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- 6781: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... 1936,(later recognized as the year of three kings),the death of her grandfather King George V brought little Elizabeth's first stage of youth to a close. Under the opinion of the nursery and school- room the King's favorite grandchild was advised not to attend the ceremonies. However, intent on doing the proper thing, she did not heed this advice and went along-side her parents. Her father's ...
- 6782: A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
- ... been said that many of Duke's pieces are almost impossible to exactly duplicate without the personal style of the original musicians. One of the strange things that was known about Duke was that his school music teacher, Mrs. Clinkscales, who played the piano, was always the inspiration for him to just sit down and start tinkering around with a few notes that usually became big hits. In his band the ...
- 6783: Andy Warhol
- ... with a bachelor degree in pictorial design. After graduating he moved out to New York City, where his life blossomed. He lived for a couple of years with Philip Pearlstein, who he had met at school. Warhol, with his education centered around design, set out to begin his career on the right foot. He started doing drawings for advertisements in a women's shoe catalog. It may not have been much ...
- 6784: Black Boy: Richard's Hungers
- ... his grandmother views these stories as devilish and forbids him to read such things. Granny is very oppressive and the cause of much his educational hunger. Moreover, many times Richard is unable to go to school because they did not have enough money, not only for books, but also for clothing to make him look presentable. A greater part of his education is not by way of formal schooling but learning ...
- 6785: Colt: A Man and His Guns
- ... clothes. Science, adventures of an active life, and mechanics were all the favorite passions of young Colt. The adventures eventually led Colt into trouble. At the age of seventeen Colt was expelled form a preparatory school in Amherst, MA. During the years of 1830 - 1831 Colt voyaged to India.. It was during these years that Colt first conceived the idea of a revolving firearm. Some think it may have come from ...
- 6786: Holdens Revelations
- ... from growing up. Holden first realizes that he cannot protect the children as he is delivering the note to his sister. On the way, he encounters a bad word written on the wall of the school. Holden carefully rubs it off with his hand to protect the innocent children from reading it. Later he finds another bad word scratched into the surface of the wall with a knife. He discovers that ...
- 6787: Nikola Tesla
- ... on July 10, 1856. His father was a clergyman of the Serbian Orthodox Church and his mother an expert needle worker and an inventor of home implements. Tesla received a technical training at the polytechnic school in Graz and the University of Prague. In 1881 he began work for the newly founded telephone company in Budapest, and in late 1882 he joined the Continental Edison Company in Paris. Tesla went to ...
- 6788: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... Wallace from interfering with integration in the public schools of Birmingham, Tuskegee, and Mobile. Kennedy also asked Congress to pass a civil rights bill that would guarantee blacks the right to vote, to attend public school, to have equal access to jobs, and to have access to public accommodations. Kennedy told the American people, 8"Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promises
to act, to make ...
- 6789: Pablo Casals
- ... Doing this, he wrote the famous "El Pesebre" (The Manager), which is still listened to widely in Spain, even today. Casals wrote and preformed many other pieces of music that are commonly taught in music school in Spain, today. Being an ardent opponent of Fascism, Casals exiled himself from Spain. He did this in a protest against the regime of Frincisco Franco. For a time, he even stopped performing altogether. After ...
- 6790: Thomas Jefferson
- ... the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for the Boston Tea Party of the preceding year. Jefferson and other younger members of the Virginia Assembly ordained a day of fasting and prayer to demonstrate their sympathy with Massachusetts. Thereupon, Virginia's Royal Governor Dunmore once again dissolved the assembly (Koch and Peden 20). The members met and planned to call together an inter-colonial congress. Jefferson began ...
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