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- 5881: Max Planck
- ... daughters died in child birth. Two years later, Emma his other twin daughter died the same death as her sister. As if the first war hadn't damaged him enough World War II destroyed his house completely and his younger son was painfully killed by the Gestapo for trying to assassinate Hitler in 1944. By the time the war ended Max Planck lost the will to live and died of natural ...
- 5882: Miller's Incident at Vichy
- ... Arthur Miller has given us on these characters who all lead very different lives and were thrown together in similar circumstances. What was similar amongst these characters were that they were put in a holding house awaiting their sentence, to be set free or to be called a Jew and die. Every one had fear inside of them. But in particular, Lebeau showed his aggression on that very cold and dreary ...
- 5883: Similarities of Bradstreet and Wheatly
- ... expected of the women of their times, and situations. In their writings, they both wrote with inversions, and used many religious references. In comparing Bradstreet's Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, and Wheatley's To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, etc., many similarities can be found. For example: Bradstreet says in her poem, It ...
- 5884: The Life and Work of Robert Browning
- ... so he was largely self educated. His father was a smart man with an extensive library. His mother was kindly, religious minded woman, who loved music and her brilliant son. He lived at his parents house almost until the time of his marriage. He attended a boarding school near Camberwell and spent a little bit of his time traveling to places like Russia and Italy. But he preferred to have his ...
- 5885: Biography of Rasputin
- ... to eliminate Rasputin and save the monarchy from further scandal. On the night of December 29-30 (December 16-17, old style), Rasputin was invited to visit the husband of the czar's niece's house, and once there was given wine and tea cakes with enough poison in them to kill an elephant. When he did not die, the frantic conspirator shot him five times, but still he lived. They ...
- 5886: Biography of Samuel Clemens
- ... other great phrases that he said, such as: I was young and foolish and now I'm old and foolish. Twain churned out quotable phrases like a cigar churns out smoke. Clemens eventually bought a house on Long Island which he named Stormfield and stayed there through his final days. Samuel Clemens was born in 1835, the night of the Haley's Comet. He always said that he thought he would ...
- 5887: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... to Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door rarely left slightly ajar. This seclusion gave her a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in death (Whicher ...
- 5888: Biography of Karl Marx
- ... only son died. His son showed much potential, and was the life of the family. When he died, Jenny became very sick with anxiety, and Marx himself became very depressed. He wrote to Engles "The house seems empty and deserted since the boy died. He was its life and soul. It is impossible to describe how much we miss him all of the time. I have suffered all sorts of misfortunes ...
- 5889: Review of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
- ... the governor of New York upon his return. His vocations with governors brought out interests of engaging in similar professions and foreshadowed his later enlistment in government.. Franklin longed to put forth his own printing house to expand his knowledge derived from reading. He put off his marriage to Miss. Read, a woman he met in New York, due to his soon departure on business. After arrangements were complete and business ...
- 5890: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... by his fellow congressmen. He noted on his copy of the resolution, "abandoned for want of support." As soon as the British evacuated New York City, Hamilton moved his wife and baby Philip to a house on 57 Wall St., and began his law practice in an office next door. Hamilton was soon busy representing loyalists under the Trespass and Confiscation Acts, which, respectively, enabled patriots who fled the city to ...
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