25 Jul 2020 ... Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer renowned particularly for ... But at Leipzig his time was devoted not to the law but to song composition, ... Fricken, but long before the engagement was formally broken off (Jan.
J.P. Morgan, in full John Pierpont Morgan, (born April 17, 1837, Hartford, ... Morgan had intimate and highly useful connections with the London financial world, ...
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader who was the most powerful figure in China ... It was not until Mao's death in September 1976 and the consequent fall from ... In 1987 Deng stepped down from the CCP's Central Committee, thereby ...
23 Jul 2020 ... A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician who was president of ... Unlike scientists, engineers are not free to select the problems that ...
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose ... Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional ... sought his advice on how to ward off a threatened Turkish incursion in Friuli.
Pablo Escobar, Colombian criminal who, as head of the Medellin cartel, was ... Not only did the facility include a nightclub, sauna, waterfall, and soccer field, it also ... The euphoric effects of sniffing cocaine are relatively transitory and wear off ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen consort of both Louis VII of France (1137–52) and Henry ... She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe. ... lifetime; after the loss of Normandy (1204), it was her own ancestral lands and not the ... Richard insulted Leopold V, duke of Austria, by tearing down his banner and ...
Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, ... Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University. ... He took off his leather apron and became a gentleman, a distinctive status in the ... Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Benjamin Franklin · UShistory.org - The ...
24 Jul 2020 ... Muhammad Ali, American boxer and social activist who was the first ... who were opposed to war in any form, Ali was not eligible for such an ...
Antoine Lavoisier, prominent French chemist and leading figure in the ... as a student was not a subject particularly noted for conceptual clarity or theoretical rigour. ... Noting that burning gives off light and heat, that warm-blooded animals ...
27 Jun 2020 ... Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, mathematician, and political ... Leibniz dreamed of reconciling—a verb that he did not hesitate to use time and ... His baccalaureate thesis, De Principio Individui (“On the Principle of the ... To ward off this danger and divert the King's interests elsewhere, the ...
Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), and a ... together, which they did after Hewlett-Packard formally turned down Wozniak's design in 1976. ... He would later be renowned for his insistence that the Macintosh be not ...
Christopher Columbus, master navigator whose four transatlantic voyages ... way to one shaped from the perspective of the inhabitants of the Americas themselves. ... Felipa died in 1485, and Columbus took as his mistress Beatriz Enríquez de ... by which down to this day we do not know certainly that anyone has passed; ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian army officer who served as prime minister ... by the Muslim Brotherhood, Nasser cracked down on this extremist Muslim religious ... Even the loss of two wars, with disastrous results for Egypt, did not dim the ...
Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote ... There is no reason to suppose that the marriage did not settle down into an ...
24 Jul 2020 ... Read more about Bach's life and career. ... His experience at Lüneburg, if not at Ohrdruf, had turned him away from the secular string-playing ...
30 Jul 2020 ... Joseph Conrad, English author of Polish descent whose works include the ... Conrad's father, Apollo Nalęcz Korzeniowski, a poet and an ardent Polish ... whole ship's company, except Conrad and the cook, was down with fever. ... finest, and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies not only the heart ...
Author of With La Salle Down the Mississippi and others. ... His discovery of the Ohio River, however, is not accepted by modern historians. ... La Salle and Tonty succeeded in canoeing down the Mississippi and reached the Gulf of Mexico.
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely ... Clara Schumann discredited the story, saying the disability was not due to a ... He also promoted the work of some contemporary composers, including Chopin (about whom Schumann famously wrote, "Hats off, Gentlemen!
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Robert Schumann, Leif Ove Andsnes, Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff - Schumann: ... It's busy but not to the point where you want to turn it off. ... l'opus 88, Fantasiestücke, une série de quatre compositions essentiellement dédiée au piano.
He could hardly put it down and kept telling me what a great book it was and how the author was not only scholarly but also had the ability to write entertainingly.
Biography of Spiro Agnew, vice president for U.S. Pres. Richard ... could be indicted, Agnew launched an attack on the administration and vowed not to resign.
The director's humility towards reality paid off the best in Cześć Tereska / Hi, Tereska. The black-and-white cinematography, (there was no money for working out ...
Pompeii, preserved ancient Roman city in Campania, Italy, that was destroyed ... The cities had not yet recovered from this catastrophe when final destruction ... and other volcanic debris began pouring down on Pompeii, quickly covering the ...
9 Sep 2019 ... His 1916 poem, "The Road Not Taken," is often read at graduation ceremonies ... but she turned him down because she first wanted to finish school. ... was one of the most significant periods in his life, but it was short-lived.
While Kazakhstan was not considered by authorities in the former Soviet ... Very fertile soils characterize the lands from far northern Kazakhstan down to the ...
28 Jul 2020 ... There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of ... Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th ...
Augustine asserted that Christians' credibility was dependent on their not being ... and one sister, he seems to have been the only child sent off to be educated.
In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the ... Arabs of today, however, are not exclusively Muslim; approximately 5 percent of ... Arabs live in cities and towns, where family and tribal ties tend to break down, ...
A moving body keeps moving not because of its inertia but only because of the absence of a force to slow it down, change its course, or speed it up. Read More ...
Whether or not Wikipedia can solve these demographic problems, it has undoubtedly ... This set off the so-called “UNIX wars” among minicomputer enthusiasts.
24 Jul 2020 ... The Four Seasons, group of four violin concerti by Italian composer ... Spring (Concerto No. ... To go in haste, slide, and fall down to the ground, ... signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from ...
Cathaysia, a landmass comprising the former tectonic plates of North and South China, was not incorporated into Pangea. Rather, it formed a separate, much ...
Italo-Ethiopian War, an armed conflict in 1935–36 that resulted in Ethiopia's ... League of Nations when League decisions were not supported by the great powers. ... in which statues of Mussolini were torn down, Fascist symbols removed, and ...
Versailles, Palace ofThe Marble Court at the Palace of Versailles, France. ... Landscape artist André Le Nôtre created symmetrical French gardens that included ... North of the terrace, manicured ornamental gardens slope gently down to the ...
The islands—including Taiwan, those of Japan and Indonesia, Sakhalin and other ... subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide ... The mountain systems of Central Asia not only have provided the continent's ...
Although they were not yet working in what was to become the Futurist style, the group ... represented Marinetti's demands for a pared-down elliptical language, ...
31 Jul 2020 ... In a gallop, it pushes off with the hind legs, and the front legs come down almost together, but no two hooves touch the ground at the same time.
The Andes are not a single line of formidable peaks but rather a succession of ... of the Peru-Chile (Atacama) Trench off the Pacific coast of the continent and the ...
Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain ... It was not until July 2 that Hitler even ordered a consideration of the problem of ... phases, the underlying object was always to wear down Britain's air defense, and ...
Secession, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding ... the territories should remain free; i.e., slaveholding should not be permitted in them. ... central government when the rebellion had been put down, and that therefore ...
But not everything expressed in words—even when organized and written down—is counted as literature. Those writings that are primarily informative—technical, ...
3 days ago ... Although Indonesia did not become the country's official name until the time ... of strong relief and is one of the most active volcanic zones in the world. ... low hills grading down toward the stable platform of the Asian mainland; ...
Rhine River, German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Celtic Renos, Latin Rhenus, river ... Flow down the Rhine River to Wagner's Die Walküre and take in the valley's waterfalls ... No other river in the world has so many old and famous cities on its ... Downstream, the regulated Neckar, after crossing the Oden uplands in a ...
