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- 1711: Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- ... by his correspondence with Syed Sulaiman Nadvi [1885-1953]. "I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival. I have no interest in poetic artistry. But, yes, I have a special goal in mind for whose expression I use the medium of poetry considering the condition and the customs of this country." (translated from the original in ...
- 1712: Thomas Jefferson Biography
- ... outstanding qualities. Born into a wealthy plantation family on April 13, 1743, Jefferson was the third child in a family of six sisters and one brother. From his father and his environment he developed an interest in botany, geology, cartography and North American exploration. (2) In 1760, at the age of 16, Jefferson entered the Collage of William and Mary. After graduating, he studied law and was admitted to the bar ...
- 1713: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- ... have six children: Peter (b. 1946), Lynne (b. 1947), David (b. 1949), Stephen (b. 1951), John Eric (b. 1954), and Dianne (b. 1959). His chief hobby is golf, but he also follows other sports with interest. From 1953-1958 he served as the University of California (Berkeley) Faculty Athletic Representative. Glenn Theodore Seaborg died in 1999.
- 1714: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... he was an average student during his first two years. A trip to Europe with his father in the summer of 1937 and again in 1939 introduced him to the world of international politics. His interest soared and upon returning to Harvard for his senior year, he wrote an honors thesis and graduated in 1940. “As discussed in the Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 16, page362.” He had no idea how much of ...
- 1715: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... cultural developments that made first evolution and then natural selection acceptable to a wider range of people. In 1925, John Thomas Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for teaching evolution. The resulting public interest allowed the concepts that Darwin developed to be taught in American schools as fact. Many opponents of the selection theory who find its emphasis on trial and error impossible to square with the development of ...
- 1716: Hitler's Life
- ... like an artist and a gentleman and still attended many operas. Hitler had an increasingly bad personality and an equally bad temper. He would make horrible scenes if anyone disagreed with him. He had no interest in women. He stayed to his Catholic background about sex, thinking men and women shouldn’t be close until they were married. Hitler soon left his friends in a strange way, not telling them he ...
- 1717: Allen Ginsberg: Poet
- Allen Ginsberg: Poet Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1927. While in high school, he discovered and fell in love with the poetry of Walt Whitman. But despite his interest in poetry his father wanted him to become a lawyer. So Ginsberg studied law at Columbia University, where he met many of his life-long friends and influences. His new group of friends didn't ...
- 1718: Albert Einstein
- ... war, many aspects of Einstein's life changed. He divorced his wife, who had been living in Zurich with the children throughout the war, and married his cousin Elsa Lowenthal. This led to a renewed interest in his Jewish roots, and he became an active supporter of Zionism. Since anti-Semitism was growing in Germany, he quickly became the target of prejudice. There were many rumors about groups who were trying ...
- 1719: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
- ... to struggle to comprehend what was happening inside him, because he was consumed by lust for other boys his age. He discovered the poetry of Walt Whitman (the original Beatnik) in high school, despite his interest in poetry he followed his father's advice and planned on a career as a lawyer. This was what he had in mind when he began his freshman year at Columbia University, but what he ...
- 1720: Walt Disney
- ... of simple cartoon jokes. Walt took the cartoon to a highly successful owner of movie theaters, Alexander Pantages, and they worked out a deal (Greene Pg.43). He then contacted a woman who had expressed interest in the Alice cartoon named M.J. Winkler. Walt sent her some of the work that he had done in Kansas City, and he told her that he had set up a studio in Los ...
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