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- 741: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Brandenburg Concertos
- ... years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brothers tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a violinist in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took a job as an organist at a church in Arnstadt (1703-1707). Here, as in later posts ...
- 742: Johann Bach
- ... in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his ...
- 743: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... and became his own. Four years after his sojourn to Florence in 1508, he traveled to Rome to answer a summons given by Pope Julius II. When he arrived in Rome, Julius II offered him employment. Raphael, with other distinguished sculptors, architects, and painters from all over Italy, decorated the city of Rome and especially the pope s private residence. Pope Julius II wanted Rome to return to the beautiful masterpiece ...
- 744: Herman Melville
- ... security. The crisis that started Herman on his wanderings came in 1837, when Gansevoort went bankrupt and the family moved to nearby Lansingburgh (later Troy). In what was to be a final attempt at established employment, Herman studied surveying at Lansingburgh Academy to equip himself for a post with the Erie Canal project. When the job did not materialize, Gansevoort arranged for Herman to ship out as cabin boy on the ...
- 745: Helen Keller
- ... Blind was renamed to Helen Keller Services for the Blind. This agency provides special services for the blind in New York. Because of her attempts and struggles, the blind now have better care, training, and employment. "I am a beneficiary of her work. Because of her example, the world has given way a little," says David Jackson, a blind jazz singer (Shuur 2).
- 746: Harry S. Truman
- ... Family Harry S. Truman s family included his father John Anderson Truman and his mother Martha Ellen Young Truman. His siblings included his sister Mary Jane Truman and his brother John Vivian Truman. 5. Prior Employment Before the Presidency In 1901 Harry began work as a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad at $35 per month, and in his spare time he read histories and encyclopedias. He later moved to Kansas ...
- 747: Gailileo 3
- ... studied medicine at the university of Pisa, but his real interests were always in mathematics and natural philosophy. He is chiefly remembered for his work on free fall, his use of the telescope and his employment of experimentation. After a spell teaching mathematics, first privately in Florence and then at the university of Pisa, in 1592 Galileo was appointed professor of mathematics at the university of Padua (the university of the ...
- 748: From The Floutings Of The Cooperative Principle To Communica
- ... all: Tom's studies are good, and if he gets the scholarship, it is possible. Therefore, such a simple repetitious statement is stronger than a more detailed explanation. (6) Parallelism In spite of its widespread employment in written form, parallelism is rare in spoken language: it might sound a little ostentatious and unnatural. The long and parallel sentence patterns are hard to understand in the course of conversing. Yet under certain ...
- 749: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... Baroque style which focused on religious themes and having big concerts in churches, Classical music grasped the interest of the aristocrats/nobles and many demanded private performances. Haydn spent much of his life under the employment of such a noble who demanded music of all sorts from him ranging from arias to symphonies. In this time, musicians also sought to gain fame not dedicate their music to God like many had ...
- 750: Fidel Castro 2
- ... The new American policy, not announced as such, but implicit in the the actions of the United States government was one of overthrowing Castro by all means available to the U.S. short of open employment of American armed forces in Cuba. It was at this time that the controversial decision was taken to allow the CIA to begin recruiting and training of ex-Cuban exiles for anti-Castro military service ...
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