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Izaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler , he also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne .
Kendall Lewis Walton (born 1939) is an American philosopher, the Emeritus Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. [1] His work mainly deals with theoretical questions about the arts and issues of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively.
Walton was a studious young man, but his uncle actively discouraged all study and believed a studious boy to be an idle one. Walton continued studying, and once his apprenticeship had ended, moved to Savannah, Georgia, in 1769 to study law under a Mr. Young and was admitted to the bar in 1774. His brother was John Walton.
Hanes Walton Jr. (September 25, 1941 — January 8, 2013) was an American political scientist and professor of African-American studies who pioneered the study of race in American politics. He was an early advocate for the creation of African-American politics as a subfield of political science, and he has been credited with developing the ...
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The Sitwells and William Walton: left to right Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell, Walton, and, with the Façade megaphone, Neil Porter of the Old Vic. Walton made changes to the instrumentation for the entertainment between its premiere and the publication of the first printed score nearly thirty years later, [ 3 ] but in both 1922–23 and 1951 he ...
composed as a 70th birthday present for Karl-Friedrich Still, Walton's neighbour in Ischia: Chamber music: 1919, 1921: Piano Quartet: violin, viola, cello and piano: revised 1921 and 1974–1975 Chamber music: 1919–1922: String Quartet No. 1: 2 violins, viola and cello: Chamber music: 1922–1923: Toccata in A minor: violin and piano: Chamber ...