Margaret Bourke-White
.... with only a group of pigeons to hear. Margaret wanted to take his picture but she didn't have her camera with her. She ran into a camera store and asked to rent or borrow a camera. The picture became one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of her best friends.
One of Margaret's early dreams was to photograph the inside of a steel mill but women weren't allowed inside. Being a woman didn't stop her and the pictures were a success. Her shots were published in magazines all ov .....
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Michael Collins And Eamon De Velera
.... (although Cathal Brugha, the IRA's Commander-in-Chief, disliked him intensely). At various times, Collins held positions as (1) President of the Supreme Council of the IRB, (2) A leader, but not Commander-in-Chief of the IRA, (3) Sinn Féin member of the Dail, (4) Commander-in-Chief of the Free State Army, (5) Minister of Finance in the 1919 Provisional Government of the RoI, and (6) Cabinet member in the first post-treaty government. He is best know for his brilliant work during the Anglo-Irish war .....
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A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
.... thoroughness and true human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II.
Though surveys have revealed that at any one time between 15 and 30% of the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority uphold the traditional support of the monarchy, as has been the English custom for over a thousand years. Since 1952 the endeared Queen Elizabeth II has played this role in her country's politics as an important aspect of the mode .....
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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955)
.... and physics which still is in effect today.
I chose Albert Einstein as the man of the millenium because he was a great contributor to both math and physics. A lot of things that Einstein thought is still used today and has been very useful to everyone. I think he was a great man.
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Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
.... a comfortable lifestyle and becomes friends with some supposedly respected people who want him to set up his own business.
After this, Franklin left Philadelphia for London after being persuaded by the Governor. After arriving in London, Franklin discovered the Governor had not been completely straight with him, but he did find work at a famous printing house. Eighteen months later Franklin left London to return to America as a merchant’s clerk. It wasn’t long before Franklin and his boss both took .....
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The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
.... and wait crying for her father to come take her. Even though Eleanor’s grandmother was very strict she gave her the love and the family atmosphere that she needed. Many years later her father died and she was left alone with only uncles and her grandmother. In 1899 at the age of 15 her uncles out of control drunkenness scared Eleanor’s grandmother of Eleanor’s safety. She sent Eleanor away to a boarding school in England. In 1902 she returned to New York at the age of 18. She was ready to come out in th .....
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The Biography Of John Marshall Harlan II
.... and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as .....
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Emilie Du Chatelet
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later at the age of 27 the birth of another son followed. Neither the children
or her husband deterred her from fully grasping and indulging in the social life
of the court.
Some of Emilie's most significant work came from the period she spent
with Voltaire, one of the most intriguing and brilliant scholars of this time,
at Cirey-sur-Blaise. For the two scholars this was a safe and quiet place
distant from the turbulence of Paris and court life. She started studying the
works of Leibniz but she t .....
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Emily Jane Bronte
.... four books and a little poetry. In
1821, Maria died of cancer, leaving Emily and her four siblings motherless. Her
sister, Elizabeth, came to live as a housekeeper and was responsible for
training the girls in the household arts.
While at home doing housework, Emily secretly worked on poetry. In 1845,
Charlotte discovered some of Emily's poems and confessed that she, too, had
written some poetry. As it turned out, so had Anne. After much persuading, the
poems were published in a small book entitl .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... this time that Emily totally secluded
herself from the world and started what would be world famous poems throughout
the future . She adopted her ideas on poetry from her personal life, her
fondness of nature, death, and her dislike of organized religion. War is
occasionally pulled into Emily's poems also.
Emily seemed truly concerned over happenings in her personal life. So
she mainly focused her writings on the loss of her lover. In "I Never Saw A
Moor," she describes things that she had never s .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... this
philosophy.
When she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father. In
her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the
Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in
Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers
such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she
began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted
to Christianity, her fam .....
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Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
.... fall, the stage of musical funk and lyrical fight had
long been set.
"Boyz-N-The-Hood" , "We Want Eazy", "Eazy-Duz-It". His voice fueled a
legion of hits. In the early `90's, he joined other West Coast rappers,
including M.C. Hammer, Ice T, Tone-Loc, and Young MC, in a stop the violence
campaign led by the single "We're All In The Same Gang". With N.W.A, Eazy broke
down all the doors of mass exposure previously closed to rap music.
Attempts to rock the young musician's foundation were generally us .....
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
.... 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. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin .....
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Ernest Hemingway
.... idea
for The Old Man and the Sea from the stories that he had heard in the small
fish cities in Cuba by a man named Carlos Gutierrez. He had known of this man
for about twenty years and the stories of the fighting marlins. It was then
that he imagined that man under the two circumstances and came up with the idea.
After about twenty years of pondering on the story , he decided that he would
start on the novel of The Old Man and the Sea. The story The Old Man and the
Sea is about a old man named Santi .....
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Evita: Saint Or Sinner?
.... her
own, would not be forgotten nor forgiven.3
At age fifteen, Eva Duarte set out to become a radio actress. She knew
she could be like the women in the movie magazines she either stole or borrowed
from her friends. Eva met singer Agustin Magaldi, and, packed her bags and
sneaked out of her mother's boarding house to the city of Buenos Aires.
Once Eva learned the rules of the 'casting couch,' she dropped Magaldi
and began her ascent to stardom. For years she wandered the streets, auditioned,
and did w .....
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