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- 551: Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire): French Author And Philosopher 1694 - 1778 A.D.
- ... in 1718. He adopted his pen name "Voltaire" the same year. In 1726 Voltaire insulted a powerful young nobleman and was given two options: imprisonment or exile. He chose exile and from 1726 to 1729 lived in England. While in England Voltaire was attracted to the philosophy of John Locke and ideas of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. After his return to Paris he wrote a book praising English customs and institutions. The book was thought to criticize the French government and Voltaire was forced to flee Paris again. In 1759 Voltaire purchased an estate called "Ferney" near the French-Swiss border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile Voltaire produced a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of ...
- 552: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
- ... in Lennep, Germany to Friedrich and Charlotte Constance Roentgen. When he was three Wilhelm and his family moved to Apeldoorn, Nederland. His father owned a thriving cloth business so he was pretty well off. He lived right next to the Kostschool of Martinus Hermanus van Doorn, a boarding school with around eighty students, which he attended. He was expected after he graduated to go into his father s business and eventually ... first book, called Question for the Inorganic Part of the Chemistry Textbook , under the pen name of Dr J. W. Gunning. As you probably figured out that was the name of the man he had lived with in the past. People tried to find the real author but all they could find were the initials W.C.R. Wilhelm would later go to school in another college called Swiss Federal Technical ...
- 553: Leonard Bernstein
- was born in Lawrenceville, Massachusettes on August 25, 1918. He was the first born child of Samuel and Jennie Bernstein, who lived in Boston, but had gone to Lawrenceville to visit some relatives. Bernstein's parents had little knowledge of, or interest in classical music. The only records Leonard remembers hearing on his family phonograph when he ... 9, 1951, he married Felicia Montealegre in Boston. She was a young actress, born in Costa Rica, who had come to the United States trying to make appearances on the stage and on Television. They lived in a nine room duplex on Fifty-seventh Street, diagonally across to Carnegie Hall. There they raised their first two children. Their household included Helen Coates, who had been Bernstein's piano teacher from long ...
- 554: Kurt Cobain
- ... and sometimes back to his dad. To have somewhere to fit in Kurt started hanging around some older kids. This is also when he started to become a little stoner kid. From 1984 to1985 Kurt lived with his mom. She soon kicked him out because he dropped out of high school. He was a senior in high school and just weeks short of graduation. For one year he lived in friend's houses, cars and even under a bridge. In the winter of 1985 Kurt formed his first band with Krist Novoselic and Aaron Burkhard. They went through a series of names before finally ...
- 555: Kurt Cobain: Collection Of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
- ... Kurt during his teen-age years in the period from about 1979 to 1984. I was in my mid-30s and living in and near Montesano. My sister married Kurt's dad, Don, and also lived in Montesano. My grandfather comprehended the intelligence and individuality in Kurt at a time when Kurt was being beaten down mentally and physically. "Gramps" often told me of his respect for Kurt's tenacity and ... little glimpse of a happy side of Kurt. A measure of the kind of Man he was, even when he was about 15 years old: Old Man Reeves was this kind of eccentric guy who lived on Sylvia Street in Montesano. He was a loner and kids used to really give him a bad time, and do cruel things to him. He would come out on his porch and shake his ...
- 556: Race Relations In The New Worl
- ... but in the 1670's the peace came to an end. The English continued to destroy forests, put up fences, and create pastures for their cattle. This threatened the livelihood of the Native Americans, who lived by hunting game, gathering plants for food, and growing crops. This meant that Native Americans needed almost twenty times the amount of land per person as the English needed. Minor disagreements over land disputes between ... to the West Indies and on to North America in exchange for American goods such as tobacco. Although conditions varied from colony to colony for African Americans, conditions were consistently brutal. The African Americans who lived in South Carolina and Georgia labored under particularly brutal conditions. These slaves primarily cultivated rice and indigo because conditions in the low country were especially good for that. Slaves in North Carolina faced similar conditions ...
- 557: Far From The Madding Crowd: Love Is Love Is Love
- ... woo her by a showy exhibition of his sword-wielding skills. Bathsheba and Troy were married, much to Boldwood’s chagrin upon his return. The exciting and happy love between Troy and Bathsheba was short-lived. Troy’s true colors began to shine through his effervescent personality and she began to realize that she had married a very charming and convincing liar, cheat and drunk. The climactic end of their marriage ... his undying love for her. He told Bathsheba that he could never love her as much as he still loved Fanny, even though he had foolishly lost her, thus signifying the end of the short-lived, but ultimately doomed, marriage. Boldwood never seems to give up the hope that one day he, too, will be lucky enough to wed Bathsheba. His undying love remains unrequited, though, and Bathsheba turns her fancy ...
- 558: China In The 20th Century
- ... during this recovery period were successful. Industrial production increased over eighty percent from 1961-1965, while agricultural production increased about fifty percent during the same period. However, the renewed attention to living standards were short-lived. (116) In the mid-1960s, Mao Zedong became increasingly concerned with some of the social tendencies that were becoming manifest during this period. However, he had lost his dominant position in the party with the ... inflame. Similar to the case of China, Communist Party itself during Mao is a paralyzing social 11 force, it fulfilled much the same role as war did to Japan. Especially during the Cultural Revolution, people lived in a state of chaos, and it was Mao who created this kind of necessary and inevitable changes (333). The Communist Party unified the country and cleared away the landowners and stagnant class. This created ...
- 559: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Friendship Is The Key
- ... very strong and independent boy, cannot face everything that comes his way by himself. While facing all the different situations that came his way , Huck slowly lets Jim into his life; although the society he lived in before was so judgmental of black men. Huck then starts to share with Jim a gift of friendship. When Jim was feeling bad about his daughter being deaf because of scarlet fever, Huck was ... choice. He is truly a friend to Jim and sees Jim as a human just like any other. Huck finally had overcome the prejudice, misunderstanding and ignorance in his heart. At one time Huck had lived with ignorance, prejudice and misunderstanding towards others, but as his journey took him down the Mississippi, his true friendship with Jim helped him see ignorance, prejudice and misunderstanding differently. As Huck experienced many different phases ...
- 560: Lowell Mills Girls
- ... of the women mill operatives was crucial for their ability to protest wage cuts and long work days. This sense of community among the women was nurtured by the structure of mill life. The women lived and worked together in close conditions. They trained newcomers and covered for one another, when necessary. This cohesion amongst them provided the basis and the strength for their protests. It was helped by their sense ... conditions at the factory also helped to develop a sense of community among the women. Most of the women working at the mills were provided housing in company boardinghouses. The people living in these boardinghouses lived in close quarters. A common boardinghouse had four to eight women living together in the same room, which left little opportunity for privacy. Also, with the hours of their jobs and the 10:00 P ...
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