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- 1061: Andrew Carnegie The Rise Of Bi
- ... and demand fell, and they were left without anything. The whole looming industry was virtually gone; and with that, it was clear that there would be no trade for Andrew to learn. They had received letters from time to time about the possibility of work in America. After the looms fell through for them, they realized that they didn't have much of a choice of what to do. So, they ...
- 1062: Aldous Huxley
- ... screenplay for Pride and Prejudice in 1940 (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). In all, Huxley wrote forty-seven books in his career. In 1959 he received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his work (Aldous Huxley-Biography). In the 1950’s Huxley wrote the Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. These novels deal with the “inebriated states produced by hallucinogens.” They describe the alteration in ...
- 1063: Voltaire
- ... French-Swiss border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile Voltaire produced a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of reason, and an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. Voltaire returned to a hero's welcome in Paris at age 83. The excitement of the trip was too much ...
- 1064: The Life And Works Of Frederic
- ... her fiancé who was seriously ill in the winter, and especially by his irregular lifestyle, viewed him as an unsuitable partner for their daughter. Chopin found this rejection an extremely painful experience, and labeled the letters from the Wodzinski family, tied into a small bundle, "My sorrow". In July 1837, Chopin travelled to London in the company of Camille Pleyel in the hope of forgetting all unpleasant memories. Soon afterwards, he ...
- 1065: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... in 1903.20 Some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s later writings consisted of two medical short story collections, Round the Red Lamp and Round the Fire Stories. In 1894, a fictional autobiography, The Stark Munro Letters, was published in 1894.21 The Parasite and The Medal Brigadier Gerard were published in The Strand magazine in 1894. The very famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was published different ...
- 1066: Samuel Clemens
- ... Life on the Mississippi River. Between 1853 and 1857 Clemens worked a journeyman printer in seven different places. During this trip of making sketches and writing stories, he began eastward by boat. Twain started writing letters telling about his visits to New York and the Middle West in 1867. On his trip he seemed to have gotten him self in a lot a trouble such as disorderly conduct. After time passed ...
- 1067: Pierre De Fermat
- ... on plane loci. Mr. Fermat published only a few papers in his lifetime and gave no systematic exposition of his methods. He had a habit of scribbling notes in the margins of books or in letters rather than publishing them. He was modest because he thought if he published his theorems the people would not believe them. He did not seem to have the intention to publish his papers. It is ...
- 1068: Paul Revere
- ... again and Revere is once again drove to find more work. He tries commercial work but silver is still his main income. Revere fights to be court marshal, re-establishes his character, and writes endless letters to his cousins in France and Guernsey. Paul sets up a foundry and casts the first bell ever cast in Boston. Paul Revere now has lived over half his life and relaxes a bit. He ...
- 1069: Mozart
- ... TV commercials and he has entered our pop mythology as the crass innocent of Peter Schaeffer’s Amadeus. His music is reputed to make one smarter. 8 List of works cited. Anderson, Emily, ed. The Letters of Mozart and His Family. New York, 1985 Deutsch, Otto Erich. Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford, 1965 Elias, Norbert. Mozart: Portrait of a Genius. Berkeley, 1993 Halliwell, Ruth. The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a ...
- 1070: Lena Horne
- ... Page 3 Hayton. They kept their marriage a secret for three years because of the controversy over interracial marriages. When the marriage finally came out in the open, the couple was bombarded with numerous threatening letters. The couple was married for 24 years when he died in 1971. Devastated by his death; she moved in with her daughter. It wasn’t until three years later when Tony Bennett convinced her to ...
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