William Clark

 By: Bricean

William Clark was born August 1, 1770, in Carolina County, Virginia and died on September 1, 1838. The main reason William Clark and Meriwether Lewis are known is because of the Louisiana Purchase. But first I'm going to explain how Clark knows Lewis. "Lewis has served under Clark during the northwest campaigns in the 1790s  in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio where their friendship began. When Thomas Jefferson sought leadership for his proposed expedition to the pacific, he immediately tapped Lewis who in turn highly recommended Clark." (ND Historical Society)

Now I'm going to explain what the Louisiana Purchase is. "As the United States spread across the Appalachians, the Mississippi River became an increasingly important conduit for the produce of America's West (which at that time referred to the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi). Since 1762, Spain had owned the Territory of Louisiana, which included 828,000 square miles. The Territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains." (US.history.state.gov) Lewis and Clark started their expedition on May 14,1804, in camp Dubois. Their main boat was the Keelboat. It was built in Pittsburgh, in 1803. The Keelboat was sent back to St. Louis in the spring of 1805 because it was to large to go further up the Missouri .

Here I'm going to talk about some things that Louis and Clark discovered. "On Saturday, 14, 1804, a storm struck their boat and would have thrown their boat up on to Sand Island and smashed to pieces in an instant had the party not leaped out and kept it off the island. The storm suddenly ceased and the river became smooth." (National park service) "On Thursday, June, 13, 1805, Clark saw the grandest site he ever saw, the rocks below receive the water in it's passage down and broke into perfect white foam which assumes a thousand forms in a moment." (Journals of Lewis and Clark's expedition)

Together, Clark and Lewis recorded the first scientific descriptions of over 300 animals and plant species. They even sent unfamiliar specimens back east, such as a prairie dog and a magpie. During their two and a half year expedition, the Corps of Discovery encountered more than two dozen Native Tribes. On Wednesday, October 30, 1805, Lewis saw a cascade caused by small streams falling from the mountain cliffs. On Thursday, October 31, 1805, they saw a remarkably high detached rock standing about 800 feet high and 40 paces around. They called it beacon rock. On Saturday, November 2, 1805,the river widened to almost a mile, the bottom is more extensive and thickly timbered. On Monday, November 4, 1805, Mount Adams was covered with snow; it rose to the form of a sugarloaf. 

Upon Lewis and Clark's return people made landmarks with the information they collected over the years while they were out in the wild. William Clark's maps helped people navigate for two years and then the US started using other maps. William Clark and his wife, after his wife's  death in 1820, Clark married Harriet Kennerly Radford, a widow with three children, and fathered two more son's. Over the last 2 months I had a lot of fun learning and teaching you about William Clark and what he did in his lifetime.  The favorite thing I learned about was that William Clark found unfamiliar animals, such as a Prairie dog and a magpie.

                                                   Sources:

                                             Wikipedia.com

                                            ND Historical society 

                                         US history.state.gov

                                            National park service 

                                    Journals of Lewis and Clark's expedition

Margaret Hamilton

 By L R 

You are on part of Apollo 11, the Eagle. You flip a lever telling the ship to land. Suddenly, an emergency warning turns on! red lights are flashing and there is beeping all around you. What happens next? 

Margret Hamilton was born August 17, 1936, so right now she is 87. She is still alive. She has one daughter: Laura Hamilton. She has had two husbands(separately): James Cox Hamilton and Dan Lickly. 

She went to two colleges: University of Michigan and Earlham College (BA). 

 

When Margret worked for the SAGE Project, she said "What they used to do when you came into this organization as a beginner, was to assign you this program which nobody was able to ever figure out or get to run. When I was the beginner they gave it to me as well. And what had happened was it was tricky programming, and the person who wrote it took delight in the fact that all of his comments were in Greek and Latin. So I was assigned this program and I actually got it to work. It even printed out its answers in Latin and Greek. I was the first one to get it to work.”  

Margret became a software engineer, which is a job and title that she made up. Software engineers build computer programs. 

Margret got one award- the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

Three minutes before the lunar lander reached the Moon's surface, several computer alarms were triggered. The system was designed to support seven simultaneous programs running. The eighth had been triggered. There were unexpected error codes, "never supposed to happen displays", and priority alarm displays. Margret Hamilton had prepared for just this situation years before. 

