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- 4061: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... Manya with her schooling and education in return. Manya went to live in a village called Szczuki with a family called Zorawski. Aside from teaching the two children of the family for seven hours a day, she organized lessons for her own benefit as well. Manya spent her evenings, late evenings, and even mornings devouring books on mathmatics and science. Bronya finished her studies and married a Polish doctor, Casimir Dluski ... marriage out of her life's program. She was obsessed by her dreams, harassed by poverty, and overdriven by intensive work. Nothing else counted; nothing else existed. She did, however, meet a young man every day at Sorbonne and at the laboratory. Marie and her destiny actually met on coincidence. Marie needed somewhere to conduct her experiments for research ordered by the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry. The lab ... iron stove and a blackboard. One evening, in 1902, after four long years of exhausting work, Marie decided to go back to their lab and check on the experiments they had done earlier in the day. When Marie and Pierre got to the laboratory, they saw a "faint blue glow" in the darkness; it was the radium. Radium proved to be one of the world's most important discoveries, especially ...
- 4062: Biography of Robert Frost
- Biography of Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29, 1963, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems ... who wrote the first American review of Frost's verse for Harriet Munroe's Poetry magazine. (Though he disliked Pound, Frost was later instrumental in obtaining Pound's release from long confinement in a Washington, D.C., mental hospital.) Frost was more favorably impressed and more lastingly influenced by the so-called Georgian poets Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert BROOKE, and T. E. Hulme, whose rural subjects and style were more in keeping ... Connery Lathem (1969), Selected Letters, ed. by Lawrance Thompson (1964), Selected Prose, ed. by Lathem and Hyde Cox (1966); Gerber, Philip L., Robert Frost (1966) and, as ed., Critical Essays on Robert Frost (1982); Hall, D., Robert Frost: Contours of Belief (1980); Katz, S.L., Elinor Frost (1988); Lathem, E.C., ed., Robert Frost's Poetry and Prose (1984); Poirier, Richard, Robert Frost (1977); Pritchard, William H., Frost: A Literary ...
- 4063: The Life of Sally Ride
- ... she worked hard to obtain four degrees. In 1973, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Science in Physics. In 1975 she received her Masters in Physics and a Ph.D. in 1978. In 1977 she responded to an ad in the Stanford University newspaper for NASA astronauts. She was originally looking for postdoctoral work in astrophysics. Previously, astronauts had always been military pilots, but now ... program before Sally Ride. Only one woman in the entire world. A woman from Russia's space program named Valentina Tereshkova twenty years earlier. On June 16, 1983, Sally blasted off to begin their six-day mission. She assisted the commander and shuttle p pilots during ascent, reentry, and landing. Sally a also was the acting flight engineer. While in p space, Ride deployed two communication satellites. One for Canada and ...
- 4064: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... indifferent romances filled Fleming's off-work hours. Ian also began a considerable book collection which was later recognized by the Library of Congress. By 1939, it appears Fleming had become bored with the plodding day- to-day existence of a banker. The ups and downs of the stock market apparently did not provide enough intrigue for him. During his Reuters days, Fleming had made friends in the Foreign Office, and maintained them ... catch the purchaser of the multi-million dollar collection of diamonds. Along the way, he has an exciting car chase, has several affairs with beautiful, exotic women, he kills the evil mastermind and saves the day for the British government. Fleming wrote other books too, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Casino Royale, Dr. No, Octopussy, Live and Let Die, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and From Russia with Love.
- 4065: The Life and Work of Robert Browning
- ... unsuccessful as his plays had been. His poem Pauline was followed by a dramatic poem called Paracelsus which was the first poem to bring him fame and prominence with the other literary figures of the day. In Paracelsus Browning used a Renaissance setting, which would become a familiar motif in his later work. From 1841 to 1846 he wrote a series of poems under the title "Bells and Pomegranates," which included ... s health slowly returned to her, she was able to enjoy a fuller life. Robert seemed to thrive during these years of this remarkable marriage. While they were there, Robert wrote "Christmas Eve and Easter Day," and a series of dramatic monologues, which were later published collectively as "Men and Women," which included Fra Lippo Lippi and Andrea del Sarto which were studies of renaissance artists. "Men and Women" also reflects ... only son was living also. During the last few years of his life he wrote the prose narrative, "Dramatic Idylls" which he wrote in 1880, and Asolando which appeared on Dec. 12, 1889. That same day he died in Venice, Italy. Robert Browning was buried in Westminster Abbey. Robert Browning's poetry is admired by two groups. To one group, his work is, "a moral tonic." Such readers appreciate him ...
