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- 7251: FDR
- ... the challenges at hand, he rose to the occasion and took this country to another level. Roosevelt was born on January 30 near New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and attended Law School. Although he didn't get his law degree, he was admitted to the New York bar in 1907. He was elected to the New York senate in 1910 and was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as ...
- 7252: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... Irish decent. Her parents were Irish immigrants who became rich as grocery owners in St. Paul (Bruccoli 1). Mollie inherited a fair amount of money from her family, but the family had difficulty maintaining the high standard of living they were accustomed to (Bloom 11). When they fell into financial trouble it was her father they turned to. The fact that Fitzgerald's mother, rather than his father, was the financial ...
- 7253: Ernest Che Guevara
- ... mother, Celia de la Serna. It was these early years when he became an eager reader of Marx, Engels, and Freud which all were all part of his father's library. He went to secondary school in 1941, the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled in literature and sports. At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of political crises in ...
- 7254: Eminem
- ... life. Eminem and his mother continued moving and never stayed in one place longer than six months. His mother worked very hard and many jobs to provide for herself and Marshall. When Eminem was in school, he used to get beat up every day. There wasn’t one day when he didn’t get beat up by the same group of kids, just for being himself. One day those kids almost ...
- 7255: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... was ten. She was raised by her maternal grandmother who was very strict and most of her education was by tutors. (In accordance to her mother’s wishes, her grandmother sent her to a private school in England when she was fifteen. It was here that Eleanor started to blossom and become a person in her own right. Upon her return to New York, she had her debut into New York ...
- 7256: E. M. Forster
- ... characters, a decent story line, and his prolific knowledge of writing to make his books readable and enjoyable. E. M. Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London, England. After an education at Tonbridge School and King's College, Cambridge, he spent a year traveling in Europe. On his return, he taught at the Working Men's College and established the Independent Review, a journal that supported the progressive wing ...
- 7257: Dylan Thomas
- Thomas’ Dying Light Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914. After leaving school, he worked briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post. In November of 1923 he moved to London and in December of that he published his first book, Eighteen Poems. In April ...
- 7258: Duke Ellington
- ... Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me" which came from "Concerto for Cootie." Both compositions have the same distinguishable melody. Many of Ellington’s compositions have common characteristics, such as the muted brass instruments and high, wailing clarinets; distinctive harmonies; his stride piano playing style; and unusual combinations of instruments. He created a body of innovative and original music.
- 7259: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... Every time I hear the Fifth, I cannot help but be moved. Works Consulted Blokker, Roy and Robert Dearling. The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich: the symphonies. Tantivy Press, 1979 Brown, Royal S. ‘Interview with Shostakovich.’ High Fidelity, 23 (October 1973). Fanning, David. The Breath of the Symphonist: Shostakovich’s Tenth. Royal Musical Association, 1988. Fay, Laurel E. ‘Shostakovich vs. Volkov: whose Testimony?’ The Russian Review (October 1980), pp. 484-93. Johnson ...
- 7260: Daniel Boone
- ... Missouri. A quarter of a century later they were brought back to the Bluegrass and laid to rest in Frankfort's cemetery. There they rest, on a bluff above the river and town, on a "high, far-seeing place" like the ones he always climbed to see the land beyond...a monument to the new country in the wilderness which they had helped to explore and settle.
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