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- 14861: Robert Schumann
- ... to avenge himself on Clara. But this was only a temporary mood; in a letter to her in August, with words "cold and serious, yet so beautiful", Robert protested she remained "the dearest in the world". His feelings were echoed by his beloved. On August 14 they became sacredly engaged. On Clara's eighteenth birth day, Robert Wrote to Wieck asking for his consent to their marriage. He argued that his ...
- 14862: Leonard Bernstein
- ... perform, and Bernstein was chosen for a last minute substitute. He had no opportunity to rehearse the orchestra and only a few hours to prepare himself for a long and complicated program that included the world premiere of Miklo`s Ro`zsa's Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song. Bernstein appeared wearing a gray business suit, which was the first time a conductor had worn everyday clothes at a Philharmonic concert ...
- 14863: Kurt Cobain
- ... from In Utero was titled "I Hate Myself and I Want to Die". Kurt says that this was not to be taken literally. He says he wrote it to make all the people in the world hear what they wanted to hear. Everyone was saying that he was a moody, depressed man and that he always wanted to kill himself. He was sick of people saying that about him and wanted ...
- 14864: Utilitarianism
- ... the actions took place. COMMON SENSE-- We are all utilitarians. We just don t know what value to attach out moral feelings to. However, our moral feelings are part of our moral relation to the world and by regarding those feelings from a utilitarian point of view cause us to lose our personal integrity. CONCLUSION-- After gaining better insight to the theory of utilitarianism with the booth individual. I would consider ...
- 14865: John Lennon
- ... together. At 10:49 p.m. that night, John and Yoko were returning from the studio when Chapman stepped out of the shadows and gunned down John Ono Lennon at the age of 40. The world mourns the loss of John Lennon.
- 14866: Ludwig van Beethoven
- ... spoke, the man who inherited and enriched the immortal fame of Handel and Bach, of Hayden and Mozart. He was an artist, and who shall stand beside him? Because he shut himself off from the world, they called him hostile and callous... He withdrew from his fellow-men after he had given them everything, and received nothing in return. But until his death, he preserved a father's heart for mankind ...
- 14867: Vegetarianism
- ... by "ethical" vegetarians is the "...we could feed X starving people with Y percent of the resources devoted to animal agriculture..." argument. First, it falsely implies that humans are starving because of insufficient production capacity. World hunger is a result of deficient distribution of food, not deficient capacity for production of food. Our capacity to produce grain is so vast that we actually pay farmers not to produce. Secondly, if the ...
- 14868: Karl Gauss: Biography
- ... by that time most of his significant mathematical discoveries had been made, and he took up his interest in astronomy in 1801. By about 1807, Gauss began to gain recognition from countries all over the world. He was invited to work in Leningrad, was made a member of the Royal Society in London, and was invited membership to the Russian and French Academies of Sciences. However, he remained in his hometown ...
- 14869: Blaise Pascal
- ... four horse carrige the two lead horses ran off the bridge. The only thing that saved him was the traces breaking. Always somewhat of a mystic, he considered this a special summons to abandon the world of science and return to his studies of religion. He wrote an account of the accident on a small piece of paper, which for the rest of his life he wore next to his heart ...
- 14870: Apollonius of Perga
- Apollonius of Perga Apollonius was a great mathematician, known by his contempories as " The Great Geometer, " whose treatise Conics is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world. Most of his other treatise were lost, although their titles and a general indication of their contents were passed on by later writers, especially Pappus of Alexandria. As a youth Apollonius studied in Alexandria ( under ...
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