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- 3901: Elizabethan Food
- ... once again. Later, he was arrested for an attempted kidnapping of King Edward and for plotting to marry himself to Elizabeth, who was an heir to the throne. Young Edward had never been a strong child and eventfully contracted what was then called consumption. It is most likely that he had tuberculosis, from contemporary accounts. When it looked inevitable the the teenager would die without an heir of his own body ...
- 3902: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
- ... oldest of twelve children in an upper middle-class family, she received no formal education, but a desire for knowledge enabled her to learn eight languages on her own. She began writing poetry as a child, and by the time she reached adulthood she had published four immensely popular volumes of verse. Though a longtime illness made her something of a recluse, Barrett was able to meet many of the leading ...
- 3903: Emily Dickinson 5
- ... house. Then less than two years latter she died at the age of 56 (Chase 310). Death and the whole experience of death was going on all throughout her life. From when she was a child and her father made her follow his religion, which in religion there is some kind of belief you follow about death. The seclusion from her family, which made her, have only a few friends making ...
- 3904: E. E. Cummings
- ... others. In keeping with his iconoclasm is the lowercased signature he preferred and came to be known by e. e. cummings (Ulanov 565). To get more affect out of the words in poems, he would abuse the text. He breaks lines to indicate stress; he sometimes capitalizes key words for the same reason, and even uses punctuation to indicate rises and climaxes in tone (Cummings, Penguin, 469). When writing Cummings would ...
- 3905: Eva Peron
- Maria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos Argentina. She was the youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress Juana Ibarguen. Eva had a difficult childhood, her father had his own wife and children, and he gave Juana s Ibarguen children his last name and would visit them ...
- 3906: Ernest Hemingway
- ... prematurely on July 2, 1961. Many critics believe he had an abusive childhood and that is what most influenced his writing. It may have physiologically damaged him also. The truth is that he had no abuse during childhood from family or friends. During infancy, his father, Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, and mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, provided for him perfectly. They did many outdoor activity in his childhood days such as hunting ...
- 3907: Donatello
- ... made works of pure sculpture, including several works of bronze. The earliest and most important of these was the "Feast of Herod" (1423-1427). He also made two statuettes of Virtues and then three nude child angels (one which was stolen and is now in the Berlin museum). These statues prepared the way for the bronze statue of David, the first large scale, and freestanding nude statue of the Renaissance. It ...
- 3908: Donald Barthelme
- ... whole story is about the man s memory and at the end of the story he gets up from the chair he is sitting in and congratulates himself on his memory before checking on his child. The third story I read was really different. To me it didn t seem like a story at all. It is entitled On the Deck. The whole thing is describing items that are on the ...
- 3909: Divid Berkowitz
- David Berkowitz was born in 1953. Rejected and adopted as a child, he concealed his low self-esteem by compulsive lying and bragging. And his extreme shyness toward women by assailing them, starting when he was in his early twenties. His courage bolstered by several non-fatal ...
- 3910: Davy Crockett
- ... to Col. Crockett. He took her by the hand and remarked to the Governor, "When I like a man, I always love his children," and kneeling down , he kissed her, saying, "God bless you my child". He arose no more the backwoodsman or bear hunter, but the most amiable, independent and courageous man in the Tennessee legislature, and such he proved himself to be. His first, or original, gun is in ...
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