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  Lists of people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of people who died in aviation-related incidents
List of people who became famous for surviving a deadly event
List of people who have declined a British honour
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_people   (302 words)

  
 Young_Alfred biography
Burnside, as referee of Young's papers, suggested how the papers could be written to emphasise their impact on group theory and he pointed Young towards the papers of Frobenius and Schur.
Young did not read German easily and it was some years before he fully understood the work of Frobenius.
Frobenius used Young tableaux for the first time in 1903 when he investigated representations of the symmetric group but it was not until 1906 that Young learnt of Frobenius's applications of his methods.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Young_Alfred.html   (1519 words)

  
 Voltaire Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
The Abbé de Chateauneuf died before his godson left school, but he had already introduced him to the famous and dissipated coterie of the Temple, of which the grand prior Vendôme was the head, and the poets Chaulieu and La Fare the chief literary stars.
He was good-natured when not crossed, generous to dependents who made themselves useful to him, and indefatigable in defending the cause of those who were oppressed by the systems with which he was at war.
The famous "pour encourager les autres" (that the shooting of Byng did "encourage the others" very much is not to the point) is a typical example, and indeed the whole of Candide shows the style at its perfection.
www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=129   (7852 words)

  
 Schizophrenia.com - Famous People, celebrity, John Nash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
People this age typically are too young to be famous, they are just starting out their professional lives after completing high school or college.
Following is a list of famous people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, or are highly suspected of suffering (or who had suffered) from schizophrenia.
Eduard Einstein - Son of Famous physicist Albert Einstein - Eduard was born in Zurich, Swizerland on the 28th July, 1910 -- the second son of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and Mileva Maric (1875-1948).
www.schizophrenia.com /famous.htm   (1830 words)

  
 The American Experience | Fly Girls | People & Events | Nancy Harkness Love
Her long list of customers included Joseph Kennedy, Sr., who, according to one account, was more concerned in finding a wife for a future president, his son, than in buying a plane.
Love was not a headline-grabbing pilot like the famous aviator Jackie Cochran, but her qualifications as a pilot meant that her first proposal for a women's flying squadron, though rejected, was taken seriously.
The photographer who was on hand to record the takeoff, took a still of the two women anyway.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX03.html   (1219 words)

  
 Young Naturalists: Hey, How's the Weather - Minnesota Conservation Volunteer: Minnesota DNR
People often ask the State Climatology Office to help them choose the best date to plan an outdoor activity.
It was a holiday so many people were outside, away from the safety of their homes.
People who live in a cold winter climate appreciate the warmer days of spring.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /young_naturalists/weather/index.html   (1317 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Radio veteran Young tops honours list
But while famous names swamp the headlines, half of the list is dedicated to "ordinary" people and those in public services.
Their duties included the harrowing task of ascertaining who was in the building when the attack occurred, and then notifying the next-of-kin.
Mrs Barbour, who took over the family firm in 1968 when her husband died at the age of just 29, said she was "absolutely delighted and overwhelmed".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1734563.stm   (757 words)

  
 Ron's Liverpool - People
A poetess, she wrote some famous work including "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" and "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" which is traditionally recited at Thanksgiving.
Horrox died young in 1641 but he was later acknowledged by fellow astromoners including Edmund Halley and Herschel, as the father of English astronomers.
She is famous for riding alone through 100 miles of wilderness to get gun powder to save Fort Lee when under attack by local Indian tribes.
members.ispwest.com /ronsmith/liverpool/liv_19_c.htm   (1670 words)

  
 Selected History of the Shields Family in the Early United States
William Shields was the son of the John Shields who died on the ocean voyage to America.
There was a James Shields associated with William Shields during the yearly years of the American Revolution who clearly was not his son James (although both sons James and John did serve with their father), but was quite possibly his older brother.
A second probable brother was named David, who married a Nesbitt, and concerning whom a genealogical record exists which suggest a family connection with William.
www.emmitsburg.net /archive_list/articles/people/histories/shields.htm   (1579 words)

  
 The American Experience | Eleanor Roosevelt | People & Events | J. Edgar Hoover
He chose to systematically eliminate the glorified gangsters who were, by their mere existence, defaming the government and its laws.
The image of the all-powerful "G-man" who hunted for criminals and sleuthed with the latest technology appealed to the nation's need for a strong, active government during the Depression.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the secret authority which had appealed to the generation of the Depression -- a people who had been desperate for direction and security -- was no longer appreciated.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande07.html   (1139 words)

