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- 1851: Alexander The Great 2
- ... His father was an excellent general and organizer, while his mother was extremely intelligent.At the age of thirteen he became a pupil of Aristotle. It was Aristotle who inspired Alexander's great love for literature. Through his mentor Alexander learned the Greek ways of living and the ideals of Greek civilization.However, it was not all work and no play for the young Alexander. He spent a great deal of ...
- 1852: Alexander The Great
- ... of Epirus. At the age of 13, Aristotle was hired to be Alexander s private tutor. Aristotle inspired interests of politics, other races of people and countries, plants and animals, and a great love for literature in Alexander ( Overview of Alexander the Great. 1). He was an outstanding athlete and excelled in every sport of his time (Durant 538). In 338 B.C., at the age of 18, Alexander led the ...
- 1853: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- ... award. When he was deported, Aleksandr was finally able to receive it. During his acceptance speech he said he accepted the award "for the ethical force which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature" (World Book Encyclopedia, p 587). He then moved to Zurich, Switzerland, but he was being spied on by Russian agents. So, in 1975 he moved to a farm in Vermont (The Encyclpedia Americana, p 210 ...
- 1854: Albert Einstein Biography
- ... at the patent office in Bern from 1902 to 1909 and while there he completed an astonishing range of theoretical physics publications, written in his spare time without the benefit of close contact with scientific literature or colleagues. Einstein earned a doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1905. In 1908 he became a lecturer at the University of Bern, the following year becoming professor of physics at the University of ...
- 1855: Albert Einstein 3
- ... was promoted to technical expert second class. While in the Bern patent office he completed an astonishing range of theoretical physics publications, written in his spare time without the benefit of close contact with scientific literature or colleagues. Einstein earned a doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1905 for a thesis On a new determination of molecular dimensions. He dedicated the thesis to Grossmann. In the first of three papers ...
- 1856: Albert Camus
- Biography of Albert Camus Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep ...
- 1857: Aristotles Life
- ... charge, Aristotle fled to the city of Chalcis. A year after his arrival in Chalcis, Aristotle died (World Book 663). Aristotle s Physics Aristotle work on basically all of the basic known subjects (Math, Science, Literature, English, Ethic, etc ). He also made his contribution in the field of Physics and Metaphysics (means after physics). Aristotle s Physics is composed of several books and each is broken up into different parts of ...
- 1858: Archibald Macleish
- ... which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for. He was also awarded the John Reed Memorial Award for poetry by Poetry magazine. (Falk 67) MacLeish then made a career move into a different area of literature when he became the editor for Fortune magazine(Falk 91). At this time in his life MacLeish felt that society was heading in the wrong direction because of how much people depended on each other ...
- 1859: Al Capone : The Myth, The Legend
- ... had the ability to read and write, he was able to get a job in a grocery store, until he was able to get enough money to open his own barber shop. He also wrote literature and poems, when he had the time. Capone grew up in a loving family. His father never hit the kids, he only talked to them. There were no disturbances, violence, or dishonesty about this family ...
- 1860: Thomas Jefferson
- ... all important writing assignments were entrusted to Jefferson. When Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia in June, 1775, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he already possessed, as John Adams remarked, "a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent of composition" (Koch and Peden 21). When he returned in 1776, he was appointed to the five-man committee, including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, which was charged with the ...
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