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4 days ago · Chancellor 1967 President 1961-1968 Professor of Biology 1961-1969 William E. Wrather Professor of Biology 1969-1975 Growth and turbulence marked the Beadle years, which were period of intense change for universities across the country. While strident calls were being made for universities to become...
5 days ago · George Orwell (born June 25, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, India—died January 21, 1950, London, England) was an English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949).
- George Orwell wrote the political fable Animal Farm (1944), the anti-utopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the unorthodox political treatise T...
- George Orwell won scholarships to two of England’s leading schools, Wellington and Eton colleges. He briefly attended the former before transferrin...
- George Orwell was brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery, first in India and then in England. His father was a minor British official...
- George Orwell wrote two hugely influential novels: Animal Farm (1944), a satire that allegorically depicted Joseph Stalin’s betrayal of the Russian...
1 day ago · George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. His father was a justice of the peace and a prominent public figure who had four additional children from his first marriage to Jane Butler.
4 days ago · Dr. Leonard George Swanson passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at Hillsboro Medical Center in Hillsboro, Ore., on March 17, 2024. He was 83 years old. George was born on September...
3 days ago · The painting is likely a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in a farmhouse in the town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Her parents, Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O'Keeffe, were dairy farmers. Her father was of Irish descent.
5 days ago · George Michael (born June 25, 1963, London, England—died December 25, 2016, Goring) was a British singer and songwriter who rose from teen idol status with the Brit-pop band Wham! to global superstardom as a solo pop music artist in the 1980s and ’90s.
2 days ago · Romney was born to American parents living in the Mormon colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to flee back to the United States when he was a child. The family lived in several states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled during the Great Depression.