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- 10061: J.P. Morgan
- ... bought a fellow collector's collection of Chinese porcelains to donate to the museum. Eventually, the Metropolitan received most of his art collection. In other affairs, Morgan also gave much money to the Harvard Medical School and hospitals (Boardman 131). J.P. Morgan was truly a captain of industry because he followed Carnegie's proposition that it was an obligation of the rich to share their wealth, but more importantly, he ...
- 10062: Helen Keller
- ... was deaf. They discovered later that she was blind when she did not blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as an idiot. She soon started going to a special school called the Boston Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for things in the world. She did not know ...
- 10063: The Baseball Life of Babe Ruth
- ... most boys started their baseball career throwing rocks at street signs. Ruth was throwing eggs and potatoes at truck drivers. The first organized baseball team that Ruth was on ,was at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. Ruth was on one of the forty teams that St. Mary's had. His team and all the other teams played from 3 to 4 games a day. Ruth main position at St ...
- 10064: Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- ... Communists and the States reached monumental highs. The whole United States suddenly went into a panic mode that would stay resident until the 1980's. Children on the first day of a new year of school were taught where the fallout shelter was. Instead of swimming pools, people would purchase subterranean bunkers to protect them from the radiation and chaos that was expected to follow the attack. Both sides of this ...
- 10065: Marilyn Monroe
- ... is a key signifier to Marilyn Monroe's cult status. Her gesture as if waving to an audience is a connotation that she was constantly on show. Such gestures as waving, places her on as high a pedestal to which royalty is also placed. This is significant as it indicates she is public property open for consumption or as the slogan denotes 'Entertainment for Men'. Marilyn Monroes's celebrity image is ...
- 10066: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- ... Eugene's mother Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was a romantic and idealistic women who was affected most of her life by an addiction to morphine. During his childhood Eugene attended the Mount Vincent Catholic Boarding School between the years 1895 and 1900. After leaving Mount Vincent Eugene attended Bett's Academy in Stanford Connecticut from 1900 to 1906. In 1906 Eugene was accepted to Princeton University but before completing one year ...
- 10067: Biography of Aaron Montgomery Ward
- ... for so many years, became known fondly as the "Wish Book" and was a favorite in households all across America. The Montgomery Ward catalog's place in history was assured when the Grolier Club, a high respected club of book readers in New York, exhibited it in 1946 alongside Webster's Dictionary as one of 100 American books chosen for their influence on life and culture of the people. Aaron Montgomery ...
- 10068: Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Contributing to "Selling the Revolution"
- ... of the society during the Revolutionary Era. Englishman Thomas Paine is said to be the most persuasive writer of the revolution. After 37 years of drifting from various jobs such as corset maker to a school teacher he decided to come to the United States to make a new start. He moved to Philadelphia where he worked as a journalist. The controversy between England and the colonies prompted him to write ...
- 10069: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- ... was born at Point Pleasant, OH on April 27, 1822 (World Book CD-ROM, 1995). He was the son of Hannah Simpson and Jesse Grant (World Book CD-ROM, 1995). After he got out of school he went to West Point Military Academy and graduated 21st in his class of 39 in 1843 (Encarta, 1995). After graduating West Point he then was promoted to the Army. Grant was assigned to Jefferson ...
- 10070: The Life and Work of Robert Browning
- ... 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 education at home, where he was tutored in foreign languages, boxing, music ...
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