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- 971: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- ... success (The Encyclopedia Americana, p 210). Throughout the 60's and 70's, the Soviet government repeatedly accused him of slandering the country's government in his work until finally, they deported him to West Germany (Major 20TH Century Writers, p 2793). This happened after he sent his story "Gulag" to Paris to be published, which was on December 28, 1973 (Encarta 99). In 1970, he received a Nobel Prize for ...
- 972: Albert Einstein Biography
- ... a number of false starts he published, late in 1915, the definitive version of general theory. When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, Einstein was idolised by the popular press. Einstein returned to Germany in 1914 but did not reapply for German citizenship. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect. He worked at Princeton on work ...
- 973: Ann Frank
- Ann Frank was a bright happy 13-year-old Jewish girl. She was born in Germany. Ann lived with her Father, Mother and Sister. Her father owned his own business. He sold herbs and spices until 1940, when Hitler came into power. Ann s father Mr. Frank was a kind man ...
- 974: Agatha Christie
- ... sold around the world and also known to have an international trend. She puts a variety of characters in all of her novels. Murder on the Orient Express has characters from all over, such as Germany, Istanbul, France, America, Britain, and England. This international trend in Christie s views can be noted in Murder on the Orient Express. A slight shift is perceptible here in the British stock characters, and men ...
- 975: Elvis Presley
- ... stationed there for six months, and his parents moved to a temporary house near the base as soon as they could. After a couple of years, Elvis gets promoted to Sergeant before he leaves West Germany for good. On March 5, 1960, he is officially discharged from active duty. He had served his country just like any other GI, with no special privileges one might expect for a person of his ...
- 976: Alan Turing
- ... World War II, to serve at the Government Code and Cypher School. It was there that Turing was able to crack the German Enigma code, an effort which was central in the defeat of Nazi Germany. Yet Turing was better known for his Turing Machine . His machine was much like a typewriter, yet having the additional ability of being able to read other symbols anderase them if necessary. Turing decided on ...
- 977: A Biography Of 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 ...
- 978: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... power, and staunch anti-communism. These qualities also led him to intervene militarily in the Dominican Republic-allegedly to stop a Communist takeover-in April 1965. Like many Americans who recalled the "appeasement" of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Johnson thought the United States must be firm or incur a loss of credibility. While the nation became deeply involved in Vietnam, racial tension sharpened at home, culminating in widespread urban race ...
- 979: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Born: March 21, 1685 Died: July 28, 1750 Birthplace: Eisanach, Germany Age at Death: 65 Biography Born at Eisenach, in Thuringia, he came of a distinguished musical family. At 15 he became a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt. Subsequent appointments included positions ...
- 980: Thomas Jefferson
- ... unable to attend the meeting, but forwarded a message arguing that the British Parliament had no control over the colonies. He also mentioned the Saxons who had settled in England hundred of years before from Germany and how Parliament had no more right to govern the colonies than the Germans had to govern the English. Most Virginians saw this as too extreme, though. His views were printed in a pamphlet called ...
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