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- William Seward Burroughs II (/ˈbʌroʊz/ ; also known by his pen name William Lee; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer.inding success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), Burroughs is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959), a controversy-fraught work that underwent a court case under the U.S. sodomy laws.
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George W. Carver (1865? - 1943) George Washington Carver was a world-famous chemist who made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets.
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- George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanist and inventor. He became well-known to the public due to his active promotion of alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875â1950) His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic...
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Tarzan Tarzan has been called one of the best-known literary characters in the world. In addition to more than two dozen books by Burroughs and a handful more by authors with the blessing of Burroughs' estate, the character has appeared in films, radio, television, comic strips, and comic books.
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George Washington Carver Biography (c. 1864-1943) botanist and inventor. George Washington Carver, an undersized, softspoken genius, achieved fame asan agricultural chemist, botanist, educator, and inventor, though he refusedto patent or capitalize on most of his innovations.
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Biography of William Faulkner Biography of William Faulkner. William Faulkner was a prolific writer who became very famous during his lifetime, but who shied away from the spotlight as much as possible. He is remembered as both a gentlemanly Southern eccentric and an arrogant, snobbish alcoholic.
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Jamestown Interpretive Essays Warren M. Billings. Distinguished Professor of History, University of New Orleans. Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) held office longer than any other governor of Virginia, colonial or modern. He was born in 1605 to Sir Maurice and Elizabeth Killigrew Berkeley, both of whom held stock in the Virginia Company of London. Educated at St. Edmund Hall and Merton College in Oxford, he subsequently studied law at the Middle Temple in London before he toured Europe.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Bur­roughs is the famous novel of the boy who was raised by simi­ans in the jun­gles of Africa. The book was first seri­al­ized in All-Story Mag­a­zine 1812 and pub­lished in 1814.ut the genius of all genii was the one who wrote a series called Tarzan of the Apes. I read it, but regret I never saw it on the films, where it rages most successfully. He had jazzed the motif of the Jungle Books, and, I imagine, had thoroughly enjoyed himself.”.
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W. E. B. Du Bois Amazon's W.E.B. Du Bois Page W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, civil rights activist, and author. A strong advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was the first black man to earn a doctorate from Harvard University and cofounded the National Association for the Advancement More about W.E.B. Du Bois Bestselling Books: The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions), The Souls of Black Folk, Black Flame: Vol.1: Ordeal of Mansart.
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W.W. Jacobs W.W. Jacobs, in full William Wymark Jacobs (born September 8, 1863, London, England—died September 1, 1943, London), English short-story writer best known for his classic horror story “The Monkey’s Paw.”. Jacobs’s early home was a house on a River Thames wharf, where his father was manager. His first volume, Many Cargoes (1896), had an immediate success and was followed by two others, The Skipper’s Wooing (1897) and Sea Urchins (1898).
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William Clark William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in prestatehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri. Clark was a planter and slaveholder.
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William Champneys William Champneys. The Very Rev. William Weldon Champneys (1807–1875) was an Anglican priest and author in the 19th century.
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W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. Customers Also Bought Items By.
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- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Writer: John Carter. His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy.
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- William Wells Brown may be the most famous 19th century African American writer you've never heard of.
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Sir William Berkeley Republic of Texas. Indians. Berkeley, SIR WILLIAM, colonial governor ; born near London about 1610; was brother of Lord John Berkeley, one of the early English proprietors of New Jersey. Appointed governor of Virginia, he arrived there in February, 1642.
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- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Robert A. Heinlein] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that
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William Pitt Kellogg William Pitt Kellogg. William Pitt Kellogg (December 8, 1830 – August 10, 1918) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who served as a United States Senator from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 and as the Governor of Louisiana from 1873 to 1877 during the Reconstruction Era.
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- Riley And the Hippos were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs was... interesting. I say interesting with a pause before it becaus And the Hippos were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs was... interesting.
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William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).fter the death of his mother, in 1778, Wordsworth's father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire (now in Cumbria) and sent Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire. She and William did not meet again for another nine years.
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Isaac Watts Isaac Watts (/ w ɒ t s /; 17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) was an English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres. Among the most notable of his creations are the jungle man Tarzan, the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter and the fictional landmass within Earth known as Pellucidar.
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William Penn (Royal Navy officer) William Penn (Royal Navy officer) Sir William Penn (23 April 1621 – 16 September 1670) was an English admiral and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
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Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd ˈkɪplɪŋ/ RUD-yərd KIP-ling (rhotic) listen ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910).