One of photography’s true pioneers, Dr. Harold Edgerton literally stopped time in its tracks with his invention of the strobe. For the first time we were able to see the wonderful arc of the golf swing or the innate beauty of the ‘crown’ as a droplet hits a pool of milk.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman begins with a note from the editor, who is a local schoolteacher near the plantation where Jane Pittman lives. He has long been trying to hear her story, and, beginning in the summer of 1962, she finally tells it to him.
Barack Obama pictures: The early years – Chicago Tribune; The life of Barack Obama – slideshow, MSNBC; Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible – biography with slideshow, The Washington Post; Becoming Barack: 1993 Unseen Obama Interview Featured In New Movie – report & video, The Huffington Post.
BY MOHAMMED AWAL Yetnebersh Nigussie is an Ethiopian lawyer fighting for about one billion of the world’s population with some form of disability. As one of the world’s most influential disability rights activists, Nigussie lost her ability to see since the age of five. Currently, a Senior Inclusion Advisor with the international disability and development NGO – Light.
Paul VI was beatified on October 19, 2014, by Pope Francis, and was canonized this past Sunday, October 14, by Pope Francis. Paul VI was the leader of the Church during a particularly difficult and contentious epoch of its history.
With over 80 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times author of thirty five novels including WIN, THE BOY FROM THE WOODS, RUN AWAY, FOOL ME ONCE, TELL NO ONE and the renowned Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in 46 languages around the globe. Read More.
Dr. Nazih Zuhdi died surrounded by family on Tuesday morning. The internationally-renowned heart surgeon performed Oklahoma’s first heart transplant in 1985 and started championing in 1998 for a law preventing Oklahoma organ donations from being shipped out-of-state, which the legislature passed.
When Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood debuted in the Los Angeles Times, on February 4, 1938, her popularity skyrocketed. Her column appeared in 30 metro dailies, 3,000 small-town papers, and 2,000 weeklies, according to Biography.com.
Mariko Ledesma has said she is taking time out to deal with the "depression" she experienced following her controversial win on "Tawag ng Tanghalan." Mariko Ledesma backs out of ‘Tawag’ finals after criticism from show’s fans | ABS-CBN.
Sean Flynn (born Sean Rio Flynn-Amir; July 14, 1989) is an American actor best known for playing Chase Matthews in the Nickelodeon comedy-drama Zoey 101.
The fascinating story of one of golf's most amazing young talents, winner of the 2011 U.S. Open Hard-hitting Rory McIlroy was destined to become a professional golfer from the moment he recorded a 40-yard drive at the age of two. His first hole in one came when he was nine, and he played in his first pro European tour event as a 16-year old in.
Ratanlal Bhagatram Choudary is an Indian film producer who has worked in several film industries, predominantly in Tamil and Telugu along with a few films in Malayalam and Hindi. He is the founder of the production company Super Good Films. R. B. Choudary hails from a Rajasthani family.
Learn about the life, achievements and death of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, a prominent leader of Indian independence movement. He founded the Indian National Army and sought help from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to overthrow the British.
Stephen F. Austin 1793 - 1836. Stephen Fuller Austin, born in southwestern Virginia, is often called the Father of Texas. He can also be called the Father of the Texas Rangers as he founded the earliest precursor of the famous law enforcement organization.
Mjumbe wa Mkutano Mkuu wa CCM Tawi ya Mbweni Malindi, Shy-Rose Bhanji ashiriki kupiga Kura za Maoni kwa wagombea wa Serikali ya Mtaa ndani ya Chama. Malindi Estate Mbweni ya Kijani 💚💛 23/10/2024.
Lucille Ball | Biography, TV Shows, Movies, & Facts Early Life. Born Lucille Désirée Ball in Jamestown, New York, in 1911, Lucille Désirée Ball was no stranger to hardship. Her father’s untimely death when she was three years old profoundly impacted her life.
Patrick Pearse 1879-1916. In an unpublished autobiography, Patrick Pearse described himself as the ‘strange thing that I am’. So intimately was he to become associated with the Easter Rising.
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine.
Von Trapp, Maria (1905–1987) Mother of the world-famous Trapp Family Singers, whose flight from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 inspired the musical play and motion picture The Sound of Music. Name variations: Baroness Maria Von Trapp.
Sandra Bullock is an Academy Award winning actress and producer best known for her role in ‘The Blind Side’. This biography of Sandra Bullock provides detailed information about her childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
Biography of Irwin Shaw. Irwin Shaw was an American writer and screenwriter, best known for his first novel "The Young Lions". He was born in the South Bronx, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. Shortly after Irwin's birth, the family moved to Brooklyn and changed their surname to Shaw. Early Life and Career.
SIR RICHARD STEELE, English man of letters in the reign of Queen Anne, is inseparably associated in the history of literature with his personal friend Addison.He cannot be said to have lost in reputation by the partnership, because he was inferior to Addison in purely literary gift, and it is Addison's literary genius that has floated their joint work above merely journalistic celebrity; but.
At Christiania Shipping, Axel Eitzen has 10 colleagues including Axel Lorentzen (Director), Torben Larsen (COO) Industry Colleagues In the Maritime industry, Axel Eitzen has 9,543 colleagues in 754 companies located in 95 countries.
