In 1935 the lands of Richmond Hill became home to the world’s second largest telescope. Jessie Donald Dunlap funded the David Dunlap observatory, DDO, in the memory of her husband Alexander Dunlap. These 189 acres of land were given as a gift to the University of Toronto. For years it has been a helping hand leading towards solar and lunar discoveries. July 2008, The University sold this to a company called Metrus. The DDO has been apart of the community for 76 years and without a doubt should be
Thomas Jeffersons Contribution to the Constitution The purpose of this paper is to give a brief chronological accounting of the writing of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. A short description of the structure of the Declaration of Independence will be included. The process was relatively fast, from the formation of the committee. The committee consisted of two New England men, John Adams of Massachusetts and Roger Sherman of Connecticut; two men from the Middle Colonies
Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Henry Ford. One thing make these Influential people in common and it's the impact they had on America. But only one man is missing and arguably the most important man in American history, Samuel Adams. From being a student at Harvard to Planning the Boston Tea Party to sighting the Declaration of Independence, he is Clearly the most important American to ever live. Samuel Adams was born in Boston on