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3 days ago · While not biracial, Alma Rubens was the daughter of a German Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother who spent most of her life denying the Jewish blood, changing the spelling of her surname from Reubens to Rubens.
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5 days ago · 45) Ralph Ellison: A Biography, by Arnold Rampersad. Ralph Ellison’s landmark novel, Invisible Man, is about a Black man who faced systemic racism in the Deep South during his youth, then ...
2 days ago · Greta Gerwig (born August 4, 1983, Sacramento, California, U.S.) is an American actress, writer, and director who became known for the radiant artlessness of her performances in small independent movies before embarking on a successful career as a filmmaker.
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2 days ago · t. e. Paramahansa Yogananda (born Mukunda Lal Ghosh; January 5, 1893 – March 7, 1952) was an Indian-American Hindu monk, yogi and guru who introduced millions to meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization, Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) / Yogoda Satsanga Society (YSS) of India – the only one he created to disseminate his ...
1 day ago · Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
- What did Albert Einstein do?Albert Einstein was a famous physicist. His research spanned from quantum mechanics to theories about gravity and motion. After publishing some gro...
- What is Albert Einstein known for?Albert Einstein is best known for his equation E = mc2, which states that energy and mass (matter) are the same thing, just in different forms. He...
- What influence did Albert Einstein have on science?Albert Einstein had a massive influence on contemporary physics. His theory of relativity shifted contemporary understanding of space completely. A...
- What was Albert Einstein’s family like?Albert Einstein was raised in a secular Jewish family and had one sister, Maja, who was two years younger than him. In 1903 Einstein married Milena...
- How did Albert Einstein die?After suffering an abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture several days before, Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at age 76.
- What did Albert Einstein mean when he wrote that God “does not play dice”?In December 1926 Albert Einstein wrote to Max Born that “[t]he theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One...
5 days ago · Using Library of Congress Subject Headings to Find Biographies in BobCat. Biographies are classified and sorted by author's name, dates of birth and death, and the term Biography. Here are some examples: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Biography. Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Biography. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Biography.
2 days ago · Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the ...
