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- 3781: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- ... was elected to the American Academy of Arts and letters (1940) and received the gold medal of the Poetry Society of America (1943). After her husband’s death, Millay went on living in their isolated house in Austerlitz and died there alone of a heart attack on October 19, 1950. She was buried at Steepletop. She left in manuscript a number of current poems, as well as a number of unpublished ...
- 3782: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... not begin to pay. Mr. Allan's pride and thrift could not tolerate such conduct. He pulled Edgar out of the University and set him to work at a lowly, routine job in his counting house. This was a humiliation Edgar could not bear; his answer was to leave home. He went to Boston, where he managed to publish a collection of his poems in pamphlet form, Tamerlane and Other Poems ...
- 3783: Czar Nicholas II
- ... son Aleksey. The abdication left the throne open for Nicholas's brother, the Grand Duke Michael, but he refused to live under the threat of revolution and assassination. The Czar's family was put under house arrest by Lenin's people in a nice palace, However, they were soon moved to a large, secluded cottage. On July 17, 1918, the family, their dogs, and their servants were told to assemble in ...
- 3784: Colin Powell
- ... 11 decorations including the Legion of Merit [source 2 (biography page 1) (interview page 2)]. In 1989 Powell became the Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff. At Powell's Honor Ceremony (outside on the White house lawn) George Bush did a speech and Dick Cheny made a speech about Powell's Chairmanship. Powell spoke about a painting in the pentagon. It showed a family praying in a church because the father ...
- 3785: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... as segregation and miscegenation. "Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen."(1) In March of 1900, Houghton Mifflin accepted Chesnutt's first novel "The House behind the Cedars", for publication. According to the author, the plot of the novel was simple: it is "a story of a colored girl who passed for white." The story brings out a problem that ...
- 3786: Charles Shults
- ... met Charlie Brown at the beach in 1968. They’d never met before because they went to different schools, but they had fun playing ball so Charlie Brown invited Franklin to visit him at this house across town for another play session. Later, Franklin showed up as center-fielder on Peppermint Patty’s baseball team and sits in front of her at school. Franklin is thoughtful and can quote the Old ...
- 3787: Charles Dickens
- ... Great Expectations and also uses this in the book DavidCopperfield. In 1829 he was a reporter for the Doctor's Commoner's Courts. In 1832 he ,was a reporter on the Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons, and he became a reporter for a newspaper. In 1834 he adopted his famous pseudonym " Boz." Soon his father was put in jail for another count of debt and he came to his ...
- 3788: Bruce Lee
- ... consisted of Mr. Lee, his wife Grace Lee, Bruce’s two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert. Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat. Upon the death of Mr. Lee’s brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in his whole brother’s Family and had to be the provider ...
- 3789: Booker T. Washington
- ... had a 'second' name, and the teacher asked him his, he invented the name Washington." A great influence on Washington was Viola Ruffner, the wife of the owner of the salt furnace. Washington became her house boy, where he learned the importance of cleanness and hard work, and pride in a job well done. He would use these principles for the rest of his life. "The lessons I learned in the ...
- 3790: Bonnie And Clyde
- ... unsuccessfully trying to steal a car, and an accomplice of theirs became started and fired his gun, shooting a man in the neck. In Tarant county Clyde had a shootout with deputy’s at a house, killing one. Another meeting with the law in Joplin, didn’t turn out so well. The scene they left was disastrous. Two lawmen had died and many more were injured. The sting of deaths continued ...
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