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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
He was born in Boston, the son of Jonathan Waldo and Hannah Mason. [1] In 1722, he married Lucy Wainwright. [2] In 1730, he purchased a 17th-century title to a large tract of land in Nova Scotia with the intent of establishing a colony there; the title did not stand up when he proposed this plan to the authorities in England.
Waldo sold all he had, forswore his marriage and home, and put his two young daughters into a convent. [4] Waldo began traveling around Lombardy begging and preaching about the value of poverty. The region of Lombardy was a hotbed of religious reform movements at the time, many of which would be later deemed heresies by the Catholic Church.
Janet Waldo, who supplied the voice of the hip teenage daughter Judy Jetson on the space-age cartoon The Jetsons, died Sunday at her longtime home in Encino, her daughter told The Hollywood ...
Janet Waldo (born Jeanette Marie Waldo; February 4, 1919 [1] – June 12, 2016) [2] was an American radio and voice actress. In animation, she voiced Judy Jetson in various Hanna-Barbera media, Nancy in Shazzan , Penelope Pitstop , Princess from Battle of the Planets , and Josie in Josie and the Pussycats .
Blake McIver Ewing/ Waldo No, that isn't Macaulay Culkin -- that's Blake McIver Ewing, who played the snooty anti-hero Waldo. The musically talented youngster created quite the love triangle as he ...
Clifford Dwight Waldo (September 28, 1913 – October 27, 2000) was an American political scientist and major figure in modern public administration. [1] Waldo's career was often directed against a scientific/technical portrayal of bureaucracy and government that now suggests the term public management as opposed to public administration. [ 2 ]
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. (December 1921 [1] – June 7, 1982) was an American impostor. He was the subject of both a book and a movie, loosely based on his exploits: The Great Impostor , in which he was played by Tony Curtis .