Isabel Cowles

Most Recent Articles by Isabel Cowles

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  Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein, Physicist Who Developed Theory of Relativity
  Albert Einstein grew up in Munich, Germany and spent much of his life as a scholar in Berlin. He wrote several monumental papers that changed the study of physics, including his development of the theory of relativity. Einstein fled Europe in 1933 and spent the remainder of his life at Princeton University.
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  Happy Birthday, Gabriel García Márquez, Author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
  Gabriel García Márquez grew up in a home filled with storytelling and the supernatural. His seminal work of fiction, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” transformed his birthplace of Aracataca, Colombia, into the magical town of Macondo. García Márquez ultimately won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his body of work.
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  Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood Actress
  Elizabeth Taylor has spent her life on camera. She took her first screen test in 1939 at age seven and worked as an actress until 2003, winning two Academy Awards. Taylor has grabbed attention for dramas onscreen and off, fascinating the public with her turbulent love life and erratic health. Unlike contemporary 15-minute celebrities, Taylor’s stardom has truly endured.
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  Happy Birthday, Johnny Cash, Country, Folk and Rockabilly Musician
  Johnny Cash—the “Man in Black”—is an American legend. His music epitomizes the life and landscape of the American South, and has influenced generations of artists. His complex life inspired the 2005 critically acclaimed film “Walk the Line.”
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  Happy Birthday, John Foster Dulles, Republican Secretary of State
  John Foster Dulles was hailed as a “master craftsman” of foreign policy. Decades before his work as secretary of state under President Dwight Eisenhower, Dulles was an influential policymaker: In 1919 he was general counsel during the Treaty of Versailles, and in 1949 he traveled to Japan to broker a peace treaty.