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- 3381: Harriet Tubman
- ... incwell.com p.1) In 1844, Harriet Ross married a free black man named John Tubman. Harriet remained a slave, but was able to stay nights in Tubman’s cabin. Although she was married, Harriet lived in fear of being shipped to the deep South, a virtual death sentence for any slave. Her fears became reality in 1849, when the owner of the Brodas plantation died and many of the slaves ...
- 3382: The Biography Of Ernest Hemingway
- ... War in 1937 provided material for his For Whom the Bell Tolls. Following WWI, Hemingway returned to northern Michigan to read, write, and fish, and then to work for the Toronto Star in Canada. He lived briefly in Chicago, where he came to know Sherwood Anderson. In 1921 he married Hadley Richardson and they moved to Paris, where he was foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. His newsbeat was all of ...
- 3383: Alan Dean Foster
- ... fiction ever to do so. Though restricted (for now) to the exploration of one world, Foster's love of the far-away and exotic has led him to travel extensively. After graduating from college he lived for a summer with the family of a Tahitian policeman, camping out in French Polynesia. He and his wife JoAnn Oxley, of Moran, Texas, have traveled to Europe and throughout Asia and the Pacific in ...
- 3384: Malcolm Little
- ... life for independence for blacks in America and around the world. He was known world wide. He discovered this on his pilgrimage to Mecca when people recognized him and spoke of his speeches. He never lived to see the true results of his efforts but we today can see and appreciate the efforts of him and many others, from Martin Luther King Jr. to John F. Kennedy. Black men and woman ...
- 3385: Mark Twain And His Writings
- ... of the Wilkes family causes a great deal of pain and embarrassment. When Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he tried to put to paper his autobiographical accounts from his childhood when he lived in Hannibal, Missouri (Blair, 65). The major difference between Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer is that Huck Finn represents all that is wrong with the human race through the eyes of a boy in the ...
- 3386: Pablo Picasso
- ... and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. In the early 1930's, Picasso did a large quantity of graphic illustrations. During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1950, he pursued new methods of lithography. The l950's saw the beginning of a number of large retrospective exhibits ...
- 3387: Pablo Picasso
- ... things too. He made sculptures, prints, drawings, dishes and bowls, and even costumes and scenery for plays. When Picasso died in 1973, more of his paintings were appearing in more museums than ever before. Picasso lived to be 92 years old. Even though Picasso was from Spain, he would not like to paint people of Spanish descent. He thought that people of Spanish descent were inferior to those who were not ...
- 3388: Jean Toomer
- ... Five months later, in January of 1916, he moved to Chicago to begin his studies. By the fall of 1916 he also began supplementing his education with studies at the University of Chicago. "I have lived by turn in Washington, New York, Chicago, and Sparta (Georgia)... I have worked, it seems to me, at everything: selling papers, delivery boy, soda clerk, salesman, shipyard worker, librarian-assistant, physical director, school teacher, grocery ...
- 3389: The Life Of Edvard Munch
- ... in harmony with nature, and horses. These images were portrayed in strong clear colors. "Through fresh and spontaneous brush strokes he conveyed a sensuous tribute to the sun, air, and the earth." At Ekely Munch lived in a self-chosen isolation, surrounded only by his pictures. He was in constant production, but he parted only reluctantly with his paintings, which he referred to as his "children". Although, he made arrangements to ...
- 3390: Eighteenth Century Philosophers
- ... most influential democracy in the world and his ideas carried from democracy to democracy and have lasted for over two centuries. Owen was a different type of man for the time period in which he lived. He began his career as a worker in the local cotton mill, and by the age of just twenty-three, he had worked his way up to owning his own extremely profitable cotton mill. One ...
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