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- 4761: James Cameron
- ... moved up the ranks in the studio, jumping from one movie to another. Cameron worked as art director on the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars, he did special effects work and direction on John Carpenter s Escape from New York. It wasn't until 1981 when Cameron got his first shot at directing. It was an Italian producer named Assonitis who was to make a sequel to the movie ...
- 4762: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... America." (Hajdu,72). These days you can find his name on over 1500 CS's(Illistated Encyclopedia of Jazz,254). Duke's legacy will live on for generations to come. Duke Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington, April 29, 1899 in Washington D.C(The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,330). His father at the time was employed as a butler yet always wanted the best for Duke. At the young ...
- 4763: Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star
- ... these kinds of movies and she became less popular. Shirley liked to be competitive in everything. She decided to be the first person in her class to become engaged. On September 19, 1945 Shirley married John Black and 12,000 people waited outside the church to see her. When Shirley stopped making movies, she got busy with politics. President Nixon chose Shirley to become the U.S. Representative of the United ...
- 4764: Lucas: King of Film
- ... major motion picture was American Graffiti, with this film Coppola had given Lucas the chance to make a foothold in the film industry, and he certainly did. Also, Lucas is supported by friends Steven Spielberg, John Milius, Martin Scorcese, and Ivan Reitman (Moritz 260). The group often collaborate on projects and get advice from each other on filmmaking (Moritz 258). Steven Spielberg is quoted in Champlin's book saying: Lucasfilm touches ...
- 4765: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... transformation of the twentieth century when Dirac arrived on the scene. Dirac came to Cambridge as a graduate student in 1923 after graduating from the University of Bristol. As a student in mathematics in St. John's College, he took his Ph.D. in 1926 and was elected in 1927 as a fellow. His appointment as university lecturer came in 1929.[7] He assumed the Lucasian professorship following Joseph Larmor in ...
- 4766: Blaise Pascal
- ... his finest achievements. It has greatly influenced mandy discoveries including the theoritical basis of the computer). It has also made an essential contribution to the field of combinatory analysis. It also ‘ through the work of John Wallis it led Isaac Newton to the discovery of the binomial theorem for fractional and negative indices, and it was central to Leibniz's discovery of the calculus.'(adamson p37) As stated looking closer at ...
- 4767: Al Capone
- ... Simon & Schuster, 1994. 5. Coffey, Thomas, The Long Thirst, London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1975. 6. Ianni, Francis, A Family Business ; Kinship and Social Control in Organized Crime, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1972. 7. Kobler, John, Capone : The Life and World of Al Capone, New York, Da Capo Press, 1992. 8. Nelli, Humbert, The Business of Crime : Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States, New York, Oxford University Press, 1976 ...
- 4768: Law And Politics
- ... Feb 2000. Spooner, Lysander. Natural Law: Part First. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/spooner.htm. 10 Feb 2000. ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union. Home Page. http://www.aclu.org/index.html. 10 Feb 2000. Guidubaldi, John D.Ed., L.P., L.P.C.C. Minority Report and Policy Recommendations of the United States Commission On Child and Family Welfare. July 1996. http://users.erols.com/afc/minority1.htm. 10 Feb 2000 ...
- 4769: Cyrano De Bergerac
- ... the fullest, and still remaining human, he is able to win the heart of almost any reader. Heroes have changed a lot over the years. When one looks at napoleon they are hardly reminded of John Lennon. While different generations find different qualities to be noble, there are some heroes, like Cyrano, who will be loved for all time.
- 4770: Steve Jobs
- ... have to make the Apple compatible with IBM computers and needed to introduce new computers that could be marketed in the business world which IBM controlled. To help him market these new computers Jobs recruited John Sculley from Pesi Cola for a position as president at Apple. Jobs designed the Macintosh to compete with the PC and, in turn, make Apple's new products a success. In an effort to revitalize ...
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