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- 4741: Karen Louise Erdrich
- ... reference point, different from reservation life. She realized that the different people she met had their own problems and confusions and that she wanted to write about them. Louise enrolled in an MA program at John Hopkins University. She wrote poems and stories while she was there that incorporated her Indian heritage which later became part of her books. She started sending her work to publishers and most of them rejected ...
- 4742: Henry T. Ford
- ... came from 11 stockholders. One investor put just $2,500 into Ford s venture. The final starting capital was $100,000. Other investments in the new company came in form of equipment. The Dodge brothers, John and Horace agreed to supply the Engines. In those days major components for the cars were purchased from other companies a common practice in those days. Cars were developed and assembled in parts, from ready ...
- 4743: Herman Melville
- ... Francisco hospital in 1886 after a long illness. Throughout these griefs, and for the whole of his 19 years in the customs house, Melville's creative pace was understandably slowed. His second collection of poetry, John Marr, and Other Sailors; With Some Sea-Pieces, appeared in 1888. By then he had been in retirement for three years, assisted by legacies from friends and relatives. About 3 years later he wrote Timoleon ...
- 4744: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... of Arthur", "Ulysses", and "Tithonus". Since Tennyson was always sensitive to criticism, The bad reviews of his 1832 poems hurt him greatly. Critics in those days took great joy in the harshness of their reviews. John Wilson Croker's harsh criticisms of some of the poems he wrote kept Tennyson from publishing again for another nine years. The success of his 1842 poems made Tennyson a popular poet, and in 1845 ...
- 4745: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... and innocent Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. Soon the young couple were married and they moved to Paris. It was here where Hemingway encountered many of the greats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos and Ford Madox Ford. It was Stein who took him under her wing. She was first to point him in the direction of the simple declarative sentence, which was another great influence on ...
- 4746: Robert Edward Lee
- ... years, and improved facilities. In 1859 in Arlington, Texas Lee was given command of Federal forces which were there to make sure Mexicans did not invade Texas. Then Lee was sent to capture the abolitionist, John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Then when war seemed impossible to avoid, President Abraham Lincion summond Lee and asked him to lead the Union army, but Lee declined. On April 23 he became commander and chief ...
- 4747: Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer
- ... went to Edinburgh University to become a doctor. The same year, however, he transferred to Christ's College in Cambridge in order to become a clergyman. During this time he befriended a man of science, John Steven Henslow. It was Henslow who recommended him for the unpaid position of naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. Darwin set sail on December 27, 1831 to study the Pacific coast of South America ...
- 4748: Hofstadter
- ... and Hoover. Thus some historians have placed The American Political Tradition, along with some of Hofstadter's other works, at the heart of the "consensus" school of history that defined the postwar era. The historian John Higham famously grouped Hofstadter's writings with Louis Hartz's Liberal Tradition in America and Daniel Boorstin's Genius of American Politics as works that expressed gratitude for the absence in this country of the ...
- 4749: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is traditionally held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of eight children, and was the eldest son of John Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare would of taken over his father's business, but according to one account, he became a butcher because of reverses ...
- 4750: Biography of William Shakespeare
- Biography of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in 1564, supposedly on 22 or 23 April, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John, who was a prosperous glover there, preparing and selling soft leather, became alderman and later high bailiff. Shakespeare was educated at Stratford Grammar School. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway - eight years older ...
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