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Around the World in Eighty Days, Verne
Before there was any kind of high-speed travel an English gentleman named Phileas Fogg betted 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the world in 80 or less days. He sta... |
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Alberto Santos-Dumont, Pioneer of Aviation
Alberto Santos-Dumont was an early pioneer of aviation. He was born and died in Brazil. Heir of a prosperous coffee producer family, Santos-Dumont dedicated himself to sc... |
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Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian Composer
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov, one of the most famous of Russian composers. Rachmaninov's music is considered Romantic while bearing traces of typically Russian themes a... |
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Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is, in my opinion, one of, if not the, greatest musical works in history. It is fifteen hours of gorgeous, dramatic music, coupled to an... |
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The Mysterious Island, Verne
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is a story of the escape of five prisoners in a hot air balloon. The prisoners are all Union men being held by the Confederacy in Ric... |
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Turn of the Century Timeline
History in the United States.... |
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Talat Pasha, Last Ottoman Statesman
Mehmed Talat Pasha was one of leaders of the Young Turks, an Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917) , and leading member of the Sublime Porte from 1913 until 1918. He is... |
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Ernest Shackleton, Polar Explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton is probably best known for leading a thousand mile open boat journey across the treacherous Southern Ocean after losing his ship to the crushing ice... |
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Amy Lowell, Poet
Although she never attended college because her family did not consider it proper for a woman to pursue a higher education, Amy Lowell would go on to become a critically... |
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Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (before Schönberg) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements... |
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Howard Carter, Archaeologist
Those that recognize the name, Howard Carter, usually associate it with the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The amount of preserved artifacts provided information t... |
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Robert Frost
American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) is perhaps best known for his poem "The Road Not Taken," published in 1916 in Mountain Interval, a collection of his early poetry.... |
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Herbert Hoover, 31st US President
Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a world-famous mining engineer and humanitarian administrator before turning to political a... |
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Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, a Nine... |
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Regis University Online
Regis University’s School for Professional Studies offers online degrees and certificates. These programs cater to busy adults who want to further their education without... |
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