Photographer Ansel Adams Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist known for his iconic black-and-white photographs of the American West. He was born in San Francisco and raised in a family that valued the arts, and he developed an early interest in photography and the natural world. Adams became famous for his powerful
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A.A. Milne (PCM) A.A. Milne (Alan Alexander) was born on January 18, 1882, in London. He attended Cambridge University to study mathematics but soon found his true passion was writing. After graduating from Cambridge, Milne began his writing career working for Punch Magazine. He married Daphne” de Sélincourt in 1903. He was writing for Punch
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Jules Leotard Jules Leotard was a French acrobat and aerialist born on November 4, 1842, and died on August 7, 1870. He is best known for inventing the one-piece garment that bears his name, the “leotard”. He performed acrobatics and aerial stunts in circuses and became famous for his aerial performances in Paris in the
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“Rigoletto” is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi “Rigoletto” is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi that tells the story of the hunchbacked court jester Rigoletto and his daughter Gilda. The action takes place in Mantua, Italy, and revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua and his many conquests, including Rigoletto’s daughter. The Duke seduces and humiliates
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Charles Dickens Born February 7, 1812 Charles John Hoffman Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. He was the son of a naval clerk and his wife and he was the second of eight children not all of whom survived. Dickens’s Father changed his place of employment more than once, though he
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America’s First Hot Air Balloon Flight In the late 1700s, there was a major change in many people’s perception of the world. It was the end of the Age of Enlightenment and the Start of the Industrial Age. Call it The Age Before Pop Culture. People were doing more than just thinking about what was
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The Declaration of Independence When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a
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Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More or Saint Thomas More, is one of the great figures in both political and religious history. To Henry VIII, he was a good friend and confidant as well as an enemy and a betrayer of England. To Catholics, he is a saint and was martyred for his Catholic faith.
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Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It refers to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when many Christians begin to fast for the 40 days leading up to Easter Sunday. The feast of The Epiphany or The Three Kings closes the Christmas season and opens up a season of carnival. In some countries these carnivals
