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- 3731: George Washington Carver 3
- ... be used by all people and not too hard to make. Carver developed adhesives, bleach, cheese, instant coffee, syntheic rubber, and Worcestershire souce just to name a few. Carver s crop rotation method did change American agirculture forever. What Carver found out through study helped America today become the world s top producing nation of agricultural goods. Carver also did not just change agriculture for America, but also changed the way that people looked at the African American. Carver received many awards and prizes during his lifetime, but he always gave the credit to the lord.
- 3732: Galileo 2
- Galileo Galileo (1564-1642), was an Italian physicist and astronomer, who, with the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, initiated the scientific revolution that flowered in the work of the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton. Born Galileo Galilei, his main contributions were, in astronomy, the use of the telescope in observation and the discovery of sunspots, lunar mountains ... culture, Galileo stands as a symbol of the battle against authority for freedom of inquiry. Galileo was born near Pisa, on February 15, 1564. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, played an important role in the musical revolution from medieval polyphony to harmonic modulation. Just as Vincenzo saw that rigid theory stifled new forms in music, so his eldest son came to see Aristotelian physical theology as limiting scientific inquiry. Galileo was taught ...
- 3733: Five Against The World - Perl Jam
- ... a part of it. I don't think the band wants to be a apart of it." The subject soon turns to video, and Ament describes a recent encounter with Mark Eitzel from the group American Music Club. Ament and McCready jammed with the band in Seattle, but within 30 seconds of conversation, Eitzel took the opportunity to challenge Ament on the "Jeremy" video. "I liked your hit," he'd told ... a game plan for tomorrow: "I'm gonna lower the drum riser so I can see the audience. I'm gonna connect with those people." Within a few minutes, Vedder emerges upbeat and finds some American fans. "I wish we'd played a club here," he tells them, signing some shirts. He and Beth Liebling head out to the mixing platform to watch U2 with the rest of the band. Before ...
- 3734: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... literature in 1936, and Pulitzer Prizes for four of his plays: Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anna Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957). O'Neill is credited with raising American dramatic theater from its narrow origins to an art form respected around the world. He is regarded as America's premier playwright. O'Neill continued to write until 1944 when he was stricken with a ... he had abandoned Merlo at the time of his declining health. Most biographers attribute his inner conflicts in part to the social strain placed on Williams as a known homosexual during a hostile period in American history. On February 24, 1983, Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap at his New York City residence at the Hotel Elyse. He is buried in St. Louis, Missouri. Newton, Sir Isaac (1642 ...
- 3735: Frank Sinatra
- Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey later became known as Frank Sinatra and one of the greatest entertainers of his generation. American singers - Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank Sinatra. Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced generations of popular vocalists. Sinatra anticipated the decline of big-band instrumental jazz music ... Candidate and Ocean's 11, which teamed him with the other members of the "Rat Pack," which included Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra recorded with the big bands of American jazz musicians Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Frank Sinatra was a soulful crooner that established himself as he branched out into films. After leaving Capitol Records in 1961, Sinatra became one of the first to ...
- 3736: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... a volute. All the Japanese architecture appears to be individualistic. The elegance of the architecture draws the attention for the viewer to observe the building. The Japanese society were in the part of the industrial revolution and the start of the modern architecture. Japanese people would need to integrate with the modern architecture to show the new revolution of machine . The Japanese designers combine Middle or Working Class people and the Machine Image to create output of modern architecture. Japanese domestic architecture was truly organic architecture. (Frank Lloyd Wirght, The future of architecture ...
- 3737: Frost
- ... that he would encounter. Only a year after Frost arrived in England his book A Boy s Will was accepted and published. With the help of favorable reviews on both sided of the Atlantic a American publisher published his book. The Henry Holt and Company became Frosts primary American Publisher. From this Frost now had a secure reputation on two continents. In February 1915 Robert Frost and his family sailed for the United States reaching New York City two day after the publication of ...
- 3738: Fray Junipero Serra
- ... linked by a dirt road called "El Camino Real." By the time Father Serra died in 1784 he had established nine California missions and baptized six thousands Indians, about ten percent of the California Native American population. Junipero Serra did not die as a martyr as he had hoped. He died on August 28, 1784 of tuberculosis at Mission San Carlos. His grave has never been moved and lies today under ... for Indians. When other societies are compared with their treatment of the Indians it is plainly seen that others had no tolerance for Native Americans. For instance, a century after Serra founded the missions, the American government gave the public the right to kill "wild" Indians who were "in the way." The fact is that Serra was not out to destroy the Indian society but to protect it. This is exemplified ...
- 3739: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... designed nearly a thousand structures, but he has explored the ideas of living space, landscape, and the relationship between architecture and community. Frank Lloyd Wright left behind a legacy of beautiful houses and buildings, an American style of architecture, and an example of what it means to live life based on the way things should be, not the way they are. He created some of the most monumental and intimate spaces ... 1936 to the end of his life, Frank Lloyd Wright produced work constantly. Within those years, Wright purchased 800 acres of land in Arizona to build Taliesin West, he received the gold medal of the American Institute of Architecture, finished the final plan of the Guggenheim Museum, was awarded and honorary doctorate from Yale University, and founded the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9, 1959, in ...
- 3740: Ernest Hemingway 5
- ... aficion. Aficion means passion. An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights (Hemingway, Sun 123). According to Montoya this is a special quality that all the great bullfighters possess, and only one American possesses it: Jake Barnes. Montoya says, But he s not a real aficionado like you are (123). By watching Jake in his actions, Montoya has discovered that he does have this unique quality. Although Jake ... of challenge on the fisherman with out canceling out chances for success (92). This year, 1999, marks the one-hundredth year since the birth of Hemingway. Because of this anniversary, Hemingway s greatness as an American writer is being especially celebrated this year. The two works considered in this paper- The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and The Sea- are representative examples of his greatness. They not only tell ...
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