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- 6231: Leonard Bernstein
- ... p.m. Bernsteins last concert was conducted at Tanglewood on August 19, 1990. He died at his home in New York on October 14, 1990. Emotion spread like wildfire as the news of his death was circulated. He had been such an accomplished man of music. He can be held responsible for making American music what it is today. He was the first American born and trained composer to ever ...
- 6232: Langston Hughes
- ... he named this lovable character Jess B. Simple, and authored a series of books on him. Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-odd years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry ...
- 6233: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... Day visit (Amer. Lit. Bio., 301). He once wrote: [Suicide] has always been a temptation to me, since my mother solved so many problems with it. The child of a suicide will naturally think of death, the big one, as a logical solution to any problem, even one in simple algebra. (Streitfeld, C13) In fact, Vonnegut himself made a suicide attempt in 1984, using sleeping pills and alcohol. Some one found ...
- 6234: King Henry VIII
- ... of Rome and the Protestants who rejected its doctrines. Henry was married six times. Anne Boleyn bore the king one child, who became Elizabeth I. Henry soon tired of Anne and had her put to death. A few days later he married a third wife, Jane Seymour. She died in a little more than a year, after having given birth to the future Edward VI. A marriage was then contracted with ...
- 6235: John Woo
- ... Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woos would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded. Most ...
- 6236: John Updike
- ... s writing was very materialistic. His writing was based on his life experiences and his early years in Pennsylvania. His characters were self absorbed, ridden with guilt, concerned with their own importance and worried about death. He talked about morals and that nobody had morals. This was based after his own experience with his marriage and being unfaithful. ("Updike,John 414). The Story "Pigeon Feathers" took place in New York, parts ...
- 6237: John Steinbeck
- ... wrote in 1939, was his best known and most famous work. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. This book consisted of a family that migrated from the Dust Bowl to California to finally experience death, disease, and starvation. This book, like many of his works, turned out to also be a famous movie. He was married 3 times. He fathered two boys to his second wife. Their names were John ...
- 6238: John F. Kennedy
- ... invade Cuba. The United States signed a limited nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the USSR, outlawing nuclear explosions in the atmosphere or underwater, but allowing them underground. "John F. Kennedy was shot to death by an assassin on Nov. 22. 1963, as he rode through the streets of Dallas, Texas." (The World Book Encyclopedia, 266). Two shots were fired in rapid succession. One bullet passed through the president's ...
- 6239: Jeffrey Dalhmer
- ... view himself as utterly outside the human community, outside all that was normal and acceptable, outside all that could be admitted to another human being." One would expect that a person harbouring the fantasies of death and dismemberment that swirled around in Jeffrey Dahmer's head as a teenager would show some outer signs of mental illness. But Jeff just became more isolated and uncommunicative. Far from rebelling, he never argued ...
- 6240: Jasper Daniel AKA Jack Daniel
- ... can." To help Mr. Daniel hold down the fort in Lynchburg he introduced the business to his nephew Lem Motlow. Mr. Motlow and Mr. Daniel kept the whiskey business going in high gear until the death of Mr. Daniel in 1911.He died from blood poisoning after he had kicked his safe when it didnt open correctly six years ago. Lem Motlow then became the second head distiller. He kept ...
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