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- 6401: Galileo Galilei
- ... not suitable. In 1592, his three-year contract was not renewed. 1n 1592, he landed a job teaching mathematics at the University of Padua with the help of some aristocratic friends. After his father s death, Galileo supported many relatives (including his brother Michelangelo and his family) and the sum of money he earned as a professor was not nearly enough. He began to tutor on the side to make extra ...
- 6402: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... was greatly appreciated by the public and the nobles earning him a honorary degree from Oxford as Doctor of Music. Unlike Mozart or Beethoven, when Haydn died he was not forgotten. Two weeks after his death, the whole art-loving world of Vienna , went to a great memorial service at the city center in honor of the greatest composer of the Classical period. If substance, restraint, simplicity, and balance of music ...
- 6403: Frank Sinatra
- ... America that, in its time of change, he could relate to any generation. After his expected divorce with Farrow, Frank settled down with Barbara Marx. They were married in 1976, and remained married until his death (Sloan 1). Sinatra also had many secret affairs with other women in between and during his marriages. There are over thirty women that have testified to having been involved with him at least once. These ...
- 6404: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... Wisconsin, June 8, 1867 and died on April 9, 1959. It was a standard of his passion and commitment to his field of work that he continued working right up to the time of his death. After studying civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to Chicago in 1887, where he went to work as an apprentice for Louis Sullivan. He began there to design and independently build private ...
- 6405: Florence Nightingale
- ... details of the way that the British Army treated its wounded soldiers. Nightingale was given the task of organizing the barracks and by improving the quality of sanitation she was able to dramatically reduce the death rate of her patients. Florence gained respect, and was well known amongst the soldiers. The lady in Chief , as Nightingale was called, wrote home on behalf of the solders. She acted as a banker, sending ...
- 6406: Frederick Douglass - The Man
- ... He became U.S marshal for the District of Columbia (1877-81), recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia (1881-86) and U.S. minister to the Republic of Haiti (1889-91). After his death in 1895, people mourned the loss of one of the great freedom fighters of the 1800's.
- 6407: Fray Junipero Serra
- ... Serra and was his associate in the college of San Fernando. Palou was Serra's companion in the expedition to California, his successor in the Presidency in New California. He was with Miquel on his death-bed, and his nearest friend for forty years. It was expected that if anyone wrote of Serra's life it would be Palou in remembrance of his mentor and superior. Religion was everything to Junipero ...
- 6408: Egotism In Kokoro By Natsume Soseki
- ... the rest of his life accompanying his wife in order to keep the truth away from her. He felt that her understanding of Sensei should be kept as unsullied as possible even after Sensei's death. After he confessed everything to "I" in the form of a testament, he killed himself. Now satisfied, he did not feel alone anymore. Now there was someone who knew the truth about his life. "I ...
- 6409: Elie Wiesel
- ... sisters immediately when they arrived in Auschwitz. He never saw them again no matter how hard he tried. He managed to remain with his father for the next year as they were worked almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed ...
- 6410: Eisenhower 2
- ... preoccupation with patronage, a practice he considered "wicked" and dangerous to democracy. They usually agreed on domestic matters, but when the topic of foreign policy arose Taft often ended up losing his temper. Taft's death in 1953 struck Eisenhower hard. His successor as majority leader, William F. Knowland of California, was well-meaning, but "cumbersome," in Eisenhower's opinion, and unable to command great respect in the senate. Waging Cold ...
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