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- 6491: Teddy Bear
- ... of his new party. While campaigning in Milwaukee, he was shot in the chest by a fanatic. Roosevelt soon recovered, but his words at that time would have been applicable at the time of his death in 1919: "No man has had a happier life then I have led; a happier life in every way." Word Count: 903
- 6492: Sir Anton Dolin
- ... among other compositions, Dolin’s Revolution, Espagnol, and Rhapsody in Blue. The Nemchinova-Dolin company was disbanded early in 1929, Dolin rejoining the Ballet Russe. The second engagement lasted only a short while-Diaghilev’s death in August 1929 causing the termination of the group. But Dolin had, with the Diaghilev company, created important roles-in Balanchine’s Le Bal and Le Fils prodigue. It was at about this time, too ...
- 6493: Robert E. Lee
- ... microd.com/~aetic/theman.htm 3). Then in 1870, Robert E. Lee went to Georgia in search of good health. Sadly on October 12 Robert E. Lee died of heart problems in Lexington. After his death, his name was joined with that of his lifelong hero, and Washington College became Washington and Lee University. Bibliography Works Cited Thomas, Emory M. Robert E. Lee A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company ...
- 6494: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... and was a teacher for three years in Boston. Then in 1825 he entered Harvard Divinity School and preached for three years. At the age of 29 he resigned for ministry, partly because of the death of his wife after only 17 months of marriage. In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and started to lecture. Then in 1836, he helped to start the Transcendental Club. The Transcendental Club was formed for ...
- 6495: Pierre De Fermat
- ... Then Marin Mersenne, French philosopher, mathematician, Jesuit theologian, and scientist died in the year 1648. Finally Mr. Pierre de Fermat died in the year 1665. Some of the most striking results were discovered after his death on loose sheets of paper or written in the margins of works which he had read and annotated. These annotations are unsupported by proof. Scholars cannot say that Mr. Fermat's theorems are positive until ...
- 6496: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... of his ancestors were included in some of his stories. (McGraw Hill, pg.67) Hawthorne’s father was a sea captain. He died of fever when Hawthorne was only four. Shortly after his father’s death, his mother was forced to move her three children into her parent’s home and then into her brother’s home in Maine. Hawthorne’s childhood was not particularly abnormal, as many famous authors have ...
- 6497: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- ... special. The Circumstances to Gandhi's was very tragic. Whilst he was going for his evening prayer meeting, he was assassinated by a man by the name of Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic. Gandhi's death was considered as an international catastrophe in that even a period of morning was set aside during The United Nations General Assembly. People believed and still believe in the concept of Passive Resistance environmental protest ...
- 6498: Malcolm X
- ... change. One of the converted men, Brother Johnson was in an altercation with the police. The police said he was not quick enough to get out of the way so they beat him almost to death because of his race. This is another example of racial conflict. Malcolm was furious. He rushed to the police station to see Johnson, but the police denied Malcolm permission to see Johnson. Malcolm said that ...
- 6499: 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 ...
- 6500: Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
- ... and quiet and full of purpose to save." During the three months her husband fought for his life, her grief, devotion, and fortitude won the respect and sympathy of the country. In September, after his death, the bereaved family went home to their farm in Ohio. For another 36 years she led a strictly private but busy and comfortable life, active in preserving the records of her husband's career. She ...
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