- 4066: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... aspect of the Victorian era were found in his poetry. His poetry covered a large range of subjects such as moral and religious problems in his time. His poems also discuss the events of his day - "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "The Death of the Duke of Wellington" are two poems of this type that show the emotion of the nation. Tennyson's work is appreciated perhaps for the ... The Lady of Shalott". Frequently, Tennyson's personal worries were the same as those of the time. For example, the way he describes Sir Bedivere's reaction to the death of King Arthur in "Morte D'Arthur". Tennyson expresses Sir Bedivere's problem, caught in a changing world and with stable traditions disappearing fast. "For now I see the true old times are dead..."(Culler, A. Dwight, pg. 47): And I ...
- 4067: Vespasian
- Vespasian Vespasian, Latin in full CAESAR VESPASIANUS AUGUSTUS, original name TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS (b. Nov. 17?, AD 9, Reate [Rieti], Latium--d. June 24, 79), Roman emperor (AD 69-79) who, though of humble birth, became the founder of the Flavian dynasty after the civil wars that followed Nero's death in 68. His fiscal reforms and ... new emperor, Galba. Such a claim may have been formally valid, but there may have also been underlying political considerations. Vespasian did eventually decide to accept Galba, whose noble descent, given the standards of the day, would have been daunting to a man of Vespasian's position in society. He therefore remained quiet and in the following winter sent Titus to congratulate Galba. The news of Galba's murder (Jan. 15 ...
- 4068: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... the United States as an independent nation, and pledged military support. As Hamilton was fluent in French, probably learned from his mother very early in life, Washington entrusted him as interpreter between himself and Admiral D'Estaing as they planned the Franco-American campaign. Baron von Steuben also stepped into the picture. A bogus German nobleman who, like many European mercenaries with questionable titles, joined the war in America for some ... increasingly snappish ways, and letting his dissatisfaction simmer until it reached the boiling point in February of 1781. It took all of a few seconds for Washington and Hamilton to split. On one busy winter day Hamilton, harried as usual with multiple tasks, met his General at the top of the stairs at headquarters in New Windsor, NY. As he explained to his father-in-law two days later: "[Washington] told ...
- 4069: The Life of Claude Monet
- ... the formal schools for which he had left Le Havre. In the spring of 1862, Monet was called up for National Service. He went to Algeria for a year with a prestigious regiment: les Chaussures d'Afrique . This experience was to have a profound effect on Monet. The landscapes and colors of Algeria presented an entirely different perspective of the world, one which was to inspire him for many years to ... was not fulfilling his need to be outdoors by going to Fontainbleau, he was visiting his old friend, Boudin, in Le Havre. There can be no doubt as to his enthusiasm during this time, "Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it." This enthusiasm and appreciation of the world ...
- 4070: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... the project he shrugged and continued to look for financing. Finally ABC said it would pay for the park if Disney would make cartoons to air on television.16 Disneyland opened July 17, 1955. Opening day was a total disaster. The park was over crowded because conterfeit tickets had been sold weeks beforehand. Rides broke, concession stands ran out of food, and drinking fountains ran out of water. Some people called ... not perfect Walt Disney's wife, Lilly and Roy agree that the would have approved it.26 Foot Notes 1. Barbra Ford, Walt Disney ( NewYork: Walker and Co. Inc., 1989), pp. 9- 10. 2. Robert D. Feild, The Art of Walt Disney ( NewYork: The Macmillion Company, 1968), pp. 13-22. 3. Ford, pp. 21-22. 4. Feild, pp. 13-22. 5. Bob Thomas, Dianey's Art of Animation From Mickey Mouse ...
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