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2 days ago · Kaczynski as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in 1968. In late 1967, the 25-year-old Kaczynski became an acting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught mathematics. He assumed the position as the youngest assistant professor in the history of the university. [34]
5 days ago · Alice Walker became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple (1982). One of the most important literary figures of second-wave feminism, Walker’s novels, short stories, and poems are celebrated for their insightful treatment of African American culture and for their ...
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- A writer and feminist, Alice Walker is especially known for novels, poems, and short stories that offer great insight into African American culture...
- Alice Walker was born in 1944, the eighth child of African American sharecroppers. She was accidentally blinded in one eye, so her mother gave her...
- Alice Walker’s most famous work is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple (1982), which depicts the growing up and self-realization of a...
5 days ago · The colorful life of The Color Purple author Alice Walker Alice Walker published The Color Purple in 1982. With it, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
1 day ago · Theodore Roosevelt Jr.[b] (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T. R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
2 days ago · Ted Lasso, an American college football coach, is unexpectedly recruited to coach a fictional English Premier League soccer team, AFC Richmond, despite having no experience coaching soccer. The team's owner, Rebecca Welton, gained ownership of the team in a divorce from her unfaithful ex-husband, Rupert.
4 days ago · Race walking is believed to have originated in the Victorian era (1837-1901) when noblemen used to bet on their footmen -- who walked alongside their employer’s horse-driven coaches -- for a winner. It came to be known as pedestrianism and made its way to the United States in the late 19th century.
1 day ago · PARIS — (AP) — On an ordinary Parisian market street on an ordinary rainy fall day, Stella McCartney’s high-octane show on Monday was anything but. Guests gasped as the drizzle ceased, the clouds parted, and the sun emerged moments before the show — a heavenly metaphor, perhaps, for McCartney’s optimistic and nature-inspired display. Meanwhile, inside the storied grounds of Les ...
