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Francis Scott Key
Artist Biography Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States’ national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy (Charlton) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County and is now Carroll County, Maryland. His father John Ross Key was a lawyer, a judge and an officer in the Continental Army. His great-grandparents were Philip Key and Susanna Barton Gardiner, both born in London, England, immigrated to Maryland in 1726. He studied law at St.…
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Oprah Winfrey Biography
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Pablo Picasso Biography
An article from Biography.com Pablo Picasso Biography in full Pablo Ruiz y Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) (born October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain—died April 8, 1973, Mougins, France) Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre . . . piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that…
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Barack Obama Biography
An article from Biography.com Barack Obama Biography Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. ( 1961 – ) QUICK FACTS Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii) Lives in: Chicago, Illinois Zodiac Sign: Leo Height: 6? 1? (1.87m) Family: Married wife Michelle in 1992, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas) –U.S. Senator from Illinois, 2005-2008 RELATED WORKS Books 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 2006 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Watch Barack Obama videos in the news… April 13, 2011 At George Washington University, President Barack Obama tackled one of the country’s most challenging issues—the federal…
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Donald Trump Biography
An article from Biography.com Donald Trump Biography in full Donald John Trump ( 1946 – ) Real estate developer, mogul. Born Donald John Trump, on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York, the fourth of five children of Frederick C. and Mary MacLeod Trump. Frederick Trump was a builder and real estate developer who came to specialize in constructing and operating middle income apartments in the Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn. Donald Trump was an energetic, assertive child, and his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy at age 13, hoping the discipline of the school would channel his energy in a positive manner. Trump did well at…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Biography
An article from Biography.com Martin Luther King Jr. Biography original name Michael Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ) Watch Martin Luther King Jr. videos >> View special MLK feature with Photo Gallery and more. (born Jan. 15, 1929, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn.) Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. King rose to national prominence as head of the Southern Christian…
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FK: A New Generation (3:57) John F. Kennedy’s progressive agenda during the 1960s inspired a new generation of optimism in America.
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Banting and Best isolate insulin 1922
In 1920, Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting visited the University of Toronto to speak to the newly appointed head of the department of physiology, John J.R. Macleod. Macleod had studied glucose metabolism and diabetes, and Banting had a new idea on how to find not only the cause but a treatment for the so-called “sugar disease.” Late in the nineteenth century, scientists had realized there was a connection between the pancreas and diabetes. The connection was further narrowed down to the islets of Langerhans, a part of the pancreas. From 1910 to 1920, Oscar Minkowski and others tried unsuccessfully to find and extract the active ingredient from the islets of Langerhans. While…
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Accidental Discoveries by Lexi Krock
Accidental Discoveries by Lexi Krock PBS NOVA Accidents in medicine: The idea sends chills down your spine as you conjure up thoughts of misdiagnoses, mistakenly prescribed drugs, and wrongly amputated limbs. Yet while accidents in the examining room or on the operating table can be regrettable, even tragic, those that occur in the laboratory can sometimes lead to spectacular advances, life-saving treatments, and Nobel Prizes. A seemingly insignificant finding by one researcher leads to a breakthrough discovery by another; a physician methodically pursuing the answer to a medical conundrum over many years suddenly has a “Eureka” moment; a scientist who chooses to study a contaminant in his culture rather than…
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The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793
Observations Upon the Origin of the Malignant Bilious, or Yellow Fever in Philadelphia. From the holdings of Center for the History of Medicine/Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine—Harvard Medical School. Yellow fever is known for bringing on a characteristic yellow tinge to the eyes and skin, and for the terrible “black vomit” caused by bleeding into the stomach. Known today to be spread by infected mosquitoes, yellow fever was long believed to be a miasmatic disease originating in rotting vegetable matter and other putrefying filth, and most believed the fever to be contagious. The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first…