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- 601: Walter Whitman
- ... 26, 1892. Among Whitman's other books of poems were 'Calamus', 'November Boughs', 'Sands at Seventy', and 'Good-Bye My Fancy'. His prose works include 'Democratic Vistas', 'Specimen Days and Collect', 'The Wound Dresser' (wartime letters to his mother), 'A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads', and 'Diary in Canada'. (See also American Literature /ARTICLES/0000/00069120_A.html>.)
- 602: Aaron Burr Jr.
- ... already declared that these deliberate defamations would have to cease, that he would call out the first man of any respectability that slandered him. So he wrote Hamilton to retract his charges. A number of letters passed between them, Hamilton ever evading the issue. At last a challenge was issued by Burr and accepted. The principals and seconds met at dawn on July 11, 1804, under the shadow of the Palisades ...
- 603: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... moved in with my aunt, Maria Poe Clemm. Her children lived with her too; their names were Henry and Virginia. Henry died soon after I moved in, and Virginia became my companion. She would deliver letters and poems to the several girls that I courted. One girl that I was seeing was my cousin Elizabeth Herring, and to her I wrote one of my To Elizabeth poems. In 1831 I sent ...
- 604: Karen Louise Erdrich
- ... received her masters degree. Michael Dorris was impressed with her work when he attended one of her poetry readings. When he moved away, the two kept in touch, sending their work back and forth with letters. In 1980 they both moved to New Hampshire and began collaborating on short stories. When their short story The Worlds Greatest Fisherman won five thousand dollars they decided to expand it into a novel ...
- 605: Saint Francis of Assissi
- ... have appeared during his early years, with his combination of vivacity, petulance and charm. Childhood At the proper time young Francesco Benardone was sent to clergy of San Giorgio, his parish church, to learn his letters and the ciphering necessary for a merchant. He sat on a bench with the better-class boys, chorusing sacred Latin. He was not a brilliant student. The three extant scraps of his writing betray a ...
- 606: Ty Cobb
- ... grabbed Clarke's throat with such fury that it took three men to pull him off (Wulf 45). Before he even reached the majors, Cobb tried to attract interest in himself by writing false pseudonymous letters and postcards to famous sportswriter of the time Grantland Rice, praising himself in an effort to be noticed and get called up to the majors (Wulf 45). Cobb knew he was hated by most players ...
- 607: Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
- ... gave Tiberius a bad name with the people of Rome and the senate. Tiberius continued to rule Rome and the empire from the isolation of Capri. Tiberius often confused and baffled the senate with his letters. The senate was frequently unable to interpret his mysterious messages. Tiberius continued to live at Capri. His character was weakened by years of hard work, worry and intense pressure. According to Suetonius he engaged in ...
- 608: Kurt Cobain: Collection of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
- ... easy for people to get along and have empathy. Only because I love and feel sorry for people too much I guess. Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. I'm too much of an erratic, moody, baby! I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away ...
- 609: Jules Verne
- ... When Jules was in his young 20s, he wrote operettas librettos for about 2 years while continuing to practice law. He was appointed as the Secretary of the Theatre Lyrique in Paris. He made some letters to his mother commenting on his shabby clothes compared to the clothes poets there. He started to become a very busy people. Verne was married on January 10, 1857 to Honorine de Viane. He only ...
- 610: Leonhard Euler
- ... he remained for 25 years. In 1744 he became director of the academy's mathematics section. During his stay in Berlin, he wrote over 200 articles, three books on mathematical analysis, and a scientific popularization, Letters to a Princess of Germany (3 vols., 1768-72). In 1755 he was elected a foreign member of the Paris Academy of Science; during his career he received 12 of its prestigious biennial prizes. In ...
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