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- 361: Bob Dylan
- ... Dylan absorbed his surroundings as a source of inspiration. Even during his early efforts Dylan responded very positivly to mainstream musicians, such as country star Hank Williams. Yet, he responded especially well to early rock stars such as Little Richard, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. In the summer of 1959, after graduation Dylan began to work at a cafe, where he began to pay increasing attention to folksingers such as ...
- 362: Biography on Mario Lemieux
- ... Cup and during award ceremonies. In my writings I use a lot of quotations from famous and not so famous people. I don't just talk about Mario Lemieux, I also mention other famous hockey stars on numerous occasions. I am an excellent biography full of interesting information, statistics and pictures of an amazing hockey player. I recommend myself to hockey lovers everywhere.
- 363: Louise Brooks
- ... a Broadway comedy with Leon Errol called Louie the 14th, and finally as a showgirl in the 1925 edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. Here she was the bane of her directors and often her co-stars as well due to her cavalier approach to the business. When the Follies went on tour, Brooks stayed in New York. Already she had made a brief appearance in The Street of Forgotten Men, a ...
- 364: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... to their house. From his bedroom window, Adolf could see the cemetery. Years later, neighbors recalled that young Adolf was sometimes seen at night sitting on the wall of the cemetery gazing up at the stars. And there were now more problems for Adolf. His grade school years were coming to an end and he had to choose which type of secondary school to attend, classical or technical. By now, young ...
- 365: Jackie Robinson
- ... to get things done. Before Robinson broke baseball's color line the grass was green, the dirt was brown, and the players were white. All of them. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig became stars while playing in segregated leagues that excluded some of the most talented players of the era. The "Negro Leagues" that were formed in response to segregation produced legends like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, but ...
- 366: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... was happening, mischievous Ernest made something happen. He would sometimes use forbidden words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who he saw as a phoney. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Very much ...
- 367: Ralph Ellison’s Life
- ... music, he felt like he could do so: He was from the same spiritual corner as Louis Armstrong, who knew of cutting and shooting but had danced in the gutter while doggedly staring at the stars. He was also of Duke Ellington’s persuasion, an artist bent on the democratic eloquence that speaks most indelibly through the tragicomic resolution of the primitive and the sophisticated. (Crouch 90). Music was Ellison’s ...
- 368: Hitler
- ... he had to confront it. He was buried in the cemetery by their home. Adolf could see the exact grave plot from his window. Neighbors often viewed Adolf sitting in the cemetery looking at the stars. Adolf was almost through with grade school and had to choose between a classical or technical secondary school. He wanted to become an artist. But his father wanted him to become a Civil Servant, so ...
- 369: Benjamin Banneker
- ... have been lazy because he slept well into the morning when others were out tending their farms. What they didn’t know was that he spent nearly every night gazing at the heavens, mapping the stars and planets, and working on an almanac. Working mostly alone, with very few visitors, he published an almanac in 1792. The almanac offered weather data, tidal information, recipes, medical remedies, and poems. It was the ...
- 370: Michael Jordan
- ... said would happen when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson left the league. Another route that may be taken is that he may actually enhance the sport of basketball by walking away from it. Other young stars may want to work harder to be “The Next Michael Jordan.” This, however, seems a tad less likely to happen than the latter. Michael was more than just a basketball player, he is also a ...
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