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- 661: Geroffrey Chaucer
- ... moor, heath, and forest were within easy walking distance. As a boy, he skated across the frozen ponds, but shared with most others a dislike of the cold; and, though responsive to the beauty of stars on a frosty night, he preferred showers of April, garlands of May, and melody of birds. He is the poet of dawn and spring. 4 He throve on literature, both classic and recent. Ovid, Vergil ...
- 662: General George S. Patton
- ... plenty of time for athletics as well. While at school, the path toward his goal became focused he planned on attending West Point as the next major step in the pursuit of his general's stars. When he graduated from high school, however, there were no appointments open to West Point in his home state of California, so he enrolled at his father's alma mater, Virginia Military Institute. As a ...
- 663: Galileo 2
- ... as a professor. By December 1609, Galileo had built a telescope of 20 times magnification, with which he discovered mountains and craters on the moon. He also saw that the Milky Way was composed of stars, and he discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter. He published these findings in March 1610 in The Starry Messenger (trans. 1880). His new fame gained him appointment as court mathematician at Florence; he was ...
- 664: Freud
- ... masculine identity. Her love of Ross gives an impression of an incestuous relationship. She has fits of jealousy over his lovers, calls him, "sex mad" and talks of him like a lover ("kissed under the stars"). She is very delusional when she believes that to Ross, she is responsible for his existence but that he owes her nothing. Her actions speak contrary to this. She is the perfect martyr, constantly making ...
- 665: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... 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 ...
- 666: Eva Peron
- ... thousands of people were killed. Juan Domingo Peron who had the post of Secretary of Labor and Welfare organized a national relief effort to aid the people of San Juan. He invited the most popular stars to participate; Eva Duarte was among them and helped aid the needy. On the 22 of January a festival was held with a great number of actors and actresses, all the benefits were destined for ...
- 667: Charles Dickens 5
- ... a little brandy to his wife and her traveling companions to calm their fears. Arriving in Boston on January 22, 1842 Dickens was at once mobbed and generally given the adulation afforded modern day movie stars. Dickens at first reveled in the attention but soon the never-ending demand of his time began to wear on his enthusiasm. One of the things on Dickens' agenda for the trip to America was ...
- 668: Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
- ... the Swedish Liner MS Kungsholm in the Caribbean in 1941. In 1942 Salinger enlisted in the United States Army and fought in World War II, where he eventually became a staff sergeant earning five battle stars. The time spent overseas played a major role in what would ultimately be the basis of most of Salinger's short stories. World War II is also where Salinger met one of his major literary ...
- 669: Christopher Marlowe
- ... in 1594 as Dr. Faustus at the Rose Theatre. V. Simmes published The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus in 1604. The following lines from this work show the possible redemption through Christ s blood: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn d. O, I ll leap up to my God! -Who pulls me down? - See, see, where Christ s ...
- 670: Charlie Chaplin 2
- ... way Chaplin and Sennett viewed comedy. He then signed with Essanay studios for a short while, and had the first million-dollar contract with First National. In 1919, Chaplin formed United Artists with friends and stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and director D.W.Griffith. He married Lita Grey November 24th, 1924. She was a young star of sixteen in his film The Gold Rush. She turned out to be a ...
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