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- 3021: Alfred Nobel
- ... his family to St. Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, at the age of nine. There his energetic and inventive father soon acquired a strong and respected position as an inventor and industrialist. Nobel subsequently lived in several countries and ultimately came to regard himself as a citizen of the world. Even so, he never gave up his Swedish citizenship. By virtue of the education he received in many countries, Nobel ...
- 3022: Biography Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ... 1963. This story involves a researcher at General Electric. This novel shows how much Vonnegut uses his real life experiences. He uses war examples, the numbers of kids he has and the places he has lived. On October 7, 1970, he opened his first play Happy Birthday, Wanda June. This play lasted on Broadway until March 14, 1971. One major criticism of this play is that women don't have any ...
- 3023: Biography Of Katharine Hepburn
- ... the play, asked her if she still knew her part. Hope was sick and they needed her to perform. She spent all day the next day memorizing her lines. Katharine did her best. “I lived through it ... so did the cast.” She did have one disappointment. Aurthur Hopkins didn't come to watch her perform. In the spring of 1930, Kate played roles in the plays The Admirable Crichton ...
- 3024: The Work Of John Collier
- 1John Collier, a contemporary English author, was born in London, England on May 3,1901 and lived his last years in Palisades, California where he died of a stroke on April 6, 1980. Collier was a writer of the 1920's era, educated in post-Victorian England, and according to Anthony Burgess ...
- 3025: Alfred Nobel
- ... Hamburg, Germany, was exporting nitroglycerin explosives to other countries in Europe, America and Australia. Over the years he founded factories and laboratories in some 90 different places in more than 20 countries.(Encarta) Although he lived in Paris much of his life he was constantly traveling. Victor Hugo at one time described him as "Europe's richest vagabond." When he was not traveling or engaging in business activities Nobel himself worked ...
- 3026: Shakespeare And His Plays
- ... playwright. The odds were against him, but he rose to the occasion and wrote over 38 plays which made him famous throughout the world. He is still considered to be the best playwright that ever lived.
- 3027: The Life And Work Of Nemerov
- ... a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force attached to the United States Air Force. In 1944, he married an English girl, to whom he's still married. After the war, Nemerov and his wife lived in New York for a year. During this time, his first volume of poetry, The Image and the Law, was published. In 1946 he held a position as instructor of English at Hamilton College, Clinton ...
- 3028: Herbert George Wells
- ... of man, and not even science can control them (Costa, Richard Hauer: 33). Although many of his novels were scientific in origin, in his later years he was surrounded by destruction, hate, and fear. He lived through both World Wars, in 1905 his mother died, in 1910 his father died, in 1927 his second wife died. It is not surprising that some of this despair would be part of the mood ...
- 3029: Frederick Douglass And Slavery
- ... nigger in the world... forever unfitting him for the duties of a slave." As a slave child some experiences were hard to describe. Douglass witnessed, as a child, what he called a "horrible exhibition." He lived with his Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane slave holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave. Douglass was often times awakened by the screams ...
- 3030: Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
- ... band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he was eight years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on ...
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