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born Emmanuel Radnitzky; attended Ferrer School ; friend of Duchamp and furthered Dadaism ; had love affair with Lee Miller ; did Self-Portrait ; "The Gift" ; invented solarization; settled in Montparnasse | Man Ray |
1st submarine to destroy a ship (U.S.S. Housatonic) | H.L. Hunley |
founded electrolytic chemistry; won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 ; believed in panspermia (spores carry life across universe); formulated a greenhouse [effect] law; proposed a universal language; worked with van't Hoff, Ostwald, and Boltzmann | Svante Arrhenius |
wrote the Chocolate War | Robert Cormier |
only book of Bible in question and answer format | Malachi |
Sixtus V and Innocent VIII appointed him | Tomas de Torqumada |
written by Theopolis | Acts |
composed Third Piano Concerto | Rachmaninoff |
tutored by Roger Ascham | Elizabeth I |
this Russian composer died the same day as Stalin | Prokofiev |
founded by Robert Welch | John Birch Society |
"A Boy Named Sue" | Shel Silverstein |
painted Death of the Virgin ; Entombment ; David with the Head of Goliath | Caravaggio |
wrote Ecologues | Virgil |
only man not to cross the line during the Battle of Alamo | Lewis Rose |
his massacre started he Second Seminole War | Francis Dade |
November 5th | Guy Fawkes Day |
a.k.a. Tefani Makonnen | Halie Selassie |