1912 births

Albert Bates Lord (1912-1991) was a Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University who, after the untimely death of Milman Parry, carried on that scholar's research into epic literature. Lord authored the book The Singer of Tales, first published in 1960. His wife Mary Louise Lord completed and edited his manuscript of a posthumous sequel The Singer Resumes the Tale in 1995 which furthe ...

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Clara Petacci (Claretta Petacci) (February 28, 1912 – April 28, 1945) was a young Roman girl from an upper-class family who became Benito Mussolini's mistress. She was twenty-nine years his junior. During Mussolini's capture by partisans in April 1945 it is said that Petacci was offered the opportunity to escape, but she firmly refused and instead tried to protect Mussolini with her body. The Duce was then shot immediately after her. On the following day, April 29, 1945, at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Mussolin ...

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Father Walter Jackson Ong, Ph.D. (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003), was a thinker known today as an honorary guru among technophiles. He was a Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, linguist, and philosopher. Walter J. Ong - Biography. Walter Jackson Ong, Jr. was born in Kansas City, Missouri to a Protestant father and a Roman Catholic mother; he was raised as a Roman Catholic. In 1933 he received a bachelor of arts degree from Rockhurst College, where he maj ...

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• Walter J. Ong - Biography
• Walter J. Ong - Contributions in perspective
• Walter J. Ong - Introduction
• Walter J. Ong - Ramus Method and the Decay of Dialogue 1958
• Walter J. Ong - The Presence of the Word 1967
• Walter J. Ong - Fighting for Life 1981
• Walter J. Ong - Orality and Literacy 1982
• Walter J. Ong - Hopkins the Self and God 1986
• Walter J. Ong - An Ong Reader 2002
• Walter J. Ong - Works about Ong
• Walter J. Ong - Publications
• Walter J. Ong - Lectures
• Walter J. Ong - Books
• Walter J. Ong - Categories

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Jakubowski published his only major work, a book based on his doctoral thesis, in Danzig, 1936. It is entitled Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism, ISBN 0850311543 and may be seen as an extension to the seminal work of Karl Korsch on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic to Marxian thought. Jakubowski rehearses for the reader the steps Marx and Engels took away from Hegel, via Feuerbach, to their 'historical materialist' position. Its unique contribution to Marxian thought is the clarity of its exposition of the r ...

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Franz Jakubowski, Franz Jakubowski - Political & intellectual development, Franz Jakubowski - Contribution to theory, Franz Jakubowski - Influence

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Fernando Belaúnde Terry - Early years. The second of four children, Belaúnde was born in Lima into an upper-middle-class family of Spanish forebears. During the dictatorship of Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo, the persecution for the political activities of his father Rafael and his uncle Víctor Andrés Belaúnde prompted the family to move to France in 1924, where Fernando attended high school and rec ...

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Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Fernando Belaúnde Terry - Biography, Fernando Belaúnde Terry - Early years, Fernando Belaúnde Terry - Political career, Fernando Belaúnde Terry - First term 1963-1968, Fernando Belaúnde Terry - Second term 1980 – 1985

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In 1960 Allen was elected Assessor of Property for Davidson County, Tennessee. This position was (and generally still is) widely regarded as an unglamorous administrative courthouse position, little-noticed by the public except when complaints are made about increasing property assessments. However, Allen was to make it his political base for the next 15 years. In 1962, Nashville voters agreed to merge many of the functions of the former City of Nashville municipal government and those of Davidson County into a metropolitan government. While ...

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Clifford Allen, Clifford Allen - Early life and career, Clifford Allen - Assessor of Property, Clifford Allen - Congressman

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1942 Sullivan was hit for the first time when he was in a lookout tower. The lightning bolt struck him in a leg and he lost a nail on his big toe. 1969 The second bolt hit him in his truck when he was driving on a mountain road. It knocked him unconscious and burned his eyebrows. 1970 The third strike burned his left shoulder while in his front yard. 1972 The next hit happened in a ranger station. The strike set his hair on fire. After ...

