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- 1021: Jackie Robinson
- ... was not confined to blacks; white fans also stormed baseball arenas to view the new sensation (Tygiel 197). He received so much fan mail that the team had to hire someone just to answer his letters. One such letter read, Hi, Black Boy! Glad to read that you have arrived. Had good idea that you had the stuff and would make the grade. You are a credit to your race-the ...
- 1022: Jack London 2
- ... to Bess Maddern in 1900, with whom he had two daughters, Joan and Bess. With her as his inspiration, he followed the precept in a book be CO-wrote with Anna Strunsky, The Kempton-Wace Letters. London divorced Bess due to an affair with his "New Woman," Charmian Kittredge. In 1905 he married Charmian, who became the persona for many of his female characters and who avidly joined him on his ...
- 1023: Irene Joliot-curie
- ... Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, and Jean Perrin. Perhaps equally important to Irene's intellectual development were the ongoing conversations that she shared with her mother to say nothing of the math puzzles that concluded the letters she received from her mother when they were separated. Irene finished her high school education at College of Sevigne, and independent school in the center of Paris. She entered the Sorbonne in October, 1914 to ...
- 1024: Henry Ford
- ... months produced 1700 Model A cars. These cars were known for their reliability, yet were still too expensive for the average American. Over the next five years Ford and his engineers produced models with the letters B through S, the most successful of which was the Model N (priced at $500) , and the least successful was the Model K (priced at $2500). It was obvious from the Model N that the ...
- 1025: Hemingway
- ... strong attraction for the eight year younger Hemingway. Not having much income and wanting to marry Hadley, Ernest chose to move to Paris. Hemingway managed to convince the Toronto Star to accept a series of Letters from Europe. The young couple also received money from Hadley's trust fund while Ernest continued to work as a sparing partner for boxers. In Paris, Hemingway encountered many of the greats (historically known as ...
- 1026: Helen Keller
- ... include: Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross, Japan's Sacred Treasure, the Philippine's Golden Heart, Lebanon's Gold Medal of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The National Institute of Arts and letters elected her membership as well. In 1952, during the Louis Braille Centennial Commemoration, Helen was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor ("Hero" 2) She had finally received all the recognition and honor ...
- 1027: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... was still not convinced that the site was Troy. In fact, Schliemann was a sort of joke to the archaeological community. He was receiving no support, financial or otherwise, from his peers. Instead, hundreds of letters poured in accusing him of being a dimwit, madman, and fraud (Burg 103). Schliemann was unfazed. Ever the self-promoter, he published Trojan Antiquities in Europe and then continued with his field work (Burg 113 ...
- 1028: Harriet Stowe
- ... financial worries as Calvin s salary from the college diminished. As a homemaker she lovingly and kindly cared for her children while she wrote for local magazines and papers. Over the years she wrote ardent letters to her surviving children, admonishing them to seek Christ and conform their hearts and lives to Him. Although her first forty-one years were lived in gentile privation and anonymity, she quickly became a literary ...
- 1029: Geroffrey Chaucer
- ... garden of Westminster Abbey in London.3 October 25 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer died and was buried where he had spent his last year of life. It was there in later years that other men of letters were buried near him, and gave recognition to this part of the Abbey as the Poets' Corner.4 Soldier, diplomat, justice of the peace, Member of Parliament, and man of affairs, Chaucer lived a full ...
- 1030: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... the islands at this time. Magellan s close personal friend Francisco Serraro went along on the voyage to the Spice Islands and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao s letters helped establish in Magellan s mind the location of the Spice Islands, which later became the destination of his great voyage. Magellan returned to Portugal in1513. He then joined a military expedition to Morocco. On ...
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