.... military regiment in Naples. He fought in the Battle of Lepanto. During that battle, he lost the use of his left hand. In 1575, and one of his brothers were captured by Barbary pirates. During his imprisonment, the pirates sent them to Algeria and sold them as slaves. They were held there for ransom. In 1580, he family and friends paid the ransom to free ’ brother. They did not have enough money to free . After he tried to escape and got caught, they released him because of his bravery for taking all the blame. could not find a job so he deci .....

.... to read or write. However, through playing with the young white children in her neighborhood, she was able to convince them to teach her to read and write. She learned to write by copying words in the sand. Like a good neighbor, Anna taught the children younger than her the things she had learned. In this way, she was teacher even as a young child. Anna was introduced to the Adventist Church in a very unconventional way. Usually the case with new converts is that they have friends that bring them to church, or maybe even complete strangers that introdu .....

.... on the headwaters of the Ohio River. Conflict over this area eventually erupted into the French and Indian War, in which Washington played a major military role that established his reputation as a commander. In the fall of 1758 the French were defeated. In 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy young widow. Washington matured into a solid member of Virginia society. From 1759 to 1774 he served in the House of Burgesses. By 1774 Washington had become a key supporter of the colonial cause. That same year he was elected to the First Continental Congress .....

.... 5, 1955 Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and JoAnn Robinson looked out of their windows, and stood on street corners watching all of the yellow buses drive by. There were hardly any black riders since Rosa Park's arrest. It was a miracle. People stopped riding the buses all because of Rosa Parks. Soon, the police were informed of the people standing on the street corners watching the buses drive by. The police watched the streets to make sure that the black people were not bothering the other bus riders. They tried guarding the bus stops. The police faile .....

.... there is democracy. Whether a church council, school club or the state general assembly, a representative group is always present. Democracy shapes America. One could view the first democratic group responsible for today's freedom. This was the assembly formed by George Yeardly (p.13). Perhaps, if the Virginia Company had not instructed the governor to establish an assembly, the idea of democracy might not have instilled into the minds of the colonists. Surely, without this first appearance, it is questionable that an idea suppressed for centuries under the Eng .....

.... reputation for defending himself. He was once called “a boy who knew how to use his fists in a righteous case.” His teacher called home many times to explain how good he was doing academically. Throughout his juvenile years he received an endless series of excellent marks, prizes, and congratulations. When he was eighteen, Charles applied to the Christ Church College at Oxford University. Here he studied, gave lectures and lived for the rest of his life. Again, he distinguished himself with the first class honors in math, second class in classics and the B .....

.... in nothing bad, in a few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance." In Williamsburg, when it was the seat of Virginia's government, Washington secured his first military commissions, learned and practiced the arts of politics, and moved from the attitude of being just another country squire to become the leader of a continental revolution. Born February 22, 1732 in .....

.... invitation to Cambridge as the Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. He stayed at Cambridge until 1953, when he moved to the Royal Institution, London, as director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, a position once held by his father. He stayed at the Royal Institution until his retirement in 1966. The work that brought the Braggs fame was based on the phenomenon of X-ray diffraction in crystals, discovered in 1912 by Max Theodor Felix von Laue. Although the wave nature of X rays and the order of magnitude of their wavelength had been established, th .....