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1 day ago · John Ernst Steinbeck (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k / STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". [2]
- December 20, 1968 (aged 66), New York City, U.S.
- John Ernst Steinbeck II, February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, U.S.
10 hours ago · Early life Childhood: 1887–1904 A statue of Garvey now stands in Saint Ann's Bay, the town where he was born Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on 17 August 1887 in Saint Ann's Bay, a town in the British colony of Jamaica. In the context of colonial Jamaican society, which had a colourist social hierarchy, Garvey was considered at the lowest end, being a black child who was of full African ...
1 day ago · Early life and education Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, the only child of Reginald Francis Cleese (1893–1972), an insurance salesman, and his wife Muriel Evelyn (née Cross, 1899–2000), the daughter of an auctioneer. His family's surname was originally Cheese, but his father had thought it was embarrassing and used the name Cleese when he enlisted in the Army ...
1 day ago · John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor and filmmaker. Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century. [2] [3] Throughout his five-decade career he received numerous accolades , including three Academy Awards , three BAFTA Film Awards , six Golden Globe Awards , and a Grammy Award .
10 hours ago · Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.
10 hours ago · Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Raised in Mount Vernon, New York , [17] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [18] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas .
10 hours ago · Photo taken by John McCarthy and collected by Fred Hultstrand A 1962 U.S. postage stamp commemorating the centennial of the Homestead Act was issued. The image on the stamp is based on Norwegian settlers in front of their sod house. Beginning in 1836, Norwegian immigrants arrived in significant numbers annually.
