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Flags flew at half-staff outside the Apple Infinite Loop campus on the evening of Jobs's death. Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto, California, around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, [65] [217] [218] which resulted in respiratory arrest. [219]
The Glenriddell Manuscripts is an extensive collection written in holograph by Robert Burns and an amanuensis of his letters, poems and a few songs in two volumes produced for his then friend Captain Robert Riddell, Laird of what is now Friars Carse in the Nith Valley, Dumfries and Galloway. [1]
Gilbert Burns recalled that Robert's friend John Ballantine, Provost of Ayr in 1787, had offered to lend money for the publication of the 'Edinburgh Edition' as well as advising him to contact an Edinburgh publisher. On 18 April 1787 Robert wrote to him to say that he had sent John one hundred copies of his newly published poems and songs.
Steve Jobs: 'Death Is Life's Best Invention' On October 5, 2011, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs left his legacy after creating and growing the biggest company in the world from scratch in a garage.
The stranger, we need hardly say, was Robert Burns. It was not in Messrs. Dunlop and Wilson's line to publish volumes, much less small volumes of poetry; but Mr. Reid, though still a youth, gave the unknown a letter of introduction to Mr. Creech, with whom he was personally acquainted, and the interview for the present terminated." [16]
The pressure to love your work has been heating up since the seminal 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University by late Apple founder Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was wrong. Finding work that you ...
The late Steve Jobs told Bob Iger not to stay too long at Disney before he passed away in 2011. Jobs said that Iger should retire so that he would still have time to enjoy the good things in life.
"Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge" is a dirge of eleven stanzas by the Scots poet Robert Burns, first published in 1784 and included in the first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786. The poem is one of Burns's many early works that criticize class inequalities.