.... him to be an apprentice at the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. Verrocchio was the leading sculptor and painter of the time. At the studio he met other famous painters such as Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. In 1478, Leonardo became an independent master of his trade. His first large painting, The Adoration of the Magi, was never completed. It introduced new different style of composition. In this style the main figures are placed in the foreground. The background consists of distant views of imaginary ruins and battle scenes. In 1482 Leonardo worked his way up to the services of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. He was the principal engineer in .....

.... of Toronto Medical School in the fall of 1912. His cousin quoted, "He was a steady, industrious student. He had no top marks or even honor standing, but there never was any doubt that he would pass." World War I While he was still in school, World War I started. In the spring of 1915, his name was enlisted in the Canadian Army. However, his commanding officer, arranged him for his education. Hours after the successful completion of his final exams in December 1916, he was back in uniform. Within a few months, he was serving in the Canadian Army Hospital at Ramsgate, England. He then voluntarily transferred to the front line near Cambrai, Fran .....

.... Cambodia capital, and spent a year in a roual monastery followed by six year in an elite Catholic School. In 1948 Sar went to study radio electricity in Paris. There he joined the French Communist Party. Self- effacing and charming, he kept company with Khieu Ponnary first Khemer women to get a Bachelor degree. They married in 1956. Sr student friends included Khieu Samphan, Leng Sary, and Son Sen. Each person in the group adopted a peseudonym. Sar choice of “ Khmer Da’em,� whice mean “ Original Cmbodian.� stood out. Sar later change his name to Pol Pot. A movement for independence from France was gaining strength, and Pol joined the Cam .....

.... astonishing number of forms – blues, ballads, spirituals, rhapsodies, elegies, suites, and free-form and cross-cultural works. The closest contemporary analogy to Coltrane's relentless search for possibilities was the Beatles' redefinition of rock from one album to the next. Yet the distance they traveled from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues. Asked by a Swedish disc jockey in 1960 if he was trying to "pl .....

.... she would become a doctor, so that she could help babies and children to stay healthy. She was going to study and work hard to reach her goal.   Elizabeth studied very hard. She read every book in her house and was the teacher's best pupil. She never got bored of learning or trying new things; and years later she became a medical student. All the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it.   For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on Aug .....

.... leaving school in 1978 she worked as a nanny, waitress, and cleaning woman before becoming a teacher at the Young England kindergarten in Pimlico, London. Her romance with the Prince of Wales began in 1980. He was twelve years older than Diana, and had previously dated her sister Sarah. Almost from the start, the press took a special interest in "Lady Di." They staked out her apartment and followed her everwhere. Diana later said that she found the constant attention unbearable. Diana and Charles were married July 29, 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral. The wedding was broadcast in 74 countries and watched by 750 million people worldwide. Diana was the first .....

.... set up Pravda. The Pravda was the newspaper for the Bosheviks. The newspaper first appeared in 1912, on May 5. In March 7, 1913 he had to be returned in St. Petersberg and had gotten arrested then was deported to Siberia (Amaricana). In 1912, Joseph was rewardedfrom Lenin by coopting him to the Bolshevik Central Commi ttee. He started going by the name of Stalin,which means "man of steel." Stalin was appointed to the mundane adminastrative posts (Grolier). In 1917, March 15, the Czar's abduction had led to even more social chaos in Russian. As a party member Joseph was chaired on April 11the national conference of Bosheviks delegates urged cooperat .....

.... States (146, Richardson). After high school, Dwight worked full-time at the creamery and helped pay for some of Edgar’s college expenses (12, Ambrose). Dwight never thought about a higher education until a friend persuaded him to apply to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He received an appointment to the academy by Senator Joseph Bristow of Kansas where later he played for the academy’s football team (16, Ambrose). A knee injury forced him to quit and end his hopes of being a star halfback. In 1915, Eisenhower graduated from the academy and the Army assigned him to Fort Sam Houston, where he held the rank of second lieutena .....

.... of Nations. The book was being written all during the years of strife between Britain and her colonies, but it was not published until 1776. In the passages which follow, Smith points to the impossibility of monopolizing the benefits of colonies, and pessimistically calculates the cost of empire, but the book appeared too late to have any effect upon British policy. Because the Declaration of Independence and The Wealth of Nations, the political and economic reliations of empire and mercantilism, appeared in the same year, historians have often designated 1776 as one of the turning points in modern history. The text On the cost of Empire, the eloqu .....

.... College and then the University of Manchester. In 1937 Lawrence Bragg moved to the National Physical Laboratory as director, but soon accepted an 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 ord .....