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- 1881: Albert Einstein
- ... uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Alberts mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja, and hey could often be ...
- 1882: Alber Einstein
- ... 1933, Hans Albert visited him often, ultimately setting here with his own family. Einstein younger son Eduard, began reading Shakespeare at the age of five. He got his father permission to concentrated on music and literature but did not achieve success. Eduard later accused his father of ruining his life a nervous breakdown. Although Einstein rushed to Switzerland when Eduard became ill, neither he nor the psychiatrists were able to help ...
- 1883: Jane Addams
- ... were meant for marriage and not education, at the age of 17, Addams enrolled into a woman college called Rockford Seminary. During her 4 years at Rockford, she took courses in German, Latin, Greek, history, literature, algebra, and trigonometry. She also studied science-geology, chemistry, mineralogy, and astronomy-as well as music, philosophy and Bible history ( Kittredge 34). On top of taking these difficult courses, she scored nearly perfect in almost ...
- 1884: Shel Silverstein
- ... found it necessary to use it as a parable for society. Each book was a pure example of energetic wordplay. A Light In the Attic, published in 1981, scored a major breakthrough for children's literature when it captured the number one spot on the adult, nonfiction, best seller list, a position it occupied for several weeks. Where The Sidewalk Ends, published after A Light In The Attic, was considered a ...
- 1885: Story Of J Robert Oppenhiemer
- ... 8:15 A.M., so he said at least. For the first time, J. Robert Oppenheimer wished he had never been such a successful physicist. He wished that he had studied math, or perhaps even literature. Anything except for theoretical physics would not have put him in the position to one day sit on this wretchedly guilty throne of thorns that he now sat on. It seemed like time stood still ...
- 1886: General George Patton
- ... didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights fixed on becoming a combat general. He had one major obstacle to overcome, however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographic maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when ...
- 1887: Paul Ehrlich
- ... ordinary professor at Frankfurt University. Ehrlich received the freedom of the city of Frankfurt in 1912. IV. Miscellaneous Information When Ehrlich was 28 years old, he met Hedwig Pinkus. Hedwig had an excellent education in literature and modern languages. In 1883, Paul and Hedwig married at Neustradt Synagogue. They had two daughters, Stephanie and Marianne. In December of 1914, Ehrlich had a slight stroke. The doctors tried to reduce the risk ...
- 1888: Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe Literary critism is extremely essential in the understanding of literature works. Critism on Edgar Allan Poe varies with poems, short stories, and other literary works. Harold Bloom has published two books maybe even more on the critism and interpretation of Edgar Allan Poes works ...
- 1889: Pablo Picasso
- ... an Andalusian of Majorcan origin. In 1896 Picasso entered the school of fine arts where his father was a professor. In 1900, Picasso visited Paris, at the time the world's centre for art and literature, and became infatuated with its street life, in particular, the area of Montmarte, Paris' bohemian district where he was able to study the City's poorer people. More importantly, it was here that he discovered ...
- 1890: Mark Twain
- ... as a humorist but was not always appreciated by the writers of his time as anything more than that. Successive generations of writers, however, recognized the role that Twain played in creating a truly American literature.For Twains Critics, the novel is racist on the face of it because many characters use the word nigger throughout the book. It is not just white people that feel Mark Twain is not a ...
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