does ANYBODY know ANYTHING about Peter Tchaikovsky? like what he did and what his time was like?
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During his education at the School of Jurisprudence, he was infatuated with a (female) soprano, but she married another man. One of his conservatory students, Antonina Milyukova, began writing him passionate letters around the time that he had made up his mind to "marry whoever will have me." He did not even remember her from his classes, but her letters were very persistent, and he hastily married her on July 18, 1877. Within days, while still on their honeymoon, he deeply regretted his decision. Two weeks after the wedding the composer attempted suicide by wading in a cold river. He later fled to Saint Petersburg a nervous wreck, and was separated from his wife after only six weeks. The couple never saw each other again. Antonina Milyukova died in a mental institution in 1917. They remained legally married until his death.\n\nThe composer's homosexuality has long been generally accepted, as well as its importance to his music. His relationships have been documented by historians such as Rictor Norton, Alexander Poznansky and others.\n\nA far more influential woman in Tchaikovsky's life was a wealthy widow, Nadezhda von Meck, with whom he exchanged 1,200 letters between 1877 and 1890. At her insistence they never met; they did encounter each other on two occasions, purely by chance, but did not converse. As well as financial support in the amount of 6,000 rubles a year, she expressed interest in his musical career and admiration for his music. However, after 14 years she ended the relationship unexpectedly, claiming bankruptcy. It was during this period that Tchaikovsky achieved success throughout Europe and (by his own account), in 1891, even greater accolades in the United States. In fact, he was the conductor, on May 5th, 1891, at the official opening night of Carnegie Hall.\n\nMeck's claim of financial ruin is disregarded by some who believe that she ended her patronage of Tchaikovsky because she supposedly discovered the composer's homosexuality. It is possible she was planning to marry off one of her daughters to Tchaikovsky, as she also supposedly tried to marry one of them to Claude Debussy, who had lived in Russia for a time as music teacher to her family. Also, one of her sons, Nikolay, was married to Tchaikovsky's niece Anna Davydova.\n\nTchaikovsky's life, largely exaggerated and fictionalized, is the subject of Ken Russell's motion picture The Music Lovers. Two other motion pictures were based on his life - the low-budgeted, sanitized and highly fictionalized Song of My Heart, released in 1948, and the 1969 Russian-language "Tchaikovsky" , which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His last name derives from the word chaika (чайка), meaning seagull in a number of Slavic languages. His family origins may not have been entirely Russian. In an early letter to Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky wrote that his name was Polish and his ancestors were "probably Polish."
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It was interesting reading about him. Here are some links that should help you.
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He sounds very interesting (i looked him up). Thank you. I will read his newest book( I like anything to do with walking in the woods)\n:)
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a detailed biography from the man himself:\nhttp://www.dalailama.com/page.4.htm
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I think that he has a mixed record. Although he has done a great deal to bring Russia out of the dark ages and into an energy giant in waiting, he has also done his fair share of things to quell internal discontent within Russia. The best example of this is his overt control of the media and his elimination of people who express popular discontent. Recently a Russian journalist named Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in very suspicious circumstances. He seems a good leader, but i think people should be suspicious of him even if only for his KGB past.
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If this is the gentleman to whom you are referring:\n\nJoseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Berdychiv, Ukraine into a highly patriotic landowning Polish szlachta (noble) family.  Conrad lived an adventurous life, becoming involved in gunrunning and political conspiracy, which he later fictionalized in his novel "The Arrow of Gold", and allegedly had a disastrous love affair, putting him into a state of despair.\nMany of Conrad's early novels are set aboard ships. His novel "Nostromo" is a panoramic study of revolution in South America, while "The Secret Agent" and "Under Western Eyes" are among the first modern novels to treat the subjects of terrorism and espionage.\n\nConrad's literary work bridges the gap between the realist literary tradition of writers such as Charles Dickens and the emergent modernist schools of writing. Interestingly, he despised Dostoevsky (although Under Western Eyes arguably could not have been written without his influence) and Russian writers as a rule, due to his parents' deaths at the hands of the Russian authorities. Conrad made an exception only for Ivan Turgenev.\n\nConrad is now best known for the novella, "Heart of Darkness", which has been seen as a scathing indictment of colonialism and which gazes unflinchingly into the depths of despair, human exploitation and suffering which he witnessed while in command of a Congo steamer; it also foreshadows Conrad's "golden period," which begins with Lord Jim (1901) and includes Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes.\n\nJoseph Conrad died 3 August 1924, of a heart attack.
