Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Joshua Ringle, 69, roofing contractor for Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grand Central Terminal, and a New Jersey Republican leader who in 1953-after three losing campaigns against the Democratic Hague machine-became one of the first members of his party to be elected to the Jersey City Commission; after a long illness; in Jersey City...
...their way from London to Bath, the future Sir Thomas was already a celebrity at the age of ten. Sooner or later, his father, the innkeeper, would bring forth the boy and ask: "Would you like him to recite from the poets or take your portrait?" In 1779 Sir Joshua Reynolds reportedly called the boy "the most promising genius I have ever met." By the time he was 17, he was on his way to becoming one of the most sought-after portrait painters of all time...
...years since the first Summer Show in Sir Joshua Reynolds' day, only two younger artists had ever been shown at the Academy. One was Joan Floyd of Bristol, who had a painting hung in 1928 when she was 14, but gave up her career for marriage. The other was Master (later Sir) Edwin Landseer, whose Portrait of a Mule and Portrait of a Pointer Bitch and Puppy created a sensation in 1915 when Landseer was only...
...past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...
...years before his death in 1806, at the age of 79, George Stubbs never had a drink of anything but water. Aside from that, little is known about him-except that at his peak he could command a higher price for the portrait of a horse than Sir Joshua Reynolds charged for an earl. There was good reason for his success: his landscapes could be as elegantly dead as any man's, but when he painted animals, every muscle flared with life, and every sinew danced...