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- 2161: John Gotti
- ... again and heal the schism that had broken the family into two camps. Sammy was behind the idea of new leadership of a unified family. Sammy told Angelo that he would see how DeCicco and Robert DiBernardo would react to such a proposal before he made a firm commitment. After DeCicco agreed, the three key players were committed: Gotti, Gravano and DeCicco. DiBernardo, a very rich and influential man with strong ...
- 2162: William Shakespeare
- ... verified for certain. In 1586 he was replaced as alderman for shirking responsibilities, and in 1592 was reprimanded for not coming to church for fear of process of debt ( A Documentary). Mary, the daughter of Robert Arden, had a total of eight children with John Shakespeare. William was the third child and the first son of the family. Education Records for the Stratford grammar school from the time Shakespeare would have ...
- 2163: Charles Dickens
- ... Carol, David Copperfield and many others. For example, the villainous old man from Oliver Twist, Fagin, came from a boy Charles knew when he was working at the Warren’s Blackening Warehouse, his name was Robert Fagin. "...very old shriveled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured ....was dressed in a greasy flanned gown with his throat bare..." (pg. 75) The descriptions of the London underground streets in the ...
- 2164: The Biography of Ernest Hemingway
- ... of 1928 for Hemingway was the suicide of his father, who had been ill with hypertension and diabetes. It wasn’t until 1940 that the experience was reflected in his writing through the thoughts of Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls, and later characters sometimes expressed thoughts on suicide. In a manner, there were two Hemingways. One was the flamboyant adventurer—the legend in the spotlight. The other Hemingway ...
- 2165: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... it to a literary critic in Philadelphia. Edgar then went to Philadelphia, not considering John Allan's advice to be careful with his money, and showed the poem to the editor of American Quarterly Review, Robert Walsh. Walsh told Edgar that the chances of getting a poem published in America was very small but he promised to notice "Al Aaraaf" if it appeared. As Edgar came back to Baltimore he wrote ...
- 2166: Bob Marley
- ... of the King James Bible. The Ethiopian Church strongly discourages this. The issue, however, has been much sensationalized by the press, inkeeping with the racist stereotyping of Rastas as stoned criminals. Bob Marley was born Robert Nesta Marley in Rhoden Hall , Saint Ann, Jamaica. His father was an English marine officer and his mother was native Jamaican who lived in Rhoden Hall. After Bob was born, his father left his mother ...
- 2167: Sojourner Truth
- ... Alabama, and Truth secured a lawyer and prevailed in court to gain her son's freedom. In the mid-1830s, Truth lived and worked within a religious cult led by a self-styled prophet, one Robert Matthews, who created an autocratic "Kingdom of Matthias." When the cult imploded over charges of sexual promiscuity and murder, Truth was accused by one white couple of trying to poison them. To clear her name ...
- 2168: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... into his own. America’s other great artists—our painters, sculptors, composers—don’t really rank with the tops of all time. They’re not Rembrandt or Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright alone has that standing.” (Robert Campbell) One of America’s most influential and imaginative architects was Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout his 70 year career, Wright has not only designed nearly a thousand structures, but he has explored the ideas of ...
- 2169: Johannes Brahms
- ... to meet Liszt and Schumann, also composers. Liszt enjoyed many of Brahms' works, but their relationship never really grew into a friendship. Schumann also enjoyed many of Brahms' works, and Brahms became good friends with Robert Schumann and his wife, Clara. In a famous article, "Neue Bahnen"(New Paths), Schumann saluted the twenty year old Brahms as "The coming genius of German music." Schumann also arranged for the publication of Brahms ...
- 2170: Joan of Arc As A Leader
- ... by God to teach Joan self-discipline and prepare her for the mission at hand. One day Saint Michael came to her with a new command, one with specific instructions. Daughter of God, go to Robert de Baudricourt, who is captain of the fortress of Vaucouleurs. He will give you men-at-arms to take you to the Dauphin. (Oman,1953,117) This instruction frightened Joan, but nevertheless she accepted. Having ...
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