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- 5751: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
- ... Allens dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, Allen's home life was dominated by his mother's bizarre and frightening episodes. A severe paranoid, she trusted Allen when she was convinced the rest of the family ...
- 5752: The Life of Beethoven
- ... Koln. His father was a weak-spirited and drank too much, but he recognized his son's talent. His father and his grandfather worked as court musicians. His father hoped to make Ludwig a gifted child like the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His father taught him how to play piano and violin. Even though his general education was not continued after elementary school, he studied piano, violin, and French horn ...
- 5753: Pablo Picasso
- ... and at 15 he performed brilliantly on the entrance examinations to Barcelona's School of Fine Arts. His large academic canvas Science and Charity (1897, Picasso Museum, Barcelona), depicting a doctor, a nun, and a child at a sick woman's bedside, won a gold medal. Between 1900 and 1902, Picasso made three trips to Paris, finally settling there in 1904. He found the city's bohemian street life fascinating, and ...
- 5754: Bob Dylan
- ... and the "rebel" movie hero, converged into a creative and excepting time for the young Dylan to grow up in, a time for the mainstream American and the youth behind it to emerge. As a child Dylan was comfortable being the center of attention, often writing creative poetry for his mother and on occasion singing. Dylan had no formal music lessons, but none the less he began to compose. Later at ...
- 5755: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... politician (he made no reference to his presidency on his tombstone), Jefferson was more admired abroad in his day than at home, where he was charged by some with everything from godlessness to fathering a child with his black servant girl. (This last charge has never been proved.) In the 20th century he has assumed the status of one of the greatest of all Americans, respected for his many achievements, from ...
- 5756: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... one of uniqueness as well as perseverance, learned lessons of survival and hardships. In 1991 then President George W. Bush nominated Mr. Thomas for Supreme Court Justice after then Justice Thurgood Marshall retired. As a child Mr. Thomas says, he could not dare dream of ever seeing the Supreme Court, not to mention ever being nominated to it. He was reared in then segregated Savannah, Ga. being raised by his maternal ...
- 5757: Walt Disney
- ... to lift peoples spirits during the great depression. In 1933, Walt Disney produced the Three Little Pigs. It won an Oscar for the best cartoon of the year. That same year, Lilly had the first child, a girl named Diane Marie. Three years later, they adopted a girl, Sharon to complete their family (Selden 42-43). Walt decided to do a full-length animated film. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ...
- 5758: Robert Schumann
- Robert Schumann Robert Schumann was a German composer during the Romantic era. He was born on June 8, 1810, the youngest child in his family (Slonimsky 902). Schumann was born in Zwickau, Germany (Stanley 147). His father sold books and was also a publisher and author (Sadie 831). Schumanns father encouraged him but his mother disapproved ...
- 5759: Sergey Bubka
- ... favorite poets include, Omar Khayyam and Rasal Gamzatov. Bubka's wife, Liliya Bubka is a master of sport much like her husband. But her area of expertise is gymnastics rather than pole vault. As a child she competed very often and was very successful. Although female gymnasts stop competing worldwide at a very young age, she kept with it for a very long time, even though she was out of competition ...
- 5760: Jackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier
- ... serration barrier and rise above it all and join the Major League Baseball Association. Rickey said that whoever the person was to be would have to cope with taunts and insult, with name calling and abuse. Rickey heard of the success of Jackie on the Negro League and sent his scouts to see Jackie. (Ritter, S. Lawrence p. 43-51). After a long meeting with Rickey, Jackie agreed to join the ...
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