Rosalind Hicks preserved Agatha Christie’s literary legacy diligently. She defended her mother’s reputation against misrepresentations and intrusions. Her efforts contributed to the success of iconic TV adaptations.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French impressionist painter who transformed modern art with his emphasis on light brushstrokes, bright colours, and uncluttered nature.. Famed for his landscapes and series of paintings that captured the same view in different momentary atmospheric conditions, Monet is heralded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of all.
Cheryl Strayed. Writer: Wild. Cheryl Strayed is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller "Wild" (basis for the motion picture Wild (2014)), the New York Times bestsellers "Tiny Beautiful Things" and "Brave Enough" and the novel "Torch." "Wild" was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. WILD won a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, an Indie Choice Award, an.
Anthony Burgess (Febru – Novem) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist, and educationalist.
Jeffrey Hunter (1926-1969) biography on Film Reference. Original name, Henry Herman McKinnies; born Novem, in New Orleans, LA; died of a cerebral hemorrhage, , in Van Nuys, CA; married Barbara Rush (an actress), 1950 (divorced, 1955); married Joan Bartlett (a model), 1957 (divorced, 1967); married Emily McLaughlin (an actress), 1969; children: (first marriage) Chris.
Learn about the life and ministry of Kathryn Kuhlman, an American Christian evangelist who was known for her miraculous healings. Find out about her early life, TV and radio programs, lawsuits, and controversies over her healing claims.
A California native, Kevin was discovered by a Korean talent agency at the age of fifteen and subsequently moved to South Korea. He is most notably recognized as the main vocalist in the K-Pop idol group U-KISS, which debuted in 2008.
The Aw brothers gave away more than half of their companies’ income each year. Aw Boon Haw built hospitals, schools, and provided care for the elderly from the late 1920s until his death in 1954. His projects included: hospitals, colleges, and more than 300 primary schools in mainland China and Southeast Asia.
South African fashion designer who was a contestant on the second season of the Bravo television show Project Runway from December 2005 to March 2006. She earned a degree in architecture before moving to New York City where she started fashion designing. She launched her first collection in 2002.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) movement. Like his rival Utagawa Kunisada, Kuniyoshi was a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni. He established his fame as the designer of musha-e (“warrior prints”) with his series of prints entitled.
Dan Simmons Biography. Dan Simmons was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1948, and grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest. Since his first published short story won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in the 1982 Twilight Zone Magazine Short Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his.
William Blake (Novem – Aug) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He is considered one of the greatest romantic poets leaving a legacy of memorable poetry. He combined a lofty mysticism, imagination and vision – with an uncompromising awareness of the harsh realities of life.
Learn about the life of George Brent, who fought in the Easter Rising 1916 and became a successful actor in Hollywood. He was a doppelganger of Michael Collins, worked for the IRA, and had a long affair with Bette Davis.
On Novem the Pearl Harbor Task Force, under the command of Vice-Admiral Nagumo Chuichi, rendezvoused at Saeki Bay, a secluded naval port on the Bungo Straits in eastern Kyushu. It was composed in the main of units from the First Air Fleet, plus the first section of Battleship Division 3 of the Combined Fleet and ancillary units.
आज इस आर्टिकल में हम आपको चाणक्य की जीवनी – Chanakya Biography Hindi के बारे में बताएंगे।. आज जिस महापुरुष के बारे में हम आपको बता रहे हैं उनके जैसा अर्थशास्त्री, राजनीतिज्ञ, समाजशास्त्री और विद्वान आज तक नहीं हुआ ह।. उन्होंने कई ऐसे बातें बताई है जिनको अगर आप अपने जीवन में लागू करते हैं।. तो आपका जीवन सरल और सफल हो सकता ह।.
Mohandas Gandhi was born October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, the last child of his father Karamchand Gandhi and his fourth wife Putlibai. Young Gandhi was a shy, mediocre student. At age 13, he married Kasturba Kapadia as part of an arranged marriage.
Anne Sullivan and her younger brother Jimmie were sent to live in the “poor house” in Tewksbury. Conditions at the Tewksbury Almshouse were deplorable. Chronically underfunded, overcrowded, and in disrepair, the Almshouse housed an average of 940 men, women, and children during the years that Sullivan was there.
Wyndham Lewis was an English artist and writer best known as the founder of the Vorticist movement. Having travelled to Paris to study painting in the early years of the twentieth century, he returned to London in 1908 where he was amongst the first British artists to champion the virtues of Expressionism and Cubism.
In 2012, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, a collection of his writings edited by Abby Wolf, was published. His film, the four-hour documentary series, “And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK,” aired on PBS in April 2016; a companion book, which he co-authored with Kevin M. Burke, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2015.
Tom Cruise Biography Tom Cruise is a renowned American actor and film producer who is best known for his feature as a secret agent, Ethan Hunt in the ‘Mission: Impossible series. H e is considered to be among the best-paid actors in the world and also one of the biggest movie stars in the United States.
Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603?-1659), mariner, was born at Lutjegast, near Groningen, in the Netherlands. He received a sufficient education to enable him to express his ideas clearly in writing and to become a skilled navigator. He married Claesgie Meyndrix, by whom he had a daughter. After his wife died, he married Joanna Tiercx in January 1632.
Biography of Julius Caesar. The Roman emperor and commander came from a noble patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus.