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- 651: Walt Whitman 3
- ... titles of nobility, he only wrote poetry for the common man. Whitman regarded everything with great importance for example, a single leaf of grass, was as important to him as the heavenly motion of the stars. Whitman s love of America was due to his panoramic view of the scenery and its diverse democratically inclined people America, this great land is full of democracy and republicanism (Cowley 143). This great man ...
- 652: Van Gogh
- ... know, the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."(Luchner, Laurin and George Kaye 364) The restaurant owner asked him what he meant. Van Gogh replied "see the thousands of bright stars in the blue sky. Look at the orange light coming from the windows of the dark, blue black houses standing tall against the sky. Every cobblestone in the street has a little curved shadow and ...
- 653: Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin
- ... spread, so did his social status. He began to appear on everyone s guest lists for dinner parties. After all, An evening with Gershwin was a Gershwin evening (Peyser 151). He became associated with elite stars like Gertrude Lawrence, Maurice Ravel and the Astaires. He began to change the way he dressed and talked and his manners so he could fit in with his new class of friends. One friend in ...
- 654: Norman Schwarzkopf
- ... his most important choices was in Vietnam. One of his fellow soldiers was shot and he carried him to safety when Norman already had four gun shot wounds in him. He was awarded three silver stars and controlled the air, ground, and water forces. I think anyone interested in joining the military, is currently in the military, or is just interested in these kinds of books, should read this biography by ...
- 655: Maria Mithchell
- ... a pioneer in the daily photography of sunspots and was the first to discover that they were not clouds but whirling vortices of gas on the sun s surface. She also studied solar eclipses, double stars, nebulas, and the satellites of Saturn and Jupiter. Maria Mitchell died on June 28, 1889 in Lynn, Massachusetts. Even when she was sick before her death she kept her sense of humor. Throughout her long ...
- 656: Led Zeppelin
- ... West were ridges of sandrock. It basically looked like you were driving down a channel, this dilapidated road, and there was seemingly no end to it. 'Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams...' It's one of my favorites...that, 'All My Love' and 'In The Light' and two or three others really were the finest moments. But 'Kashmir' in particular. It was so ...
- 657: James Cameron
- ... were professionals so Cameron fit right in. He quickly moved up the ranks in the studio, jumping from one movie to another. Cameron worked as art director on the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars, he did special effects work and direction on John Carpenter s Escape from New York. It wasn't until 1981 when Cameron got his first shot at directing. It was an Italian producer named Assonitis ...
- 658: John Wayne
- ... schedules did little to advance his career. In 1939 John Ford gave Wayne another break by casting him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in the 1940 s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the film industry s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate side. Movies ...
- 659: Isaac Newton
- ... Sir Isaac Newton's great discoveries left us with a unified system of laws that could be applied to an enormous range of physical phenomena. These applications let Newton predict precisely the motion of the stars, and the planets around the sun. Newton's book the Principia is still recognized as the greatest scientific book ever written. And no, an apple never hit him on the head.
- 660: Harry S. Truman 2
- ... difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer. He went to France during ...
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