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- 1051: Thomas Jefferson
- ... leaving politics and returning to Monticello (Mclaughlin 376). Jefferson's daughter Martha said that in retirement her father never abandon a friend or principle. He and John Adams, their earlier political differences reconciled, wrote many letters. Jefferson frequently complained about the time consumed in maintaining his ever increasing correspondence but he could not resist an intellectual challenge or turn down an appeal for his opinion, advice, or help, and continued to ...
- 1052: Abigail Adams
- ... lived. Soon they learned of the British losses and how greater they were, but Abigail knew someone named Dr. Warren who died. He helped John Quincy from the loss of his finger. Abigail wrote many letters to her husband and it became a way of life for her. She was always keeping John up to date with what's happening at the immediate point in time. Abigail sometimes called herself 'Mrs ...
- 1053: Saint John Bosco
- ... never got tired of talking and writing about his work for the young and their care. On this feast day the Church has chosen for the Office of Readings an excerpt from one of his letters. It expresses his concern and is applicable for our time when children suffer from neglect in broken homes and in less than ideal welfare situations. John wrote: "If we wish to appear concerned about the ...
- 1054: DR Daniel J Boorstin
- ... practiced law. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation. Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans ...
- 1055: Thomas Jefferson
- ... leaving politics and returning to Monticello (Mclaughlin 376). Jefferson's daughter Martha said that in retirement her father never abandon a friend or principle. He and John Adams, their earlier political differences reconciled, wrote many letters. Jefferson frequently complained about the time consumed in maintaining his ever increasing correspondence but he could not resist an intellectual challenge or turn down an appeal for his opinion, advice, or help, and continued to ...
- 1056: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... end. Though the unsympathetic world, and diseased mind, destroyed Ernest Hemingway’s flesh, his heart and soul were placed upon the page and will never be defeated. Bibliography Works Cited Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981. Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987 Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons ...
- 1057: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... duty and burgen and may well have meant that at that time the element of sensuality was lacking on he side. All her relationships were characterized by care, solicitude, and helpfulnes. She destroyed his courship letters, perhaps because sh found too painful the contrast between his youthful avowals of "fear nothing and be faithful unto death" contained in a poem he sent her that she quoted and his strategims of escape ...
- 1058: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... How could he comprehend Poe's psychic landscape, where the mind wars against the body to rejoin the spirit with God. Griswold recoiled. Though we disparage his onslaught of Poe's reputation, his alteration of letters and other records of fact, we can also perceive the Reverend's desperation. He was bright enough to see what Poe undertook, and was scared silly. So what is being undertaken here is a psychical ...
- 1059: Bill Gates
- ... not from a couple teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates 15). While at Harvard, the cool thing to do was to ...
- 1060: Ben Franklin
- ... was not only an inventor, he was a great improver. He analyzed the spoken part of the English language and produced a phonetic alphabet based on the different sounds in the language (Potter 121). In letters to other scientists, Franklin wrote about his observations of everyday phenomena. Clark states about Franklin, "One sign of the scientific mind was Franklin's determination to question, to seek explanations of natural phenomena that could ...
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