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- 3811: William Faulkner
- ... All we know is that she lives in Jefferson, but we can assume it is in the South for a couple of reasons. The first clue is the style of her house. "It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies" (Faulkner "Rose" 502). Another dead giveaway is that Miss Emily had ...
- 3812: William Faulkner
- ... coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay. As an example, the house is in an area of town that was once a prominent neighborhood that has now deteriorated. Originally the house was a big white house with large balconies, and the yard was decorated with beautiful flowers. But now the people of the town think that the house has become an embarrassment to the town. This happened through a ...
- 3813: Wilhelm Roentgen
- ... rest of the way to Stockholm so he went on. He arrived in Stockholm on December 9. The awards assemblies took place at seven o’clock the next evening. The event was held at the Big Hall of the Musikaliska Akademien (the Music Academy). Along with Roentgen, Chemist J. H. van’t Hoff of Berlin, Germany won a prize for his work on osmosis, Professor of Medicine Dr. E. A. von ...
- 3814: Thomas Jefferson
- ... of the smartest leaders in history. His father was named Peter Jefferson, a very rich Farmer from Virginia. Thomas’s Mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, was part of the Randolph family. The Randolph Family was a big part of Virginia history, and also very rich also. Peter and Jane Jefferson moved to Goochland county, because Peter had just gotten 400 acres of land there. Thomas Jefferson was born in the log cabin ...
- 3815: Thomas Edison
- ... form of entertainment, but they still wanted more. Inventors from all over the world, including the United States, France, England, and Germany, continued to work as hard as possible to get these "movies" onto the big screen. Once Edison has his new invention working better then Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope, he tried once again to link his phonograph to the new version of a projector but failed. Edison had trouble making a ...
- 3816: Thomas Edison
- ... at the village of Menlo Park, NJ. Now he and his two business partners could devote their full attention to inventing. Edison promised that he would build a small invention every ten days and a big invention every six months! He also said he would "take orders" for inventions. Abbott Pg. 3 They moved into the new building in March 1876. His first invention was an improvement on the telephone. Before ...
- 3817: Theodore Dreiser
- ... Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute and lived in Indiana until the age of eighteen. He was born into a family that was stricken with poverty and he had little hope of making it big in the real world. Dreiser did not have much of an education nor any experience in writing. Through hard work and dedication, he ended getting a job in Chicago for a newspaper and then moving ...
- 3818: Terry Fox
- ... Terry a magazine featuring a man who ran a marathon after a similar operation. Terry didn’t want to do something small if he was going to do something he was going to do it big. "I am competitive" Terry said, "I’m a dreamer. I like challenges. I don’t give up. When I decided to do it, I knew it was going to be all out. There was no ...
- 3819: T.S. Eliot
- ... The Hollow Men finishes with some of his most quoted lines: ‘This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.’ Here Eliot seems to be at an all time low. He is sad and cynical about life and his spiritual journeying could well have ended here. In Journey of The Magi and ...
- 3820: Stephen King
- ... hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy, a public high school in Hampden, Maine. He still found time to write short stories and work on his novel on the weekends and evenings. King’s first big break came on the spring of 1973 upon the acceptence of Doubleday & Co. to publish Stephen King’s novel Carrie. After learning from his new editor, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would make ...
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