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- 2491: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... became a successful glover and trader, and owned civic office in Stratford. He was not born to the nobility, but he did have some authority in the town. In 1596 he was given by the College of Arms the right to a coat of arms and a crest. Doing that advanced his status to that of a country gentleman. He would belong to the upper class of rural society. That was ...
- 2492: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
- ... in the county. On July 10,1982, Pope John Paul II reappointed Archbishop Bernardin to Archbishop of Chicago. His installation took at Holy Name Cathedral on August 25,1982. Later Archbishop Bernardin went to the College of Cardinals. On February 2,1983 he received his "red hat." On September 9,1996 President Clinton awarded Cardinal Bernardin the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In presenting the Metal, the President cited Cardinal Bernardin's ...
- 2493: A Martyr's Victory in a Spiritual Sense
- ... is
. COURAGE Don't follow where the path may lead
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail". When Bishop was young he developed his own idealism. While a student in Cathedral college in New York he took an interest in the Christian Foreign Mission Society, this society was new and had few members. At the age of 20, he became the first seminarian of the Maryknoll Missionaries ...
- 2494: Ty Cobb
- ... Despite his inability to spend money on himself, he did give a lot to others. He gave money to needy retired ballplayers, helped build a new hospital in Royston, and started a fund for poor college students (Kramer 44). While giving money, Cobb still felt unliked and remained virtually alone for the rest of his life. What money he did spend on himself was almost exclusively towards the use of alcohol ...
- 2495: Steven Spielberg
- ... a year later he won a prize for a forty minute war movie titled Escape to Nowhere. At the age of sixteen, his 140-minute production, Firelight, was shown in a local movie theater. In college, his short film, Amblin was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival and led to the boy genius's Universal Studios directing contract at the age of twenty. Spielberg learned his craft doing television work, which ...
- 2496: Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... emotional relationship with women. His only friends were those women who he had failed relationships with and men who he quarreled with. In the end, Nietzsche died of syphilis that was allegedly contracted while in college.
- 2497: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... been prime minister of several small native states. Gandhi was married when he was only 13 years old. When he was 19 he defied custom by going abroad to study. He studied law at University College in London. Fellow students snubbed him because he was an Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil ...
- 2498: Steven Spielberg
- ... a year later he won a prize for a forty minute war movie titled Escape to Nowhere. At the age of sixteen, his 140-minute production, Firelight, was shown in a local movie theater. In college, his short film, Amblin was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival and led to the boy genius's Universal Studios directing contract at the age of twenty. Spielberg learned his craft doing television work, which ...
- 2499: Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- ... Calculus. He was an English mathemetician and physcist, whose considered to be one of the greatest scientists in history. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He attended Trinity College, at the University of Cambridge. He received his bachelor's degree in 1665 and received his master's degree in 1668. However, there he ignored much of the universities established curriculum to pursue his own ...
- 2500: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... the twentieth century when Dirac arrived on the scene. Dirac came to Cambridge as a graduate student in 1923 after graduating from the University of Bristol. As a student in mathematics in St. John's College, he took his Ph.D. in 1926 and was elected in 1927 as a fellow. His appointment as university lecturer came in 1929.[7] He assumed the Lucasian professorship following Joseph Larmor in 1932 and ...
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