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- 521: Blaise Pascal
- ... s. This almost assuredly makes Pascal second only to Shickard who manufactured the first in 1624. Pascal faced problems with the design of the calculator due to the design of French currency at the time. There were 12 deniers in a sol, and 20 sols in a livre. Therefore there were 240 deniers in a livre. Hence Pascal had to deal ... of the area of any segment of a cycloid and center of gravity of any segment. He also solved the problem of volume and surface area of the solid of revolution formed by rotating x-axis of the cycloid. Pascal also issued a challenge offering two prizes for the solution to these problems. Wren, Laloubere, Leibniz, Huygens, Wallis, Fermat and other ...
- 522: Sir Anton Dolin
- ... sent to London for training in dramatics. In the metropolis Pat studied under Italia Conti, and at the same time he attended the Pitman School for instruction in stenography and French. In 1917, a month after attending a performance of Princess Seraphina Astafieva’s Swinburne Ballet, the thirteen-year-old boy registered for lessons with the Russian ballerina. A former pupil ... Swan Lake and his own The Nightingale and the Rose. During the following two years Dolin and Nemchinova toured Holland, Germany, France, and Spain, offering among other compositions, Dolin’s Revolution, Espagnol, and Rhapsody in Blue. The Nemchinova-Dolin company was disbanded early in 1929, Dolin rejoining the Ballet Russe. The second engagement lasted only a short while-Diaghilev’s death ...
- 523: The Life And Times Of The Man
- ... United States in 1879, while also defending his patents (which were upheld in 1888) against numerous lawsuits. With money from the Volta Prize, awarded to him in 1880 by the French government, Bell established the Volta Laboratory. Among the new devices he invented there were the graphophone for recording sound on wax cylinders or disks; the photophone, for transmitting speech on ... showed when he decided to move them to a much healthier climate in Canada after his brother had died. The times Bell lived in could be highlighted as the Industrial Revolution (1830-1914), American Civil War (1861-1865), and World War I (1914-1918). At the time of Bell's birth James K. Polk was president of the United States; More ...
- 524: The Life And Works Of Frederic
- ... half a century, but by the third decade of the nineteenth century, changes in the instrument and its audience transformed the piano's role in musical life. As the Industrial Revolution hit its stride, piano manufacturers developed methods for building many more pianos than had previously been feasible, and at lower cost. Pianos ceased to be the exclusive province of the ... 1837, Chopin travelled to London in the company of Camille Pleyel in the hope of forgetting all unpleasant memories. Soon afterwards, he entered into a close liaison with the famous French writer George Sand. This author of daring novels, older by six years, and a divorcee with two children, offered the lonely artist what he missed most from the time when ...
- 525: Benedict Arnold
- ... truly was, and read of the reasons that he lost his love for the Colonial army, and its government. The Battle of Saratoga was a major battle in the American Revolution; it helped persuade the French into signing a Treaty with the United States that helped turn the tides on the British. Major General Horatio Gates was the commander of the Army of the North. His ...
- 526: Benjamin Franklin
- ... to make his illegitimate son, William, royal governor of New Jersey. Franklin was later greatly disappointed when William was unwilling to repay his father's generosity by supporting the American Revolution. At age 62, he was given the honor of being inducted into the French Academy of Science. Franklin's success as a diplomat was greatly due to his fame among the European elite as a scientist. While in Paris, Franklin was the first to ...
- 527: Culture, and Arts of Argentina
- ... folk art has there been crucial influence from Native America cultures. Any Literature in Latin America was to be written in one of the Romance languages, primarily Spanish, Portuguese, and French, from the 15th century to the present. Latin American literature is tremendously varied in its scope. It encompasses narratives by early explorers and settlers, which tell of their encounters with ... The third period of Latin American literature witnesses the accomplishment of a definitive "authentic" national character after a catastrophic event. Mexican literature, for example, acknowledged its national character after the Revolution of 1910, since Cuban literature did so after Fidel Castro came to command in 1959. Many scholars feel that Puerto Rican literature cannot develop a national character unless the island ...
- 528: Mexico City
- ... de Iturbide took over Mexico City. Afterwards Mexico City was attacked many times. Mexico City was captured by US troops in 1847. Mexico City fell again in 1863, to invading French troops. General Porfirio Diaz led a revolt and seized power in Mexico City in 1876. The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 and Diaz resigned the next year. Today the houses and other buildings in Mexico City reflect the great contrasts of the city. There are many Spanish colonial ...
- 529: Chanel, Gabrielle
- ... Establishment. But if one looks at documentary footage of her from that period, one can still feel the spit and vinegar of the fiery peasant woman who began her fashion revolution against society by aiming at the head, with hats. Her boyish "flapper" creations were in stark contrast to the Belle Epoque millinery that was in vogue at the time, and ... yolk of the zeitgeist. By the time Katharine Hepburn played her on Broadway in 1969, Chanel had achieved first-name recognition and was simply Coco. BORN Aug. 19, 1883, in French village of Saumur 1909 Opens first shop, a millinery, in Paris 1910 Moves to Rue Cambon, where the House of Chanel remains 1923 Debuts Chanel No. 5 1939 Closes her ...
- 530: Charles Dickens
- ... three ghosts, and learns the error of his ways by becoming a warm, caring man. A Tale of Two Cities tells about the rulers in England and of how the French Revolution had an effect on them. This book was written in weekly installments in 1859. Great Expectations was, without a doubt, the most popular out of all of his works, and ...
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