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- 1091: 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 ...
- 1092: John Keats
- ... died when he was eight and his mother died when he was fourteen. After his mother died, his maternal grandmother granted two London merchants, John Rowland Sandell and Richard Abbey, guardianship. Abbey played a major roll in the development of Keats, as Sandell only played a minor one. These circumstances drew him extremely close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. When he 15, Abbey removed him ...
- 1093: 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 ...
- 1094: Hume
- ... matter what I've said elsewhere, experience leads me only to one honest conclusion: While others take their broad-jump leaps of faith and land in the quicksand of subjective conjecture, I stand on the rock of experience. Have you experienced the universe as a simple and unparalleled fact? Have you faced a new species of suigeneris phenomena? If you have, then you must truly be God! Of course things will ...
- 1095: Galileo 3
- ... Saturn and observed the phases of Venus and the sunspots. In between his studies and discoveries Galileo began to encounter serious opposition of the motion of the earth. He discovered that it was earth that roll around the sun. By that time, with any luck, they will be learning that the earth rolls round the sun, and that their mother, the captains, the scholars, the princes, and the Pope are rolling ...
- 1096: 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 ...
- 1097: Cultural Anthro - Karl Marx
- ... over two generations are extremely diverse in terms of education, income and occupation. And finally, lifestyle differences were increasingly eroded owing to the broad participation in recreational activities such as travel abroad, camping, going to rock concerts, and owning a VCR. Judith Blau agrees with Karl Marx point of view that economic conditions created by industrial wage labor and high rates of immigration combined with growing wealth of private capitalists, created ...
- 1098: B.b. King
- ... the nickname B.B. King? Well, he was known as " the blues boy from Beale Street," later shortened to B.B. "Riley B. King is the world's preeminent blues guitarist. There is hardly a rock, pop, or blues player anywhere who doesn't owe him something." Frank Sinatra and Nat Cole are two who use the "B.B. King style of blues." Finally, I leave you with a quote. In ...
- 1099: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... things. Before he was born Alec s father was trying to develop a method of speech for deaf people while this experimenting was going on he had a son who little did he know would rock the world with the invention of the phone. During his early years Bell and his father perfected this method of visible speech for the deaf. Alexander invented a glove whit visible speech letters printed on ...
- 1100: Frank Sinatra
- ... several movies, and many special appearances. During the 50’s and early 60’s Sinatra remained the top seller in the album market. He worked with everyone from his early inspiration Bing Crosby to young rock stars such as Quincy Jones and Elvis Presley. Besides from being an excellent singer, Frank could act. He starred in such films as The Man with the Golden Arm, Suddenly, and one of his greatest ...
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