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Search results 3081 - 3090 of about 4850 matching term papers
- 3081: Gregor Johann Mendel
- Gregor Mendel was one of the first people in the history of science to discover genetics. He independently discovered his work and lived in Brunn, Czechoslovakia. In Brunn he was a monk and later the Abbot of the church in Brunn. While he was in Brunn he performed many experiments with garden peas. With the information he observed ...
- 3082: Herman Melville
- ... a bank clerk, and in 1837 went to sea. For 18 months, in 1841 and 1842, he was crewman on the whaler Acushnet. Then he jumped ship in the South Seas. For a time he lived among a tribe of cannibals in the Marquesas. Later he made his way to Tahiti where he idled away nearly a year. After another year at sea he returned to America in the fall of ...
- 3083: Charles Babbage
- ... Babbage agreed, at the age of 71, to have the completed section of his Difference Engine shown to the public for the first time. Babbage's many disappointments led him to say that he never lived a happy day in his life. Babbage died in 1871, two months shy of his 80th birthday.
- 3084: George Bizek
- ... s premier performance from both the public and the press. Next he wrote a melodrama, L'Arlesienne (The Girl From Arles). This was his attempt at revitalizing the melodrama form. It's success was short lived however, but the music was so well liked that Bizet made an orchestral suite from it and it became known as L'Arlesienne Suite #1. Bizet's next and best known opera was to be ...
- 3085: Kurt Cobain: Biography
- ... During this period of his life Kurt got caught up with the drug community of Aberdeen and started heroin, an addiction he would never defeat. Many blame his death on this horrendous drug. Kurt often lived under a bridge along the muddy banks of the Wishkah river during that period. Kurt had been just hanging out when he met Chad Channing and Krist Novaselic and they would go on to find ...
- 3086: Jules Verne
- ... Paul in 1897. At the turn of the century, Verne stayed as an active person and continued to write, even with age and illness. March 24, 1905, his family were all with him as he lived his last day of his life. 4 days later, he was buried at La Madeleine in Amiens. With the burial, the world lost the "Father of Science Fiction", a great writer and a prophet.
- 3087: Jimi Hendrix
- James Marshal Hendrix was born on November 27th 1942, in Seatle Washington. He was considered by many to be the greatest guitarist to have ever lived. When he was 12 years old, his father traded his saxaphone to buy an inexpensive acoustic guitar for Jimmi. Though he never learned to read music, he tought himself by getting together with other local ...
- 3088: Satie, Erik
- ... known as Les Six regarded Satie as a kind of tutelary genius, and in 1923 one of them, Darius Milhaud, tried to found an "Ecole d'Arcueil," named for the obscure Paris suburb where Satie lived in extreme poverty.
- 3089: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... In the Beginning God," which was written for orchestra chorus and soloist. Again he was still able to keep an underlying jazz feel. People began to take note of one the greatest composers that ever lived. Duke once used the phrase "beyond category" to describe singer Ella Fitzgerald (Johnson,58). Who would ever think that people would ever think of Duke in that category as well. One of New York University ...
- 3090: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... Schmit, 15). This would be the composers last visit to Bonn. After his mother's death on July 17, 1787, Beethoven went back to Vienna to study with Hayden in November of 1792, where he lived for 35 years (Tames, 14). He was unsatisfied with Hayden because he was preoccupied and commonly missed many mistakes made by Beethoven (Schmit, 17). Beethoven, then, went to Neffe who himself started composing at the ...
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