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- 5791: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... to making political decisions to being the first person to study and chart the Gulf Stream movement in the Atlantic Ocean. Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706. He was the fifteenth child in a family of seventeen kids. His parents, Josiah and Abiah Franklin, were hard working devout Puritan/Calvinist people. Josiah Franklin made candles for a living. Since the Franklins were so poor, little Benjamin couldn ...
- 5792: Bruce Lee
- ... Bruce Lee was a phenomonal person from the start of his life. Appearing in his first movie at the age of six months, Bruce would go on to appear in over twenty films as a child actor. In his teen years, Bruce was a rebellious adolecent, his favorite after school activity beating up British boys, he began studing wing chun kung-fu under Yip Man in Hong Kong at the age ...
- 5793: Emily Dickinson
- ... poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature died at the age of 56 in her hometown on April 6, 1886 due to an illness. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily was the middle child of a prominent lawyer and one-term United States congressional representative, Edward Dickinson, and his wife, Emily Norcross Dickinson. From 1840 to 1847 she attended the Amherst Academy, and from 1847 to 1848 she studied ...
- 5794: William Shakespeare
- ... books were. Sure, there’s some debate that he didn’t really write his plays, but that’s all circumstantial and not really proved. His name is household and by the fifth grade almost every child has heard the classic tale of “Romeo and Juliet.” His plays have been produced as novels, movies, and the most successful Broadway plays. They have endured the most trying test of all: time. “Shakespeare is ...
- 5795: King of Babylonia: Hammurabi
- ... judges. Included in these crimes were: bigamy, incest, kidnapping, adultery and theft. There were also laws similar to today. For example, a husband who wished to divorce his wife, was required to pay alimony and child support. By creating the world's first set of organized laws, Hammurabi constituted a model set of moral codes for other civilizations to duplicate. "The code of Hammurabi is believed to have greatly influenced the ...
- 5796: Johannes Brahms
- ... His father, a double-bass player at the Hamburg Orchestra, was his first teacher, but the man who gave Brahms his first real appreciation for music was Eduard Marxsen. Brahms became very good as a child pianist, and played at a public concert in Hamburg at the age of 14. He also earned some money playing in the local taverns. While playing in the taverns, he met the Hungarian violinist Remenyi ...
- 5797: The Writings of Ernest Hemingway
- ... support. Until the end of the novel, Frederick still relies on Catherine as the source of order in his life. With the end of their affair when Catherine dies giving birth to their stillborn love-child, Frederick realizes that he cannot depend on any one person, such as Catherine, or any thing, such as religion, war, or frivolity, for order and discipline. Hemingway describes Frederick's enlightment best in the final ...
- 5798: Mark Twain
- ... is an indication of Twain's dark side. The controversial 'Huckleberry Finn', which is periodically banned in schools or libraries because of alleged racial overtones, can be read by children, but it is not a child's book. It has elements of heartbreak and wisdom that can be appreciated best by adults. On the other hand, 'Tom Sawyer' is primarily a juvenile book but one that can be read with pleasure ...
- 5799: The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
- ... apparent robbery in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio. Arrested repeatedly in recent years, he was released last year on bail pending appeal after serving eight months in a New York prison for sex abuse. The Las Vegas attackers got away. Knight, with three lawyers, talked to investigators four days after the shooting but was of no help, police said. There had been trouble ealier. Shakur and associates were in ...
- 5800: Oskar Schindler - A Saint in Disguise?
- ... the young women. His fancy, though, fell for a beautiful young girl named Emily. After only six weeks of courtship, they were married. Sadly, after only a few months of marriage, Schindler began to heavily abuse alcohol. He also had several affairs resulting in two children out of wedlock. In 1929, during the Great Depression, the Schindler family business went bankrupt. At this time, Schindler's father left his mother, and ...
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