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	The legacy of George Washington Carver--About George Washington Carver
		Carver grew to be a student of life and a scholar, despite the illness and frailty of his early childhood.
		Carver's interests in music and art remained strong, but it was his excellence in botany and horticulture that prompted professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel to encourage him to stay on as a graduate student after he completed his bachelor's degree in 1894.
		Carver taught his students that nature is the greatest teacher and that by understanding the forces in nature, one can understand the dynamics of agriculture.
	www.lib.iastate.edu /spcl/gwc/bio.html (848 words)

	George Washington Carver - MSN Encarta
		George Washington Carver (1861?-1943), American scientist and educator, noted especially for his research on the peanut.
		Carver was internationally recognized for his research in agricultural sciences, and he is credited with having revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States.
		In 1943 Congress established the George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri, on the farm where Carver was born.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574196/Carver_George_Washington.html (540 words)

	George Washington Carver - Uncyclopedia
		George Washington Carver (also known as George Washington Goober) was developer of the theory of Cognitive segregation, the second President of the United States and coincidently, the second President of the United Spades.
		Carver was ultimately successful in his endevor, resulting in Geoge Washington being elected the first wooden president of the United States.
		Carver was therefore exiled to Belgium by Washington in 1777, on grounds of disloyalty.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/George_Washington_Carver (1232 words)

	George Washington Carver
		George Washington Carver (1864-1943) started his life as a slave and ended it as a respected and world-renowned agricultural chemist.
		Merely a babe in arms, Carver was ransomed for a $300 racehorse by Moses Carver, a German farmer.
		Carver applied to study at the Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts but was turned down when it was learned that he was of African heritage.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/george_carver.htm (1134 words)

	George Washington Carver
		George Washington Carver was born in 1860 in Diamond Grove, Missouri and despite early difficulties would rise to become one of the most celebrated and respected scientists in United States history.
		George was born the sickly child of two slaves and would remain frail for most of his childhood.
		George Washington Carver died on January 5, 1943 on the campus of Tuskegee Institute.
	www.blackinventor.com /pages/georgewashingtoncarver.html (846 words)

	Lesson Plan - George Washington Carver
		George Washington Carver was born a slave in a cabin that belonged to his owners, Moses and Susan Carver.
		George believed that everything in the natural world was part of a great whole and that human beings must work with nature in an environmental partnership.
		George Washington Carver introduced peanuts and sweet potatoes as rotation crops to the farmers because these crops replenish the nitrogen in the soil.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/carver.html (2762 words)

	George Washington Carver - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When George was an infant, he, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by Confederate night raiders and sold in Arkansas, a common practice.
		Image:George Washington Carver 1998 stamp.jpg Upon returning home one day, Carver took a bad fall down a flight of stairs; he was found unconscious by a maid who took him to a hospital.
		Carver died January 5, 1943 at the age of 79 from complications (anemia) resulting from this fall.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/George_Washington_Carver (1920 words)

	George Washington Carver
		Carver recalled his birth came "near the end of the Civil War" or "just as freedom was declared." He reported his birth year as 1864, but it is likely that he was born in the spring of 1865.
		George was a frail and sickly child, dealing often with bouts of whooping cough, croup and lung infections.
		Carver will be remembered as a man who won both US and international fame for his efforts to find commercial uses for Southern resources and for being proclaimed one the world's greatest chemists.
	www.csupomona.edu /~nova/scientists/articles/carver.html (1871 words)

	George Washington Carver (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was the genius of a fl man - George Washington Carver - that solved this quandary and in the process revolutionized southern farming.
		In 1896 Carver was asked by Booker T. Washington to become head of the agriculture department at The Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
		Carver not only discovered and developed a way to restore the vitality of the soil, he introduced two new crops that would produce well in Alabama soil (peanuts and sweet potatoes).
	www.ushistory.net /toc/carver.html (128 words)

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		Agricultural chemist George Washington Carver developed crop-rotation methods for conserving nutrients in soil and discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut, which created new markets for farmers, especially in the South.
		Born of slave parents in Diamond Grove, Missouri, Carver was rescued from Confederate kidnappers as an infant.
		Though denied admission to Highland University because of his race, Carver gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, in 1887.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/30.html (309 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . George Washington Carver \| PBS
		Carver left Iowa for Alabama in the fall of 1896 to direct the newly organized department of agriculture at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a school headed by the noted fl American educator Booker T. Washington.
		At Tuskegee, Washington was trying to improve the lot of fl Americans through education and the acquisition of useful skills rather than through political agitation; he stressed conciliation, compromise, and economic development as the paths for fl advancement in American society.
		Carver found that Alabama's soils were particularly well-suited to growing peanuts and sweet potatoes, but when the state's farmers began cultivating these crops instead of cotton, they found little demand for them on the market.
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	George Washington Carver
		Carver was born in 1864, and was almost kidnapped by raiders.
		Carver should the farmers of his great success with the peanuts and was a so good in his presentations that he was elected to go before Congress at the upcoming hearings on protective tariffs.
		Carver had put a lot of research in another one of the crops that was important to poor farmers by the name of sweet potato.
	www.georgewashingtoncarver.org (1263 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		CARVER, George Washington (1864–1943), American educator and an outstanding innovator in the agricultural sciences.
		Carver was born of slave parents near Diamond, Mo. He left the farm where he was born when he was about ten years old and eventually settled in Minneapolis, Kans., where he worked his way through high school.
		Carver developed several hundred industrial uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans and developed a new type of cotton known as Carver’s hybrid.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/inventions/carver_georgew.html (247 words)

