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- 981: Helen Keller
- ... include: Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross, Japan's Sacred Treasure, the Philippine's Golden Heart, Lebanon's Gold Medal of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The National Institute of Arts and letters elected her membership as well. In 1952, during the Louis Braille Centennial Commemoration, Helen was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor ("Hero" 2) She had finally received all the recognition and honor ...
- 982: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... was still not convinced that the site was Troy. In fact, Schliemann was a sort of joke to the archaeological community. He was receiving no support, financial or otherwise, from his peers. Instead, hundreds of letters poured in accusing him of being a dimwit, madman, and fraud (Burg 103). Schliemann was unfazed. Ever the self-promoter, he published Trojan Antiquities in Europe and then continued with his field work (Burg 113 ...
- 983: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... the islands at this time. Magellan’s close personal friend Francisco Serraro went along on the voyage to the Spice Islands and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao’s letters helped establish in Magellan’s mind the location of the Spice Islands, which later became the destination of his great voyage. Magellan returned to Portugal in1513. He then joined a military expedition to Morocco. On ...
- 984: Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
- ... This was a complete setback for Zeppelin. Without cash, and with its only remaining engineer, Ludwig Dürr, he made himself the design of a successor. He made donation calls into newspapers and innumerable Bettelbriefe (Begging Letters) to wealthy contemporaries, which only brought mockery to it. Nevertheless the untiring zealot and missionary of the airship idea, went into the year 1905, with his second ship. The building of the LZ-2 became ...
- 985: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... collection entitled simply Poems. This volume gained the attention of poet Robert Browning, whose work Elizabeth had praised in one of her poems, and he wrote her a letter. Elizabeth and Robert then exchanged 574 letters over the next twenty months. Immortalized in 1930 in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolf Besier, their romance was bitterly opposed by her father, who did not want any of his children ...
- 986: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- ... to arouse national patriotism and fervor. Make Bright the Arrows; 1940 Notebook (1940) and The Murder of Lidice (1942) contain a variety of these verses. Millay was elected to the American Academy of Arts and letters (1940) and received the gold medal of the Poetry Society of America (1943). After her husband’s death, Millay went on living in their isolated house in Austerlitz and died there alone of a heart ...
- 987: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Tamerlane and Other Poems. Desperate for money, he joined the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry. Army barracks were no place for a young "aristocrat." Poe turned to his foster father with penitent letters, pleading for reconciliation. Mr. Allen yielded sufficiently to purchase his release from the army, which was possible at that time. Shortly afterward, a new volume of his poems was published in Baltimore, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane ...
- 988: E.E. Cummings
- ... fact, the whole poem is shaped like a '1' (200). The shape of the poem can also be seen as the path of a falling leaf; the poem drifts down, flipping and altering pairs of letters like a falling leaf gliding, back and forth, down to the ground. The beginning 'l(a' changes to 'le', and 'af' flips to 'fa'. 'll' indicates a quick drop of the leaf, which has slowed ...
- 989: Donald Barthelme
- ... s literature for the book titled "The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn" (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). In 1976 he received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982 ...
- 990: Charles Dickens
- ... Cities" appeared in a opening number and kept going through November of that year. In 1860 he had spent his time at Gad's Hill in a period of retrospection, in which he burnt many letters and reread his own copy of "David Copperfield" before beginning his book "Great Expectations". In 1865 he was in poor health and to even make matters worse his family was shook up by a railway ...
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