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- 881: Lewis Carroll
- ... WORKS CITED Blake, Kathleen. .Lewis Carroll.. Victorian Novelists After 1885. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1983. Vol. 18 of Dictionary Literary Biography. Green, Roger Lancelyn. The Story of Lewis Carroll. New York: Henry Schuman, 1951. Kelly, Richard. Lewis Carroll. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. Leach, Karoline. .Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll): A Brief Biogrpahy.. Online. 26 Apr. 2000. Available: www.http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/carroll/bio1.html. Pudney, John. Lewis Carroll ...
- 882: Kurt Vonnegut
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a contemporary American author whose works have been described by Richard Giannone as "comic masks covering the tragic farce that is our contemporary life" (Draper, 3784). Vonnegut's life has had a number of significant influences on his works. Influences from his personal philosophy, his life ...
- 883: John Lennon
- ... pieces - bed-ins, happenings, full-page ads declaring "War Is Over!" - to spread their message of peace. During the early Seventies Lennon fought the U.S. government to avoid deportation - a campaign of harassment by Nixon-era conservatives that was overturned by the courts in 1975 - and came to love his adopted city of New York. Then there were those five quiet years when Lennon chose to lay low and raise ...
- 884: Jimi Hendrix
- ... of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at that time, led him to play with many R&B singers from the time, such as Little Richard, King Curtis, Joey Dee and the Starliters, the Isley Brothers, and many others (Murray 38-42). The development of his own style of music, which would later be displayed at various stages of its evolution ...
- 885: Heinrich Himmler
- ... re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter." Notes 1. Joachim Fest, The Face of the Third Reich, Pantheon Books, New York, 1970, p. 115. Selected Books on Heinrich Himmler and the SS Breitman, Richard, The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991. Buchheim, Broszat, Krausnick, The Anatomy of the SS State, Collins, London, 1968. Fest, Joachim C., The Face of the Third ...
- 886: George Lucas
- ... technobrat, a cold, mechanical filmmaker devoid of warmth and humor(1, 101)." He offered the movie, American Graffiti, to United Artists, whose president suggested a two-picture deal (the other being Star Wars). Lucas had Richard Walters, a classmate at USC, write the film with Gary Kurtz as producer. After he read the script, Lucas was disappointed. He then had Bill Huyck and Gloria Katz, close friends, write another script. Finally ...
- 887: George C. Wallace
- ... of 1972, at a campaign rally in Laurel, Maryland things turned for the worse. While participating in a final round of hand shaking with the crowd. A frustrated Arthur Bremer, who also tried to assassinate, Nixon set his sights on Wallace. Bremer stalked Wallace for weeks trying to get a chance to shoot him. From a range no more than three feet away, the assassin shot Wallace 3 times, severing his ...
- 888: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... only suffered 76% casualties (Barry 30). Dwight Eisenhower was one of the most popular and successfulpresidents in our country's history. Eisenhower was elected to the office ofpresident twice. His first term with vice president Richard Nixion began in1952 (Hargrove 65). Then again in 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was reelectedto president winning by a landslide (Hargrove 76). Dwight Eisenhower solved many problems of his era. He helped to stop the Korea war ...
- 889: Daniel Boone
- ... the Ohio, where Louisville is now. There was another visit to Kentucky in 1773, and in 1774 he built a cabin at Harrodsburg. On this trip, Boone followed the Kentucky River to its mouth. Colonel Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Company hired Boone as his agent, and in March, 1775, Boone came again to the "Great Meadow" with a party of thirty settlers. They began to clear the Wilderness Road and ...
- 890: Christoper Marlow
- ... League. Then, after sharing a room with a fellow writer Thomas Kyd, he was accused by Kyd for having heretical papers which "denied the deity of Jesus Christ" (Discovering Christopher Marlowe 2). Finally, a certain Richard Baines accused him of being an atheist. Before he could answer any of these charges, however, he was violently stabbed above his right eye while in a fight Ingram Frizer (Discovering Christopher Marlowe 2). Doctor ...
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