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Louis Rudolph (German: Ludwig Rudolf; 22 July 1671 – 1 March 1735), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1731 until his death. Since 1707, he ruled as an immediate Prince of Blankenburg .
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani ( / ˌdʒuːliˈɑːni / JOO-lee-AH-nee, Italian: [dʒuˈljaːni]; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
Birth Details. February 14, 1942. Los Angeles, California. Famous Works. First Television Work. Producer: In Concert, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Blood, Sweat and Tears Behind the Iron Curtain, 1968. Principal Television Work.
"Louis Rudolph (German: Ludwig Rudolf; 22 July 1671 – 1 March 1735), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1731 until his death. Since 1707, he ruled as an immediate Prince of Blankenburg.
- Early Life
- The Beginning of Rudolph
- Rudolph Spreads in Popularity
- Legacy of Rudolph
- Personal Life and Death
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Robert Lewis May was born in Arverne, Long Island, New York, and grew up in a fairly affluent secular Jewish home in New Rochelle, New York. His parents were members of the Ethical Culture Society, which believed that morality is independent of theology. May grew up having no religious preference. He had a brother and two sisters. One of his sister...
Early in 1939, May's boss at Montgomery Ward asked him to write a "cheery children's book" for Christmas shoppers, suggesting "it should be an animal story, with a character like Ferdinand the Bull", which was then recently released as a short film by Walt Disney. Prior to that time, Montgomery Ward had been buying and giving away coloring books fo...
In 1948, May persuaded his brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, to write the words and the music for a musical adaptation of Rudolph. Though the song was initially turned down by such popular vocalists as Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, it was finally recorded in 1949 by Gene Autry, whose wife persuaded him to sing it. The song became a phenomenal success an...
There have been a number of film adaptations of Rudolph. The first, an eight-minute animated film directed by Max Fleischer and narrated by Paul Wing, was a 1948 promotional piece made by Montgomery Ward. It showed at the Radio City Music Hall and in hundreds of theatres around the country. In 1964, Rankin/Bass Productions produced an animated tele...
May was an accomplished bridge player and an avid sports fan. From 1930 to 1934, he was a ghostwriter for the nationally syndicated bridge columnist, Milton C. Work. His other avocations included bowling, golf, and growing 15-foot (4.6-metre)-tall tomato plants that reached the second story of his house. The tomatoes weighed as much as two pounds.M...
Louis Rudolph (German: Ludwig Rudolf; 22 July 1671 – 1 March 1735), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1731 until his death. Since 1707, he ruled as an immediate Prince of Blankenburg.
Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1731 until his death.
