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  More info about: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner
  Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is, in my opinion, one of, if not the, greatest musical works in history. It is fifteen hours of gorgeous, dramatic music, coupled to an...
         
  More info about: The Mysterious Island, Verne
  The Mysterious Island, Verne
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is a story of the escape of five prisoners in a hot air balloon. The prisoners are all Union men being held by the Confederacy in Ric...
         
  More info about: Turn of the Century Timeline
  Turn of the Century Timeline
History in the United States....
         
  More info about: Talat Pasha, Last Ottoman Statesman
  Talat Pasha, Last Ottoman Statesman
Mehmed Talat Pasha was one of leaders of the Young Turks, an Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917) , and leading member of the Sublime Porte from 1913 until 1918. He is...
         
  More info about: Ernest Shackleton, Polar Explorer
  Ernest Shackleton, Polar Explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton is probably best known for leading a thousand mile open boat journey across the treacherous Southern Ocean after losing his ship to the crushing ice...
         
  More info about: Amy Lowell, Poet
  Amy Lowell, Poet
Although she never attended college because her family did not consider it proper for a woman to pursue a higher education, Amy Lowell would go on to become a critically...
         
  More info about: Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
  Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (before Schönberg) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements...
         
  More info about: Howard Carter, Archaeologist
  Howard Carter, Archaeologist
Those that recognize the name, Howard Carter, usually associate it with the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The amount of preserved artifacts provided information t...
         
  More info about: Robert Frost
  Robert Frost
American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) is perhaps best known for his poem "The Road Not Taken," published in 1916 in Mountain Interval, a collection of his early poetry....
         
  More info about: Herbert Hoover, 31st US President
  Herbert Hoover, 31st US President
Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a world-famous mining engineer and humanitarian administrator before turning to political a...
         
  More info about: Sir Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, a Nine...
         
  More info about: Regis University Online
  Regis University Online
Regis University’s School for Professional Studies offers online degrees and certificates. These programs cater to busy adults who want to further their education without...
         
  More info about: Edgar Wallace, Writer
  Edgar Wallace, Writer
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and jou...
         
  More info about: Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, and his famous 1922 orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pict...
         
  More info about: John Buchan, Writer
  John Buchan, Writer
John Buchan is most famous for The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, and his thrillers and short stories are all in print today. The list of his published books is well...
         
         
 
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