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His paintings and sculptures were created (and exhibited) without any formal art school training. He took a few lessons in movement and dance with the Lindsey Kemps Dance company but trained himself in mime. [31] [32] Jimi Hendrix was an influential self-taught electric guitarist and singer-songwriter. [33]
Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington; Winthrop Jordan (1931–2007) – African-American history; David Lavender (1910–2003) – Western United States; David McCullough (1933–2022) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine across five issues in 1998 and 1999. The idea for such a list started on February 1, 1998, with a debate at a symposium in Hanoi , Vietnam .
The attacks on Wilson were orchestrated by the Sociobiology Study Group, part of the left wing organization Science for the People, formed of 35 scientists and students, including the Harvard biologists Stephen J. Gould and Richard Lewontin, who both became prominent critics of hereditarian research in race and intelligence.
Especially influential were the writings of Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Lydia Sigourney, who developed the role of republican motherhood as a principle that united state and family by equating a successful republic with virtuous families. Women, as intimate and concerned observers of young children, were best suited to the ...
In her lifetime, Woolf was outspoken on many topics that were considered controversial, some of which are now considered progressive, others regressive. [233] She was an ardent feminist at a time when women's rights were barely recognised, and anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, anti-militarist and a pacifist when chauvinism was popular. On the ...
In the nation's growing cities, factory output grew, small businesses flourished, and incomes rose. As the promise of jobs and higher wages attracted more and more people into the cities, the US began to shift to a nation of city dwellers. By 1900, 30 million people, or 30 percent of the total population, lived in cities. [190]
Since the death of Tomiko Itooka on 29 December 2024, there are three remaining verified living people born in the 1900s decade, all of whom are women. [114] They are Inah Canabarro Lucas (born 8 June 1908) of Brazil (also the world's oldest living person), Ethel Caterham (born 21 August 1909) of the United Kingdom, and Okagi Hayashi (born 2 ...