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- 6761: William Christopher Handy
- ... 15-year-old he left home to work in a traveling minstrel show, but he soon returned when his money ran out. He attended Teachers Agreicultural & Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a school teacher and bandmaster. In 1893, during an economic depression, he formed a quartet to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. For several years afterward he drifted around the country working at different ...
- 6762: Isaac Newton And Albert Einstein
- ... his closest friend was a young man named Edmund Glaley. Isaac and Albert where both living in the 1600 are in this time period. King George was the king at this time. Einstein hated his school and all of the German studies. In 1894 Albert family left him alone in the Army and to finished his studies. At the age of only 15 he had all of his independence. The he ...
- 6763: R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer
- ... he meet him at day camp when he was about 10. His first book was The Giggle Book it was really magazine, which he wrote it in 6th grade. When Mr. Stine got into high school, he became a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the last one was named Stories and Gags. R.L. Stine ...
- 6764: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer: Biography of R. L. Stine
- ... he meet him at day camp when he was about 10. His first book was The Giggle Book it was really magazine, which he wrote it in 6th grade. When Mr. Stine got into high school, he became a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the last one was named Stories and Gags. R.L. Stine ...
- 6765: Nadine Gordimer
- ... out to be the setting for Gordimer's first novel, The Lying Days (1953). Her father was a Jewish jeweler originally from Latvia and her mother of British descent. She was educated in a convent school and she spent a year at Witwaterstrand University, Johannesburg without taking a degree. She has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe, and North America, where she has often. undertaken lecture tours, but has continued to live ...
- 6766: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... 500 dollars. He was nervous and unstable, and he began to drink. Despite his frequenting liquor, he could never hold it well. He would easily become ill from the alcohol. Allan angrily withdrew Poe from school, and a few months later Poe left home. For the next four years Poe struggled to earn a living as a writer. He returned to Mrs. Clemm's home and submitted stories to magazines. His ...
- 6767: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... following lines from "Beat! Beat! Drums! ," include parallel phrases, sentence structures and meaning: Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow! Make no parely - stop for no expostulation, Mind not the timid -mind not the weeper or prayer Mind not the old man beseeching the youngman. In nearly all of Emily Dickinson's poetry there is the use of quatrains of three iambic feet, that is four lines of poetry to a stanza ...
- 6768: Albert Einstein
- ... Brian 1). Einstein had a very bad temper when he was young; he got mad and hit his sister Maja in the head with a garden hoe and cracked her skull. When he was in school, his teachers thought he was mentally retarded because he ignored whatever bored him and attacked anything he had interest in. Einstein was twenty-one years old when he got married. His marriage almost didn't ...
- 6769: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... orphaned in his early childhood and was raised by John Allan, a successful businessman of Richmond, Virginia. Taken by the Allan family to England at the age of six, Poe was placed in a private school. Upon returning to the United States in 1820, he continued to study in private schools. He attended the University of Virginia for a year, but in 1827 his foster father, displeased by the young man ...
- 6770: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... stayed for a year. He did not have enough money to make ends meet, so he ran up extremely large gambling debts to trying make more money. Then he could not afford to go to school anymore. John Allan refused to pay off Poe's debts, and broke off his engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster. Since Poe had no other means of support, he enlisted in the army. By this time ...
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