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August 10th, 2008 -- Posted in Who |
Lord Byron was born in London on January 22, 1788. His father, John Byron, died in 1791, and Byron spent most of his youth with his mother, Catherine Gordon Byron, in Scotland. He was educated primarily at Harrow School, and later attended Cambridge. When he was ten, he inherited his title and estates, most notably Newstead. In 1806, he published his first book of poetry, but suppressed the edition and destroyed most of the copies. The book was revised and published in 1807. The critical response was mixed, and in response he published the satirical poem, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in 1809. That year, he also took his seat in the House of Lords, and attended a few sessions. However, Byron did not speak in Parliament until 1812, after he returned from nearly two years abroad and recovered from his mother’s death in the summer of 1811.
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July 25th, 2008 -- Posted in Who |
Biography of Nadia Bjorlin-Who is Nadia Bjorlin?
Nadia Bjorlin’s life began on August 2nd in Newport, Rhode Island. She is the fifth child out of six of Ulf and Fary Bjorlin. When Nadia was two months old, the Bjorlin family moved to Sweden, her father’s native country. Nadia’s father was a conductor and composer of classical music, which Nadia grew to love. After traveling abroad for a few years, Ulf took a job conducting the Florida Philharmonic and Palm Beach Symphony. In this time, Nadia had fallen in love with music and had began performing professionally when she was only six years old. She and two of her brothers, Jean-Paul and Ulf Jr., began performing as the Bjorlin Trio at her father’s concerts. Her father also featured Nadia in his musical adaptations of classic stories, such as Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen”, and “The Portrait of Raoul Wallenberg.” Ulf Bjorlin Sr. passed away when Nadia was twelve.
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June 16th, 2008 -- Posted in Who |
The Biography of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A.
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among
numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur
Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first
American to receive the University of Louisville’s
Grawemeyer Award in Education and in 2000 he
received a Fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. He has received honorary
degrees from twenty-two colleges and universities,
including institutions in Chile, Ireland, Israel, and
Italy. In 2004 he was named an Honorary Professor
at East China Normal University in Shanghai. In
2005 he was selected by Foreign Policy and
Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential
public intellectuals in the world. He has been
elected a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical
Society, the National Academy of Education, and
most recently (2007) the London-based Royal
Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures, and Commerce. He serves on a
number of boards, including the Spencer
Foundation and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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June 6th, 2008 -- Posted in Who |
The biography of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and as the world’s preeminent dramatist. He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. Already popular in his own lifetime, Shakespeare became more famous after his death and his work was adulated by many prominent cultural figures through the centuries. He is often considered to be England’s national poet and is sometimes referred to as the “Bard of Avon” (or simply “The Bard”) or the “Swan of Avon”.
Shakespeare’s works have been translated into every major living language, and his plays are continually performed all around the world. Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the literature and history of the English-speaking world, and many of his quotations and neologisms have passed into everyday usage in English and other languages. Many have speculated about Shakespeare’s life, including his sexuality and religious affiliation.
Many of Shakespeare’s plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, histories, comedies and romances, all of which have been translated into every major living language.
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June 3rd, 2008 -- Posted in Who |
Peter Turnley’s Biography-Who is Peter Turnley ?
PETER TURNLEY graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in French Literature, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, where he received a graduate degree in International Relations. During the 2000-2001 academic year, Turnley was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has also received Honorary Doctorates from the New School of Social Research in New York and Saint Francis College in Indiana.
Peter Turnley’s photographs have graced the cover of NEWSWEEK over 40 times. In addition to working as a contract photographer for that publication from 1984-2001, Turnley’s photographs frequently appear in international magazines such as STERN, PARIS MATCH, GEO, LIFE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES, VSD, LE FIGARO, LE MONDE, and DOUBLETAKE.
During the past twenty years, Peter Turnley has covered nearly every major news event of international significance. He has photographed world conflicts in the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq (2003), the Gulf War (1991), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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