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- 1201: Michael Crichtons Life
- ... His early works deal with preexisting literary forms. VII. Prestige A. His novels have been translated into 24 languages. B. He has directed seven movies. C. He is the creator and executive producer of the television series E.R. D. In 1995, E.R. won 8 Emmys. VIII. Computers A. He is a computer expert. B. In 1994 he won an Oscar for technical achievement. IX. Marriage A. Current wife is ...
- 1202: Martin Luther King
- ... people. Dr. King could see the, big picture , of the political climate. He realised the effectiveness of white brutality to the black cause as the American public was shocked and horrified as they viewed on television. Then they and the government were moved to action. Dr. King s self-esteem is surrounded by love, growth, character, values, achievement, meaning, and self-actualisation. From childhood he knew his value as a human ...
- 1203: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... two daughters Lynda Bird and Luci Baines. With an inheritance from her parents Claudia bought a radio station in Austin which was losing money. After some time the LBJ Company Inc. owned a lot radio television stations. In 1937 Johnson was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Some years later, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Johnson entered active duty and became a lieutenant in the Navy ...
- 1204: Lizzie Borden
- ... and a harmless church going spinster (Meganet, 1998). Over the course of a century Lizzie has become the subject of biographical, true -crime narratives, novels, plays, poems, a ballet, an opera, and a made for television movie. Lizzie was judged innocent in her trial but she ended up serving out a life sentence as a social outcast in Fall River. Lizzie died on June 1st, 1927, at the age of 67 ...
- 1205: Kobe Bryant
- ... get snacks and drinks before you even take off and every flight includes a meal and a movie (team favorites are a bootleg copy of Devil's Advocate and Jerry Springer's Too Hot For Television). But after the novelty wears off, it's a pretty exhausting existence. You fly in with just enough time to get to your hotel, maybe sleep, then shoot around, play the game and, win or ...
- 1206: Jules Verne
- ... all kinds of readers: rich, poor, young, old, scientists, artists and rulers. He wrote over 80 books mostly before 1900 and a few of the things he described were helicopters, modern weapons, movies with sound, television and rockets. Jules Gabriel Verne was born in 1828, in Nates, France. Jules' parents were of a sefaring tradition, one factor which influenced his writings. As a boy, Jules Verne ran off to be a ...
- 1207: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... body very straight. He grew increasingly shy during this time and when approached by other people, he would become very tense. More and more, he remained at home, alone in his room or staring at television. His face was often blank, and he gave the more or less permanent impression of someone who could do nothing but mope around, purposeless and disengaged. He had one friend, who drifted apart from him ...
- 1208: Jack Kevorkian
- ... when she started forgetting songs and failed to recognize notes as she played the piano (Filene 188). ³She read in Newsweek about Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his Mercitron¹ machine, then saw him on the Donahue¹ Television show² (Filene 188). With her husband¹s consent but objections by sons and doctors, she telephoned him to arrange to kill herself (Filene 188). She still had a life expectancy of at least ten years ...
- 1209: Ella Baker
- ... as other male leaders, the civil rights movement would not have been the same without her. Shortly before her death in 1986, a documentary titled "Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker" was aired on public television. Fundi is the Swahili word for a person who passes on skill to a younger generation. It is a fitting description of Ella Baker's legacy. graduating from Shaw University, she moved to New York ...
- 1210: B.b. King
- ... he played in small clubs, and then in larger venues in the mid-1960's. He has toured extensively through- out the United States and around the world, appearing in concerts, at blues festivals, on television, and in films. How did Riley B. King receive the nickname B.B. King? Well, he was known as " the blues boy from Beale Street," later shortened to B.B. "Riley B. King is the ...
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