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- 161: Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... twelve he was apprenticed to a printer and at age sixteen he worked under his brother, Orion who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early attempt at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday Post in Iowa under the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. These letters contained purposely inserted errors typical of Clemen's later work. When he was twenty-two he fulfilled a childhood dream by becoming apprenticed to a riverboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. After his apprenticeship, he worked ... or mobile reporter, but returned to the mainland shortly after and became a lecturer. In 1869, Twain made a lecture tour of the Mediterranean and the Holy Land. While he was on tour he sent letters back to America that were later published as The Innocents Abroad (Works of Twain: Brief Account). In 1870, William Dean Howells, editor of the Atlantic Monthly and a highly respected novelist, became his close ...
- 162: Letter From Birmingham Jail
- ... was the most segregated city in America drew his attention and due to his involvement in the demonstration at Birmingham he was sent to prison. Within the confines of the prison walls King received many letters regarding his actions of nonviolent demonstrations at Birmingham. Among these included letters from fellow clergy men stating that his actions were both “untimely and unwise”. Of all the letters King received while in the Birmingham prison he chose to answer only to his fellow clergy men, hence the Birmingham Letter. King wrote the letter on behalf of his defense clearly explaining his motives ...
- 163: Letter from Birmingham Jail
- ... was the most segregated city in America drew his attention and due to his involvement in the demonstration at Birmingham he was sent to prison. Within the confines of the prison walls King received many letters regarding his actions of nonviolent demonstrations at Birmingham. Among these included letters from fellow clergy men stating that his actions were both “untimely and unwise”. Of all the letters King received while in the Birmingham prison he chose to answer only to his fellow clergy men, hence the Birmingham Letter. King wrote the letter on behalf of his defense clearly explaining his motives ...
- 164: A Zipper for Pee-Wee Herman
- ... Children's television which was a mixture of songs, education, fun, and a whole lot more. In 1969, the first airing of "Sesame Street" took place. Sesame Street had programs which were sponsored by different letters of the alphabet or numbers each day, and relied on very short, animated cartoons with live and puppet segments which kept the interest of preschool children. The show was an instant outstanding success, and still ... and sing. These "characters" could be seen at the playhouse on a regular basis. Some of the favorites were: Globey, a talking globe who would show Pee-Wee the countries that his pen-pal's letters came from; Magic Screen, a toy of Pee-Wee's that enabled him to actually get "inside the screen" and play a life-size game of connect the dots; Konkie, a talking robot which revealed ... welcomed a series of visitors during each episode, which could also be seen on a regular basis. Some of these favorites included: Rina the mail-lady, who came to deliver Pee-Wee's pen-pal letters everyday; Miss Yvonne, who Pee-Wee referred to the most beautiful woman in Puppetland; and of course the King of Cartoons who brought the "vintage cartoon of the day" to Pee-Wee. Besides the ...
- 165: Alfred Nobel
- ... never gave up his Swedish citizenship. By virtue of the education he received in many countries, Nobel read, spoke and wrote fluently in five European languages: Swedish, Russian, English, French and German. His numerous handwritten letters demonstrate his remarkable proficiency in all of them. He perfected his French when sent to Paris by his father in his late teens to study chemistry. His letters in French are particularly elegant. Those in English sometimes bear traces of the early nineteenth-century style generally associated with Byron and Shelley (his two favourite poets) and are remarkably free of grammatical and idiomatic ... meant by the stipulation in his will of an “ idealistic tendency” is shown by the books and authors he liked best. At the very time he composed his final will in 1895, he wrote enthusiastic letters about authors, among them Sweden's Selma Lagerlöf, who in 1909 was to become the first woman to receive the Prize in Literature. Nobel's award for peace workers was just as personally motivated. ...
- 166: Kelly Flinn
- ... was married to Airman Basic Gayla Zigo. He told Kelly he was separated and would be divorced in a matter of weeks. She believed him and fell in love with him. She began sending Mark letters and his wife, Gayla found one of them under the seat of their car. She then handed the letters over to her first sergeant. He called Kelly in for a meeting and told her she needed to stop seeing Mark and she was making a big mistake. She agreed and took two weeks’ leave ... just because she had fallen in love with the wrong man. She found out Mark had lied to her about everything. Her lawyers had gathered evidence that proved Mark was a pathological liar including six letters from other women and different bases that said he had done the same things to them. The evidence was not allowed to be permitted in court. Kelly asked for a reduction in charges and ...
- 167: Blaise Pascal
- ... was to lead to the binomial theorem discovery by Newton for fractional and negative powers. Along with the help of Fermat they achieved the foundation for the theory of probability. This collective effort obtained five letters and occurred in the summer of 1654. They considered the dice problem, and the problem of points, both of which were considered by Cardan, Pacioli, and Tartaglia. The dice problem raised the question of how ... Christianity. It was then that Pascal made visits to the Jansenist monastery Port-Royal des Champs which was 30 km south west of Paris. He then began publishing anonymous works on religious topics, eighteen Provincial Letters during 1656 and 1657. These writings were written for the defense of his friend Antoine Arnauld who was an open opponent to the Jesuits and a fellow defender of Jansenism. At the time Arnauld was ... challenge of his own. Wren challenged Pascal, Fermat, and Roberval to find the arc length and the length of the arch of the cycloid. Pascal published his own solutions to his own problems in the Letters to Carcavi. This seemed to be his last great interest in science. He spent his last years giving to the poor and attending church in Paris one service after another. He died at the ...
- 168: Morality In America
- ... on the Salem Witch Trials. A former minister, George Burroughs, is accused of witchcraft and much of the section deals with people who claimed to have been bewitched by him. There are a couple of letters by Cotton Mather explaining the difficulty of the witchcraft trials and his defense of the conviction of George Burroughs. The rest of this reading is letters of confession by the accused and more letters relating to the trials. The role of Colonial women in society is given an in depth look in the segment by Graebner. In these days, the husband was seen as the supreme head of ...
- 169: Queen Victoria
- ... her reign, often referred to as the Victorian age, witnessed the rise of the middle class and were marked by a deeply conservative morality and intense nationalism. Victoria's correspondence was published in three series, Letters, 1837-61 (3 vol., 1907), Letters, 1862-85 (3 vol., 1926-1928), and Letters, 1886-1901 (3 vol., 1930-32).
- 170: Telecommunication
- ... duration of the connection that determined the dot and dash from each other being short and long respectively. From these combinations of dots and dashes the Morse code was formed. The code included all the letters of the English alphabet, all the numbers and several punctuation marks. A variation to the telegraph was a receiving module that Morse had invented. The module consisted of a mechanically operated pencil and a roll ... and dots on the paper to be deciphered later. Many inventors including Alexander Bell and Thomas Edison sought to revolutionize the telegraph. Edison devised a deciphering machine. This machine when receiving Morse code would print letters corresponding to the Morse code on a roll of paper hence eliminating the need for decoding the code. 2.2. Mr. Watson, Come Here! The first successful telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He ...
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