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- 7211: Mozart
- ... Father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Leopold served over four decades as a court musician to five archbishops of Salzburg. In 1756, the year that Wolfgang was born, he published the first edition of his Violin School, which soon brought him international fame. In 1800, more than a dozen years after Leopold’s death, his treatise was still being reprinted. As Wolfgang’s only formal teacher, he exercised a pivotal influence on ...
- 7212: Mikhail Gorbachev
- ... 1985, the Soviets were literally drinking themselves to death" (Naylor 194). Alcohol was putting a profound strain on society. Consumption had skyrocketed during the Brezhnev era. This is especially significant considering it was already considerably high at the beginning of his era. In 1984, state revenues from the sale of alcoholic beverages reached fifty-three billion rubles, four times what it had been twenty years before. The alcohol issue became disastrous ...
- 7213: Michael Jordan
- ... he was quite good too! He was the MVP of Dixie League and received a scholarship to Mickey Owen Baseball Camp. Michael got better at basketball and, decided to try out for the Varsity Laney High Basketball Team but, wasn’t good enough as a sophomore. Jordan, as a sophomore, played on JV and, averaged 27.8 PPG. Jordan after junior year was Davis 4 invited to play at the 5 ...
- 7214: Lillian Hellman
- ... and Martha are the victims of the lie and their lives end tragically as one takes her own life and another breaks off an engagement. Every thing they have worked and dreamed for, including the school suffers and is utterly destroyed. The work reminds one of contemporary cases of child abuse in schools where children lie for various reasons. Inevitably, the lies are corroborated and believed. In this play, the lies ...
- 7215: Lewis Latimer
- ... release. Although free, George was still extremely poor, working as a barber, paper-hanger and in other odd jobs to support his wife, three sons, and one daughter. Lewis Latimer, the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme ...
- 7216: Lewis Carroll
- ... by Lewis Carroll, mention his father more so than his mother (45). Lewis Carroll grew up with an extraordinary education and he was very successful with many publications. He began his education at Richmond Grammar School and then attended Rugby until 1849. In 1851 Carroll "matriculated" at Christ Church, Oxford. Carroll followed the path of his father by deciding to attend Christ Church, but differently, he did not "go on to ...
- 7217: Leonard Bernstein
- ... relationship.) The relationship began with Bernstein’s great admiration of Copland and from there they formed life long tie In 1939, Bernstein began to attend the Curtis Institute for Music in Philadelphia, which was a school for both composers and those who wanted a career in performance arts. This is where the finishing touches were put on Bernstein’s training. He began to develop very close relationships with many of his ...
- 7218: Laura Secord
- ... After moments of lying on the couch her tiredness overcame her and she fell asleep. Manly shouts and laughs brought her out of her sleep. The Battle at Beaver Dams was obviously a victory, held high over their heads. The Mohawk and Caughnawagas were met in the crossfire. Lieutenant FitzGibbon took the American artillery. The one Indian regiment confused the American troops by marching back and forth, thus creating an illusion ...
- 7219: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... of riches and comfort to live in an impoverished town full of very ordinary, simple people. He discovers that these people need him. They are people of such low esteem, and he, someone of such high social position, can help them find value in their lives. His abandonment of what modern society offers a rich man like him ties in with the existentialism of the story. A conversation between Eliot and ...
- 7220: King Tut
- ... the ancient world held as much wealth as the Royal Valley, and nearby villagers made a profession of robbing the tombs almost before the doors were sealed. the laborers who built the tombs- and even high officials- shared in the plunder. In a vain attempt to safeguard the royal burial chambers, architects sank the crypts deep into secret recesses and sealed tomb entrances. But despite armies of guards, and watchman who ...
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