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- 901: Levi Strauss
- Loeb Strauss, whose name was later changed to Levi, was born on February 26, 1829, in Buttenheim Bavaria in Germany. He was born to his Jewish parents Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss. His father, was a dry goods peddler who traveled around the country selling dry goods. Hirsch Strauss had five ...
- 902: Leonhard Euler
- ... salary from Russia and never got on well with Frederick. During his time in Berlin, he wrote over 200 articles, three books on mathematical analysis, and a popular scientific publication Letters to a Princess of Germany (3 vols., 1768-72). In 1766 Euler returned to Russia. He had been arguing with Frederick the Great over academic freedom and Frederick was greatly angered at his departure. Euler lost the sight of his ...
- 903: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... places from his life, and his careers. Each of these elements shows up in his works. His mother's suicide shows up in a subplot of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. While Vonnegut was in Germany during World War II, his mother became depressed and killed herself with sleeping pills the night before he came home for a Mother's Day visit (Amer. Lit. Bio., 301). He once wrote: [Suicide] has ...
- 904: Karl Marx
- ... C. James Richardson. Sociology for Canadians: Images of society. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryderson Limited, 1991 Mehring, F, Karl Marx, The story of his life, London: Butler and Tanner ltd., 1936 Marx, K, The Communist Manifesto, Germany: J. E. Burghard, 1848 "Karl Marx." Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Microsoft Corp., 1993-1995 Vesaey, G. and P. Foulkes. Collins dictionary of Philosophy. London:British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, 1990
- 905: Karl Marx
- ... C. James Richardson. Sociology for Canadians: Images of society. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryderson Limited, 1991 Mehring, F, Karl Marx, The story of his life, London: Butler and Tanner ltd., 1936 Marx, K, The Communist Manifesto, Germany: J. E. Burghard, 1848 "Karl Marx." Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Microsoft Corp., 1993-1995 Vesaey, G. and P. Foulkes. Collins dictionary of Philosophy. London:British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, 1990
- 906: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- ... work in Weimar caused him to observe the natural world around him and led him towards science. He would yet write fourteen volumes on the subject. At that time Weimar was an important city in Germany. C.P. Magill describes the time in the following passage: "Up to the early years of this century, Weimar remained a symbol of the best elements in the German cultural tradition, and a center of ...
- 907: James Joyce
- ... short story "Araby," Joyce pays tribute to the poet by naming the narrator's classmate, Mangan. Joyce identified with Mangen because of his linguistic skill and knowledge of the literature of Italy, Spain, France and Germany. Furthermore, Mangan was disdained by his Irish contemporaries--a gesture Joyce considered an act of treachery. Joyce's use of the stream-of consciousness technique first appeared record these epiphanies with extreme care, "seeing that ...
- 908: J.P. Morgan
- ... Boston English High. He did well in the prestigious high school and then in his second high school in Vevey, Switzerland. The family moved to London and John transferred to the University of Gottingen in Germany. John continued to excel in his studies and majored in mathematics. He began to become interested in business affairs as he started and investing club amongst his friends and kept strict records of his own ...
- 909: Heinrich Himmler
- ... numbered about 300 men and served mainly as a bodyguard for Hitler. A superb organizer, he had already expanded the SS to 50,000 men by 1933 By 1936, he had consolidated police power in Germany and was named Chief of the German police on June 17 of that year. With all organs of the police, especially the Gestapo (secret state police), now under his control, his power was virtually without ...
- 910: George Orwell
- ... always seek dominance over others through violence and conflict. In 1938, Orwell became afflicted with tuberculosis and spent some time in Morocco. There, he wrote Coming Up For Air. When the war between England and Germany broke out he wanted to enlist but was unfit to do so. He later joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1941 as a talks producer. After leaving the BBC in 1943, he began writing Animal ...
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