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- 1071: T.S. Eliot
- ... British subject and was confirmed in the Church of England. His essays ('For Lancelot Andrewes', 1928) and his poetry ('Four Quartets', 1943) increasingly reflected this association with a traditional culture. His first drama was 'The Rock' (1934), a pageant play. This was followed by 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935), a play dealing with the assassination of Archbishop Thomas a Becket, who was later canonized. 'The Family Reunion' appeared in 1939. 'The ...
- 1072: Socrates
- ... to build the Acropolis. The Athenians were proud mostly of Pericles, because he was the one who founded and organized it. Anaxagoras, a scientist nicknamed "the mind", who walked around Athens daily, had found a rock that had fallen from the sky and had concluded that there were no gods, but that the sun was hot metal and the moon earth. He was put on trial by the majority, who was ...
- 1073: Socrates
- ... philosopher. His theories were not ones with which I would agree; such as those stating that all things were made of tiny substances which contained a little of everything, that the sun was a hot rock, and that the moon was made of earth. For these teachings, he was banished from Athens. Nevertheless, he was a good teacher and allowed me to realize that my philosophies were going to be antiscientific ...
- 1074: Rocky Marciano
- ... of becoming a champion boxer. In spite of Pasqualina's strong admonitions and suspicions, Rocky and his life-long close friend and trainer Allie Colombo continued to pursue the arduous routine of fully preparing "The Rock" as a professional fighter. Allie set up a brutal regimen that included a minimum of seven miles of roadwork per day, wearing very heavy training shoes. On their frequent sunrise excursions through Rocky's favorite ...
- 1075: Ralph Lauren
- ... accessories, folk art, antique country furniture and selection from the Ralph Lauren Home Collection. Polo Country stores are located in the Madison Avenue Store in New York City, and in free standing stores in Little Rock, Arkansas; Costa Mesa, California; East Hampton, New York; Oklahoma city, Oklahoma; Willow Grove, Pennsylvania and Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as Knowlton and Vancouver in Canada. AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS In addition to his dual ...
- 1076: Orson Welles
- ... Theater as the result of a feud with the Federal Theater Project after its attempt to sensor his work. Welles refused to bow to their demands to make his pro-labor play, The Cradle Will Rock, less political. Throughout the rest of his life, he preferred ostracism to compromise and often endured ridicule and condemnation rather than give in to the demands of those in authority. Welles utilizes very distinctive images ...
- 1077: Nelson Mandela
- ... not earn them any leniency toward the brutal apartheid laws. The government wasn't alone in trying to frustrate Mandelas legal practice. The Transvaal Law Society petitioned the Supreme Court to strike him off the roll of attorneys but was unsuccessful. Mandela's desire to serve his black fellow citizens had done nothing unworthy to remain in the ranks of an honorable profession (Apartheid). During the fifties, Mandela was the victim ...
- 1078: John Wayne
- ... of low budget films whose failing budgets and quick shooting schedules did little to advance his career. In 1939 John Ford gave Wayne another break by casting him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the film industry ...
- 1079: J.P. Morgan
- ... a distinctly favorable impression. After Morgan's death in 1913, he was tributed in a great fashion by the same reporters that once scolded him for his greed. Tributes centered on his "rugged honesty and rock-ribbed integrity." Theodore Roosevelt praised his "sincerity and truthfulness." Others called him and uncrowned monarch and the "embodiment of the heroic age in American industrial history." It is without doubt that J.P. Morgan was ...
- 1080: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... he was a master of it. In his London Symphonies, he shows exemplary usage of this rhythmic style. This symphony was composed of 5 movements: The Miracle, The Surprise, The Military, the Clock, the Drum Roll, and London. The movements go in the sequence of fast-slow-fast-etc. These movements were the type of music that kept you captivated now matter how slowly or fast it was played. The genre ...
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