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Roy Sullivan, Roy Sullivan - The Seven Lightning Strikes, Roy Sullivan - Reference

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Otto Kretschmer - Prewar Career. Otto Kretschmer was born in Heidau, Liegnitz. At the age of seventeen he spent eight months living in Exeter, where he learned to speak English fluently. He joined the Kriegsmarine in April 1930, and attained the rank of Seekadett after completing officer training courses as well as three months' aboard the training ship Niobe. Later he spent about a year serving about the light cruiser Emden and in December 1934 was transferred to a posting aboard the ...

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Otto Kretschmer, Otto Kretschmer - Life, Otto Kretschmer - Prewar Career, Otto Kretschmer - Silent Otto at War, Otto Kretschmer - A Prisoner of War and Postwar Career, Otto Kretschmer - Achievements, Otto Kretschmer - Reference Materials

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One significant event marked Ratu Cakobau’s tenure as Governor-General. In March 1977, a constitutional crisis developed following a general election which gave a narrow majority to the Indo-Fijian dominated National Federation Party (NFP). Three days after the election, the NFP splintered in a leadership brawl, and Ratu Cakobau, acting as Fiji's effective Head of State, then called on the defeated Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, to form a new government, pending fresh elections (which were held in September, and resulted in a landslide win for Mara's Alliance Party). In ...

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George Cakobau, George Cakobau - Education and early career, George Cakobau - Governor-General of Fiji, George Cakobau - Honours, George Cakobau - Personal life and legacy

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Jan Piwnik was born August 12, 1912 in the village of Janowice near Opatów. In 1933 he graduated from a reserve NCO artillery school in Włodzimierz Wołyński. In 1935 he joined the Polish police, where he served as an officer. Mobilized in 1939, in the Polish Defensive War he commanded a motorized unit of the police. After the Soviet aggression, on September 23 he and his unit crossed the Hun ...

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Jan Piwnik, Jan Piwnik - Biography

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Nagy began a process of liberalisation, removing state controls over the press, releasing many political prisoners, and expressing wishes to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact. Kádár was strongly opposed to these policies and began to bitterly dislike Nagy. Kádár was a central figure in the important events after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution which saw Nagy's downfall. Following the Soviet invasion of Hungary and Nagy's ouster, on November 8, at 5:05 in the morning, Kádár announced via the Red Army's radio system the formatio ...

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János Kádár, János Kádár - Early Life, János Kádár - Role in the Hungarian Revolution, János Kádár - The Kádár era, János Kádár - Deposition and Death

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Carr was born in Yorkshire, into a family of Wesleyan Methodists. His father Joseph was the eleventh son of a farmer, who rejected farming as a career and went to work for the railways, eventually becoming a station master for the North Eastern Railway Co. Carr's early life was shaped by failure. Having attended the village school, he failed the Eleven plus exam, and on finishing his school career he also failed to gai ...

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J. L. Carr, J. L. Carr - Biography, J. L. Carr - Works, J. L. Carr - Bibliography, J. L. Carr - External link

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Marshall was born in Wellington. He grew up in Wellington, Whangarei, and Dunedin, attending Whangarei High School and Otago Boys' High School. He was noted for his ability at sports, particularly rugby. After leaving high school, Marshall studied law at Victoria University College (now Victoria University of Wellington). He gained a LLB in 1934 and a LLM in 1935. He also worked part-time in a law office. In 1941, with the advent of World War II, Marshall entered the army, and received officer training. In his first few years o ...

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Jack Marshall, Jack Marshall - Early life, Jack Marshall - Early political career, Jack Marshall - Cabinet Minister, Jack Marshall - Deputy Prime Minister, Jack Marshall - Prime Minister, Jack Marshall - Later life, Jack Marshall - External link

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Ian Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois but spent most of his life living in and around Detroit, Michigan. Wallace was a practising clinical psychologist for many years, and also had an extensive background in education. Much of his career was spent working for the Detroit public schools system. Wallace's mystery and adventure novels were generally set deep in the future, and often included ...

