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- 6301: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... B. Heiligenstadt Testament Having moved out of the city for medical reasons he wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament. C. Total deafness He was totally deaf by 1818. He continued to compose until the year of his death in 1827. Works of Beethoven · 9 SYMPHONIES · 1 OPERA "Fidelio" · 32 PIANO SONATAS · 5 PIANO CONCERTOS · 16 STRING QUARTETS · 16 SONATAS FOR ONE INSTRUMENT AND PIANO (CELLO,5; VIOLIN,10; FH,1) The Symphonies · op ...
- 6302: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... with its choral finale, and the last five string quartets. In the fall of 1826 Beethoven caught a serious cold, which developed into pneumonia. He died on March 26, 1827. At the time of his death and even now Beethoven is considered one of the top classical composers of all times, maybe even the best. To achieve such recognition, the person without hearing has to be of unbelievable talent, and determination ...
- 6303: Mahatma Gandhi: Man Of Peace
- ... reading(gold 48). His main weapon against the Europeans was civil resistance. To him this meant not passively accepting injustice but actively, although nonviolently, opposing it by openly breaking the law and willingly suffering the penalty of doing so(Living Buddhism 03). His second act of civil resistance came on August 16 1908. Two thousand Indians in Johannesburg rallied together and burned their registration certificates. The London Daily Mail compared it ...
- 6304: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... rapidly. The incredible haste with which work on Tito and The Magic Flute had to proceed make this idea plausible. The latter was performed in Vienna on September 30, less than a month after Tito. Death came on December 5, but to the end Mozart felt compelled to continue work on the Requiem, which he did not finish. Fortune never turned for Mozart, and when he died in 1791 at the ...
- 6305: William Wallace
- ... murdered by the Sheriff of Lanark, William Wallace and a group of his supporters stole into the town late at night. Wallace made his way to the home of Hesilrig and gained revenge for the death of his beloved Marion. The garrison of English soldiers were put to the sword and from surrounding towns and villages men "who were bitter of heart, and weighted down by the burden of bondage flocked ...
- 6306: William Shakespeare
- ... daughter Susanna. (Bender 15). Shakespeare lived in an England that was overwhelmingly rural and had virtually no mechanized industry. It was a society very different from the one we enjoy in the U.S. today. Death and disease were the common experiences of all families during this era in England. (Andrews 67). This society was one in which a vigorous and youthful population was growing with unusual rapidity. The resulting economic ...
- 6307: William Faulkner 2
- ... wrote about family and the traditions of the South. It is in the story A Rose for Emily that William Faulkner writes about a Southern aristocratic woman named Miss Emily. The story begins with the death of Miss Emily. The whole town turns out to attend the funeral of the fallen monument (26), as described in the story. At this point, it is unclear who is actually telling the story about ...
- 6308: Washington Irving
- ... rage. This book established Irving as a talented writer , one whose elegant good taste seemed to come instinctively. While he was making Dreidrich Knickerbocker's History of New York, he was interrupted by the sudden death of Matilda Hoffman, Ogden Hoffman's daughter. It caused him much grief, but after a while, he learned how to live with it. For some years after the success of his book, his life seemed ...
- 6309: Walt Whitman 2
- ... The problems in the South grew more troublesome to the inhabitants as the battles in the South became more frequent. One poem written by Whitman, O Captain, My Captain was written in retrospect to the death of one of our nation s greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln (Whitman, 2). This act of violence was just an outcome of the war. A young man by the name of John Wilkes Booth killed one ...
- 6310: Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
- ... that took him through 30 cities in 24 days, this grueling schedule caused him to he suffer two strokes, the second one leaving his left side paralyzed. For the next few weeks Wilson was near death, nobody was allowed to see him except for his wife who would carry messages to his bedroom and then emerge with an answer. When his mind finally cleared he was presented with Senator Lodge's ...
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