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- 6941: Robert Johnson
- ... set up on a street corner in front of a barber shop, or in front of a local restaurant and play for any willing listeners. Robert made an instant connection with his audience, both on personal, and musical levels. "Well Robert was one of those fellows who was warm in every aspect, every aspect," Johnny Shines recollects. Robert was well liked by both men and women. It is true, that men ...
- 6942: Sigmund Freud
- ... Freud's group fell victim to political infighting, and some of his closest adherents (such as Alfred Adler and Carl Jung) split from the group with bitter feelings. Freud continued working, developing his theories, and writing -- producing a stunning volume of work. In 1909 he made his first international presentation of his theories, at Clark University in Massachusetts. His name was becoming a household word. In 1923, he was diagnosed with ...
- 6943: Socrates
- ... he lived to the last of his days in peace. Socrates agreed with Anaxagoras, but wanted more answers and explanations. He listened to many other scientists and philosophers, but when Anaxagoras’ book came out in writing, he read about the "Mind" and that it was the control of all living things, everything else was a "mixture". Socrates read on to many other writings, but soon found himself confused in all the ...
- 6944: St. Francis Of Assisi
- ... and threw his body against the building, miraculously holding it up. The little man was Francis. Through his dream, the pope called back Francis and listened to him yet again. Innocent III then consulted his personal advisors and concluded that Francis’s ideas had value and further to deny their validity would be to deny that one could live a life described as ideal in the gospels. Innocent III then gave ...
- 6945: Theodore Kaczynski
- ... staking the Unabomber’s cabin out. When the investigators raided the cabin and arrested Kaczynski on suspicion, his cabin was found to be a small bomb-making factory. Ten three ring binders were found containing writing and diagrams for explosive devices, sketches of boxes for containing the devices, notes on explosive chemical compounds, logs of experiments to determine the optimal design for bombs in various weather conditions, a library of books ...
- 6946: Thomas Edison
- ... while working on telegraphs and telephones. But the phonograph didn't go on sale to the public for another 10 years. It was a tinfoil phonograph. "Edison called it a "talking machine" and a "sound writing" machine." (Allen pg. 54) This was no improvement of existing technology. It was not something he planned to invent. This was something brand new and Edison's most original invention. And it happened by accident ...
- 6947: Thomas Hobbes
- ... and cruel. Hobbes coined the phrase, "Voice of the people," meaning one person could be chosen to represent a group with similar views. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes wrote his famous work, "Leviathan" which put into writing his views on democracy and monarchy. In this work, he said that life in the state of nature is "nasty, brutish, and short" and without government, we would be living in this state of nature ...
- 6948: Thomas Jefferson
- ... spirit and diversity of achievement in which he was equaled by no other American statesman, except possibly Franklin. Toward the end of his mission he reported with scrupulous care the unfolding revolution in France. His personal part in it was slight, and such advice as he gave was moderate. Doubting the readiness of the people for self-government of the American type, he now favored a limited monarchy for France, and ...
- 6949: Tupac Shakur
- ... Bastin, J.D. "Tupac Interviews & Articles" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~bastin/interview.html 22/10/97 Patrick, Tony Shakur, Tupac. "Interview" http://.stallion.jsums.edu/~awil0997/tupac/interview.html 22/10/97 Placid, Sylvester. Personal Interview 10/11/97 Unknown
- 6950: Wilhelm Roentgen
- ... a scientific society called "Natura Dux nobis et auspex" (Nature is our leader and protector). Wilhelm didn’t like keeping house so, he found a room with the family of a cabinetmaker. There he started writing his first book, called "Question for the Inorganic Part of the Chemistry Textbook", under the pen name of Dr J. W. Gunning. As you probably figured out that was the name of the man he ...
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