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to be the quintessential example of a Renaissance man, as his talents encompassed a breadth of subjects, from art and sculpture to...

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 ...

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

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

not (2000). 2. Compare Menchu, Dorfman and Rodriguezs ideas about Spanish and what factors attribute to their differences? Wh...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...

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

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...

in the introduction, wanted nothing to do with Castro and as such did not desire to know anything about him that was normal or per...

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

for a second term, but won the office again four years later. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defe...

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...

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

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