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- 3151: Babe Ruth
- ... manager. Unfortunately for the Babe, that never came to pass. Ruth played his last major league game on May 30, 1935, for the Boston Braves and announced his retirement on June 2, 1935. From that day on he kept hoping to get a chance to manage in the major leagues, but the opportunity never came. In 1946, Babe was diagnosed with throat cancer. Even though doctors performed surgery and he received radiation treatments, the cancer couldn’t be cured. With doctors being unable to do any more for him, Babe was released from the hospital. Subsequently, April 27 was declared "Babe Ruth Day" in every baseball park in the United States and Japan. Although too frail to don his old uniform at the time, Babe did make an appearance on that day at Yankee Stadium. His final appearance at Yankee stadium actually came later, on June 13, 1948, during the 25th anniversary of "The House that Ruth Built." During the celebration the Yankees also retired his ...
- 3152: Andrew Carnegie
- ... help her in any way, than I have been since I could help anything. My treasure is still with you, and how best to serve Pittsburgh is the question which occurs to me almost every day of my life." Colonel James Anderson, who Carnegie believes to be his childhood benefactor, established a public library in his hometown of Allegheny City. This library was the first opportunity for Carnegie to take advantage ... program focuses on issues such as arms control, international law, and relations between the United States and foreign countries. It publishes the quarterly journal, Foreign Policy, and has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching promotes the dignity in the teaching profession and the cause of higher education. Chartered by Carnegie in 1905 with $15 million, the foundation established the Teachers ...
- 3153: Allen Sapp
- ... she got out and they moved to Battleford. Allen tried to live off his art and tried to paint waht he thought the white man would like, often calendar art of places and animals he’d never actually seen. He dressed as he thought the white man would accept, and he knew little English. One morning in 1966 Sapp walking into the North Battleford Medical Clinic to sell his paintings. Here ... one of the Senior Native Artists in Canada. In January 1987 the Governor General of Canada appointed Sapp as an Officer to the Order of Canada. He continues to be a great success to this day. Allen Sapp’s art is very unique. He has a photographic memory and paints scenes form the past form his childhood on the reserve. This is why his paintings seem to be from a child ...
- 3154: Alfred Hitchcock
- ... a spiral of intrigue as she is caught between her boyfriend who is an investigating detective and a person who is blackmailing her. Alice wants to turn herself in, but if she did that she'd have to explain why she had put herself in such a position. Within this film is the typical Hitchcock story that the character wants to tell the police what has happened but they just can not do it. They know they'd never be believed so they must set out to defend themselves. This occurs in "The 39 Steps", a film that will be focused on following this film, as well. Hitchcock loves returning to themes over ... the theater of "The 39 Steps" when you can hear the crowd as well as the man on stage and the band's music. The lighting in "The 39 Steps" is also a technique I'd like to touch upon. One of the first scenes is at the theater where a fight breaks out. The shot shifts from the view from the floor to the view from the stage. In ...
- 3155: Magic Johnson
- ... a bunch with his older brother Larry. (Brenner, p.44) Earvin would wake up early and play basketball before school started. "People thought I was crazy," Earvin remembered. "It would be seven-thirty and they’d be going to work and say, ‘There’s that crazy June Bug, hoopin’." (Lovitt, p.5) June bug was what many people called him, but his parents called him Junior and his friends called him ... of the Year" in Michigan. That summer, Reggie was killed in an auto accident. Earvin was devastated by the death of one of his closest friends. Earvin started to receive five to six letters a day. In his senior year, Earvin started off the season averaging forty points a game, but Coach Fox told him to remember his teammates and Earvin started concentrated more in assists. The Vikings beat the Birmingham ...
- 3156: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping ... In the late 1950s, Johnson began to think seriously of running for the presidency in 1960. His record had been fairly conservative, however. Many Democratic liberals resented his friendly association with the Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower; others considered him a tool of wealthy Southwestern gas and oil interests. Either to soften this image as a conservative or in response to inner conviction, Johnson moved slightly to the left on ...
- 3157: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... about one year. The arrangement proved to be a dissappointment to Beethoven. C. The relationship Outwardly in public the two were cordial, but there were troubles with the relationship--maybe professional jealousy caused the problems. D. Other teachers Beethoven turned to other teachers when Haydn went to London for the second time. He studied with Albrechtsberger, famous as a choir director at St. Stephens in Vienna and the best-known counterpoint ... 5 PIANO CONCERTOS · 16 STRING QUARTETS · 16 SONATAS FOR ONE INSTRUMENT AND PIANO (CELLO,5; VIOLIN,10; FH,1) The Symphonies · op.21 Symphony No. 1 in C 1800 · op.36 Symphony No. 2 in D 1801-02 · op.55 Symphony No. 3 in E flat "Erocia" 1803 · op.60 Symphony No. 4 in B flat 1806 · op.67 Symphony No. 5 in c minor 1807 · op.68 Symphony No. 6 in F "Pastoral" 1808 · op.92 Symphony No. 7 in A 1811 · op.93 Symphony No. 8 in F 1812 · op.125 Symphony No. 9 in d minor 1822
- 3158: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely"- he decides to go on. At a time when Beethoven had reached the end of the musical challenge of the day, he also faced what seemed to him the end of hope in his personal life. In his Testament, death seems imminent-"With joy I hasten to meet death"-but hope and determination, though weak and ... accomplish great things"-withdrawn from the company of men, tortured by his growing deafness, tempted with thoughts of suicide, overcoming despair by the pure strength of faith in his own music, searching for "but one day of pure joy." In a musical perspective, the "Eroica" Symphony established a milestone in Beethoven's development and in music history. His manipulation of sonata form to embrace the powerful emotions of heroic struggle and tragedy went beyond Mozart or Haydn's high-Classic style. Beethoven's new path reflected the turbulence of the developing politics of the day (especially the Napoleonic Wars), ignited perhaps by the hopelessness he felt in himself. He took music beyond the Viennese style which ignored the unsettling currents of Beethoven's terror, anxiety, and death. Indeed he ...
- 3159: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... Figaro had been well received. The composer was already well known and liked when he arrived in the Bohemian capital. He added to these successes by conducting Figaro and other works including the Symphony in D, K. 504, and he signed a contract for a new opera to be produced in Prague for which Da Ponte supplied the libretto. Don Giovanni, the result of their collaboration, turned out to everyone's ... had little more than two weeks to write the music. To accomplish this feat, he enlisted the help of his pupil, Süssmayer, who composed the recitatives. Both of them worked feverishly, even during their three-day journey to Prague. Success was only moderate, and the Empress allegedly referred to Tito as "una porcheria tedesca." All accounts agree that Mozart's health had deteriorated visibly and rapidly. The incredible haste with which ...
- 3160: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... 1918 when she had finished her high school requirements, Zora had attended multiple schools, in order to gain the best education as an African American female. 1918-1919 Zora attended Howard Prep School in Washington D.C. In 1920 she earned her associates degree and in 1924 earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology at Howard University (Lyons 24-6). During the latter part of her education she attended Barnard ... rare, a black woman studying anthropology as well as attending college was unheard of (Otfinoski 47). Education for Zora never stopped, as she went to Columbia University in 1935 in hopes of achieving her Ph.D. on a Fellowship for the Rosenwald Foundation. Zora's efforts in obtaining her Ph.D. were lacking. Her education received a boost in 1939 when she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Morgan State College (Hurston 204). This was the pinnacle and end of her academic achievements. ...
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