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- 9931: Pablo Picasso
- ... maiden name to sign his pictures. Picasso's genius manifested itself early: at the age of 10 he made his first paintings, and at 15 he performed brilliantly on the entrance examinations to Barcelona's School of Fine Arts. His large academic canvas Science and Charity (1897, Picasso Museum, Barcelona), depicting a doctor, a nun, and a child at a sick woman's bedside, won a gold medal. Between 1900 and ...
- 9932: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... himself to his estate at Monticello. (There is no denying, either, that he retained about 150 slaves there, selling or "giving" them to others, treating them as property; he could accept this along with his high ideals because he regarded Africans as inferior beings.) In 1796 Jefferson was elected vice-president under Federalist John Adams. After four troubled years in that position (1797--1801), he beat Adams and, barely, Aaron Burr ...
- 9933: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... life to the education of women because at the time they were merely thought only good enough to be wives and housekeepers. Catharines hard and enduring work paid off because she eventually founded a school in Hartford, Connecticut. It was at this seminary that Harriet received her formal education. Oddly enough she did not attend college, but ended up becoming a teacher at her alma mater (Hedrick, BBR March 95 ...
- 9934: Robert Schumann
- ... 147). Schumann first studied piano when he was a young boy. He also took lessons from Friedrich Wieck and eventually married his daughter, Clara (Slonimsky 902). He began his education in 1816 at a private school. It was at this time that he started piano lessons from J. G. Kuntzsch. Kuntzsch was the organist oat St. Marys Church (Sadie 831). In 1820, he began studying the piano at Zwickau Lyceum. He ...
- 9935: Garth Brooks
- ... got his first #1 spot in the charts. Since then, he has had over 62 million sales, with one album (Rope In The Wind) topping over 11 million sales in 1991. He has set a high standard in country music and given it a long awaited revival. A Garth craze has swept the States and the World. Just the countless awards through a ten year period speak for them selves. He ...
- 9936: Plato and Aristotle
- ... most obvious instrumental good, as it is used to obtain other goods. Any individual with a virtuous soul is capable of realizing the good life. One must live with moral and intellectual virtues, excellences, and high standards to accomplish this goal. There are three lifestyles one may lead: the vulgar, the political, or the contemplative. The vulgar lifestyle is based on instant gratification. Goods are simply pleasures one enjoys immediately and ...
- 9937: Gregory Efimovich Rasputin
- ... behavior remained as sinful as ever. Rumors of Rasputin ranged anywhere from him having orgies in his basement to having sex with prostitutes. Despite the monks drinking bouts, and womanizing ways, Rasputin remained in high circles. Consequently, some of the family members of the Romanovs took matters in to their own hands and plotted to assassinate the monk. The killers were believed to have been the Tsras cousin ...
- 9938: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... ministers, so Ralph Waldo knew in the beginning that he was to become one. By the time he was twenty-two, he wished himself called Waldo. At this time he was enrolled for the Divinity School at Harvard, but his being sick made him have to give up his work for a while. In Concord, New Hampshire he met another poet, Ellen Tucker, also suffering with tuberculosis. Even though she was ...
- 9939: Euclid
- ... is believed that he was educated at Plato's academy in Athens and stayed there until he was invited by Ptolemy I to teach at his newly founded university in Alexandria. There, Euclid founded the school of mathematics and remained there for the rest of his life. As a teacher, he was probably one of the mentors to Archimedes. Personally, all accounts of Euclid describe him as a kind, fair, patient ...
- 9940: Thomas Jefferson
- ... his own. Jefferson and Jeffersonians are hypocrites from the start and they destroyed political tradition as seen during Jeffersons' administration. Jeffersonians show an immense amount of hypocritism in their policies. For example, Federalists had supported high tarriffs, inorder to protect national manufacturers and american industry. The tarriffs were a vital determinent, which kept the economy of the United States viable. The Jeffersonians, not the Federalists began the American system of protecting ...
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