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Ian Wallace author, Ian Wallace author - Introduction, Ian Wallace author - Bibliography, Ian Wallace author - Adventures of Minds-in-Bodies, Ian Wallace author - The Croyd Spacetime Manoeuvres, Ian Wallace author - The Claudine St. Cyr Interplanetary Detective Mysteries, Ian Wallace author - Others

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When the Conservatives lost control of the GLC in 1973 and Sir Desmond Plummer resigned as their Leader in 1974, Cutler was chosen as his successor. He was a populist and a showman who delighted in stunts, and when he won the 1977 GLC elections he became a very flamboyant Leader. He was sceptical of the merits of the GLC, seeing it as "too big, too remote and too shadowy", and set up an inquiry under Sir Frank Marshall into its powers and existence; Marshall f ...

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Horace Cutler, Horace Cutler - Origin, Horace Cutler - Local politics, Horace Cutler - GLC membership, Horace Cutler - Leader of the GLC, Horace Cutler - Loss of power

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After practicing law in Vincennes for several years, Welsh, a Democrat, was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1940 and 1942. In 1943, however, he left his seat to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. When he returned stateside in 1946, Welsh resumed his law practice, and was named the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of Indiana in 1950, a post he would hold until 1952. In 1954, he was elected to the Indiana Senate. Welsh was elected governor in 1960, and it was during his tenure that Indiana enacte ...

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Matthew E. Welsh, Matthew E. Welsh - Early life, Matthew E. Welsh - Family, Matthew E. Welsh - Political life, Matthew E. Welsh - Later years, Matthew E. Welsh - Trivia, Matthew E. Welsh - Quotes

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In June 2000, the Slunj branch of Association of war veterans "Hrvatski domobran" erected a memorial plaque in honor of Francetić with the inscription Hrvatski vitez Jure Francetić ("Croatian knight Jure Francetić") in the town of Slunj in Croatia. The event caused nationwide controversy, but the nationalist government of Ivica Račan didn't intervene. In 2004 the new government of Ivo Sanader intervened and, based on Article 107 of Croatian constitution, removed it together with memorial plaque to Mile Budak in the town of Sveti Rok. Operation was carried out at 6.30 a.m. on August 27 with strong special pol ...

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Jure Francetić, Jure Francetić - Controversy, Jure Francetić - External link

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The "Leipzig School" (the social philosopher Hans Freyer, the anthropologist Arnold Gehlen, the philosopher Gotthard Günther), rich in the talents of a first generation, was of strong theoretical influence on Schelsky. But Freyer also dreamt of building up a sociological think tank for the 'Third Reich' - quite differently to most other sociologists, e. g. to the (outspoken) anti-Hitlerian Ferdinand Tönnies (University of Kiel) and to Leopold von Wiese (University of Cologne), and to the emigrants (e. g. to Karl Mannheim, and to the up-and ...

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Helmut Schelsky, Helmut Schelsky - Biography, Helmut Schelsky - Schelsky and German Sociology, Helmut Schelsky - Selected Bibliography

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After a few seasons in senior league play in Ottawa and Halifax, Cowley broke in with the Eagles in 1934, but played modestly in that season. Thereafter, the team folded, and Art Ross, the general manager of the Bruins, cannily picked him up as their selection in the subsequent dispersal draft. In Boston he would become a preeminent star and the NHL's greatest playmaker, leading the league in assists in 1939 (despite missing twelve games with injuries), 1941 and 1943, and helping to lead the Bruins to two Stanley Cups in 1939 and 1941 ...

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Bill Cowley, Bill Cowley - Playing career, Bill Cowley - Retirement, Bill Cowley - Career achievements and facts, Bill Cowley - External link

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His foray into politics was at the municipal level for Jamakhandi in 1940 and later elected in Jamakhandi State Legislature. He became the Chief Minister of Karnataka and Governor of Orissa. He was Vice-President from 1974 to 1980 and later acting President of India between February to July 1977. He was a key figure in Bombay state politics, elected in the Bombay State Legislative Assembly in 1940s and involved in various portfolios, including Parliamentary Secretary to the then Bombay Chief Minister B G Kher, Minister of Food ...

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Basappa Danappa Jatti, Basappa Danappa Jatti - Career, Basappa Danappa Jatti - Religion, Basappa Danappa Jatti - Reference

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