“The computer (or rather the software in it) was smart enough to recognize that it was being asked to perform more tasks than it should be performing. It then sent out an alarm, which meant to the astronaut, 'I'm overloaded with more tasks than I should be doing at this time and I'm going to keep only the more important tasks'; i.e., the ones needed for landing ... Actually, the computer was programmed to do more than recognize error conditions. A complete set of recovery programs was incorporated into the software. The software's action, in this case, was to eliminate lower priority tasks and re-establish the more important ones ... If the computer hadn't recognized this problem and taken recovery action, I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful moon landing it was.” -Margret Hamilton 

Margret asked the ship to ignore all tasks but landing. She also designed software for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). Margret’s daughter, Lauren, foretold one of the worst mistakes. While playing in Hamilton’s office when she was 4 years old, Lauren entered the code for a prelaunch program P01 while the simulator was in midflight, triggering a major error. In response, Margret suggested a line of code that would prevent that event, but it was informed by NASA that no astronaut would make such a mistake. During apollo 8, Jim Lovell accidentally wiped out the command and service module’s navigation data, creating the same situation that Lauren had made. 

I think Margaret Hamilton is amazing because she did things that no man or woman has ever done before, and she was one of the main creators of the revolution of technology.  She also created an entirely new job, saved people's lives, and created an insane amount of code. 

 

 

 

Sources: 

• Wikipedia 

• Apollo To The Moon: By Teasel Muir-Harmony 

• Margret And The Moon: By Dean Robbins 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Beast

 

By: Tanner 

Hello, my name is Jimmy Donaldson, also known as Mr. Beast. I believe I'm the greatest youtuber of all time for many different reasons. I started on YouTube young, then I slowly started to get viewers and subscribers. So I started to try new and different things and this led to 4 different channels along with food labels and a lot of philanthropy! Now at 26 I have 250 million subscribers and that’s how I got so many views on the internet and let me tell you more about it.

I was born on May 7,1998. When I was a kid, I grew up in Greenville, North Carolina. I went to college for about two weeks and then dropped out and went to make Minecraft gaming videos on YouTube. When I got a YouTube channel my friend Chris was the first subscriber on the channel. Sometime later I started to get big on the internet and I slowly started to get famous. In 2007, my parents got divorced and that was a tough time for me.

In 2017 I made a video where I counted to 100,000 and that video got so many likes and views, I started to get more famous. More video’s I have made are watching Jake Paul's “It’s Everyday Bro” music video for ten hours straight. Another video I made is called spinning a fidget spinner for 24 hours straight! Here are some of my “last to remove hand” videos last to remove hand gets Lamborghini, house, private jet, and also some other crazy stuff! Also, one more going through the same drive through 1,000 times!

                I earn $600 million to $700 million dollars a year and I say I still don’t think of myself as wealthy, as I put all my money into videos. In October 2023 I reached 200 million subscribers and in March 2024 I reached 250 million subscribers!!! I’m 26 years old and I have 250 million subscribers and my goal is to make “Even better” videos, emphasizing continuous improvement. In June 2017 I gave away a huge amount of money to a homeless person and ever since then I've been giving money away to people who need it! In 2020 I launched Mrbeast Burger, in that same year I started a new channel called Beast Philanthropy and in 2022 I launched a chocolate business called Feastables. Since then I have gained 23.3 million subscribers on my Beast philanthropy channel (which is about the population of New York!)

The success I've had over the years by making great videos is why I belive I'm the greatest YouTuber of all time the reasons why my videos are so great is because my videos are crazy and weird. I hope you guys liked hearing some of my life story and my highest achievements in life. I hope you guys had a wonderful time with this presentation and who knows maybe one day I'll give you 10,000 dollars!!

Sourses:

1. Business Insider: Who is mrbeast? By: Leskin, Varanasi, Delouya 2-18-2024

2. Time: What Mrbeast wants by: Belinda Luscombe 2-26-2024

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Maria Tallchief

  Harper  

 

Today I will be talking about Maria Tallchief. She was the first Native American to dance professional ballet. She became the first Prima Ballerina by George Balanchine. First, I will be talking about her early life, then her professional career, and lastly her retirement. 

Maria Tallchief was born on January 24th, 1925, in Fairfax, Oklahoma. She was part of the Osage nation. When older, Maria and her sister wanted to take dance lessons. They became exceptionally good at it. During her teen years, her family moved to Los Angeles hoping that they could get better dance training. 

As her career began to take off, many tried to get her to change her last name, but she refused. She danced at many famous dance studios such as New York City Ballet, Ballet Russe, and Paris Opera Ballet. After marrying George Balanchine, she became Prima Ballerina of New York City Ballet. George created her beautiful role of the Firebird. One of her best-known roles was the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker. 

Maria Tallchief retired in 1965 at the age of 40. She lived a long life, and died on April 11th, 2013, at the age of 88. 

In conclusion, Maria Tallchief lived a long happy life, living to succeed with her role of Prima Ballerina. She was an amazing dancer, and her life was a success, doing what she loved. 

THE END. 

 

Sources: Tallchief Americas Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief 

Wikipedia