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- 7681: Wuthering Heights 4
- ... cold hand while a most melancholy voice sobs, Let me in let me in! In a sense of panic, Mr. Lockwood screams, Who are you? The young voice replies, Catherine Linton, I m home; I d lost my way on the moor! In his terror Mr. Lockwood agrees to let the girl in if she will just let go of his wrist. She does but Mr. Lockwood piles a mound of ...
- 7682: Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
- ... is regarded as the father of medicine. Born on the island of Kos, Greece in the year 460 b.c., says the earliest biography written by Soranus of Ephesus in the a third century a.d. Although a native of Kos he was forced to leave the island as the result of a fire for which he was blamed. He traveled to many other islands to practice medicine. Most of the ...
- 7683: Hurston's "Sweat": Women Overcoming Domestic Violence
- ... runaway from their husbands. Husbands of these times supported the family and were the only ones who had a job in the family. In Sweat Delia was the supporter of the family she worked every day supporting herself and Sykes. This was not very common in these times. Most women stayed home and watched the children while the men supported the family. With women not working this made it hard for ...
- 7684: Robert E. Lee
- ... He became superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy and later appointed colonel of calvery. He was in command of the Department of Texas in 1860 and early the following year was summoned to Washington, D.C., when war between the states seemed imminent. President Abraham Lincoln offered him the field of command of the Union forces but Lee refused. On April, 20 when Virginia succeeded from the Union, he submitted ...
- 7685: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... Scott Key, for whom he is named, and to Maryland aristocracy. His parents, Edward Fitzgerald of the Glen Mary Farm near Rockville, Maryland and Mary McQuillan of St. Paul wed February 13, 1890 in Washington, D.C. Fitzgerald' s maternal grandfather was a very successful wholesale merchant. His grandfather's early death and his father's inability to keep a job, forced the family to be extremely dependent on the wealth ...
- 7686: Frank Lincoln Wright
- ... second home, Taliesin in 1911. In the year 1913 he got a contract for midway gardens in downtown Chicago. Which today is only the drawings. In 1914 disaster struck Wright's life, on one fateful day, when Taliesin was completed, his mistress, two children and four of Wright's leading workmen were murdered by a crazed servant. Talesin was also burned to the ground. Wright soon left to Japan. WRIGHT'S ...
- 7687: 1984, Science-fiction Or Reali
- ... for them to ban religion entirely, as the party did in 1984. The three major powers in the novel, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia parallel the major alliances that exist today. Oceania coincides with the modern day organization, NATO. As we have seen during the Persian Gulf war and the war in Kosovo, this alliance always enters into a conflict united. Eurasia consists of the countries of the former Warsaw Pact. These ...
- 7688: Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
- ... sold more than six million records. As a businessman, Eazy had built a solid commodity with his Ruthless Records label. Some of his more famous signings were: Above The Law, Bone- Thugs-N-Harmony, and D.O.C. His ability to promote and market these acts was on the strength of his radio show, "Ruthless Radio Show". As an on-air personality, Eazy gave his audience tickets to his performances, talked ...
- 7689: Emily Dickinson
- ... hour. She was greatly impacted by her father, who was a lawyer, politician, and treasurer of Amherst College. The turning point in Emily's life occurred while she was on a business trip in Washington D.C. with her father. There, Emily met a Presbyterian Minister. Soon enough, she deeply fell in love with this man , whose name was Charlies Wadsworth. Even though the two were acquaintances, Emily felt a bond ...
- 7690: Emilie du Chatelet
- ... spent with Voltaire at Cirey were some of the most productive years of her life. Their scholarly work was very intense. When there were no guests both of them stayed at their desks almost all day long. In the spring of 1748, Emilie met and fell in love with the Marquis de Saint-Lambert, a courtier and poet. This affair did not destroy her friendship with Voltaire. Even when she found ...
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