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- 2231: George Washington: Biography
- ... to cure Lawrence of tuberculo sis, but Lawrence died in 1752 after returning to America. George inherited the Mount Vernon estate. Washington first gained public notice in October 1753 when he was dispatched by Gov. Robert Dinwiddie to warn the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf against further encroachment on territory claimed by Britain. Washington at the age of 22, was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Although he lacked experience, he learned ...
- 2232: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... was not perfect Walt Disney's wife, Lilly and Roy agree that the would have approved it.26 Foot Notes 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 ...
- 2233: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... Winston, 1968. Hensley, Jeannine, ed. The Works of Anne Bradstreet, Boston: Harvard University Press, 1967. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England, 4th ed. New York: New York University Press, 1970. Spiller, Robert E., W. Thorp, T.H. Johnson, H.S. Canby and R.M. Ludwig, Literarty History of the United States, 3rd. ed. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1963. Stanford, Ann. Anne Bradstreet: The Wordly Puritan. New ...
- 2234: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... two actual scenes of violence. Psycho is a film that takes place more in the mind of the viewer than on the screen. The movie is based on a novel with the same name by Robert Bloch, which was a fictionalization of a real event in Wisconsin (Bowers 1393). Marion Crane is the first character that is really introduced. She is upset because her and her boyfriend Sam can not get ...
- 2235: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... little commercial success. Critic Benjamin Brawley considers the work "only partly a success" and remarks quite unjustly upon "the lack of local color and the mediocre quality of the English" (qtd. in Revel p. 65). Robert Bone opines that it is Dunbar's most successful novel and remarks misleadingly that it is "widely regarded as his spiritual autobiography" (Bone, pg. 39). The Uncalled is the story of the childhood and young ...
- 2236: R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer
- R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer R.L. Stine was born november 8, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio and was named Robert Lawrence Stine. R.L. Stine's first house was three story's high, with a garage. His dog named Whitey (half collie, half husky, half elephant) spent his days and nights there because he was ...
- 2237: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer: Biography of R. L. Stine
- It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer: Biography of R. L. Stine R.L. Stine was born October 8, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio and was named Robert Lawrence Stine. R.L. Stine's first house was three story's high, with a garage. His dog named Whitey (half collie, half husky, half elephant) spent his days and nights there because he was ...
- 2238: Charles Darwin
- ... India. Captain George Peacock, a fellow scientist who took to the sea after his life's thesis on evolution was rejected by the national science academy, invited Darwin to the vessel. Darwin's close associate, Robert Fitzroy, accompanied him on the voyage and served as a crewmember aboard the Beagle. Darwin derived one of his most significant theories from the Galapagos Islands. Darwin noted that several species of finches dominated the ...
- 2239: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... caused him to lose his ring. The Lords of Discipline is the only book banned from the campus. The vulgar language in the book may offend some readers (Pumphrey 1). It was nominated for the Robert Kennedy Book Award in 1981. It was made into a movie in 1983 (Disc. Auth. 3). After Conroy graduated The Citadel in 1967, he started teaching English at various local high schools. In 1969, he ...
- 2240: Daniel Webster
- ... new manufacturing businesses grow. Angry southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Carolina's John C. Calhoun argued that South Carolina had the right to nullify or ignore the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert Hayne in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the Union states by a very powerful but short speech. He said, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," made him a favorite ...
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