Discovering Collection: Biography
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Across the curriculum. Discovering Collection: Biography ... A People Search for Abraham Lincoln produces numerous. indepth biographical essays on his ...
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Discovering Collection: BiographyPage 1Across the curriculumDiscovering Collection: BiographyPage 2SEARCH TIPWhen you see the InfoMarkicon on your resultspage this means that you can bookmark the page forfuture reference copy it into an electronic mail message or embed it into a Web page. For more information onhow to use InfoMarks click the icon on the results page or goto:www.gale.com/infomarksJOHN ADAMSA People Search for John Adams produces numerous indepth biographical essays on his life and times. Included arelists of people and events that were influential during his lifetime. At the time of Adams birth Botulism made first recorded appearance in Germany English parliament passed the Copyright Act to prohibitplagiarism Scarlet Fever epidemic hit New EnglandAt the time of Adams death Fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration ofIndependence James Fenimore Cooper published The Last of theMohicans Thomas Jefferson diedThe times 17151774: Age of Enlightenment 17601820: Reign of George III in England 17751783: American Revolutionary War 17891799: French Revolution 17921815: Napoleonic Wars 18121814: War of 1812Adams contemporaries Jane Austen (17751817): English novelist Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821): French emperor Benjamin Franklin (17061790): American statesman andpolitician Wolfgang Goethe (17491832): German writer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (17561791): Austrian composer JeanJacques Rousseau (17121778): French philosopherand writer Selected world events 1736: Claudius Aymand performed first successful appendixoperation 1751: Benjamin Franklin discovered electrical nature oflightning 1752: Liberty Bell placed in belfry of Pennsylvania StateHouse 1777: Vermont prohibited slavery 1800: Washington D.C. became U.S. capital 1814: Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled BannerDiscovering CollectionLook inside the lives of noteworthy people The Discovering Collection gives students the power of knowledge. The power to think. The power t ...
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