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- 3311: Jim Henson
- JIM HENSON Jim Henson was born on September 24, 1936, in Greenville, Mississippi. He moved to Maryland in fifth grade and throughout his childhood had a strong interest in both art and television. His grandmother was very supportive of his interests and constantly encouraged him to use his imagination. In 1954 Jim started in television performing puppets on a local channels Saturday ...
- 3312: Isadora Duncan
- ... group for a year, traveling to England where they performed in London. When they returned to New York, Isadora quit dancing for the theater group. While traveling with the group, she had begun to take interest in the music of Ethelbert Woodridge Nevin. One day, while Isadora was choreographing, Nevin, who was working in a nearby studio, heard his music being played and came bursting into the room. He watched how ...
- 3313: Indira Gandhfemalei
- ... judgment of the court, and step down immediately(Sahgal 129). For the first time, Indira saw the possibility of power being snatched away from her. She said she had suffered lies and abuse in the interest of the common man. It was not a question of choosing Indira Gandhi or the Congress, she said, it was her "duty to serve the people." Indira realized, however, that she could not remain in ...
- 3314: Herbert Spencer
- ... to the tradition of independence and dissent so long cherished by his family. Spencers education was informal, unconventional, and highly deficient in the more traditional studies of literature and history. His father encouraged his interest in the science and tecnology, and Spencer became an engineer. However, he practiced his profession for a few years, because he became increasingly interested in political economy, sociology, biology, and philosophy. He was a subeditor ...
- 3315: Henry David Thoreau
- ... Here, he was talking about how he got all the information for his book Walden totally from experiences. Although Walden was only moderately successful in Thoreau's lifetime, his experiment in the wilderness did spark interest in young people. The book inspired people to follow his example and go to a lonely spot and wonder the world and find their place in it. For many, Walden served as a touchstone. Thoreau ...
- 3316: Henry David Thoreau
- ... and younger sister Sophia (Derleth 1) in genteel poverty (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show interest writing, and he wrote his first essay, "The Seasons," at the tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy (Derleth 4). In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard University ...
- 3317: George Washington Carver
- ... continued his education in Minneapolis, Kansas where he went to a mostly white high school. He made many friends that encouraged him in his long quest for knowledge. In addition to nurturing plants, he showed interest in painting and music. After this he tried for admission to Highland College and made it but when he showed up for registration, he was refused. A couple of years passed, George was attending Simpson ...
- 3318: George Orwell
- ... he was thirteen, he won a scholarship to Wellington. Soon after that, he won another scholarship to the well-known public school, Eaton. After being forced to work very hard at preparatory school, Blair lost interest in any further intellectual exertion that was not related to his personal ambition. In his book Why I Write he says that from a very young age he had known that he must be a ...
- 3319: George Brenard Shaw
- ... London in 1892 and Arm's and The Man performed in London & New York, in 1894. While he was not writing, Shaw discovered Karl Marx and read his book Das Kapital, during which, grew his interest in history & civilization. After reading Why are the Many Poor?, he joined the Fabian Society on 16th May 1884, later becoming one of its leaders. By joining the Fabian Society he met his life ...
- 3320: Frank Sinatra
- ... and spaghetti sauce. His marketing antics caused a rift between his wife, Barbara, and his children over who owned the rights to what Sinatra songs. At this time, as his health was fading, a renewed interest be people (like myself) who werent even born when he "retired" in the 1970s, began to crave Sinatra. A flood of biographies, musical appreciation books and Sinatra-themed films and TV shows flooded ...
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