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- 2001: The Works of Sinclair Lewis
- ... novels, Dodsworth (1929), Lewis depicts the egotistic, pretentious married woman sometimes found in American upper-middle-class circles. Among his later works are It Can't Happen Here (1935), the chilling story of a future revolution leading to Fascist control of the U.S., and Kingsblood Royal (1947), a novel on racial intolerance. Lewis was fascinated by the theater. He collaborated on a dramatization of Dodsworth (1934) with the American playwright ...
- 2002: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... and Fanny Allen. Poe then at age six moved to England where he attended private schools. As a teen Poe was very gifted in foreign language. He wrote some of his early works in both French an Latin. At age fifteen Poe had already written enough works to publish a book but John would not allow it. Poe was also very fit as a teen. Poe was supposedly a very fast ...
- 2003: Charles Darwin
- ... every member is fixed in its own place. This chain was created in a time when the world was considered to be more static rather than a diverse collection of dynamic ideas. But the Newtonian revolution of the seventeenth century replaced the old static world with a new world view in which everything was naturally in motion. In the course of the eighteenth century the notion of progress, of gradual but ...
- 2004: 1775-1900: The History of the Buffalo Soldier
- ... its war for independence from Great Britain was a great accomplishment. This achievement could not have been performed if not for the black soldiers in the armies. "The first American to shed blood in the revolution that freed America from British rule was Crispus Attucks, a Black seaman." (Mullen 9) Attucks along with four white men were killed in the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. Even though Attucks was a ...
- 2005: Poe
- ... wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410). In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other necessities. Poe was ...
- 2006: Charles Lindbergh
- ... Lindbergh's packed their belongings and moved to the rural countryside of England. There, while living a life of semi-retirement, Lindbergh studied the possibility of creating an artificial heart pump, as inspired by the French surgeon Alexis Carrel. Lindbergh's and Carrel's experimentation did not result in a functioning model, even though their first experiments appeared to be very successful. Following two years of failure to complete their task ...
- 2007: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... the fledgling ceramics department at the L.A. County Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design, and during the five years that followed, he led what came to be known as the "Clay Revolution." Students like John Mason, Paul Soldner, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston, all of whom went on to become respected artists, were among his foot soldiers in the battle to free clay from its handicraft ...
- 2008: Oscar Wilde
- ... modern comedy in English, as well as An Ideal Husband. All were very successful, and Wilde became the toast of London. His only setback in these years was with his play Salome, originally written in French, which was banned by Lord Chamberlain under an old law forbidding theatrical depiction of biblical characters. Renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was to appear in the play, produced it in Paris in 1894. Thirteen years ...
- 2009: Prince William
- ... King William commissioned records on land holdings for the assessment of taxes and other dues. King William spent long periods on his Domesday Book, in Normandy to maintain his authority there, dealing with rebellions and French invasions. King William died in 1087 in Normandy, leaving his duchy to his eldest son, Robert and England to his next surviving son, King Rufus. Once, commentator, Julie Burchill, expressed a common feeling when she ...
- 2010: Bill Gates
- ... building a multi million dollar water front home outside of Seattle, equipped with all the technological luxuries that a few years ago only science fiction writers could dream up, for he and his wife, Melinda French. He has a 2.5 million dollar book deal that is selling now(Lyall 20). What is in Gates future? He loves his work at Microsoft and continues to stay involved with running the company ...
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