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- 1541: Albert Einstein from Start to Finish
- ... interested in Mathematics and Philosophy. Therefore he made no effort to work in his other classes. His father, Hermann Einstein, didn't want him to study Philosophy. He wanted him to take over the family business and study electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein. When Albert was going through high ...
- 1542: Edgar Degas - Not the Typical Impressionist
- ... from New Orleans. The family changed the name from Degas in order to sound more aristocratic and Degas changed it back early in his career. Although his father wanted him to take over his banking business for him and get a law degree, Degas always knew that he wanted to be an artist. When Degas was 18 years old, he was given permission from the Lourve in Paris to copy works ... Classicist or an Impressionist, but a Realist. Degas differed from other artists of the time in that he did not like to paint landscapes. He liked to draw and paint people going about their normal business, almost like taking photograph. This is shown in his work, The Belleli Family. You can see by looking at it that the family is in a relaxed state. The father isn't even looking at ...
- 1543: Albert Einstein from Start to Finish
- ... interested in Mathematics and Philosophy. Therefore he made no effort to work in his other classes. His father, Hermann Einstein, didn't want him to study Philosophy. He wanted him to take over the family business and study electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein. When Albert was going through high ...
- 1544: Biography of Thomas Edison
- ... many jobs, but most of his employers became upset with his habit about forgetting about his job and working on his own experiments. At twenty one, he repaired a broken down stock ticker machine. A business named Laws than hired him. Soon after he was recruited, he put together a perfect stock ticker machine in his spare time. For his work, he was paid $40,000. With all of this new money Edison bought many books and scientific equipment to create new inventions. Then, he bought a factory. Quickly he had three hundred employers, and business was booming. He held the factory until he became very sick at the age of thirty, and gave it up. When he regained his strength, he ounce again opened up a laboratory located in Melano ...
- 1545: Bill Gates
- ... became friends and "began to mess around with the computer"(Gates 2). Back in the sixties and early seventies computer time was expensive. "This is what drove me to the commercial side of the software business"(Gates 12). Gates, Allen and a few others from Lakeside got entry-level software programming jobs. One of Gates early programs that he likes to brag about was written at this time. It was a ... Pain for Windows." Feb. 27,1995 p64-66 Clayton, Gary E. Ph.D. Economics Principles and Practices. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 1995 Economist, The:The World This Week. March 26, 1994 p7 Economist, The: Business. January 22, 1994 p73 Fortune. June 28 1993 Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. New York:Penguin Group 1995 Lyall, Sarah. Technos: "Are These Books, or What? CD-ROM and the Literary Industry." Winter 1994 p20 ...
- 1546: The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
- ... go in to action it was too late. Dissipate the efforts of the surgeons McKinley died of his wounds eight (8) days later. After McKinley's death Roosevelt advocated managing natural resources and supervising big business. Even though he was on only 41 years old at the time of McKinley's death he was well suited to acquire the presidency. Sense childhood Theodore Roosevelt knew that the earth was a precious ... In this light he recognized the fact that there was a need to institute more national parks. He also recognized the fact that city dwellers as well as farmers have the needed for water. Big business was a problem with monopolizing; especially J. P. Morgan was a steal company that had a monopoly. This monopoly was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1902. A Supreme Court ruling found 5 ...
- 1547: Benedict Arnold
- ... war, leading troops on raids in Virginia and Connecticut. After the war he lived with his family in England. He failed to obtain a regular commission in the British army and failed also in several business ventures, including land speculation in Canada. He died in London on June 14, 1801. In the first years of the American Revolution, Arnold was a brilliant and courageous general, highly respected for his service to ... 300 men. He served with the British for the rest of the war, leading troops on raids in Virginia and Connecticut. After the war he lived with his family in England. He failed in several business ventures, including land speculation in Canada. He died in London on June 14, 1801.
- 1548: Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
- ... agent, as he wasn't making any head way as a writer. Eventually he joined his wife's father's insurance agency, and later bought it in 1980 for $125,000. It was an established business with around 1,000 clients. Tom was so effective, and the business so profitable, that he could accomplish all the work in the morning and have the rest of the day to devour all sorts of technical journals and papers.3 After his writing career took off ...
- 1549: A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
- ... bari sax as a solo instrument. While Duke's band was performing at the Cotton Club, his band participated in more than sixty-four recording sessions. In 1931 Duke grew so tired of the show-business routines that he decided to try his luck again on his own. When he arrived in New York his band grew to almost three times what it originally had been at the Cotton Club. Duke ... that this would become a very serious problem considering how the stock market crashed in late 1929 and millions of people across the United States were out of work. Somehow, though, most of the entertainment business survived the economic hardships. Ellington's band had appeared on Broadway and had even gone to Hollywood to make a movie. Duke's band was having a hard time performing in the south because of ...
- 1550: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... the name of a medal Khrushchev was wearing. When the premier identified it as the Lenin Peace Medal, Kennedy remarked, 6"I hope you keep it." On another occasion he told a group of Republican business leaders, 7"It would be premature to ask for your support in the next election and inaccurate to thank you for it in the past." Even in great crises, Kennedy retained his sense of humor ... for the growth of the civil rights movement, he attempted to aid the black cause by enforcing existing laws. Kennedy particularly wanted to end discrimination in federally financed projects or in companies that were doing business with the government. In September 1962 Governor Ross R. Barnett of Mississippi ignored a court order and prevented James H. Meredith, a black man, from enrolling at the state university. On the night of September ...
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