	Inventor George Washington Carver Biography
		George was born of slave parents on July 12, 1864 in Diamond Grove, Missouri a sickly child at birth he would remain frail for most of his childhood.
		George Washington Carver died on January 5, 1943 on the campus of Tuskegee Institute.
		Carver changed the south from being a one-crop land of cotton, to multi-crop farmlands, and gave the farmers hundreds of profitable uses for their new crops.Truly an American hero of agriculturist science.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/carver.htm (2488 words)

	George Washington Carver (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Washington Carver was born near Diamond Grove, Missouri.
		In a struggle between free-soilers and slaveholders, Carver was kidnapped with his brother and mother.
		Carver died in 1943 and left the remainder of his money to the Tuskegee Institute to continue research in agriculture and chemistry.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /KingsParkES/technology/bios/carver.htm (337 words)

	The My Hero Project - George Washington Carver (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Washington Carver was a very intelligent and successful scientist, or botanist, as he called himself.
		Carver's mother was a slave, and she was stolen, or kidnapped, by "Nightriders", a group of people who stole slaves and either used them for themselves, or sold them.
		George Washington Carver is famous for experimenting with plants.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=GW_Carver (1604 words)

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		George was frightened it could happen to him so he left that town for good George was deeply affected by the killing.
		George was 26 years old and almost twice the age of most of the students.
		George was happy at Simpson College but he wanted to learn science so he moved on to Iowa State College.
	www.kyrene.k12.az.us /schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/carver/index.html (642 words)

	George Washington Carver
		Born the son of slaves around 1864, Carver and his mother were purchased by a Missouri farm couple named Carver.
		Carver attended high school in Minneapolis and was accepted into Highland Presbyterian College in northeastern Kansas.
		Carver was working in the botany department at Iowa State when Booker T. Washington asked him to sign on at Tuskegee Institute.
	www.kshs.org /portraits/carver_george.htm (447 words)

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		George Washington Carver was world-renowned for his achievements in agricultural research.
		Carver was sought all over the world for his expertise in plant disease and mycology.
		Carver's development of peanut milk--a more nutritious alternative to cow's milk--saved the lives of hundreds of babies in West Africa.
	sps.k12.mo.us /historyday/feb/carver.htm (261 words)

	George Washington Carver
		Carver suggested to area farmers to plant peanuts, which are rich in nitrates.
		Carver soon turned his attention to sweet potatoes where he discovered 118 products that could be made from it.
		George Washington Carver is an inspiration because of his determination.
	www.angelfire.com /md/aasp/jerry.html (842 words)

	George Washington Carver - Scientist and Mystic
		Carver and his mother were kidnapped by a band of roving thugs, who carried them off to the South.
		Carver's mysticism sprang from his conviction that nature held the answers to all of life's questions, and that the only requirement for obtaining these answers was a receptive ear.
		The portrait of Carver that emerges from his writings and the accounts of those who knew him is that of a man who was precocious, not just for his time, but perhaps for our time as well.
	www.luminet.net /~wenonah/new/g-carver.htm (903 words)

	George Washington Carver
		George Washington Carver was born near Diamond Grove, Mo., in 1861.
		Carver left Iowa for Alabama in the fall of 1896 to direct the newly organized department of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute, a school headed by the noted fl American educator
		Among Carver's many honors were his election to Britain's Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (London) in 1916 and his receipt of the Spingarn Medal in 1923.
	members.aol.com /klove01/carver.htm (1231 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - George Washington Carver
		George Washington Carver devoted his life to research projects connected primarily with southern agriculture.
		Born a slave in the spring of 1864 in Diamond Grove, Missouri, Carver was only an infant when he and his mother were abducted from his owner's plantation by a band of slave raiders.
		Carver revolutionized the southern agricultural economy by showing that 300 products could be derived from the peanut.
	www.gale.cengage.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/carver_g.htm (245 words)

	George Washington Carver National Monument - George Washington Carver National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		Several exhibits in the Carver Museum interpret the life of George Washington Carver when he lived on the Southwest Missouri farm.
		The Carver Birthplace Association (CBA) is the friends group of Geoerge Washington Carver National Monument.
		The CBA works with the George Washington Carver National Monument to share Carver's legacies as a world-renowned scientist, trailblazing educator, and valiant humanitarian.
	www.nps.gov /gwca (223 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		George Washington Carver, born the slave of Missouri landowner Moses Carver, overcame the prejudices which did not die with the Emancipation Proclamation, and became the foremost agricultural chemist of this new era.
		Carver entered Simpson College intending to major in art, but changed his focus to agriculture, because art "would not do [my] people as much good." He went on to gain a BS (1894) and MS (1897) from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts---an astonishing achievement, since these were "white" institutions.
		Carver also promoted organic fertilization: his plowing under of compost into one field resulted in a one hundred-fold increase in productivity.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/carver.html (264 words)

	George Washington Carver: American Inventor - EnchantedLearning.com
		George Washington Carver (1865?-1943) was an American scientist, educator, humanitarian, and former slave.
		Carver developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans; his discoveries greatly improved the agricultural output and the health of Southern farmers.
		George was born in Missouri and was a sickly child.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /inventors/page/c/carver.shtml (297 words)

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