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The Astronauts
The Apollo program, named after the Greek God
who drove his chariot to the sun, was America's effort
to be first to the moon. Conceived during
the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
guided by NASA, it began in earnest after
President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961
special address to a joint session of Congress.
In this speech Kennedy declared a national goal
stating, "I believe that this nation should
commit itself, to achieving the goal, before
this decade is out, of landing a man on the
Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
Apollo was preceded by the Mercury and
Gemini missions,
which laid the ground
work necessary for Apollo's success.
Kennedy's goal was achieved on July 20, 1969,
when the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Moon.
Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit.
Five
subsequent Apollo missions also landed
astronauts on the Moon, the last in
December 1972. In these six Apollo
spaceflights, 12 men walked on the Moon
allowing them to join one of histories
most elite clubs.
The entire program was accomplished with
only two major setbacks. The first came with
the Apollo 1 launchpad fire that resulted in the
deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White
and Roger Chaffee. The second near catastrophe
was Apollo 13, when an oxygen tank ruptured
during the Moonward phase of its journey. This
explosion crippled Apollo 13's command
module and the only thing that saved the
3
men
was that they miraculously had a
second spacecraft, the lunar module.
There were however other problems - like the
Apollo 12 lightning strike that occurred just
be for launch that crippled the entire rocket
momentarily or Apollo 14 nearly being
unable to dock, or Jim Irwin suffering
a heart attack on the moon.
John Stephen Akhwari
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John Forbes Nash
"John Forbes Nash, Jr." (born June 13, 1928)
is an American mathematician whose works in
game theory, differential geometry, and partial
differential equations have provided insight into the
forces that govern chance and events inside complex
systems in daily life. His theories are used in market
economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial
intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory.
Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at
Princeton University during the latter part of his life,
he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten
and John Harsanyi.
Nash is the subject of the Hollywood movie
A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the
biography of the same name, focuses on Nash's
mathematical genius and struggle with
paranoid schizophrenia.
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Abraham Lincoln
'Abraham Lincoln' (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)
was the 16th President of the United States, serving from
March 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the country
through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis — the
American Civil War — preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States
House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts at a
seat in the United States Senate. He was an affectionate,
though often absent, husband and father of four children.
After deftly opposing the expansion of slavery in the
United States in his campaign debates and speeches,Lincoln
secured the Republican nomination and was elected president
in 1860. Following declarations of secession by southern slave
states, war began in April 1861, and he concentrated on
both the
military and political dimensions of the war effort,
seeking to reunify the nation. He vigorously exercised
unprecedented war powers, including the arrest and detention
without trial of thousands of suspected secessionists.
He prevented British recognition of the Confederacy by
skillfully handling the Trent affair late in 1861. He issued his
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage
of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,
abolishing slavery.
Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection
of top generals, including the commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.
He brought leaders of various factions of his party into his cabinet and pressured them to cooperate. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave
states at the start of the war and tried repeatedly to
capture the Confederate capital at Richmond. Each time
a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally
Grant succeeded in 1865. An exceptionally astute politician
deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached
out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election
in the 1864 presidential election.
As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party,
Lincoln came under attack from all sides. Radical Republicans
wanted harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats
desired more compromise, and Copperheads despised him —
not to mention irreconcilable secessionists in reconquered areas. Politically, Lincoln fought back with patronage, by pitting his opponents against each other, and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory. His Gettysburg Address of 1863 became the most quoted speech in American history. It was an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles of nationalism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation
through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of
lingering and bitter divisiveness. However, just six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was shot and killed by Confederate sympathizer
John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
His death marked the first assassination of a U.S. president.
Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars as
one of the greatest U.S. presidents.
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Christopher Nolan
'Christopher Nolan' (September 6, 1965 – February 20, 2009)
was an Irish poet and author and was the son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland,
but later
moved to
Dublin to attend college. He was educated
at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple
Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin.
Physically disabled from birth, with quadriplegia cerebral
palsy,
he could not speak, or move, or eat or do anything
for himself.
His disabilities were so severe that moving his eyes was his
sole means of communicating. But his mother believed that
Christopher could understand what was going on and so she
taught him at home. The efforts put forth by the Nolan family
would eventually foster Christopher talents. When he was
young, his father told him stories and read passages
from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and D.H. Lawrence
to keep his mind stimulated. His mother strung up letters of the alphabet in the kitchen, where she kept up a stream of conversation. His sister, Yvonne, sang songs and acted out skits.
