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- 2211: Josephy P. Kennedy II
- ... formal education includes a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts in l976. He is married to the former Beth Kelly and is the father of two children. His father was the late Senator Robert Kennedy of New York and his uncle was the late President John F. Kennedy. Congressman Kennedy's political background includes a strong family history in public service. Upon his graduation, his occupation was to form ...
- 2212: Nikola Tesla
- ... s Strategic Defense program known as "starwars" the result of secret research based on Tesla's discoveries half a century before? Nikola Tesla allowed himself only a few close friends. Among them were the writers Robert Underwood Johnson, Mark Twain, and Francis Marion Crawford. In his later years, Tesla was alone with only his inventions and calculations, although he did bred pigeons later in life, who he gave all the affection ...
- 2213: Albert Einstein and His Theories
- ... is transferred in individual units, or quanta-contradicted a hundred-year-old tradition of considering light energy a manifestation of continuous processes. Virtually no one accepted Einstein's proposal. In fact, when the American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan experimentally confirmed the theory almost a decade later, he was surprised and somewhat disquieted by the outcome. Einstein, whose prime concern was to understand the nature of electromagnetic radiation, subsequently urged the development ...
- 2214: Eric Clapton
- ... overall. Bibliography Bogdana, Vladimir; Erlewine, Michael; Koda, Cub; Woodstra, Chris. All Music Guide To the Blues. Miller Freeman: San Francisco. 1996 Miller, Jim. History of Rock and Roll. New York. Rolling Stone Press. 1976. Santelli, Robert. The Big Book of Blues. New York: Penguin 1993.
- 2215: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... Ellington, Duke." The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 1988 ed. "Ellington, Duke." The New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. 1980 ed. Hajdu, David. "Sofisticated Gentleman" Entertainment Weekly. 31 May 1996. p.72-73. Johnson, Robert. "On his 96th Birthday, Duke Ellington Proclaimed 'BEYOND CATAGORY' by Critics of his Great Music." Jet. 15 May 1995. p.58-61.
- 2216: John Muir's Trail in History
- ... love of nature. Through a series of articles appearing in Century magazine, Muir drew attention to the devastation of mountain meadows and forests by sheep and cattle. With the help of Century's associate editor, Robert Underwood Johnson, Muir worked to remedy this destruction. In 1890, due in large part to the efforts of Muir and Johnson, an act of Congress created Yosemite National Park. Muir was also personally involved in ...
- 2217: Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist
- ... became the only woman member appointed to the Board of Governors of the CBC. Also, in 1938 at the age of 65, she was the only Canadian woman delegate to the League of Nations. Sir Robert Borden, Canadian prime minister, recognized Nellie's contributions to Canada when he appointed her the only woman member of the Dominion War Council. Nellie did many things as a feminist, and in addition to her ...
- 2218: Adam Smith
- ... the age of about fifteen, Smith proceeded to Glasgow university, studying moral philosophy under "the never-to-be-forgotten" Francis Hutcheson (as Smith called him). In 1740 he entered Balliol college, Oxford, but as William Robert Scott has said, "the Oxford of his time gave little if any help towards what was to be his lifework," and he relinquished his exhibition in 1746. In 1748 he began delivering public lectures in ...
- 2219: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... EPCOT was not perfect Walt Disney's wife, Lilly and Roy agree that the would have approved it.26 FOOTNOTES 1. Barbra Ford, Walt Disney ( NewYork: Walker and Co. Inc., 1989), pp. 9-10. 2. Robert D. Feild, The Art of Walt Disney ( NewYork: The Macmillion Company, 1968), pp. 13-22. 3. Ford, pp. 21-22. 4. Feild, pp. 13-22. 5. Bob Thomas, Dianey's Art of Animation From Mickey ...
- 2220: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- ... it into consideration and referred it to a committee of the whole, into which they immediately resolved themselves, and passed that day & Monday the 10th in debating on the subject. It was argued by Wilson, Robert R. Livingston, E. Rutledge, Dickinson and others That tho' they were friends to the measures themselves, and saw the impossibility that we should ever again be united with Gr. Britain, yet they were against adopting ...
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