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Elizabeth Bishop - American Poet
-- Elizabeth Bishop This American poet is best known for poems that examine the world in minute detail. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and grew up in New England and Nova Scotia. Her first book was North & South, published in 1946. It was later revised and reprinted as North & South - A Cold Spring (1955). She won the Pulitzer for poetry in 1956 for that book. Her Book 'Bishop's Complete Poems (1969)' won the National Book Award in 1970. Here is a sample of her work (part of a villanelle) from Microsoft Encarta . . . In "One Art," American poet Elizabeth Bishop varies the French Renaissance villanelle form by estabalishing lines in her opening stanza that will be repeated later in the poem. The art of losing isn't hard to master; So many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2002. © 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Many of her short stories appeared in The New Yorker magazine. See Suite article by Sandra Linville http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/word... Ms. Bishop is mentioned in that article. ************** DR. LEE DE FOREST - American Inventor "SRB QYZZ BILIM MIRGA JAI SUUB MITRMFZIOO UW RZZ WEJEMI OGYIBJYWYG RFLRBGIO." Dr. Lee De Forest - American Inventor (Iowa) (1873 - 1961) Now there's a man for ya' . . . this Iowa-born inventor was a pioneer in the development of radio communication. He designed many early wireless transmitters, but most important was a vacuumn tube he called the audion. This is now known as the triode.
And what's that got to do with the price of eggs? Well, the triode was to be a major part of radio, radar, television and computer systems. This was replaced by the gawd-fearin' transistor in the early 1950s. Dr. De Forest presented the first live opera broadcast in 1910. In 1923 he was the first to demonstrate sound with movies. He patented more than 300 electronic devices and many in the field of motion pictures. Quotation taken from ETNI QUOTATIONS http://www.etni.org.il/quotes/discovery.... *************************** WILBUR WRIGHT - The Famous Wright Bros. "Y GUBWIOO JARJ YB 1901, Y ORYF JU SC DMUJAIM UMLYZZI JARJ SRB QUEZF BUJ WZC WUM WYWJC CIRMO . . . ILIM OYBGI, Y ARLI FYOJMEOJIF SCOIZW RBF RLUYFIF RZZ KMIFYGJYUBO." Wilbur Wright, 1908
Born in Millville, Indiana, Wilbur was the third of the five Wright children. He and his brother Orville were always keen on mathematics, mechanics and things technical. Neither of them finished high school. They went into the printing and editing business, and went on to build and sell bicycles. Go To Page: 1 2
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