  
 FAMOUS DEAD PEOPLE
I mean people who were very famous, powerful and very rich.
People who could have chosen any cemetery in the world as their final resting place, but chose Woodlawn Cemetery for its natural beauty.
In fact, the list of famous people who are buried or interred at Woodlawn Cemetery since it opened its gates way back in 1865 goes on and on.
www.theamazingbronx.com /id9.html   (640 words)

  
 Famous Germans Austrians Swiss - The German Way
German physicist who is best known for his “uncertainty principle.” Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 for his work in quantam mechanics.
German physicist who did pioneering research related to electricity and electromagnetic waves, which were first known as “hertzian waves.” His name also became the term used for radio and electrical frequencies: hertz (Hz), as in kilohertz (KHz) or megahertz (MHz).
Before Hertz gained professorships in Karlsruhe and Bonn, he had studied under the famous scientist Hermann von Helmholtz in Bonn, and it was Helmholtz who encouraged Hertz to attempt to win the science prize that led to some of Hertz's most important discoveries.
www.german-way.com /famous.html   (3145 words)

  
 Makara's List of Anicent Egyptian People
She was recorded as having died at the age of 35 and was buried at Dashur.
He died before reaching the age of 50 and left the throne to a military commander Tuthmosis I. He was buried with a coverlet of yellow, red and blue flowers.
a Mitanni princess who was sent to marry Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty and is believed by some to be Queen Kiya, wife of Akhenaten, she was the nice of the Mitanni princess Khirgipa who had married Amenhotep earlier.
www.angelfire.com /me3/egyptgoddess/People.html   (9816 words)

  
 John List, famous murderer - The Crime Library
List himself was sure he would be caught within a week or two.
Shortly afterward, List was fired from a job for failing to keep up with company changes, and also was asked to leave his post as a Sunday school teacher, because he was too strict and demanding of the students.
A series of bad things happened in the life of List and his second wife: their neighborhood deteriorated and property declined in value.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/family/list/5.html   (1163 words)

  
 Famous Non-Masons
Membership in DeMolay often leads a young man to seek Masonic membership but such membership is no guarantee of election as a Mason and in light of the many 'scandals' surrounding his presidency, it would likely be impossible for him at this point to attempt to join.
Who knows: maybe his starring role in the 1975 film of (Mason) Rudyard Kipling's novel, "The Man Who Would Be King" following so closely on the heels of his recognition as 'Bond.
For those of us who have, we can assure you that with precious few exceptions, their hands are 'soft as mush' from having performed that act so often.
www.masonicinfo.com /famousnon.htm   (6743 words)

  
 O.J. Simpson, analysis of his murder trial - The Crime library
The ring of evidence was closing tighter and tighter around O.J. Simpson for the brutal murder of the two people who had been drawn together on that quiet summer's evening in Brentwood.
A few months before he died, he met Nicole and she let him drive her around in her white Ferrari, an experience he related to friends as "the coolest high" he had ever had.
He had lots of friends, he loved his family; he was one of those people who was always there for others, and he ultimately died in that kind of role.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/simpson/people_5.html   (2299 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights: Books: Belinda Rochelle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Perhaps the most moving is the quiet narrative by Claudette Colvin, the shy teenager who one day decided she'd had enough and refused to get out of her bus seat for a white man. Sheyann Webb remembers how, as a small girl, it was her church that moved her to march in Selma.
The stories of protesters as young as nine years old are narrated as well as told through the eyes of the young freedom fighters.
Photographs are also included of the young activists which adds a personal touch to their stories of struggle and survival.
www.amazon.com /Witnesses-Freedom-People-Fought-Rights/dp/0140384324   (1676 words)

  
 Helen Keller Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
The lively child changed into a little wild 'animal' who terrorised the people around her.
Basic Famous People Copyright © 2004 - 2006 By Steven J. Hayes.
Basic Famous People is part of the Basics 4 Life family of sites.
www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=145   (465 words)

