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…he made himself an Ephesian, being bribed to do so by the Ephesian people. For this act he was banished by the Cretans.” The first Olympic games at Olympia were held in 776 BC. According to Hippias of Elis, who compiled a list of Olympic victors c.400 BC…

…. Also in the fifth labor, Hercules drove away a great flock of destructive birds that lived near Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia. The sixth labor was clean the stables of king Augeas of Elis in one day. For seventh labor, he went to Crete and captured…

…an investigation into the organization with the hopes of closing it down. Marcus Garvey, Elie Garcia, George Tobias, and Orlando Thompson were brought to trial for illegally sending false and misleading Black Star Line advertisements through the mail. (Lawler 88) Many…

…carrier takeoff by Eugene Ely. December 10, 1911-First transcontinental flight from Long Island, NY to Pasadena, CA by Cal Rodgers in Wright EX "Vin Fiz". March 1, 1912-First parachute jump from powered airplane by Captain Albert Berry. 1914 First two way…

…compresses the oil/fuel mixture to the point that the explosion results from the extreme pressure. Anthropologist and Associate Professor Sumner Ely, in his article “The Diesel Engine and it’s Possibilities” in Scientific Weekly states that “it looks…

…. The children's room, covered with the accumulated drawings of generations of Peasant children, reminds us of the cave drawings of southern Africa. Outside, a bottle tree to protect against malevolent spirits stands between the house and Eli's blacksmithing shed…

…brought with them from Africa. By the 1800s rice, sugar, and cotton became the South's leading cash crops. The patenting of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 made it possible for workers to gin separate the seeds from the fiber some 600 to 700 pounds daily…

…by Eli Whitney increased the productivity by almost one thousand times. This caused more prosperity in the south. However the North also gained from this in the form of tariffs and taxes. Forty cents out of every dollar made from cotton went to the North…

…Clift, and Eli Wallach. From the start, the production was doomed. Since the character Monroe played was so much like herself, Marilyn found the role to be difficult. When the film was finally wrapped after numerous set backs, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller…

…as a free state called Maine and Missouri was allowed to enter as a slave state. It was also stipulated that any state in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border would be a free state. This eased tensions for a few years. Eli Whitney…