At the
age of 10, he was started on a new medication,
a "Miracle Drug". It was a medication that would finally
relax his muscles, at least to the extent that he
would gain
this much control over his head and
neck - with a unicorn
stick strapped to his forehead
and his head cradled in his
mothers hands, he could finally
communicate using a
keyboard, typing
out one letter out at a time. The effort
involved was herculean and heroic for both Nolan and
his mother Bernadette. Typing a
single word
took minutes,
yet Nolan pressed on. By the age of 15, he
published his
first collection of poems titled, "Dam-Burst of Dreams."
His next work,"Under the Eye of the Clock", was an account
of his childhood, he was now 21 years old. This literary effort
would end up winning him
England's "Whitbread Book of the
Year Award" in 1987 - one of
the United Kingdom's most
prestigious literary awards.
He
would then spend more than
a decade writing what would turn out to be his final work,
"The Banyan Tree". In addition his literary awards, he was
also awarded an Honorary
Doctorate of Letters in the UK,
the medal of excellence
from the United Nations Society
of Writers,
and a Person of the Year award in Ireland.
"Crazy you must be in joining the academically brilliant he
scolded, fool to kiss goodbye to dear old isolation. Imagine
going looking for thrills. You'll get your bellyful my lad - hell
hath no fury like scorn for spastics and you go looking
for it, asking for it, offering yourself as a human sacrifice.
But then again, why not go, why not chance it?"
~ Christopher Nolan ~
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"Accept me for what I am and
I'll accept you for what
you're accepted as."
~ Christopher Nolan ~
Under The Eye Of
The Clock
Charels H. Ferguson
Michael Heaton
"Michael Heaton" is an award-winning columnist and
reporter. His byline has
appeared regularly in the
Plain Dealer
since 1987. Prior to that he was a critic
and columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and
a reporter for People magazine.
He is a graduate
of Kent State University. He is co-author of the
New York Times bestseller Motherhood and
Hollywood by his sister,
actress Patricia Heaton,
and co-author of I’ll
Be Right Back, the
autobiography of TV host Mike Douglas.
A book collecting his a Plain Dealer columns,
titled Best of the Minister of Culture, was
published in 1992. The son of legendary
Plain Dealer sportswriter Chuck Heaton
brother of
actress Patricia Heaton,
Michael lives in Bay Village, Ohio.
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Minister Of Culture
"Truth and Justice For Fun and Profit"
by Michael Heaton
"The first collection of feature-length reporting
from one of Cleveland's favorite print journalists.
(Foreword by Joe Eszterhas.) Michael Heaton
has reported on as wide a range of stories as any
active Cleveland journalist. On any given day his
byline might
appear in any section of the Plain
Dealer, where he is a regular columnist and reporter.
To get the story he has put on boxing gloves
and entered the ring, and gone undercover with
the FBI and mob informants. He has interviewed
chefs and coroners, gypsies and priests.
This collection of 40 newspaper and magazine
stories shows Heaton's Cleveland to be a crazy
quilt of bold schemes, failed dreams,
and colorful characters.
Anthony Robles
"Anthony Robles" (born July 20, 1988) is a wrestler who
won the 2010-11 NCAA individual wrestling championship
in the 125-pound weight class despite being born with
only one leg. Robles red-shirted as a freshman at Arizona
State University, and finished 6th in the 2006 FILA Junior
World Championships in the 55kg Freestyle Wrestling
category. Robles started his collegiate wrestling career in
2007-08, where he was nationally ranked and finished the
year with a
record of 25-11, falling just short of being
named as an
All-American. In his second competitive
year as a collegiate
wrestler (2008-2009) Robles earned
All-American Honors,
finishing the year 29-8, winning
the PAC 10 Conference Championship at 125 pounds
and finishing fourth in the
NCAA Championship's 125
pound weight class tournament.
In 2009-10, Robles again
earned All-American honors,
finishing seventh in
the NCAA 125 pound weight class,
going 32-4 on the season,
and repeating as the
Pac-10 125 pound wrestling champion.
In Robles' final year of eligibility (2010-11), Robles
went undefeated, going 36-0 on the year, becoming a
three-time Pac-10 champion (defeating Jason Lara from
Oregon State in the final, and a national champion,
defeating the defending 125 pound NCAA Champion,
Iowa's Matt McDonough 7-1 in the final. For his efforts,
Robles was voted the Tournament's
Most Outstanding Wrestler.
The 5'8" Robles concluded his Arizona State wrestling
career with a record of 122-23, a three-time Pac-10
wrestling champion as well as a three-time All-American.
Robles ranks 8th for most match wins by an
Arizona State wrestler.
Mark Zuckerberg
Bob Andrews
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Blind golf competitions are set in classes
determined by the golfer's level of sight,
using the same categories as in other
sports played by the visually impaired:
