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also into his motivations, particularly in regards to marrying, and often executing, so many women. The reader sees how Henry VIII...

Welsh, a librarian (Rozell, 2003). Laura would become instrumental in supporting George W. Bush in his career, including his diff...

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

fact that he had been stationed at Governors Island in New York Harbor during the war where he was doing recruiting posters (1999)...

own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...

War while still serving with the Italians, and became well-decorated by the Italian government4. After returning from the war, he...

has a lot to say about the oceans of the world? Earle was born in New Jersey in 1935 ("Sylvia"). Her parents did not even have ...

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

all fire breathing radicals like Samuel Adams (Review of Brands, "The First American, 2004). And...

her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

compensated, perhaps over compensated, with his dogmatic embrace of the philosophy of the Third Reich. However, these early expe...

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

officer during the war (Biography of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 2003). Maholy-Nagy was severely wounded in 1917, and it was during his ...

and in 1923 he ended up settling and working in Detroit on the General Motors automotive assembly line. Elijah met and married Cla...

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

Cosell became a private for the Army. After serving for over four years Cosell left the service to open up a law office in Manhatt...

Clark went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University between August of 1966 and 1968, where he studied philosophy, politi...

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

a great deal bout chemistry in relationship to making glass. "Another influence in Dmitris life was his sister Olgas husband, Bess...

at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real Silence Do...

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

for President, 2004). Kerrys upbringing as a member of a vocal family and his time at Yale served him when he returned from Viet...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

that "The soldiers used to dress him in a miniature army uniform and little army boots (or Caliga) and paraded him around the camp...

other first ladies of this or any other time. The concept of first lady leadership is easy to define, but it is not as easy to ex...

old enough to venture out on her own, Evita - whose beauty helped open many a door of opportunity - sought an acting career in Bue...