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- 1271: Lucas: King of Film
- ... and Lane Randall. "Money Machine" Forbes Mar. 1996: 126. Smith, Diane G. American Filmmakers Today. New York: Julian Messner, 1983. Sterritt, David. "Are Movie Marketers Too Mighty?" Christian Science Monitor. 31 July 1995: 1+ Wolkomir, Richard. "High-Tech Hokum is Changing the Way Movies are Made." Smithsonian. Oct. 1990: 112-125.
- 1272: Georg Cantor
- ... and blocked Cantor's life ambition of gaining a position at the prestigious University of Berlin. Not all mathematicians were hostile to Cantor's ideas. Some greats such as Karl Weierstrass, and long-time friend Richard Dedekind supported his ideas and attacked Kronecker's actions. However, it was not enough. Cantor simply could not handle it. Stuck in a third- rate institution, stripped of well-deserved recognition for his work and ...
- 1273: John Muir's Trail in History
- ... heritage. His words have heightened our perception of nature. His personal and determined involvement in the great conservation questions of his time was and remains an inspiration and stepping stone for today's environmental activists. Richard Hawley, an active environmentalist and executive director and co-founder of Greenspace, a local environmentalist group in Cambria, commented on the achievements of Muir. “John Muir was a dedicated man that had a vision... and ...
- 1274: Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
- ... how the narrator discovers the many ways he may die. Although he must rely on his senses alone to feel his surroundings, he knows that somewhere in this dark, gloomy room, that death awaits him. Richard Wilbur tells us how fitting the chamber in "The Pit and the Pendulum" actually was. "Though he lives on the brink of the pit, on the very verge of the plunge into unconciousness, he is ...
- 1275: Benjamin Franklin Was A Man of Many Accomplishments
- ... fires, natural disasters, thefts, accidents, murders, and also rapes . They were so detailed often others stole his writing. The newspaper profited him greatly (Meltzer 77). In 1732, Franklin published the first issue of the Poor Richard's Almanac (Kent 41). It was introduced three years after his own newspaper. The Almanac was very popular at the time. It contained many useful features like astrological charts, weather predictions, oddities of history, recipes ...
- 1276: Nathan McCall
- ... a man who made an offensive comment about his girlfriend. He robbed a McDonald's. He sold drugs. He broke into homes, stole cars and gang-raped girls. He went to prison. There, he read Richard Wright's Native Son and became fascinated with words. He “got into his spirituality,” and decided to “give life a try life on the other side of the fence.” Since then he has used words ...
- 1277: Important People in History
- ... discover how our ansestors had hunted for food. Louis Leykey believed that apes, gorillas and chimps could lead to a greater understanding of earlier human lives. When he passed away and Mary retired, their son, Richard took over their research. Murdock, George - Anthropologist and Sociologist (1897- 1985) Murdock studied the societies of the world. He believed that all the societies shared many similar characteristics. He had a different approach than other ...
- 1278: Robert Boyle
- ... Society. He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also an avid theologian, a philanthropist, an essayist, and a beginner in medicine. Born in Lismore, Ireland to Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and Katherine Fenton, his second wife, Boyle was the youngest son in a family of fourteen. However he was not shortchanged of anything. After private tutoring at home for eight ...
- 1279: Biography of Robert Frost
- ... and, as ed., Critical Essays on Robert Frost (1982); Hall, D., Robert Frost: Contours of Belief (1980); Katz, S.L., Elinor Frost (1988); Lathem, E.C., ed., Robert Frost's Poetry and Prose (1984); Poirier, Richard, Robert Frost (1977); Pritchard, William H., Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered (1984); Thompson, Lawrance, Robert Frost, 3 vols. (1966-76); Thompson, L., and Winnick, R.H., Robert Frost: A Biography, ed. by E.C. Lathem ...
- 1280: Symbols in Poe's Writing
- Symbols in Poe's Writing Richard Garcia Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. He was born to a southern family that were in a Traveling company of actors. His father David poe was from a Baltimore ...
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