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- 2261: The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher
- ... 1935, but political issues forced them to move first to Switzerland, then to Belgium. In 1941when World War II started and German troops occupying Brussels, Escher returned to Holland and settled in Baarn, where he lived and worked until shortly before his death. His work mostly unnoticed until the 1950's. Among his first admirers were mathematicians, who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas ...
- 2262: Ernest Hemingway
- ... I would recommend watching the movie to anyone who is interested in learning more about Hemingway's life. Every man's life ends the same way and it is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguishes one man from another. Ernest Hemingway Earnest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 into a fairly prominent family in Chicago. In high school he played football, but excelled ...
- 2263: Genghis Khan
- ... tribe and died. Temujin inherited his father’s position, but the rest of his tribe did not accept their new leader and abandoned a teenaged Temujin and his family. For a short time the family lived in poverty, owning only a few sheep and other livestock and digging up roots for food. Temujin, however, managed to somehow preserve a considerable fund of prestige among certain members of the tribe that had ...
- 2264: Stalin
- they say he knew only two punishments for disobedience quick death by shooting or slow death by starvation, and overwork. He may justly be numbered 2 of 3 worst men who ever lived; outdoing even Hitler whom he admired and who admired him. Joseph was not an impressive figure, not the sort of man you’d notice in a crowd. Simply dressed, he wore a khaki military tunic ...
- 2265: Wyatt Earp
- ... proven. Everitt goes on to state that Lake's book "Frontier Marshal", left out important aspects of Wyatt's life in Lamar, and for "good reason" and that Wyatt had reason to claim he never lived there. He never explained what he meant. Wyatt's other cousin George, also from Lamar, claimed that Wyatt sent him a letter in later years asking him not to say anything to biographers who might ...
- 2266: Who Was Adolf Hitler?
- ... on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Between 1909 and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914. Hitler enlisted in ...
- 2267: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... the hundreds of inventions, discoveries, improvements, and methods he had devised during his eighty-four year stay in the fields of politics, science, and humanity. What would the world be today had Benjamin Franklin not lived?
- 2268: Tina Turner
- ... some risks, including her career, but she had to get out of that situation even though it could have cost her her life. She left Ike with only 36 cents and a gas card; she lived in poverty and was totally removed from the music scene with out Ike’s guidance. Tina was strong and only in a matter of time did she come back with her international hit album hit ...
- 2269: Julius Caesar
- ... the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in the history of the city of Rome. The city was assaulted twice and captured by Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares ...
- 2270: Benito Mussolini
- ... the people of Italy were a “mediocre race of good-for-nothings only capable of singing and eating ice cream,” and he expressed sickly happiness when Naples was bombed by the Allies. He lived for almost two years after his arrest. He participated in a series of bizarre and humiliating experiences before finally coming to a gruesome end. Mussolini died on a clear spring day in April 1945. Allies ...
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