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- 971: Reinhold Niebuhr
- ... in 1944 helped to found the Liberal Party in New York State. He received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 and was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on June 1, 1971. Niebuhr indicated his overriding interest in what has been called theological anthropology, a concern with the nature of man as a contact point for religion and society, in such ...
- 972: 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 ...
- 973: Peter Tchaikovsky
- ... and London. Three years later he even ventured to come across the Atlantic and conduct his own works in New York at the ceremonies of the opening Carnegie Hall, as may be read in his letters in amusing details of his triumph and homesickness. And for the summers there were a series of modest but comfortable country houses in Russia where he could compose in peace, from Maidanova, with which he ...
- 974: 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 ...
- 975: Leonhard Euler
- ... he received part of his salary from Russia and never got on well with Frederick. During his time in Berlin, he wrote over 200 articles, three books on mathematical analysis, and a popular scientific publication Letters to a Princess of Germany (3 vols., 1768-72). In 1766 Euler returned to Russia. He had been arguing with Frederick the Great over academic freedom and Frederick was greatly angered at his departure. Euler ...
- 976: Karl Marx
- ... critiques other social ideas of the modern day. The final and fourth part discussed the differences between his political issues as apposed to those of the other oppositonal parties. This part ends in bold capital letters "WORKINGMEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" The days of November 1850 fall almost exactly in the middle of Marx's life and they represent, not only externally, an important turning point in his life's work ...
- 977: Karl Marx
- ... critiques other social ideas of the modern day. The final and fourth part discussed the differences between his political issues as apposed to those of the other oppositonal parties. This part ends in bold capital letters "WORKINGMEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" The days of November 1850 fall almost exactly in the middle of Marx's life and they represent, not only externally, an important turning point in his life's work ...
- 978: John Updike
- ... with Martha Bernhard and her three sons. He married Martha on September 30 of that year. In 1970 he traveled with his daughter Elizabeth to Japan and Korea. In 1992 Harvard gave him Doctors of Letters Degree during the June 31 commencement. 1998 Harvard awarded him the Harvards Arts First Medal and later that year he traveled with his wife to China ("Updike,John 414). When he moved his family ...
- 979: James Boswell
- ... not been very successful. I shall publish about March. "If you can direct me how to send proposals, I should wish that they were in such hands. "I remember, Sir, in some of the first letters with which you favoured me, you mentioned your lady. May I enquire after her? In return for the favours which you have shewn me, it is not much to tell you, that I wish you ...
- 980: Herbert Spencer
- ... was a subeditor of The economist from 1848 to 1853, and then ventured into a full-time career as a free-lance author. As early as 1842 Spencer contributed to the Nonconformist a series of letters called The Proper Sphere of Government, his first major publication. It contains his political philosophy of extreme individualism and Laissez Faire, which was not much modified in his writings in the following sixty years. Spencer ...
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