Famous People With Mental Illnesses
.... schizophrenia and paranoia. Lionel has been in numerous newspaper and magazine articles for his ability to fight the disease he has fought most of his life. His message was simple to families who have mentally ill children or adults, don't give up on them. His motto was, ''Believe they can get well.” Lionel lost his battle with schizophrenia and paranoia as he passed away in 1998.
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born on October 16th, 1888 in New York City. He was one of the most famous .....
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Feminism
.... of these times. Wollstonecraft was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, the French and American revolution, and interacted in the intellectual circles that included, Paine, Burke, Rousseau, and Voltaire. It is important to remember that the French Revolution began in 1789, and that for the next 50 years Europe was petrified of a repetition of the upheaval. Revolutionary ideas such as Paine's and Wollstonecraft's were seen as dangers to the foundations of society. Many feared that these unconvent .....
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Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
.... 1890 for his criticism of the Prussian war office, giving him free time to work on his airship ideas.
Zeppelin now finally found the time to concern himself with his visions to the topic of “Lenkbare Luftschiffe” or “guidable airships”. This idea had always pursued him in the last 20 years. It was particularly the success of the airship LA FRANCE, which had very much impressed Zeppelin. In a letter to his king, Zeppelin referred, particularly, to the possibilities of the .....
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Ferdinand Magellan
.... farther to the Spice Islands which were called the Molucca Islands. Portugal claimed the islands at this time. Magellan’s close personal friend Francisco Serraro went along on the voyage to the Spice Islands and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao’s letters helped establish in Magellan’s mind the location of the Spice Islands, which later became the destination of his great voyage.
Magellan returned to Portugal in1513. He then joined a mili .....
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Fidel Castro 2
.... nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that
Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent.
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against
Batista. On January 1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista
government.
Castro promised t .....
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Five Against The World - Perl Jam
.... record the new album here. This idyllic studio compound in the hills of outside San Francisco offered privacy and focus. Keith Richards had recorded here; his thank-you note to the studio framed on the living room wall. This is gorgeous country, where locals look out at the expansive green horizon and say things like "George Lucas owns everything to the left." This is where Pearl Jam would face the challenge of following up "Ten," one of the most successful debut albums in rock. There was only one proble .....
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Florence Nightingale
.... the dream to become a working nurse, and again voiced this idea to her parents. Her parrients finally agreed and Florence was allowed to become a nurse.
Florence, now thirty-one went to work at Kaserworth Hospital in Germany, and was later promoted and moved to a hospital in London.
In 1854 Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia, marking the begging of the Crimean War. The allies had the upper hand in the war but there were vast criticisms of the medical felicities for the woun .....
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Florence Nightingale 2
.... were a very rich and wealthy family. Flo and Pop grew up with a very privileged childhood. They had many gardens to play in, ponies to ride, and numerous cats, dogs, and birds to take care of. They lived in a large house in a town called Derbyshire, near London. They called it "Embley Park." They also had a summer home that they called "Lea Hurst."
Even with all of this, Flo was not happy. Flo was not an ordinary child. She was not naughty like every other child. Instead, she was passionate, loving .....
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Francesco Petrarch
.... Virgil, amongst others. When his Petrarch's father found these manuscripts and threw then into a fire. After seeing the look in Petrarch's eyes he took them from the fire saying:
‘Take them my son! Here is Virgil who will console
what you have lost and here is Cicero who shall prepare
you for the studies in Law.'
From that moment on, the manuscripts of Cicero as always at the hand of Francesco.
But, it was this study of law that led him to be a wealthy man both financially .....
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Francisco Franco
.... an unimaginative but careful and competent leader, whose forces
advanced slowly but steadily to complete victory on April 1, 1939. The war was
bloody, with numerous atrocities on both sides.
During the civil war, Franco established his control over Nationalist
political life and expanded the Falange, the Spanish political party, into an
official political party at the service of his government. Tens of thousands of
executions during the war and in the years immediately following it gu .....
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Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
.... his religious frescoes he employed a broad, free style and an earthy realism unprecedented in religious art.
Goya served as director of painting at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1797 and was appointed first Spanish court painter in 1799. During the Napoleonic invasion and the Spanish war of independence from 1808 to 1814, Goya served as court painter to the French. He expressed his horror of armed conflict in The Disasters of War, a series of starkly realistic etchings on the atrocities of war. They .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright 2
.... low, sweeping rooflines hanging over uninterrupted walls of windows. His plans were centered on massive brick or stone fireplaces at the heart of the house. His rooms became wide open to one another and the overall configuration of his plans became more and more alike, reaching out toward some real or imagined expansive horizon.
In contrast to the openness of those houses and as if in conflict with their immediate city environment, Wright’s urban buildings tend to be walled in with light en .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright 3
.... originality in his designs for both private and public structures, which rebelled against the complex neoclassic and Victorian styles favored by conventional architects. Wright was opposed to the mechanical imposition of defined styles. He believed that the architectural form must ultimately be determined in each case by the particular function of the building, its environment, and the type of materials employed in the structure. Among his fundamental contributions were the use of various building mate .....
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Frank Sinatra
.... he finished his education with one year at Drake Business School (Sinatra 21). According to Sinatra, “school was very uninteresting, and homework was something we never bothered with” (qtd. in Sinatra 18). “We” were referring to his gang of friends, who he spent most of his time with. This is when his love of music became more than a hobby, and he set his mind on becoming a star.
After finishing school, Sinatra realized that singing, as an amateur could not totally support h .....
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Franklin Roosevelt
.... Treasury: William H. Woodin (1933-34); Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1934-45). Secretary of War: George H. Dern (1933-36); Harry H. Woodring (1937-40); Henry L. Stimson (1940-45). Attorney General: Homer S. Cummings (1933-39); Frank Murphy (1939-40); Robert H. Jackson (1940-41); Francis B. Biddle (1941-45). Postmaster General: James A. Farley (1933-40); Frank C. Walker (1940-45). Secretary of the Navy: Claude A. Swanson (1933-39); Charles Edison (1940); Frank Knox (1940-44); James V. Forrestal (1944-45) Secreta .....
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