Who was Joseph Cornell?
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Cornell spent most of his life in a frame house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York, with his mother and his crippled brother, Robert. From there this reclusive, gray, long-beaked man would sally forth on small voyages of discovery, scavenging for relics of the past in New York junk shops and flea markets. To others, these deposits might be refuse, but to Cornell they were the strata of repressed memory, a jumble of elements waiting to be grafted and mated to one another.\n"In the studio he would sort his finds into their eccentric categories - 'Spiders,' 'Moons,' and so forth - and file them with boxes of his own mementos, like love letters to Jennifer Jones and other movie stars or ballet dancers he'd never met; and from them he made boxes. He would tinker with them for years. Object (Roses des Vents) was begun in 1942 and not finished until 1953. It is full of emblems of voyages Cornell never took, a little box of mummified waves and shrunken exotic coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments, with a drop-in panel containing twenty-one compasses, each with its needle pointing insouciantly in a different direction from that of its neighbor. Even the map on the inside of the lid, cut from some nineteenth-century German chart book, depicts an excessively remote coastline: that of the Great Australian Bight. The earth is presented not as our daily habitat but as one strange planet among others, which to Cornell it was.\n"Some of his beginnings in the 1930s lay in Surrealism: Cornell was particularly affected by the collages of Victorian steel engravings in Max Ernst's series La Femme 100 tetes. Yet nowhere in Surrealism is there an imagery quite like his. Cornell distinguished between what he called 'the Max Ernst white magic side' of Surrealism and its darker, more violent aspects. He embraced the first but shied away from the second. He didn't share the revolutionary fantasies of the Surrealists or their erotic obsessions. There isn't a sexual image, let alone a trace of amour fou, in his entire output. The most he would permit himself was a gentle fetishism. If, as some have thought, Cornell's imagery had to do with childhood, then it was one which no child has ever known, an infancy without rage or desire. Sometimes he would crack the glass pane that protected the contents of the box, but that is all he allowed in the way of violence - it suggests that the sanctuary of imagination has been attacked. That glass, the 'fourth wall' of his miniature theater, is also the diaphragm between two contrasting worlds. Outside, chaos, accident, and libido, the stuff of unprotected life; inside, sublimation, memory, and peace, one of whose chief emblems was the caged bird, the innocent resident of The Hotel Eden, 1945.\n"At times, though not often, Cornell's imagination looks fey or precious. There is a treacherous line between sentiment and sentimentality, particularly in his evocations of his own Edwardian environment as a child. Yet his gothic fantasies and fussily reverential evocations of dead Victorian ballerinas - Marie Taglioni being a special favorite - are usually drawn back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. Not for nothing did he call himself a 'constructivist.' Cornell was intensely Francophile, though he had never been to France - witness his many references to French provincial hotels, and even by the worn, comfy French colors of his box interiors, the ivory whites and pinks and faded blue-grays. But he was, just as intensely, an American artist, with his asexual Puritan imagination and his belief in unsullied purity, expressed in the strict architecture within his boxes: white compartments and pigeonholes, sometimes - as in his series of 'Dovecotes' - without anything else in them. It is an imagery of New England spareness, suggesting clapboard meetinghouses, plain fences, and rectitude above all.&qu
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Google his name: http://images.google.com.au/images?q=james+hetfield&hl=en
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IT WAS EDISON. I CAN'T RECALL THE SOURCE.
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812-June 9, 1870) pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. During his lifetime, Dickens was viewed as a popular entertainer of fecund imagination, while later critics championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. The popularity of his novels and short stories during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none has ever gone out of print. Dickens played a major role in popularising the serialised novel. He is frequently referred to by his last name only, even on first reference
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Chris Cornell from Audioslave.  The song is called "You Know My Name".
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yes..\n\njose is joe\njosue is joshua
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The cult of Joseph Smith, swindler and charlatan, who referred to his own followers as dupes. Joseph Smith born 1805 known to his neighbors as an untruthful, trouble making boy, given to pretended feats of magic and digging for buried treasure. At twenty-one was hauled into court as a disorderly person and impostor, pretended that an angel named Moroni sent by god revealed to him a sacred book written on gold plates, that he found in a stone box with a sword and breast plate. He pretended to have dictated the contents without unwrapping the plates, which only passages that possess any dignity are borrowings from the King James Bible, when pressured to produce these plates Smith said they were taken back to heaven. Smith was murdered in 1844 in an Illinois jail when he was thirty-nine being held for burning down the press of a newspaper that printed articles about him that he didn’t care for.
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He was a banker. Hope this helps.
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It's often called hotel management. Cornell University is the most famous program
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The Great Chiefs\nChief Joseph\n1840 - 1904 \nChief Joseph, the Younger \n\n  Hinmaton Yalatkit, “Thunder Rolling in the Heights,” a Nez Percé chief, was an essentially peaceful man who came to be known as one of the greatest Indian military commanders of the 19th century.  He was born at the mouth of Joseph Creek, in the Wallowa Valley, Washington, sometime between January and April 1832, the third child of Khapkhaponimi, a Nez Percé woman, and her husband, Tuekakas, a Cayuse man also known as Old Joseph.  Baptized Ephraim as a lad, as was common missionary practice, he later took the name Joseph, by which he was known throughout his life.  He had two brothers, Ollokot (Frog) and Smuguiskugin or Shugun (Brown) and two sisters, Celia, also known as Sarah, and Elawmonmi.\n            Joseph was a tall, heavyset man, handsome and dignified in bearing.  He became chief around the age of 30 after the death of his father.  While courageous, he was not a warrior chief; he relied upon diplomacy and passive resistance in his relations with Whites.  Following the establishment of the reservation in 1835, White settlers began to move onto the beautiful fertile land—especially after gold was discovered.  Accordingly, a new treaty was signed in 1863 which reduced the reservation to about 550 square miles.  The reservation no longer included the land of many of the leaders of the tribe, including Joseph’s father.  These leaders refused to sign the treaty and also rejected an amended treaty in 1868.  Although the government maintained that the treaties covered all Nez Percé, those who had refused to sign continued to occupy their homeland in the Wallowa Valley in relative peace with their White neighbors.  The split between treaty and nontreaty Nez Percé was never reconciled.\n            Finally, in 1877, under pressure from settlers, squatters, and prospectors, the government decided to take action against Joseph and the rest of the nontreaty Nez Percé.  General O. O. Howard met with Joseph and his fellow chiefs in an attempt to reach a peaceful settlement.  But negotiations were disrupted because of trouble which broke out between some of the young Nez Percé and a number of Whites, in which casualties were suffered by both groups.  Howard was then determined to subdue the tribe and Joseph was forced into a state of war.\n            In the first major battle, at White Bird Canyon, the federal forces were all but annihilated.  The Nez Percé won 18 more battles, but Joseph clearly realized that he had but three ways to end the war:  annihilation, surrender, or retreat; he chose the latter.  At first he planned to join the Crow people in Montana, but when they refused to assist him, his goal was to reach Canada—to join Sitting Bull and the Sioux who had fled there in 1876.  \n            The retreat of Joseph and his people is generally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant in United States military history.  They eluded the pursuing troops, often by adroit rearguard actions in which a few sharpshooters were able to hold off a large number of attackers.  Their speed and flexibility amazed the Army; they even managed to maintain good relations with the Whites they encountered along the way.  Joseph was the undisputed leader, but all chiefs participated in decisions and were free to go their own way.  Joseph led about 750 of his people twice over the Rocky Mountains, through Yellowstone Park (it had been established in 1872), and across the Missouri River.\n            The journey covered four states and over 1,500 miles.  Less than 40 miles from the Canadian border, at Bear Paws, Montana, the Nez Percé made camp, exhausted and near starvation.  Some chiefs advocated moving on into Canada immediately, but most felt that without rest only the strongest could make it.  Joseph agreed, unaware that fresh troops under the command of General Nelson Miles were rapidly approaching.  They attacked the camp early the next morning
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The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Joseph Conrad, although I am sure there are others.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
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William Hanna, and Joseph Barbara in 1940
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Algernon Swinburne\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne
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Timothy Francis Leary, Ph. D (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, campaigner for psychedelic drug research and use, 1960s counterculture icon and computer software designer. He is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. During the 1960s, he coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
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Joseph Kennedy actually made a fortune by playing all kinds of tricks with the wall street markets and using all the loop holes that were available. essentially the SEC got started when Franklin D Rooselvelt placed Kennedy as the SEC chairman to essentially write laws to stop people from doing exactly what Kennedy had done with the system in order to manipulate it to his benefit.
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His name was Alessandro Volta.  Alessandro Volta discovered the first practical method of generating electricity.  In 1800, he arranged zinc and copper discs in a column and invented the battery.  His most famous invention was the voltic pile. \n\nThese links should give you all the good stuff!
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I may be wrong but I believe it was Rutherford B Hayes. He was born in Ohio, and I think he prefered them in a sweet potatoe pie. If I am wrong, forgive me.