People Flashcards
Ronald A Howard
founder of the field of Decisions Analysis
Abraham Flexner
Henry George
American writer and political economist who wrote ‘Progress and Poverty’ - a book that argued for a single tax on land and that the value of land and its natural resources should be divided equally between everyone. He recognised that those who owned land would always be the wealthy few.
Grigori Rasputin was a
mystic and self-proclaimed holy man
Although many considered him a religious charlatan
Enid Blyton
Uhuru Kenyatta
Fourth and current President of Kenya 
- since 2013
Florence Joyner (Flo-Jo)
American track and field athlete who set world records for the 100m and 200m.
She won 3 gold medals in the 1988 Olympics.
She died of an epileptic seizure age 38.
Bobby Fischer
American chess grandmaster
ted kaczynski
the unabomer 
killed 3 people in a terrorist attack because he is against modern technology and the destruction of the environment. He was a maths professor.
Author of Moby Dick
Herman Melville 
Abraham Flexner
who was Marie Antoinette married to?
Louis XVI of France
Selene
Ancient Greek goddess of the moon
What were Archimede’s accomplishments?
Archimedes’ Principle: He formulated the principle of buoyancy, stating that the upward force exerted on a body submerged in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.
- Approximating pi
The volumne of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of a cylinder that encloses it
Archimedes’ Screw: He invented a device known as the Archimedes’ screw, which is a mechanical pump that can raise water by using a rotating spiral inside a cylinder.
