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Billy Barker was a sailor from Cambridge shire, England who struck gold in 1862. Billy was Born in England around 1819 as he grew up he Worked with his father as a waterman cutting and logging trees, and working for a sawmill. In 1845 railroads started taking over and the work slowed down in England Billy was losing jobs and money became scarce so he went to North America in search of a new job to keep his funds up. In 1850 Billy worked on a California gold mine in a small town called Lillooet, not having much luck in finding gold so in 1862 Billy barker moved to the area near Richfield to work on several mines that he owned. As Billy worked there he found no gold or any signs, Billy was tired of being unsuccessful so he looked in a canyon where Baskerville now lays, everyone thought he was being silly and called him weird for thinking there was gold down there.
Guy Fieri is a well known chef and was born on January 22,1968 Ferndale,California. Fieri grew up in Ferndale and started having this passion for food so soon enough by the the age of 10 he had a pretzel cart. He made some good money for a 10 year old,but most importantly he got some good business experience. Then when Fieri turned 16,he stopped selling pretzels and used the money he saved from it too go to France for a year and further his culinary education. Later Fieri was in the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and got his degree in hospitality management and worked several different restaurants at the time.
Many people wander about the north pole. Everyone knows that someone discovered it, but what you don 't know is that one of the two discoverers is very important to black history, Matthew Henson. He was the first African American explorer to go to the North Pole. Matthew Henson is important to black history because he was one of the first famous black explorers. His past is inspiring ,he discovered the north pole, he didn 't get noticed until 5 decades later
How did the office of war build support ? ( DRAFT) Charles Lindbergh was an American Aviator that was respected by many Americans . In 1927 Lindbergh did something remarkable. He was the first person to fly the first solo transatlantic flight across the Atlantic. Even with all of his achievements, Lindbergh did not support the foreign views that president Franklin D. Roosevelt had.
Nicknamed the Lone Eagle, iconic aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first person to successfully complete a non-stop, solo, trans-Atlantic flight. He was in New York one day, then in Paris the next. His awards and immediate fame would not have happened without prior inventions. The 1920s was a time of innovation and exploration, Charles Lindbergh was a well known person of the time. Charles Lindbergh became prominently known as a daredevil after he made the first solo trip across the Atlantic Ocean.
With the door being propped open, Holmes proceeded to his car where he had left his weapons of choice to carry out his plan. He put on Police SWAT gear, loaded up his guns, and walked back toward the theater. Before he entered he threw a canister of tear gas into the audience. This confused and shocked everyone in theater nine because many people thought it was a promotional stunt for the movie. “After both canisters explode, witnesses say he started shooting, first at the ceiling first and then at the crowd.”
Jeffrey Dahmer Theory: The Making of the Monster Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born to Joyce and Lionel Dahmer on May 21st, 1960 at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During his life, he earned the nickname “The Milwaukee Cannibal” for the necrophilic and cannibalistic murders of 17 men before his arrest in 1991. Background While pregnant with Jeffrey, Joyce Dahmer struggled with mental illness. According to Jeffrey’s father, Lionel Dahmer, Joyce rarely touched Jeffrey as an infant, unless to diaper him or hold him for a photo. Jeffrey’s grandparents were not allowed to hold their grandson either.
Dalton Trumbo is one of the Hollywood Ten, and he was blacklisted from Hollywood in 1947. He was a very accomplished screenwriter and writer that worked on various films such as “Spartacus,” “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” and “Roman Holiday.” He didn’t start writing professionally until the 1930’s; before that he was a journalist and a writer, eventually moving on from novels to movie scripts. He began writing for the entertainment company Warner Bros. and his career took off from there. He quickly became a well-known, sought after writer in Hollywood, while writing novels on the side.
Introduction: Ted Bundy was one of the most well-known serial killer in U.S. history. Ted Bundy killed over 100 women before he was given the death sentence when he was finally caught. Ted Bundy had a rough childhood and changed as a person throughout his years. He wasn’t a people person and enjoyed killing others, especially young women that tend to look like his ex-girlfriend.
Him and his assembled team wheeled through thirty four countries spreading awareness and finding a cure for twenty six months. Sadly he never found a cure through those intense two years. Although he inspired many people to overcome their disability which eventually made him famous and made his journey be named "Man in Motion World Tour. " All those people who thought were limited are now encouraged to keep going on.
A serial killer can best be described as a person who commits a series or murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. A disturbing fact about serial killers is that most of them should be eminently identifiable. Serial killers commit their acts specifically in one place, therefore, give the residents of the community, its police force, and even their neighbors ample opportunity to find out what they are. The fact they are not caught is attributed to three factors. The first being the characteristics of the victims, which in Jeffrey Dahmer's case he prayed mostly on gay men.
David Blaine is a self-described resistance artist. He shows his willpower doing an almost impossible stunt instead of doing his magic trick, such as; he stood for thirty-five hours more than eighty feet above, spent sixty sleepless hour in a giant block of ice, spent forty-four days without food, slept on the wooden floor of his bedroom, and spent two straight days in a closet. He learned to win swimming races by not coming up for air the entire length of the pool, and then with practice eventually won five hundred dollars in bets, by swimming five lengths under water. He had spent more than a year preparing for his accomplishment by learning to fill his lungs with pure oxygen and then remain immobile under water conserving oxygen by expanding
Likewise he had performed much such endurance in his life by breaking the comfort zone with lots of practice. For an example, he’d spent more than a year preparing for his feat by learning to fill his lungs with pure oxygen and then remain immobile under water, conserving oxygen by expending as little energy as
According the article of "The more the body suffer,the more the spirit flowers" Author talks the "Willpower" of David Blaine. Why Blaine does,and what he does. "Willpower" is an immensely rewarding book,filled with ingenious research,wise advice and insightful reflections on the human condition. It was interesting to discover that there are actually 4 type of willpower. * Control of thoughts
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O 'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family 's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn 't and couldn 't understand her.
