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- 741: Eliot Ness
- ... came up with a list of fifty men, he quickly brought this down to fifteen. After that he whittled it more still, until only nine names remained on his list. 1. Marty Lahart: an Irish sports and fitness enthusiast 2. Sam Seager: a tough but unobtrusive looking man who was a death row guard 3. Barney Cloonan: a giant muscular Irishman 4. Lyle Chapman: brilliant problem solver, ex Colgate University football ...
- 742: Edgar De Gas
- ... Degas eventually ended his efforts at history painting and devoted more attention to portraiture, turning images of relatives and friends into complex psychological studies. His oils and pastels depict the inhabitants of the world of sports, business, ballet, and the cafes in their self-conscious posturing and characteristic gestures. He has numerous paintings of jockeys, dancers, laundresses and prostitutes. Another favorite subject was a model at her bath. Degas' observation of ...
- 743: Ernesto Guevara De Serna
- ... reader of Marx, Engels, and Freud which all were all part of his father's library. He went to secondary school in 1941, the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled in literature and sports. At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of political crises in Argentina. These culminated in the Left Fascist dictatorship of Juan Peron, to whom the Guevara ...
- 744: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... and end his hopes of being a star halfback. In 1915, Eisenhower graduated from the academy and the Army assigned him to Fort Sam Houston, where he held the rank of second lieutenant. While coaching sports teams when off duty at Fort Sam Houston, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, a visitor from Denver, and started taking her to social gatherings at the base. On July 1, 1916, the day of his ...
- 745: Coco Chanel
- ... s townhouse on the rue Fauborg St. Honorι. It was on this street that Chanel had met the love of her life, Arthur ³Boy² Capel, who had been recently killed at the wheel of his sports car while on his way from Paris to Monte Carlo (100). Coco came out of this ordeal all the stronger, twisting open her outer shell to face her loneliness once more. To compensate for the ...
- 746: Charles Shultz
- ... with school work and she s on the phone to remind her of homework. There is an innocence to Marcie and Peppermint Patty is her protector. Marcie is also completely clueless when it comes to sports yet they still let her play on the baseball team. If these two bussom buddies ever were to squabble it would most likely be because of their shared secret crush on Charlie Brown. Franklin met ...
- 747: Bootleggers Boy
- ... his name. In 1999, the Barry Switzer Center, a $5.57 million building which houses a new weight room, a training room, coaches offices and a legends hall to honor former OU athletes in all sports was dedicated on the University of Oklahoma campus in his honor. The building, is adjacent to the south end zone building of Memorial Stadium. It's use is intended for all OU athletes, not just ...
- 748: Babe Ruth 3
- ... bat. In October 1930, Babe formally adopted Claire s daughter Julia, while Claire did the same with Dorothy. Had Babe Ruth been born fifty years later he would unquestionably have been a star in several sports, at least as a youngster. However, at the time of his youth, baseball was basically the only true "sport of choice." Nevertheless, the Babe was interested in almost all sporting activities and participated in most ...
- 749: Booker T. Washington
- ... only their living space, but also used as the kitchen for the plantation. His life went fast and devoted all of his time into some kind of labor each and everyday and no time for sports. After the civil war was over, all blacks were free and they felt that they should change their names and leave their plantations either for a couple of days or weeks in order to really ...
- 750: Alexander The Great 2
- ... Alexander learned the Greek ways of living and the ideals of Greek civilization.However, it was not all work and no play for the young Alexander. He spent a great deal of time participating in sports and daily exercise in order to develop a strong body. At a fairly young age Alexander was given many responsibilities. His father made him his ambassador to Athens when he was eighteen. Two years later ...
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