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- 381: Richard Lederer: His Works
- ... neither opposites nor the same? How can raise and raze and reckless and wreckless be opposites when each pair contains the same sound? Why is it that when the sun or the moon or the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible; that when I clip a coupon from a newspaper I separate it, but when I clip a coupon to a newspaper ...
- 382: Biography of Galileo
- ... a telescope. In August of that year he presented a telescope, about as powerful as a modern field glass with a magnification of about 40. He also saw that the Milky Way was composed of stars, and he discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter. He published these findings in March 1610 in The Starry Messenger. His new fame gained him appointment as court mathematician at Florence. He was thereby freed ...
- 383: Jonathan Edwards
- ... His sense of God was formed by the Bible and by his close examination of nature. He wrote, "God's excellency seemed to appear in the clouds and blue sky; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the grass, flowers, and trees; in the water, and all nature." Edwards became known for his extremism as a pastor. He would accuse prominent church members, by name and their sins would be announced ...
- 384: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... released and it attracted mass audiences because of the rave reviews it received early on. It marked the first time in British film history that a director got more praise than did any of his stars (Kapsis 20). Besides being Hitchcock's first acclaimed motion picture, The Lodger is also note worthy because it was the movie in which one of the greatest movie traditions of all time would begin; the ...
- 385: Buffalo Bill
- ... Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. This was an outdoor wild west show that dramatized the contemporary western scene with staged Indian fights, round-ups, stage robberies and buffalo hunts. Buffalo Bill also introduced such stars as Buck Talor, "King of the Cowboys", the first cowboy hero; Annie Oakley, "Little Sure Shot"; Johnny Baker, "The Cowboy Kid"; and for one season Sitting Bull. The shows acts included the Pony Express, the ...
- 386: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... influencing the same industry with his own vision and imagination. King's writings are so widely appealing that over 42 of his works have been based upon or turned into Hollywood movies which have included stars like Jack Nicholson (The Shining), John Travolta (Carrie), and Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption). Works Cited Beaham , George . Stephen King Companion , The . Kansas City : Universal Press Syndicate Company , 1995 . Beaham , George . Stephen King Story, The ...
- 387: Ptolemy of Alexandria
- ... of accurate and scientific data recording. Ptolemy carefully distinguishes between forecasts related only to the sky and those connected to the human world. He states that it is possible to read human fate in the stars. Strangely, Ptolemy, as did other astrologers of that time period all agreed that the Dog Star was red. Today the Dog Star is blue white. No modern theory of stellar evolution can account for such ...
- 388: Descartes
- ... claim that we know these properties for specific bodies with clarity and distinction, for to do so would leave open the uestion of why it is that astronomy and the senses attribute different sizes to stars. What Descartes means is that we can be sure that these primary qualities exist in bodies in the same way that they do in our ideas of bodies. This cannot be claimed for qualities such ...
- 389: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... influencing the same industry with his own vision and imagination. King's writings are so widely appealing that over 42 of his works have been based upon or turned into Hollywood movies which have included stars like Jack Nicholson (The Shining), John Travolta (Carrie), and Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption). Works Cited Beaham , George . Stephen King Companion , The Kansas City : Universal Press Syndicate Company, 1995 . Beaham , George . Stephen King Story, The ...
- 390: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... from such archaisms as ''ere,'' ''o'er,'' ''wellnigh,'' ''whattime,'' and ''saynot.'' But Hopkins invented many new words like: beechhole (trunk of a beech tree), bloomfall (fall of flowers), bower of bone (body), firedint (spark), firefolk (stars), unleaving (losing leaves), and leafmeal (leaf and piecemeal). Gerard Manley Hopkins led a life that he thought was good. He lived a life that met both his mothers and fathers expectations. He like his father ...
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