Einstein
.... The achievements in his papers brought widespread attention, but he was not recognized for his work until many years later. A few years after marrying his cousin, Einstein published his general theory of relativity. One of his predictions was how an eclipse was formed. Two British expeditions on the solar eclipse of May, 1919 tested this theory. His prediction was then confirmed and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
Einstein lived in Berlin, Germany for the next ten years. He was .....
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
.... she was forced to spend a year at the sea of Torquay accompanied by her brother Edward. He drowned later that year while sailing at Torquay and Elizabeth returned home emotionally broken, becoming a troubled person and a recluse. She spent the next five years in her bedroom at her father's home. She continued writing, however, and in 1844 produced a collection entitled simply Poems. This volume gained the attention of poet Robert Browning, whose work Elizabeth had praised in one of her poems, and h .....
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
.... (1849), Elizabeth let the love for her husband speak. The whole collection is forty-four poems written to Robert Browning. Aurora Leigh (1857) is yet another example of love being prominent in Elizabeth’s writings. Another element in Elizabeth’s writings is statements about faith and her illness/death. In the closing line of her “most famous sonnet” (p.656) Sonnet 43 Elizabeth says, “and if God choose,/ I shall but love thee better after death.”
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Elizabethan Food
.... was Katherine Parr, the sixth queen to Henry VIII. She had hoped to marry Thomas Seymour (brother to the late Queen Jane), but she caught Henry's eye. She brought both Elizabeth and her half-sister Mary back to court. When Henry died, she became the Dowager Queen and took her household from Court. Because of the young age of Edward VI, Edward Seymour (another brother of Jane's and therefore the young King's uncle) became Lord Protector of England.
Elizabeth went to live with Queen Dowager Katherine, but .....
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Emerson
.... studied Latin, Greek, and French, but didn't pay much attention to mathematics. He liked living in solitude and independence and said that the best thing about college was having a room to himself. Emerson graduated in the thirtieth position in a class of fifty-nine in 1821.
Afterwards, he taught in his older brother's private school for three years so that he could help his family to pay their debts off. He did not like it and was not satisfied. When he turned twenty-one, he decided to j .....
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Emerson And Thoreau
.... one another, they differed in many ways as well.
Emerson’s writing focused on nonconformity and individuality. In his essay "Self-Reliance," he wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," and, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."
Emerson writings were also more focused on the self; philosophy of humanism and Independence from society are all things that Emerson wrote on frequently. Thoreau, while focusing on matters of the self in many of his ess .....
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Emersons Self-reliance
.... to oppose that which forcibly limited their freedom was greatly influenced by the over-soul. They embodied these truths into the laws and rights formulated in our government. The idea of the over-soul is evident in, and greatly influences religion and faith. Emerson writes, “…there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins”(53). Emerson believed that God was forever .....
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Emily Dickinson 6
.... did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ) for only a year. The seminary insisted on religious as well as intellectual growth. Emily didn't like the religious environment and was under considerable pressure to become a professing Christian. .....
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Emmy Noether
.... The first graduated a year earlier.
Now that Emmy Noether had her doctorate in mathematics, she was ready to find a job teaching. The University of Erlangen would not hire her, as they had a policy against women professors. She decided to help her father at the Mathematics Institute in Erlangen. She began doing research there, and helped her father by teaching his classes when he was sick. Soon, she began to publish papers on her work.
During the ten years Emmy worked with her father, Germany .....
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Empress Wu
.... third son. On one night, the rebels broke in and killed many of the people that supported Empress Wu and proclaimed for the throne to be given back to Empress Wu’s third son. A while after that incident, Empress Wu was forced to retire and give the throne back to her third son. Empress Wu had a total of 4 children. There were three sons and one daughter. Her first child was a daughter that she killed to frame Empress Wang. She used her second and third son to control the Tang Court by telling them .....
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Ernest Hemingway 3
.... Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always.
Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious .....
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Ernest Hemingway 4
.... 3, 1921. On May 10, 1927 he married Pauline Pfeiffer. On November 21, 1940 he married Martha Gellhorn.
Finally on March 14, 1946 he married Mary Walsh. He regarded the end of a marriage as a personal defeat (Rood 187).
Hemingway had many kinds of figures. He was a craftsman dedicated to the art of letters who rarely wavered in his adherence to the highest standards of artistic probity. He also significantly influenced twentieth century writing on all levels through his pronouncements and the pri .....
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Ernest Hemingway 5
.... for his mistakes and inadequacies (Rovit 97). If a man becomes unable to forgive himself for his past actions, he will become obsessed with them, resulting in the loss of his freedom to begin anew. His forgiveness liberates him from the past and allows him to make new promises in the future (97).
For Jake Barnes living according to the hero code meant living passionately and without illusion, and finding value in what he did with his life. According to Rovit and Gerry, “Jake’s most .....
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Francios Rabelias
.... near Chinon, where his father, Antoino Rabelias, was a lawyer. ”
“1511 Possibly date for his entry into a monastery of the Franciscan order at
Fontenay-le-Comte ”
“1525 Passes to the Benedictine Order with the hope that he can pursue more
freely his humanistic studies. ”
“1530 September 17-- Rablelais registers at the school of medicine of the
University of Montpellier. ”
“1531 April 17 to June 24 gives lectures on Hippocrates and .....
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Francisco Pizarro
.... discovery of the Pacific Ocean. From 1519 to 1523 he served as mayor of the town of Panama.
In 1523, hearing of a vast and wealthy Indian empire to the south, Pizarro enlisted the help of two friends to form an expedition to explore and conquer the land. A soldier named Diego de Almagro provided the equipment, and the vicar of Panama, Hernando de Luque, furnished the funds.
A first expedition resulted in disaster after two years of suffering and hardship. When a second expedition in 1526 .....
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