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- 1031: Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
- ... This was a complete setback for Zeppelin. Without cash, and with its only remaining engineer, Ludwig Dürr, he made himself the design of a successor. He made donation calls into newspapers and innumerable Bettelbriefe (Begging Letters) to wealthy contemporaries, which only brought mockery to it. Nevertheless the untiring zealot and missionary of the airship idea, went into the year 1905, with his second ship. The building of the LZ-2 became ...
- 1032: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... the most famous composer of the age died, about thirty thousand mourners and curious onlookers were present at the funeral procession on March 26, 1827. John Keats: It is evident from Keats's notes and letters that he was subject to violent mood swings. "I am in that temper," he once wrote, "that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top." But he fought against ...
- 1033: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
- ... four immensely popular volumes of verse. Though a longtime illness made her something of a recluse, Barrett was able to meet many of the leading writers of the day. In 1845, she began to receive letters from the poet Robert Browning, who, after five months of correspondence, paid her a visit. They fell in love, and when Elizabeth s stern father refused to allow her to spend the winter of 1846 ...
- 1034: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... collection entitled simply Poems. This volume gained the attention of poet Robert Browning, whose work Elizabeth had praised in one of her poems, and he wrote her a letter. Elizabeth and Robert then exchanged 574 letters over the next twenty months. Immortalized in 1930 in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolf Besier, their romance was bitterly opposed by her father, who did not want any of his children ...
- 1035: Edgar Allan Poe 6
- ... languages, debating, writing, and athletics. At age sixteen he fell in love with and became engaged to a girl named Elmira Royster. While away at college, he wrote her frequently but her father intercepted the letters (Thompson). Edgar was upset when he did not receive any replies. In addition to this disappointment, life at the school was chaotic and dangerous (Benfey). There were fights with students throwing bricks and bottles at ...
- 1036: Edgar Allan Poe 5
- ... Tamerlane and Other Poems. Desperate for money, he joined the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry. Army barracks were no place for a young "aristocrat." Poe turned to his foster father with penitent letters, pleading for reconciliation. Mr. Allen yielded sufficiently to purchase his release from the army, which was possible at that time. Shortly afterward, a new volume of his poems was published in Baltimore, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane ...
- 1037: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... time. He gave us much and received pathetically little in return, for he was all his life a starveling poet and a miserably paid writer for ephemeral magazines. It is a final irony that his letters and manuscripts have become the most valuable of all American writers.34 Regardless of what caused his obsession with death, he managed to create tales that will remain on the earth for as long as ...
- 1038: Donald Barthelme
- ... s literature for the book titled The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). In 1976 he received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982 ...
- 1039: Dante Alighieri
- ... Roman emperor arrived in Italy to bring the country under his rule. Dante Alighieri supported his cause and wrote to many Italian political leaders and princes urging them to support king Henry also. In these letters, he presented king Henry s cause as a way of ending the political turmoil in many Italian cities. King Henry s death in 1313 quickly brought Dante s hopes for a unified Europe to an ...
- 1040: Charles Dickens 3
- ... Cities" appeared in a opening number and kept going through November of that year. In 1860 he had spent his time at Gad's Hill in a period of retrospection, in which he burnt many letters and reread his own copy of "David Copperfield" before beginning his book "Great Expectations". In 1865 he was in poor health and to even make matters worse his family was shook up by a railway ...
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