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- 3251: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... selected men of God to leads the world to perfect peace and perfect love. Thomas Woodrow Wilson grew up in a fantasy world. He talked to the trees giving elaborate orations as a child. He lived his entire youth within his mind. He yearned to be great, like the heroes of his dream world, not his sickly frail self. An inferiority complex grew from a comparably weak nature to that of ...
- 3252: Walt Disney
- ... of the most successful and innovative people in the entertainment industry. ’s life began on December 5, 1901; Walt was one of four boys and one girl. When Walt was a toddler, his family lived on an apple farm outside of Marcline, Missouri (Montgomery 7). Walt’s two older brothers ran away when Walt was very young because their father ruled the house with an iron will (Montgomery 7). When ...
- 3253: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... a critic for long though because he was fast becoming an alcoholic. Poe, at this time is fully estranged from his foster father and sought help from his aunt, Maria Clemm, a poor widow, he lived with her and her daughter. Poe married Virginia Clemm in 1837, he 28 and she 14. During the 10 years they were married Poe was poor, sick, and began having fits of anger. Many times ...
- 3254: Lewis Carroll
- ... Throughout his juvenile years he received an endless series of excellent marks, prizes, and congratulations. When he was eighteen, Charles applied to the Christ Church College at Oxford University. Here he studied, gave lectures and lived for the rest of his life. Again, he distinguished himself with the first class honors in math, second class in classics and the Butler scholarship. According to this scholarship, he was to remain unmarried and ...
- 3255: Carl Gauss
- ... that he had used his least squares approximation method. This successful prediction started off Gauss's long involvement with the field of astronomy.On October ninth, 1805 Gauss was married to Johana Ostoff. Although Gauss lived a happy personal life for the first time, he was shattered by the death of his benefactor, The Duke of Brunswick, who was killed fighting for the Prussian army. In 1807 Gauss left Brunswick to ...
- 3256: Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
- ... virtuous and less barbaric. Jefferson studied the arts to help him become a more humble, open-minded person. He believed that no one could be too polite. Love one another was the concept that he lived his life by. Proved to be a failure because when one person loves everyone the evil will walk over him or her. After the 35 years of loving everyone America is better off only loving ...
- 3257: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... art but Leonardo did more than just paint. He became known for his achievements in sculpture, architecture, engineering, and also science. He has served as the court painter under Louis XII in France and also lived under the patronage of Pope Leo X. He is best known today though for two great masterpieces. The Mona Lisa, which resides at the Louvre in Paris, and The Last Supper, a mural in the ...
- 3258: Malcolm X
- ... Malcolm attended school until eighth grade living with different families. When his teacher stopped him from trying to become a lawyer, he dropped out of school and went to his older half sister, Ella, who lived in Boston. There, he took a job as a shoeshine boy at the Roseland Ballroom. A career as a hustler seemed a more tempting option, and he was soon peddling narcotics. He met a white ...
- 3259: Wallace Stevens
- ... the reality and imagination. Unfortunately it wasn't until after World War I that Americans and Europeans realized that Stevens was worthy of much more praise than he received when he was alive. Wallace Stevens lived a life full of accomplishments and successes and made an impact on many people's lives. He was a poet, a playwright, a lawyer, a businessman, a husband and a father. He died in Hartford ...
- 3260: William Shakespeare
- ... officially recorded, but along with most remarkable men the power of myth and symmetry has proven irresistible, so April 23 it has become. Parents and Family Shakespeare's parents were John and Mary Shakespeare, who lived in Henley Street, in Stratford. John, the son of Richard Shakespeare, was a whittawer (a maker, worker, and seller of leather goods such as purses, belts and gloves) and a dealer in agricultural commodities. He ...
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