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- 641: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... College and persue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters he wrote at that time expressed lots of feelings and emotions that he had. But after two short years of marriage, Ellen died of tuberculosis. Suddenly, the one true person he had in his life ...
- 642: Trudeau: The Politics of My Way
- ... apparently loved it. Canada's other solo flyer, John Diefenbaker, may or may not have been a renegade in power, but the input his holitics received from Senate cronies and Kitchen cabinets was enormous. The letters and advice that daily poured in to the chief were a populist input that Diefenbaker slavishly adhered to. Trudeau was no Diefenbaker; he was neither a populist nor a renegade. Trudeau was simply a man ...
- 643: Nostradamus
- ... 1400s, many Jews had come to live there. Nostradamus' father was Jacques de Nostradame. Jacques worked as a scholary, since most people didn't know how to write he wrote things for them, from love letters to formal documents. Jacques' income provided a good home at the time. Nostradamus' earliest recollection of his home was the following: Typical of all provenηal homes in the sixteenth century was the room where both ...
- 644: Mark Twain
- ... Frog of Calaveras County." He then took a trip to Hawaii which started him on a very successful career as a public speaker. His trips to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land were recorded in letters to a San Francisco newspaper, and later formed into The Innocents Abroad, which was popular all over the world. In 1870 Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon. He then abandoned journalism to focus on serious literature ...
- 645: Jonas Salk
- ... streets, hospitals, and new-born infants after him. They sent him checks, cash, money orders, stamps, scrolls, certificates, pressed flowers, snapshots, candy, baked goods, religious medals, rabbits' feet and other talismans, and uncounted thousands of letters and telegrams, both individual and round-robin, describing their heartfelt gratitude and admiration. They offered him free automobiles, agricultural equipment, clothing, vacations, lucrative jobs in government and industry, and several hundred opportunities to get rich ...
- 646: Golda Meir
- ... Myerson was now a young mother and she had to spend the next few years raising her children. While her children were growing up, she still kept her ties to the Zionist Movement. She wrote letters to the leaders of most of the countries in the world in which she tried to convince them that the Jewish people needed a country of their own. In the beginning of this book, there ...
- 647: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... on the convenient scapegoat of "Romantic" individualism. But many others blame it on Hopkins' desire for discipline. We know that his urge towards sacrifice of intellect and a true religious anonymity was very strong. His letters to Dixon reveal an unendin
- 648: Herman Melville: His Life and Works
- ... story, has several walls of his own to break out of. In his final grasp at communication, the narrator invites the reading that Bartleby's life, and the story that presents it, are like dead letters that will never reach those that would profit from them. He leaves us with the words, "Ah Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" In "Bartleby, the Scrivener", Melville tries to relate to the reader and explain his declining ...
- 649: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... to teach creative writing at Harvard University. Vonnegut won many awards for Slaughterhouse-Five including an honorary L.H.D degree from Indiana University and the Literature Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (Litz 759). The reason the book was so popular among younger people was because of it's strong antiwar message at a time when war wasn't too popular because of Vietnam. It was mandatory ...
- 650: Killer Earthquake in Istanbul, Turkey
- ... at Istanbul, Turkey. Europe and Turkey have become good neighbors. The earthquake has bought the U.S. and Europe closer together and will help each other forever. The President of France, Jacques Chirac, has sent letters to leaders of the other 14 members states of the European union urging them to help Turkey. How come Europe is helping Turkey? Why does the U.S. of A. need help for another ...
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