The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given names indicate his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Fitzgerald’s mot ...

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s. Ford was born in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. His formal education was limited, but even as a youngster, he was handy with machinery. He worked for the Detroit Edison company, advancing from machine-shop apprentice to chief engineer. In 1893, Ford built a gasoline engine, and within a few years, an automobile, still a novelty item of the rich or do-it-yo ...

I think that Buster Keaton is the greatest filmmaker who ever lived. I hope this appreciation will give you some idea of why I feel that way... If you're unfamiliar with Keaton, it doesn't much matter where you start. Most of his silent movies are masterpieces, and even the lesser ones (Battling Butler, ...

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Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden) Born Herbert John Gleason on Feb. 26, 1916 (his mother always called him "Jackie") in the Brooklyn neighborhood he has immortalized on The Honeymooners. His father, who was an insurance clerk, had abandoned the family then Jackie was eight years old. His mother worked as a token booth attendant in a subway. When he was a young man, Jackie never stopped to ponder over what he would be when he grew up. At the age of fifteen he won the amateur-night contest at Brook ...

Sandra Day O’Connor 1981- SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, was born March 26,1930, to Harry A. Day and Ada Mae Wilkey Day in El Paso, Texas. She grew up on the Lazy B Ranch, 198,000 acres of land with more than 2,000 cattle, twenty-five miles from the town of Duncan in southeastern Arizona. Her grandfather, Henry Clay Day, had founded the ranch in the early 1880s, some thirty years before Arizona gained statehood. The ranch house, a simple, four-room adobe b ...

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