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playwrights in history, George Bernard Shaw, was born. George’s mother, Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly, was an aristocrat, while his father, George Gurly, was a poor alcoholic. Shaw had two sisters, Elinour Agness, who died of tuberculosis at age 20, and…

for more than one family in the United States. The familiar family of several generations is the Kennedy family who remains in the political spotlight for fifty-three years and running. As Elizabeth Dole attempts to gain the Republican nomination…

over. On the 20th of January 1989, Republican George Herbert Walker Bush became the forty-first president of the United States. After serving two previous terms as Ronald Reagan's Vice President, he defeated Governor of Massachusetts Michael S. Dukakis…

Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1901 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. During World War I he was stationed in France and won acclaim for his direction of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Before…

an era full of turmoil. During this era, one of the most controversial topics was the fight over civil rights. One of the key political figures against civil rights movement and pro-segregation was George Wallace. Wallace represented the racist southe…

fathers of music, introduced new types of music and affected the many composers who followed him. Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, a town in Germany. He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained…

Mount. Everest, the fame and the glory it would bring, knowing that you conquered the highest peak on this planet, and having to fulfill a mountaineer’s dream. In contrast to that, the challenges it brings to an individual, the altitude sickness…

Wars, The Empire Strikes Back…the list goes on and on. Although many have not heard of each of these films, everyone certainly has to know the man behind them. George Lucas has, in many cases, written, produced, and directed, not to mention edit,…

a small village near the border of Nepal. At that time India was part of the British Empire, and Blair's father, Richard, held a post as an agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Cicil Service. His mother, Ida Mabel Blair, was about eighteen…

a vibrant, vivid, deliberate style of play writing; there's no dramaturgical chicanery in his work. But there is a rough and ready quality in it that is very refreshing." - Neville-Andrews George Walker is a Canadian playwright who…