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Samuel Woodworth was an American writer and poet, playwright and journalist.
After completing his apprenticeship as a printer, Woodworth traveled to New Haven, Connecticut, and worked for the Connecticut Herald newspaper. During the War of 1812, he edited a weekly newspaper called The War and others. He also wrote several successful operettas.
Samuel Woodworth was a popular poet in the 19th century and is remembered today as the author of the sentimental poem "The Old Oak Bucket".
Herman Melville was an American writer, poet, and sailor.
Melville's hardship-filled youth ended on a whaling ship. He returned from his adventures in the South Seas in October 1844, and wrote "Taipi" the following spring. The book was based on the events surrounding Melville's desertion from the whaling ship Acushnet in 1842 and subsequent adventures in the Marquesas Islands.
Melville wrote several other novels and short stories and many poems, but during his lifetime his works were little appreciated by his contemporaries. Only in the 1920s began to rethink Melville, and he was recognized as a classic of world literature. World fame Melville already in the 20th century brought irrational novel "Moby Dick".
Harry George Wakelyn Smith was a British military officer, colonial governor and high commissioner in South Africa.
Smith began his career in the army as an ensign in 1805, serving in South America (1807), then in Spain. During the War of 1812 in America, Smith Sir Harry Smith was with the British forces that captured and burned Washington, D.C.. He was also a brigade major at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Smith later commanded a division in the Kafir War (1834-36), during which he made the famous 1,130 km journey from Cape Town to Grahamstown.
From 1835 he was governor of the newly annexed frontier territory named Queen Adelaide prov. Smith was then transferred to India as deputy adjutant general and distinguished himself in the Sikh Wars, especially at the Battle of Aliwala in 1846. Returning to South Africa as governor of the Cape Colony (1847-52), he continued his policy of expansion and waged war on the Boers. In March 1852 he was recalled to Britain, where he held various military posts for the rest of his life. Harry Smith wrote an autobiography which was first published in 1901.
Herman Melville was an American writer, poet, and sailor.
Melville's hardship-filled youth ended on a whaling ship. He returned from his adventures in the South Seas in October 1844, and wrote "Taipi" the following spring. The book was based on the events surrounding Melville's desertion from the whaling ship Acushnet in 1842 and subsequent adventures in the Marquesas Islands.
Melville wrote several other novels and short stories and many poems, but during his lifetime his works were little appreciated by his contemporaries. Only in the 1920s began to rethink Melville, and he was recognized as a classic of world literature. World fame Melville already in the 20th century brought irrational novel "Moby Dick".
Heinrich Wilhelm Trübner was a German realist painter of the circle of Wilhelm Leibl.
Herman Melville was an American writer, poet, and sailor.
Melville's hardship-filled youth ended on a whaling ship. He returned from his adventures in the South Seas in October 1844, and wrote "Taipi" the following spring. The book was based on the events surrounding Melville's desertion from the whaling ship Acushnet in 1842 and subsequent adventures in the Marquesas Islands.
Melville wrote several other novels and short stories and many poems, but during his lifetime his works were little appreciated by his contemporaries. Only in the 1920s began to rethink Melville, and he was recognized as a classic of world literature. World fame Melville already in the 20th century brought irrational novel "Moby Dick".
