... pirate in the 1600s. You can give yourself an entire college education with the books that can be found in any public library. For an example John Aristotle Phillips was born in 1955 in Connecticut. In 1976, while attending Princeton University as a junior undergraduate, he designed a nuclear weapon using publicly available books ... internet for my own education and to improve my vocabulary. Several years ago I read Almost Adam by Petru Popescu and Neanderthal by John Darnton. One of the books mentioned a Sherpa guide and I googled him to see if it he was an actual person. He was and w...

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... time. Later in 1494, he served as a clerk, and four years later he was promoted to secretary and chancellor of the second chancellery of the Florentine Republic in 1498. As chancellor his duties included taking missions to foreign states, composing and summarizing reports, carrying ... the German emperor (1507-1508). One of his contributions to his state was in the military defense of the Republic of Florence. In 1510, he was inspired by his reading of Roman history, so he organized a citizen militia for the Republic (http://www.biography.com). He organized this citizen militia ... for...

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