.... toyed openly with these novelties. His first opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shostakovich's undoubtedly finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (later renamed Katerina Izmaylova), marked a stylistic retreat. However, this new Shostakovich was too avant-garde for Stalin. In 1928, Joseph Stalin inaugurated his First Five-Year Plan, an "iron hand fastened on Soviet culture," (Johnson) and in music a direct and popular style was demanded. Avant-garde music and jazz w .....

.... In 1844, Abraham and his wife were able to purchase their own house in Springfield. It was a one-and-a-half story frame cottage. In May 1843, the Lincoln’s had a son and named him Robert, after the addition to the family they made the house a full two story house. Lincoln had three more sons Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas. Edward died at the age of three, the cause of death was either consumption or pulmonary tuberculosis. In 1832 Lincoln announced himself a candidate for the state legislature but he was defeated. Then a year later he was appointed postmaster of New Salem and in the fall he .....

.... Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child. During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre. After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From 1951 to 1953, Harlan served as a chief counsel to the New York State Crime Co .....

.... the French Academy of Sciences in 1768. On 1771 he married Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze. She helped Lavoisier by drawing diagrams for his scientific works and translating English notation for him. Unlike earlier chemists, Lavoisier paid particular attention to the weight of the ingredients involved in chemical reactions and of the products that resulted. He carefully measured the weights of the reactants and products. He noted that the weight of the air in which combustion occurred decreases. He found that when the burning material combined with the air somehow and that the air weighed less. Lavoisier found that the weight of the pr .....

.... medical problems. There have been reports of a person beating her son in tennis one week before she killed herself with the help of Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine, but she was terminally ill and Dr. Kevorkian would not help kill people unless their life was in danger or they were not living comfortably. Kevorkian was previously a doctor dealing with terminally ill people and death counseling. From this experience he knew that for some people suicide was the only Solution. On the other hand, some people believe that what he started was a terrible thing. Just the other day there was a article in the newspaper that .....

.... in Greek. He was an ardent Presbyterian who wrote A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, the first Scottish interpretation of the bible, in 1593 to demonstrate that the Catholic Church was the beast. He was interested in mathematics at an early age and set forth the concept of logarithms and published the first table of them. While doing this, he also systematized trigonometry and was important in the acceptance of systematic use of decimal notation. He also invented many mechanical devices used for math, such as "Napier's Bones", which were devices used to aid multiplication. His father, Sir Archibald Na .....

.... He returned east in the fall of 1886 to run for mayor of New York against Congressman Abram S. Hewitt and the economist Henry George. Hewitt, a Democrat, won easily with Roosevelt finishing a poor third. Roosevelt then married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in London. Edith was an intelligent and cultivated, yet private woman. She bore him four sons; Theodore, Jr.; Kermit; Archibald; and Quentin, and a daughter, Ethel. For two and one-half years after his second marriage Roosevelt lived as a sportsman and scholar in Sagamore Hill, his house at Oyster Bay, on Long Island. He published biographies of Gouverne .....

.... of Rome and bringing about the end of Pompey’s life. Caesar succeeded in bringing order back to the face of Rome. First he reformed the existing Roman calender. The existing calender was corrupt because it did not synchronize with the solar year. Priests were allowed to prolong the calender at their will and some used it to their advantages. Caesar put an end to this by setting a new calender which consisted of 365 days and a leap year, every four years. Caesar abhorred the Senate, for he knew that it was the greatest stumbling block that stood in his road to glory. To curtail their powers, he soon reform .....

.... the refining firms in Cleveland, plus two refineries in the New York City area. Before long the company was refining 29,000 barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business in the US in the 1890s. Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great funds to human welfare, and he helped to define the method of scientific efficient, corporate philanthropy. The method was this .....

.... to attend. Then one summer, a Quaker school teacher came to live in the valley and he set up school for the boys. The schoolmaster changed the spelling of Benjamin’s last name to Banneker. He had the equivalent of an eighth-grade education by the time he was fifteen, with much of what he knew coming from his grandmother, Molly. She taught him and his brothers how to read, using her bible as a lesson book. Eventually he took over operation of the family farm. One of the main points in Banneker’s intellectual growth occurred when he was twenty-one. A traveling salesman, Josef Levi, gave Banneker the gift of a pocket watch. B .....