Amede ardoin biography of albert einstein
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Walter Isaacson is the LEH Humanist of the Year. President and CEO of The Aspen Institute and the best-selling author of biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Ben Franklin, Isaacson contributed this autobiographical article to the new issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine. To read the full issue online and view more photos from this article, click here. To renew your subscription to LCV, click here. The LEH will honor Isaacson at the March 29th Humanities Awards.
I once was asked to contribute a piece for a section of the Washington Post called “The Writing Life.” This caused me some consternation. A little secret of many nonfiction writers like me—especially those of us who spring from journalism—is that we don’t quite think of ourselves as true writers, at least not of the sort who get called to reflect upon “the writing life.” At the time, my daughter, with all the wisdom and literary certitude that flowed from being a year-old aspiring novelist, pointed
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&#;Light&#;s Golden Jubilee Celebration&#;
NBC Radio
Oct. 21,
In , Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey, changing human history and cementing his legendary status as the ingenious American inventor par excellence.
Fifty years later, the General Electric Company and Westinghouse, always on the look-out for good publicity, decided to observe the anniversary of the discovery by honoring the still-living Edison to an extraordinary degree. The lengthy broadcast from NBC that captured the events of the celebration was preserved, and documents the immense, worshipful attention paid to the event and the character at its center.
The year-old was feted in an elaborate production hosted by his long-time admirer and friend, fellow inventor Henry Ford. Ford eventually wrested control of the event from General Electric, and soon whipped up a spectacle at his newly established Edison Institute of Technology (later to be the Henry Ford Mu
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This article is about the year For other uses, see (disambiguation).
Calendar year
(MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the nd year of the 2nd&#;millennium, the 42nd year of the 20th&#;century, and the 3rd year of the s decade.
Calendar year
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, , was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both and range from to million each.[1]
Events
[edit]Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
[edit]Main article: January
- January 1 &#; WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in which they agree "not to