Harry Houdini By: Eli Wight Harry Houdini is famous for his world wide magic. He has done many awesome magic like his amazing straight jacket trick and his famous milk can escape trick. Harry Houdini was born on March 24‚ 1874 in Budapest‚ Hungary. Houdini’s parents that gave birth to him were Mayer Weisz and Cecilia Steiner and he also had 6 siblings. He moved to Appleton‚ Wisconsin at a young age. Harry Houdini first knew he was going to do magic when he did his first magic trick when he was
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Daniel Handler‚ most commonly referred to as Lemony Snicket‚ was born on February 28 in the year 1970 to his parents who were a college dean and an accountant. He wanted to be known as Jiminy Cricket‚ but when he was asked what his name was‚ Lemony snicket came out and that stayed his name. He wanted to be called this because he thought it was “exactly the kind of overly moralistic‚ cheerful narrator who I despise.” (Lemony Snicket‚ The Awful Authors 1). He was born in San Francisco. Handler married
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Marie-Georges Méliès (birth name) a pioneer of the early cinema was born on December 8‚ 1861 in Paris‚ France. He was born to wealthy industrialist parents who manufactured shoes. At an early age Georges Méliès showed interest in the arts‚ and stage design. He studied stage design and puppetry in Paris at various theatres. "In 1884‚ Méliès continued his studies abroad‚ in London at the request of his parents - they insisted he learn English after which they intended him to work at his father’s
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Student: Matthew Way Case Study: Phillip Eugene Wendling‚ Appellee‚ v. Ted Puls and George Watson‚ Defendants-Appellants No. 50‚522 UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT OF KANSAS 227 Kan. 780; 610 P. 2d 580; 1980 Kan. LEXIS 280; 28 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. (Callaghan) 1362 May 10‚ 1980‚ Opinion Filed The Procedural History: Phillip Eugene Wendling‚ a Harvey County farmer and stockman‚ told Ted Puls‚ an active cattle buyer‚ in July of 1973 that he might have some cattle for sale around the middle of that
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Eugene Achike or Papa could easily be mistaken as being a ’monster’ for the ’horrible things’ that he has done throughout the novel‚ but that would not be a fair or accurate representation of his character. Throughout the novel the reader is bombarded with a flood of contradictory emotions towards Papa ranging from anger to sympathy. Through the eyes’ of the community Papa is seen as the perfect candidate for the father and husband of the year cup ; an honorable man‚ loving father‚ husband and an
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Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt among others reached the pinnacle of wealth and amassed huge amounts of money. Many individuals developed contrasting attitudes and views on this newly created wealth. Among these individuals were Andrew Carnegie‚ Eugene V. Debs‚ and Booker T. Washington. Seemingly similar people‚ and yet they were almost completely different. One was a well-known philanthropist who was one of the richest men in world‚ another was an educator and an advocate of Black advancement and
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Irena Curić dr. sc. Janja Ciglar-Žanić‚ red. prof. English Romanticism 08 January 2013 The Byronic Hero and Russian Romanticism Introduction George Gordon Byron‚ 6th Baron Byron‚ or simply Lord Byron‚ was a British poet of Scottish descent who is today considered to be the most influential British poet of the Romantic period (Catherine B. O ’Neill calls him "the best-known nineteenth-century British poet outside England"). His adventourous character and wild but appealing works made him
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His poetic short drama "Mozart and Salieri" was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer ’s Amadeus. Pushkin himself preferred his verse novel Eugene Onegin‚ which he wrote over the course of his life and which‚ starting a tradition of great Russian novels‚ follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus. "Onegin" is a work of such complexity that‚ while only about a hundred pages long‚ translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render
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Ana Lilia Aguirre Mr. Ochoa English IV January 13‚ 2015 Alexander Pushkin: Russia ’s Greatest Poet “It ’s a lucky man‚ a very lucky man‚ who is committed to what he believes‚ who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveler resting for the night at wayside inn.” (Pushkin XLIX). Alexander Pushkin is consider one of the best Russian authors of the Romantic era. Pushkin was committed to social reform becoming a spokesman of literary radicals
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had hit a bullseye with a previous Pushkin adaptation‚ Eugene Onegin in 1879. Admitting an irresistible attraction to operatic form in spite of his inability to master it‚ the maestro used the folk origins of Pushkin’s verse novel to present a series of interlinked scenes rather than a fully realized grand opera. The Queen of Spades followed in 1890‚ and was again a success (though others in between were not). More formally rigorous than Onegin yet not entirely traditional‚ it offered a mixture of
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