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- 2551: Alcatraz
- ... about whom the world knew, the man about whom books were written and films were made was to be ignored in death as the date of his passing followed by one day the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. On the morning of his death, Stroud was found by a fellow inmate who is probably more widely recognized on an international scale than any other confined on Alcatraz - recognized not so much ...
- 2552: The Avant-Garde Architecture O
- ... many of the largest pubic and private construction projects in the second half of this century. Some of these projects include the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. When French President Francois Mitterand “personally selected Mr. Pei in 1983 to design the Grand Louvre to give air ...
- 2553: Radio: A Form of Communication
- ... English coast, permitting communication with radios aboard nearby ships.) The first transatlantic communication, which involved sending the Morse-code signal for the letter s was sent, on Dec. 12, 1901, from Cornwall, England, to Saint John's, Newfoundland, where Marconi had set up receiving equipment. The Electron Tube Further advancement of radio was made possible by the development of the electron tube. The diode, or valve, produced by Sir Ambrose Fleming ...
- 2554: Oscar Wilde
- ... It was produced in Paris in 1894, made into an opera by German composer Richard Strauss and translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. The play was declared blasphemous because it concerned the death of John the Baptist. In February 1892, Oscar opened the play Lady Windermere’s Fan. It dealt with a blackmailing divorcée driven to self-sacrifice by maternal love and was very successful, received excellent reviews and was ...
- 2555: My Darling Clementine - The Ef
- ... of those "bright sunny day" sequences that I mentioned before would not look so out of place in a film like this. I agree that the western is one of our most traditional genres with John Ford it's most conservative directors. But the only western that I have ever scene that has ever pulled off the whole noir thing effectively is a movie that goes by the name of "Unforgiven ...
- 2556: American Revolution - Causes
- ... and preserve prpromote a mutually beneficial intercourse between the several constituent parts of the empite"", yet those duties were always imposed with design to restrain the commerce of one part". This statement by the colonist (John Dickinson), shows that th sole rason for new taxes is just for the British gov't to make money, at the expense of the economy of the colonies. Dickinson makes a important distinction between the ...
- 2557: American Revolution - Causes
- ... and preserve promote a mutually beneficial intercourse between the several constituent parts of the empire"", yet those duties were always imposed with design to restrain the commerce of one part". This statement by the colonist (John Dickinson) shows that the sole reason for new taxes is just for the British government to make money, at the expense of the economy of the colonies. Dickinson makes a important distinction between the rights ...
- 2558: BB King
- ... influence came through religion. He was a member of the Church of God In Christ. He was forbidden to play blues at home. He sang in spiritual groups like the Elkhorn Singers and the Saint John's Gospel Singers. A relative who was a guitarist and a preacher showed King his first chords on the instrument. As a teenager he began playing streetcorners for coins, combining gospel songs with the blues ...
- 2559: Andy Warhol
- ... lived with him on 89th Street and Lexington Avenue until 1971. By then, suffering from senility, she required constant care and Andy sent her back to Pittsburgh to be cared for by his two brothers, John and Paul. After suffering a stroke, she died in her nursing home in 1972. Andy did not except the fact too kindly. He would even go as far to say his mother was doing fine ...
- 2560: Allegory Of American Pie By Do
- ... and their growing fame in Europe before the ‘British Invasion’. One of the biggest plays on words is the in about "Lenin read a book on Marx," playing on the names of Vlademir Lenin and John Lennon. Not only do they have similarly names, but they both share the same ideals about communism (Jordan). The fourth verse is the most important. It contains the most information on the demise of rock ...
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