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- 9081: Kurt Cobain: Collection of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
- ... everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can't stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I've become. I have it good, very good, and I'm grateful, but since the age of seven, I've become hateful towards all humans in general. Only because it seems so ...
- 9082: John Lennon: Biography
- ... this problem (Rolling Stone 229). In 1980 Yoko and I released Double Fantasy, which was my first album in five years (World Book 197). On the eighth of December that year, I was shot to death outside my New York City apartment by a man named Mark David Chapman (World Book 197). That, to some extent, is my life's story. I hope people will look deeper into my music and ...
- 9083: Jimi Hendrix
- ... to England, he joined up with "Band of Gypsies" and recorded one album. On september 18, 1970, James Marshal Hendrix was pronounced dead at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in Kennsington England. His cause of death was: He took an offbrand of sleeping pills to get some rest, but they were not his usual brand, and he overdosed, although he overdosed, he was really killed by choking on his own vomit ...
- 9084: Satie, Erik
- ... on which Pablo Picasso and Leonid Massine also collaborated. By far the most important of Satie's works is Socrate , an harsh setting for four sopranos and chamber orchestra of Plato's account of the death of Socrates. The young composers who formed the essentially Parisian group known as Les Six regarded Satie as a kind of tutelary genius, and in 1923 one of them, Darius Milhaud, tried to found an ...
- 9085: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... band(The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,331). Just as a chemist learns and creates in a lab, Ellington used his band to learn and create. Duke was no match for Father Time though. As death crept up on Duke Ellington, he began writing liturgical music. His most famous piece was, "In the Beginning God," which was written for orchestra chorus and soloist. Again he was still able to keep an ...
- 9086: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... in the east. During the following years, Gauss and Harding installed the astronomical instruments. New ones were ordered in Munich. Among other times, Gauss visited Munich in 1816. After the intense sorrow of Johanna's death had been mollified in his second marriage, Gauss lived an ordinary academic life which was hardly disturbed by the violent events of the time. His powers and his productivity were unimpaired, and he continued with ...
- 9087: Leonhard Euler
- ... 1733. In 1741 he became professor of mathematics at the Berlin Academy of Sciences at the urging of the Prussian king Frederick the Great. Euler returned to St. Petersburg in 1766, remaining there until his death. Although hampered from his late 20s by partial loss of vision and in later life by almost total blindness, Euler produced a number of important mathematical works and hundreds of mathematical and scientific memoirs. In ...
- 9088: Leonhard Euler
- ... entirely blind after a cataract operation, but was able to continue with his research and writing. He had a phenomenal memory and was able to dictate treatises on optics, algebra, and lunar motion. At his death in 1783, he left a vast backlog of articles. The St. Petersburg Academy continued to publish them for nearly 50 more years.
- 9089: Gauss
- ... science because he rapidly distinguished himself in ancient languages. When Gauss was 14 he impressed the duke of Brunswick with his computing skill. The duke was so impressed that he generously supported Gauss until his death in 1806. Gauss conceived almost all his basic mathematical discoveries between the ages of 14 and 17. In 1791 he began to do totally new and innovative work in mathematics. In 1793-94 he did ...
- 9090: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... science because he rapidly distinguished himself in ancient languages. When Gauss was 14 he impressed the duke of Brunswick with his computing skill. The duke was so impressed that he generously supported Gauss until his death in 1806. Gauss conceived almost all his basic mathematical discoveries between the ages of 14 and 17. In 1791 he began to do totally new and innovative work in mathematics. In 1793-94 he did ...
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