Dizzy Gelespie
.... stable income as mason around their home ~own. Four years after his fathers death, when Birks was 14, he began learning the trombone and trumpet without any formal instruction. Recognized by the staff at Laurinberg Institute, in North Carolina, as a prodigy, he was given a scholarship to be a member of the band in 1932. Throughout his stay at the Laurinberg Institute he studied vigorously both the trumpet and piano, building him self a long road that would constantly pave the way to something valuable, .....
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Doc Holliday
.... but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and French languages. Amazingly Doc’s favorite subject
was rhetoric, his teachers claimed that Doc had a way with words
unsurpassed by anyone in his class. All of these factors may have
contributed to Doc having a handkerchief with him on his final day of
life.
A second item which might have been found in Doc Hollidays pocket on the day he di .....
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Don Cherry
.... every Saturday night, Don has something new and controversial to say. It is for this reason that large numbers of people tune in for the first intermission to see Coach\'s Corner. Don has been very open with his dislike for European hockey players, especially Russian\'s. Don is the owner of the Mississauga Ice Dogs of the OHL, and he does not have one European player on the team. Don has also been very open with regards to fighting in hockey. He has stated time and time again that fighting is part of .....
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Don Juan Ponce De Leon
.... to keep the ship from sinking. After Ponce de Leon finally arrived in Puerto Rico he became the governor of the island. This caused him to become very wealthy, and the most powerful man on the island, who only received orders from the kind himself!
In 1511 King Ferdinand ordered Ponce de Leon replaced as governor by Diego Columbus. Life for Ponce de Leon would have been difficult if he stayed in Puerto Rico since much of his power over the island was taken when his rank was taken away. It was at this tim .....
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Donald Barthelme
.... (1978); "Overnight to Many Distant Cities" (1983); and "Paradise" (1986). He also wrote Snow White, a parody of the popular children’s fairy tale, the novel. He won the National Book Award for Children’s literature for the book titled "The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn" (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). In 1976 he received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Sto .....
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Donatello
.... works which were still partly Gothic are the impressive seated marble figure of St. John the Evangelist for the cathedral and a wooden crucifix in the church of Sta. Croce.
The full power of Donatello first appeared in two marble statues, \"St. Mark\" and \"St. George\" which were completed in 1415. \"St. George\" has been replaced and is now in the Bargello. For the first time, the human body is rendered as a functional organism. The same qualities came in the series of five prophet statue .....
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Dorothy Parker
.... range displayed in her verse.
The techniques and topics that many of her verses tackle are as follows: \"bitterness, humor, wit, and love\" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker\'s verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she \"runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.\" The same could almost be applied to the au .....
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Drew Barrymore
.... to the drug. But she was mistaken, before long she found herself using increasingly large quantities of the drug. Drew’s mother became concerned and dragged Drew to a Family Treatment Center, in Van Nuys, California. Drew attended many therapy sessions with other patients her own age. She spent only 12 days in the hospital and proved she was satisfied with the program. She left the hospital early, due to a prior commitment for a shoot in Nevada.
This shoot had to travel to New York City, where, a .....
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Duke Ellington
.... instruments in unusual combinations, illustrated in the piece "Mood Indigo" (1930). When the orchestra performs this piece, three soloists stand out in front of the stage, playing three different instruments. Improvisation was a big part of Ellington’s music.
One of Ellington orchestra’s signature tunes is "Take the ‘A’ Train" (1941). This piece was not written by Ellington but by American composer Billy Strayhorn, who became Ellington’s musical collaborator. This piece is v .....
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Dwight D Eisenhower
.... in our country\'s history. Eisenhower was elected to the office ofpresident twice. His first term with vice president Richard Nixion began in1952 (Hargrove 65). Then again in 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was reelectedto president winning by a landslide (Hargrove 76). Dwight Eisenhower solved many problems of his era. He helped to stop the Korea war withpeacetalks (Hargrove 67). Eisenhower also enforced the desegregation ofpublic schools making way for the start of equal schooling (Hargrove 79).Dwight Ei .....
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Dylan Thomas
.... Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf ’98)
During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 39th birt .....
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E. M. Forster
.... E. M. Forster\'s writings, although most things written are positive and they all seem to agree on the same things. His use of characters and their development and his story lines all seem to be the same and have the same theme. All the characters in his books seem to contain the same elements. They are exempt from poverty, hunger, lust, and hate. They seem to have almost perfect characteristics and are never poor. None of his characters are portrayed in a relation to society; and all must choose bet .....
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E.E. Cummings
.... jump off the trapeze, and \'a/n/d\' on lines 17 through 19, represent the deserted trapeze, after the acrobats have dismounted. Finally, \'(im\' on the last line should bring the reader\'s eyes back to the top of the poem, where he finds \'mortals)\'. Placing \'(im\' at the end of the poem shows that the performers attain a special type of immortality for risking their lives to create a show of beauty, they attain a special type of immortality (36-7). The circularity of the poem causes a feeling of whol .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
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(Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan
(Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan\'s wife. In 1815, John Allan
moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private
schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of
Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He
had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost
at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the mone .....
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Edgar Allen Poe
.... and Other Poems. Desperate for money, he joined the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry. Army barracks were no place for a young \"aristocrat.\" Poe turned to his foster father with penitent letters, pleading for reconciliation. Mr. Allen yielded sufficiently to purchase his release from the army, which was possible at that time. Shortly afterward, a new volume of his poems was published in Baltimore, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems. A little more than a year after his release from the Army, the you .....
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