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- 3751: Peter Tchaikovsky
- ... spitting on the other countries, he was reminded by his nurse that she herself was French. "Yes," he said, accepting her criticism with perfect sweetness and affectionate docility, "I covered France with my hand." The child is father of the man; here we have already Tchaikovsky's strange two-sidedness: on one hand his intense emotionality in all personal matters, his headstrong impetuosity, leaping first and looking afterwards; on the other ...
- 3752: Pablo Picasso
- ... His new studio is found on the rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris; it is here that Picasso would work and live, alone, throughout the Second World War. 1947 Birth of a daughter, Paloma, second child with Francoise Gilot. 1952 He paints two enormous panels, War and Peace, subsequently hung in the chapel of Vallauris. 1955-1960 Picasso buys a villa, La Californie, on the Mediterranean coast of France near Cannes ...
- 3753: P. T. Barnum
- ... stands today. His father, Philo Barnum, dabbled in several trades. His father owned his own dry goods store. Barnum's mom, Irena Taylor, was a housewife. The family was moderately well off. Barnum, as a child was influenced by a strict Protestant work ethic. He fallowed a type of Christianity called Congregationalism. Congregationalism was strict about working, learning and keeping yourself busy. Fun was a scarce commodity. About the only fun ...
- 3754: Nicholas Romanov
- ... long after Alexei was it was discovered that he suffered from haemophilia, a disease which slows the blood forming clots and can lead to internal haemorrhaging and possibly death . Haemophilia is passed on to the child by the mother and Alexandras shame of this may have been one of the factors why she turned to the uncouth holy man Gregory Rasputin. Rasputin had lead Alexandra to believe that he was ...
- 3755: Nat King Col
- ... whole, but especially in the case of Nat. Moving to Chicago was the first step in Nats rise to fame, the place where the foundation of a jazz superstar would be built. As a child, Nat dreamed to be a big band leader and soloist in the tradition of his idol, Earl "Fatha" Hines. By twelve years old, Nat was already playing the organ at church, amazing for such a ...
- 3756: Moses
- ... raised by kings, he was chosen to lead. His name is revered by millions......Moses. By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict." Hebrews 11:23 Revered as a prophet but even more importantly as a teacher and a lawgiver, Moses was the leader of the Israelite people ...
- 3757: Mikhail Gorbachev
- ... t get by without it" (Sudo 14). Drunkenness had been a plague in Russia since the Middle Ages; that is no secret. However, for years the communist leadership refused to acknowledge the fact that alcohol abuse posed any problems. Periodically, in pre-revolutionary times and even during the first years of Soviet power, the authorities initiated missions against alcoholism, none of which resulted in success. By the time Gorbachev got to ...
- 3758: Mickey Mantle
- ... played in 12 of his 18 career years in the World Serieswith the Yankee's. When Mickey Mantle was growing up, he was small, and spindly. His nickname was "little Mick" when he was a child. Mantle went to Commerce grade school. When Mickey was little, he always thought about baseball (Falkner 21). His parents bought baseball gloves for him, but his mom made his uniforms. When he started playing he ...
- 3759: Louis XIV
- ... Flanders. Louis died in 1715, at the age of 77. His body was carried to the Saint-Denis basilica. His heir, the last son of the Duc de Bourgogne, was a sickly five-year-old child. Louis had distrusted his nephew, the Duc d'Orleans, and wanted to leave actual power in the hands of the Duc du Maine. He left orders in his will to make it so. The Parlement ...
- 3760: Lizzie Borden
- ... asked Lizzie "if she had any idea who could have killed her father and mother." Lizzie responded with, "She's not my mother, Sir. She is my stepmother. My mother died when I was a child." "I did not regard her as my mother, though she came there when I was young. I decline to say whether my relations between her and myself we those of mother and daughter or not ...
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