Nov 17, 2023 · Henry Purcell (born c. 1659, London, England—died November 21, 1695, London) English composer of the middle Baroque period, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare ’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream called The Fairy Queen. Purcell, the most important
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, American writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel, The Great Gatsby, which vies for the title ‘Great American Novel’ with Mark Twain ’s Huckleberry Finn and Herman Melville ’s Moby-Dick.
Miller observed that the memory span of young adults is approximately seven items. He noticed that memory span is approximately the same for stimuli with vastly different amounts of information—for instance, binary digits have 1 bit each; decimal digits have 3.32 bits each; words have about 10 bits each. Miller concluded that memory span is
May 29, 2020 · Henry Miller was born on December 26, 1891 in New York City. He was the son of Louise Marie and tailor Heinrich Miller, a Lutheran German. As a child, he lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for nine years, which was known at that time as the Fourteenth Ward. He wrote about his childhood experiences there in Black Spring (1936).
Lee Miller was an American photographer and fashion model known for her portraits of Pablo Picasso. Despite being known as the lover of Man Ray, Miller’s documentation of war-ravaged Europe after World War II made her reputation as a photographer in her own right. “It seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography
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