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...France of the same period, great painters turned easily to problems of illustration. Eugène Delacroix, a Romantic from his flowing locks to his patent leather pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...
Citrus to Whisky. Disney might have a tough time proving his case. For one thing, the U.S. Patent Office has never received an application from Disney to use the name as a trademark. According to the patent office, Schwartz's Davy Crockett Enterprises is the owner of a valid clothing trademark label, "Davy Crockett, Frontiersman." Other companies, some dating back as far as 1849, have used the name Davy Crockett on everything from citrus fruit to chewing tobacco and whisky, and most of them have since either gone out of business or allowed the name to lapse. Schwartz first...
...sobbed and cried, the 10th dashed in behind the German lines and with saber and carbine cut down the enemy gunners. This was World War I, and twice young Georgy received the coveted St. George Cross, awarded only for valor in battle. In his black tunic, blue breeches and patent-leather kepi with bronze double-eagle, he was a doughty figure in the Czarist army...
After graduation, Einstein settled in Switzerland, married Mileva Marie, a Serbian mathematician. With a family to support, he got a job as an examiner in the Swiss Patent Office. But "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals. I turned aside from everything else." During working hours he would scribble his ideas down on scraps of paper. Evenings, he could be seen wheeling a baby carriage through the streets, halting now and then to jot down rows of mathematical symbols...
...Years. Almost overnight, the Swiss patent clerk became the world's most famous scientist. Universities competed for him, and in 1912 he became a professor at the famed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. In 1915 Einstein expanded his theory into the General Theory of Relativity...