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- 10091: Oscar Wilde
- ... pen name Speranza, and had a considerable following. As a youngster, Wilde was exposed to the brilliant literary talk of the day at his mother's Dublin salon. In 1864 Wilde entered the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen, and in 1871 entered Trinity College in Dublin. In 1874 he left Ireland and went to England to attend Magdalen College at Oxford. As a student there, he excelled in classics, wrote poetry ...
- 10092: The Biography of Bob Marley
- ... Bob Marley was not just a legendary musician but a man with a dream. He dreamed about equal rights and an end to tyranny and oppression. Many looked up to him as a god or high and mighty figure of some sort. He worked incredibly hard toward his dream. Bob did not stop there. He put on shows in Jamaica to raise funds to fix up the island that he so ...
- 10093: Babe Ruth
- ... hand's full with the bar, and had very little time to tend to young George. His trouble making, and lack of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his punishments, and it was Babe ...
- 10094: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... 1936,(later recognized as the year of three kings),the death of her grandfather King George V brought little Elizabeth's first stage of youth to a close. Under the opinion of the nursery and school- room the King's favorite grandchild was advised not to attend the ceremonies. However, intent on doing the proper thing, she did not heed this advice and went along-side her parents. Her father's ...
- 10095: A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
- ... been said that many of Duke's pieces are almost impossible to exactly duplicate without the personal style of the original musicians. One of the strange things that was known about Duke was that his school music teacher, Mrs. Clinkscales, who played the piano, was always the inspiration for him to just sit down and start tinkering around with a few notes that usually became big hits. In his band the ...
- 10096: Andy Warhol
- ... with a bachelor degree in pictorial design. After graduating he moved out to New York City, where his life blossomed. He lived for a couple of years with Philip Pearlstein, who he had met at school. Warhol, with his education centered around design, set out to begin his career on the right foot. He started doing drawings for advertisements in a women's shoe catalog. It may not have been much ...
- 10097: Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
- ... of the poor were an inspiration to many Americans at that time . I Would like to conclude this report with a poem I found on Robert Francis (Bobby) Kennedy written by Ron Wilson. RFK So high above the mountaintop where Martin made his stand, and far beyond the golden sky of Johns' bold promised land; would not our Bobby lead us on, to glories yet unknown, onward to peace and love ...
- 10098: Black Boy: Richard's Hungers
- ... his grandmother views these stories as devilish and forbids him to read such things. Granny is very oppressive and the cause of much his educational hunger. Moreover, many times Richard is unable to go to school because they did not have enough money, not only for books, but also for clothing to make him look presentable. A greater part of his education is not by way of formal schooling but learning ...
- 10099: Colt: A Man and His Guns
- ... clothes. Science, adventures of an active life, and mechanics were all the favorite passions of young Colt. The adventures eventually led Colt into trouble. At the age of seventeen Colt was expelled form a preparatory school in Amherst, MA. During the years of 1830 - 1831 Colt voyaged to India.. It was during these years that Colt first conceived the idea of a revolving firearm. Some think it may have come from ...
- 10100: The Work of John Collier
- ... causes them to lose. Therefore the father asks if the son is now going to go to the university which the son answers yes. Then the father storms out not knowing that they were playing high-low. So in that case the son actually wins and makes out with half the pot which is a very large sum of money in itself. The ending when the father says "curse the day ...
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