  
 The Recommended Author List K-P
A young prince tries to free children that are kidnapped by an evil knight with an iron claw instead of a hand.
Many people consider this to be her best work, and, of course, it is out of print and difficult to find.
Readers who were introduced to Witch World through the later books are often surprised by the SF trappings of these books.
www.sff.net /people/Amy.Sheldon/listkp.htm   (5338 words)

  
 Salon People | Bud Cort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For a full list of today's Salon People stories, go to the People home page.
More meaningful than merely cult—popular, "Harold and Maude" was a spiritual experience to many an earnest college kid who thrilled to its anti-establishment, devil-may-care spirit and its macabre sensibility, set to the tune of Cat Stevens' glorious soundtrack.
But Bud Cort, still very much alive, was one of those young stars who aged awkwardly and never really found his niche or reclaimed his fame.
www.salon.com /people/rewind/1999/09/04/cort   (526 words)

  
 Biographies - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
A list of the career highlights of one of the members of the gold medal women's olympic softball team.
This website lists all of the Nobel Prize laureates and why they won, with a biography of each that includes their Nobel lecture.
The Oregon Pioneer List is a list of settlers to Oregon who migrated to or were born in Oregon prior to 1900.
www.multcolib.org /homework/biohc.html   (5404 words)

  
 CNN - Bogart and Hepburn top list of 20th-century stars - June 16, 1999
His mother, Lauren Bacall, is number 20 on the AFI list of greatest actresses.
On the women's list, Hepburn is followed by Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford.
This year, Keaton was ranked 21st on the actor list, and Garbo fifth among actresses.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9906/16/afi.list   (875 words)

  
 K-12 Classroom Television Resource - Great Native American Leaders
Chief Joseph outwitted the U.S. Army by leading some of his people on a famous chase, until there was nowhere else to run.
From a young age, Crazy Horse was a famous warrior, but when his and Sitting Bull's bands wiped out Custer and his men at Little Big Horn, his fate was sealed.
A famous Medicine Man, Geronimo, and his band, stayed free long after American and Mexican invaders had defeated many of their tribe, but eventually he was captured and died in exile.
www.iptv.org /k12catalog/list_detail.cfm?ShowID=155   (282 words)

  
 Celebrity Research Lists - Famous Who Were Once Homeless
Note: This is a list of celebrities and other prominent and famous individuals who have experienced being homeless for a brief or extended period at one time in their lives, either as children or adults.
A: "I was living in Havana [as a young man] and was ordered to leave, put on a plane, and landed on a beach.
Swedish author (abandoned by his mother at an early age along with his sisters when his father died; later as an adult, he traveled for a time on a "homeless tramp" as a vagrant and vagabond, experiences that provided the basis for some of his writings).
www.angelfire.com /stars4/lists/homeless.html   (2957 words)

  
 COMPUTER PEOPLE
Nick Metropolis, dean of computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who was responsible for the MANIC, a versionmof John von Neumann's IAS machine, died over the weekend of October 17-18, 1999.
John Napier, the eighth laird of Merchiston, the developer of logarithms, the "bones" which bear his name, a (binary) chessboard computer, and the promptuary.
A special list of "Multicians" was provided to me by Tom Van Vleck who maintains a special page with respect to the "Multics" project:
ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/people.html   (2233 words)

  
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Tale about a skin head who finds out his father is Jewish.
A story of a young boy who works for the partisans during the war.
Magnificent film about a man who marries a woman he doesn't love after his true love dies.
www.stolaf.edu /people/robinso/listing.html   (1642 words)

  
 Salon Obituary | Irving "Fishbones" Stevens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Irving "Fishbones" Stevens, who gained fame with his stories about life as a Depression-era hobo, and was the creator of Irving's Fly Dope, a homemade fly repellent, died Tuesday.
The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
Jenn Shreve is an assistant editor for Salon People.
www.salon.com /people/obit/1999/05/06/stevens/index.html   (324 words)

  
 Dead People Server - Celebrities and Famous People Who Died in the Year 2005
Irish comic who spent much of his life commenting on it from British television, briefly had a Broadway show in 1981.
Woman who defied the segregation laws in Montgomery Alabama by refusing to sit in the back of the bus, the first woman to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda.
Led the law firm that Erin Brockovich worked for, helped to win $300 million for people whose water was contaminated by Pacific Gas and Electric, played by Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning movie.
www.dpsinfo.com /dps/2005.html   (2836 words)

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