama is elected as the first black president (U.S. Government)
Barack obama is the first African American president that the United States had. Up until him it was nothing but white men. Now Barack is up for re-election and is running against Mitt Romney. -
The BP Oil Spill ( Environmental Science)
The BP oil spill was all over the news. The spill devesated the Gulf of Mexico. Many animals were covered in oil and were dying off which caused other animals to die off since it had no food source. The local citizens were hurt because there lively food was catching fish in that Gulf which they couldnt do anymore cause everything was covered with oil.
