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- 3741: T.S. Eliot
- ... him, the common man should be allowed to vote, but not govern. Eliot went so far as to move to Britain and become a British subject, approving whole-heartedly of the constitutional monarchy and established House of Lords. Its is however fruitless to go further into Eliots views of American politics as they rarely entered his writings. With the exception of a low view of Franklin D. Roosevelt and sympathy for ...
- 3742: Stephen King
- ... family to Boulder, Colorado. Stephen King wrote The Shining in the half of a year they lived in Colorado. They then returned to Maine in in the summer of ‘75. It was in his new house that King finished writing The Stand, which was set back in Boulder. Stephen King eventually moved back to the area around his college so he could teach creative writing as a professor. Bibliography www.horrorking ...
- 3743: Sir Isaac Newton
- Sir Isaac Newton Jan 4 1643 - March 31 1727 On Christmas day by the georgian calender in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, England, Issaac Newton was born prematurely. His father had died 3 months before. Newton had a difficult childhood. His mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton remarried when he was just three, and he was sent ...
- 3744: Shakespeare
- ... Shakespeare's company was cleared of dealing with the conspiracy. After 1608, Shakespeare's dramatic production lessened and it seemed that he spent more time in Stratford. There he had secure family in a wealthy house called New Place. Shakespeare had become a leading local citizen. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in the Stratford church.
- 3745: Richard Nixon
- ... tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation. As a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973. Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President. Faced with what seemed almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which ...
- 3746: Rasputin: The Man, The Mystery
- ... cynical, and that he used religion to mask his drive for sex, money, and power. Sex Life Rasputin had a very active sex life. He was reported to hold orgies in the basement of his house at the same time he lived with his wife around 1900. Later, after Rasputin had a rise to fame he attracted a large crowd of female followers. Many of the pictures of Rasputin are with ...
- 3747: Raoul Wallenberg
- ... became the Budapest Jews savior from final execution. He was loved among all the Jews (Anger 91). On September 22, 1981 the U.S. thought so highly of him they granted him honorary citizenship. The House of Representatives voted 396 to 2 in favor of Wallenberg. Honorary citizenship is an extraordinary honor not frequently granted. Congress voted only once before to grant it and that was to Winston Churchill (Cusack). Wallenberg ...
- 3748: Peter Tchaikovsky
- ... have interest but none quite achieve the reticence and reserved beauty of true quartet style. The Andante cantabile movement of the first, opus 11, founded on a folk-song the composer heard whistled by a house painter, has become deservedly famous. The third, in E-Flat Minor, contains music of a funereal solemnity and tragic feeling anticipating the "Pathetic" Symphony. By far the most successful of all these early works are ...
- 3749: Paul Revere
- ... He was buried in the Old Granary. Paul was very distraught over losing his father. They were close, more like friends than father and son. After his fathers death Paul became the man of the house. He had to take on more responsibilities and work harder to support his large family. After a while the stress was weighing him down and it was probably some sort relief when he went to ...
- 3750: Neal Cassady
- ... 1st, 2000. Online: [http://www.intrepidtrips.com] Last updated April 23, 2000 Kerouac, Jack. On The Road. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1955 Plummer, William. Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady. New York: Paragon House, 1981 Richman, Robert. "Allen Ginsberg Then and Now." Commentary. July, 1985 Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
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