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Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer, and historian. He is best known for his famous short stories that include “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” (listverse, 2015). Washington Irving was born in New York on April 3, 1783 (bio, 2015). He was the eleventh child born. His parents were Sarah Sander’s and William Irvin (The Literature Network, 2015). He was named after the American Revolution leader George Washington (Bio 2015). His family was kind and charitable

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household names recognized with economics today. However, many lessor known economists have made lasting impressions, often making attributions to the theories we know today. One of these individuals who influenced economics in this way was Irving Fisher. Irving Fisher was a very unique and brilliant man. He attended Yale University where he studied mathematics. He later used this background and applied it to economics, earning a PhD in economics, the first from Yale University. His study of mathematics

Margaret Irving Handy Have you ever gone into your community and collected a surplus of breast milk to provide for children who couldn’t get it himself? Well, Margaret Irving Handy did, along with many other pediatric discoveries. She was a very important part in medical history. To this day her research still affects medicine. That’s why her name was engraved in history for being a lead doctor in the start of better pediatrics. Margaret Irving Handy was a very important figure in children’s medicine

churches. Considered a “Forerunner of the Charismatic Movement,” Edward Irving was born in Scotland. A college graduate, he became a minister in the Church of Scotland, which was Presbyterian. In 1822 he was called to pastor Caledonia Church with about 50 members. He had a flamboyant style, and the congregation increased quickly to 1,000 members. A prayer movement started in the 1820s. William Howitt wrote about Edward Irving in his book, The

Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Ralph Emerson, and Henry Longfellow are some of the writers of this time. They all help shape and, make a path for the Romantic Period. The Romantic Period took place in the 1800’s, and was at its peak around 1850 or so. It originated in the area of Europe and was all about the spread of art, music, and writing. Henry Longfellow tried to Romanticize Paul Revere and parts of the Revolutionary war with his part in the Romantic Period. Other writers like Irving, and Hawthorne

The year Washington Irving was born, 1783, “was of some note in the history of the new republic” (Neider xi) because it that same year that the American Revolutionary war ended. Although Irving “distinguished himself in a variety of genres” (“Irving, Washington." 519) including “essay, sketch, history, travel, humor, and short stories” (519), during the later years of his life his writings concentrated on travel and history. (519) His first book included “Rip van Winkle”; loosely based on Germany's

Washington Irving was one of his country's first professional writers, and one of the first American writers to gain an international reputation. A major part of Washington Irving's legacy was his ability to draw on European folk tales he heard throughout his trips to Europe to create a fabricated history of his home state in some of his most famous literary pieces such as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Author’s Background and Historical Context Washington Irving, named in honor of George Washington

Although Irving would recognized as an author, both in America and aboard, his writing did not begin to support him until his mid-thirties Many literary sources consider Irving to be “America's first internationally recognized author” (519-520). Irving started writing at the age of nineteen, however, his first works were published under different pseudonyms. (“Washington Irving” 141). Using “the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle”, he contributed “satirical letters …to a newspaper owned by his brother

Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles second to none and is part of the fabric of American pop music. In fact, Lionel Richie and Irving Berlin are the only two songwriters in history to achieve the honor of having #1 records for nine consecutive years. The real story behind Lionel is essentially the American dream. Lionel was born in Tuskegee Alabama. He lived in a small, isolated, predominantly African American community in the original home of Booker T. Washington. His family