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- 9071: Muhammad Ali
- ... career, he was in great shape and won the match by TKO After the match he collapsed from exhaustion, and when he replied to journalists about the collapse he said, I quote, as close to death I could imagine. Ali lost his title in 1978 against the Olympic champion Leon Spinks, but he regained the title after 8 months and became the first fighter ever to regain the title three times ...
- 9072: Rush Limbaugh
- ... days they'd get together to drink a beer, play a round of golf, or take in a ballgame - and talk. (June 3, 1995, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Carnegie also said, I love the guy to death. He hasn't changed that much. Jeff Christie, now Rush Limbaugh, is the same way he was over 20 years ago: highly learned, self-educated, politically motivated in discussion, and always an entertainer. As you ...
- 9073: Luis Gutierrez
- ... 60608. Luis Gutierrez start the road to politics by being a strong supporter on our former late mayor Harold Washington. With the backing of Washington, Gutierrez won the race for Alderman in 1986. After the death of Washington, Gutierrez soon supported Richard Daley for mayor and was appointed to chairman of the housing committee. Gutierrez was now able to instate his "New Homes for Chicago plan". This plan called for the ...
- 9074: Nelson Mandela
- ... 21, 1953. The quotation was adapted from an article by Jawaharlal Nehru: There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountainouss of our desires. Growing Up Nelson had a tribal name Rolihlahla. Rolihlahla means one who brings trouble on his self. He grew up in Transku territy of ...
- 9075: Herman Melville
- ... its appeal to the average reader, and its originality and symbolic meaning escaped most of the critics. Moby Dick, his masterpiece, received little attention and most of that unfavorable. He kept on writing until his death in 1891 but was virtually ignored. Only in the 1920s did the critics rediscover him and give him his merited place in the history of American literature. His "Billy Budd, Foretopman," now considered one of ...
- 9076: Nikola Tesla
- ... the entire planet with a similar device. Caustic criticism greeted his speculations concerning communication with other planets, his assertions that he could split the earth like an apple, and his claim to having invented a death ray capable of destroying 10,000 airplanes, 250 miles distant. Because of a lack of funds, his ideas remained in his notebooks, which are still examined by engineers for unexplored clues. Many of these were ...
- 9077: Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... Nietzsche's superman. Nietzsche is given credit for the National Socialism movement in Germany that began in the 1930's. Far more damaging to his reputation has been the course of German history from his death(1900) to 1945. To claim him, as National Socialism did, as a prophet of the superiority of the Germanic race and an advocate of German world domination is only possible by ignoring the greater part ...
- 9078: The Philosopher, Aristotle
- ... his forces to help Aristotle in his researches and quests for knowledge. Aristotle eventually found his way back to Athens where another follower of Plato, Xenocrates, had taken over control of the Academy at the death of Speusippus. Aristotle founded and developed a rival school of philosophy in the city using his new influence with the Macedonian empire which had taken control of Athens. His reasoning for opening this school probably ...
- 9079: Robert Schumann
- ... July 1856 in Bonn. Brahms and Joachin walked in front of the coffin which was carried by some of the Dusseldorf choir. Clara asked that a few friends be there. That was the life and death of Robert Schumann.
- 9080: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- ... to his palace at Vienna. His exploitation to the people of the court forced Mozart to leave! In 1782 Mozart married Constanze Weber, Aloysia's sister. Poverty and illness endangered the family until Mozart's death. While Mozart was working on the "Magic Flute" in 1791 an emissary requested a requiem mass written by Mozart but he never got to finish this because he died. He supposedly died of typhoid fever ...
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