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- 671: Charles Lindbergh
- ... water again. Although it is only the afternoon of the first day, Lindbergh struggles to stay awake. 5:52 P.M. He is currently flying along the southern coast of Newfoundland. 7:52 P.M. Stars begin to appear in the sky as night falls. The sea below is completely obscured by fog. Lindbergh climbs from an altitude of 800 ft to 7500 ft to stay above the quickly rising clouds ...
- 672: Alvin Ailey
- ... mini-performances, lecture/demonstrations, workshops and master classes in communities in the US and throughout the world. Ailey died on December 1, 1989 - and with his death, American dance lost one of its most luminous stars. Judith Jamison is now the Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
- 673: Albert Einstein 5
- ... more revolutionary papers. Einstein completed his general theory of relativity in 1915, after nearly ten years of work. In 1919, British astrophysicist, Arthur Eddington, photographed a solar eclipse. It revealed the light emitted from the stars was being bent as it passed close to the sun (Strathern 81). This confirmed Einstein s general theory of relativity, and he was catapulted to stardom overnight. Soon Einstein became a household name. In 1919 ...
- 674: Bram Stoker
- ... There were troubles with Irving's establishment and a fire destroyed part of the theater (including some important scenery) and Irving eventually sold it. Stoker did manage however to publish "The Jewel of the 7 Stars" in 1903, and it was a novel based on the information given to Stoker by an Egyptologist. In 1905 Henry Irving died, leaving the aging Stoker without a steady jot for the first time in ...
- 675: Analysis Of King Lear
- ... quotation: "Edmund. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil ...
- 676: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... and bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre in this kingdom by the sea
for the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; and the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee; and so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride ...
- 677: Charlie Chaplin
- ... years Charlie performs in various rolls throughout Europe. In September of 1910 Charlie leaves Europe with the Karno Troupe for a tour in the United States and Canada. Over the next fifty-six years Chaplin stars in, directs, produces, and composes music for countless films in America and throughout the world. The most notable of these films would be, The Tramp (1915) and The Kid (1921). On October 23, 1918 Chaplin ...
- 678: Sir Anton Dolin
- ... new premier dancer. After four years of this dual arrangement, Dolin and Markova in 1935 left the Vic-Wells company to form their own ballet troupe with Dolin as director and both the artists as stars. Early in 1938, however, Markova left to become the principal ballerina of Massines newly organized Ballet Russe, while Dolin continued to dance in revues in England and later in Australia. As principal dancers of ...
- 679: Prince William
- ... her on travels to people who were less fortunate. Prince William learned to love and learn what others love through his mother's teachings and he shared numerous interests with his mother including tennis, famous stars, music and people. Diana taught Prince William what life was like when one is not a royal by taking him to McDonald's and to theme parks. As noted in one incident, Prince Henry and ...
- 680: Life And Legend Of Howard Hugh
- ... his secret wartime combat mission under the aegis of President Roosevelt, his friendships with Cary Grant and Ernest Hemingway, his behind-locked-doors life in Las Vegas- and it revealed details of affairs with movie stars from Katharine Hepburn to Ava Gardner. McGraw-Hills announcement of the impending publication ignited a firestorm of controversy. Executives of Hughes corporations insisted the book was unauthorized. Finally on national radio hookup, an invisible ...
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