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For more details, see:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_George_Alexandrovich_of_Russia
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This guy - the founder of the art. He has a great story - Masutatsu Oyama, born Yong I-Choi. Check it out - it is fascinating! http://www.answers.com/kyokushinkai?gwp=11&ver=2.0.0.442
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Brissy here.  So you are a big fan of Alexander Bunyip.  Do you really still have all that old stuff.  he he!!!
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A huge event company hired me to be their stage manager for this huge 50th WWII Anniversary stage show/celebration.   Two weeks before show day, they pulled out, and took all their gear and the scheduled entertainment with them.\n\nWithin hours of the company's leaving the sponsoring organization asked me if I would become the director/producer (I was the only local associated with the show)...and the only thing any of us knew at that time was that Leslie Neilson was coming to MC it, the Russians were bringing "something" and we had NO SHOW.  So the clock started ticking.\n\nWith a working budget of only $5000, I was able to hire all of my out of work actor, musician and dancer friends to compose and rehearse something totally new and original that would comprise a 45 minute set.  \n\nThe Russians showed up 3 whole damn days before the show and as my team and I were waiting for them to clear customs, we were all praying..."please don't let it be a bear act."  Being that my entire team consisted of men and one cute little lesbian...we were all thrilled to see ballet dancers walk out of the customs area!  Followed by, yes, Musicians!  In total I was given the gift of 40 performers called The Russian Army Song and Dance Ensemble.  (NOTE:  This was just two short years after The Wall came down)\n\nFor a two week chapter in my life, I lived 3 glorious lifetimes...and I can talk about this with crystal clarity for hours...that's how much stuff happened and affected my life...but suffice it to say, the show was a big hit (3000 people, Governors, dignitaries from Russia, Canada, the US) and when the sponsors took Leslie Neilson out for dinner after the show, he asked "Where's the crew?  The people who put this together?"  We were having a huge party and Leslie surprised us all when he showed up and hung out with us for hours.  (The man is a saint, and one of the funniest I have ever met).\n\nThis is my biggest accomplishment, because without it, I would not have my children, the career I have now, and everything that I love and cherish that is in my life today...because it all stems from this one big thing happening to me.
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/russia/ivantheterrible.html\n\n Here is a link that should help you out.  Pay attention to the part that talks about the second part of his reign, when he did away with his advisors and ruled with complete autonomy. This should be what you are looking for.
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I think Mikhail Gorbachov was a great leader, because he did a brave thing in dismantling the Soviet Union and leading Russia into a position as a peaceful power. He hasn't gotten nearly enough credit for what he did.
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Here is an interesting looking page:\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Huygens.html\n\nIt seems like he was also quite the music theorist.\n\nhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/english/huygens.html\n\nThe Probe which landed on Titan was called Huygens because it was he who discovered Titan.  He also discovered the true nature of Saturn's rings and also discovered some lunar features.\n\nhttp://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html\nhttp://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Huygens.html
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OK.  War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy now.\n\nChapter I\n"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news."\n\nIt was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.\n\nAll her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows:\n\n"If you have nothing better to do, Count [or Prince], and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10- Annette Scherer."\n\n"Heavens! what a virulent attack!" replied the prince, not in the least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pavlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa.\n\n"First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend's mind at rest," said he without altering his tone, beneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned.\n\nI'm tired is it ok if i just give you the link to the book.\nEnjoy.\n\nYes, sports for sure,  ahahahahaha.
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I don't think it's just now.  Napoleon was a dramatic figure in world history--a brilliant tactician (for the most part!), notorious for his behavior.  He's a great study in how to do some things, and how not to do others.
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try Wikipedia\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie
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i found a website about his life but didnt mention about his childhood.  but just look to the websites and hope u can get any other informations