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Biography: William Gibson (1914- )
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 238

.... on Broadway in 1958. The highly successful play was later made into a film and a musical called simply Seesaw (1973). Early works include I Lay in Zion (1943) and A Cry of Players (1968), a play about Shakespeare which he rewrote in 1968. Gibson collaborated on the book of the musical Golden Boy (1964) He also wrote a book of Shakespeare criticism called Shakespeare's Game (1978). He returned to the Helen Keller story with his play Monday After the Miracle (1982). Plays and musicals Two For the Seesaw (1958). Dinny and the Witches (1959). The Mira .....


Octavian Augustus
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2253

.... voted on laws and public office (Hanes 1997). Magistrates were the elected officials who put the laws into practice. The most important of these magistrates were the consuls. The two consuls, each elected for one year, acted as the chief executives of the state. Censors were also very important magistrates. Censors were elected every five years to take a census and record the wealth of the people. Censors also had two other very important jobs. The first was to appoint candidates for the Senate and the second was to award contracts for government projects (Hanes 1997). As .....


Christopher Columbus
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 335

.... the New World in 1492, and thought it was Asia. He and his men, unexpectedly, came across Natives and their culture, and realized this was not Asia. Columbus first landed on the island of Navidad, and ended up coming back to this New World 3 more times. He never landed on the main land of America, but he keeped on exploring the coasts of America, looking for an opening to get to Asia. Unfortunatly, he never found it because there was and is none. Columbus' attitude to all of this was pretty positive. Columbus' attitude was negative at some times, like when Queen .....


Robert Schumann
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1296

.... a friend named Friedrich Piltzing, another pupil of Kuntzch's, Robert started to explore Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. As a child, Schumann took part in several concerts at the Zwickau Lyceum. He once played Moscheles' Alexander March variations, which demanded considerable dexterity. At the public Lyceum Robert was active as both pianist and public speaker. When he was fourteen, Kuntzsch decided that his pupil had progressed beyond the point where he could give further help, and declined to teach him anymore. Shortly before leaving the Lyceum, Schumann collaborated with his .....


Roger Williams
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 381

.... friends such as Sir Henry Vane, he obtained from the Long Parliament a patent uniting the Rhode Island towns of Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick with Providence. In 1651, William Coddington secured a commission annulling the patent, but Williams, with John Clarke hastened again to England and had the patent of 1644 restored. On his return in 1654, Williams was elected president of the colony and served three terms. Always a trusted friend of the Native Americans, he often used his good offices in maintaining peaceful relations with them. But he was unable to prevent the ou .....


Edgar Allen Poe
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1970

.... treatment toward Poe is not exactly known, we know that Allen never treated Poe with sensitivity. In 1815, the Allen family moved to England on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, which would effect his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a grad .....


Jim Abbott
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 559

.... are not what make him so special; what makes Jim Abbott even more remarkable is that he only has one hand. As a child Jim's parents always told him that he could do anything he wanted to do. They knew that their son loved sports. They hoped that Jim would play soccer, which didn't require the use of hands, but right from the very beginning, Jim loved baseball. So, Jim's parents bought him a baseball glove. However, Jim was not just involved in baseball. He was the top scorer in his school's intramural basketball league, and played two years of varsity football. Jim's .....


Andy Warhol
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2813

.... 1949 when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success is a Job in New York". But by accident the credit read "Drawings by " and that's how Andy dropped the "a" in his last name. He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. In 1957 he won the Art Directors Club Medal for a giant shoe advertisement. In 1960 he produced the first of his paintings depicting enlarged comic book characters - such as Popeye and Superman - initially for use in a window display. 3 gained his .....



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