Tom mann biography
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Tom Mann
British trade unionist and activist (1856–1941)
For the English singer, see Stereo Kicks.
Thomas Mann (15 April 1856 – 13 March 1941), was an English trade unionist and is widely recognised as a leading, pioneering figure for the early labour movement in Britain. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the British labour movement.[1]
Early years
[edit]Mann was born on 15 April 1856, on Grange Road, Longford, Coventry. His birth house was previously maintained by Coventry City Council, but is now privately owned after being sold in 2004. The property still stands today. Mann was the son of a clerk who worked at a colliery. He attended school from the ages of six to nine, then began work doing odd jobs on the colliery farm. A year later he became a trapper, a labour-intensive job that involved clearing blockages from the narrow airways in the mining shafts.[1][2][3]
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Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
For other people named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann (disambiguation).
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Mann in 1929 | |
| Born | (1875-06-06)6 June 1875 Free City of Lübeck, German Empire |
| Died | 12 August 1955(1955-08-12) (aged 80) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Resting place | Kilchberg, Switzerland |
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| Period | 20th century |
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| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Years active | 1896–1954 |
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| Notable works | Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, Doctor Faustus |
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| Spouse | Katia Pringsheim |
| Children | Erika, Klaus, Golo, Monika, Elisabeth, Michael |
| Relatives | Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (father) Júlia da Silva Bruhns (mother) Hein • Travelling to London on Saturday to see Doctor Atomic, I read an interesting piece in the Guardian review by Salman Rushdie. The general theme was inspired by the fact that a film director once told him that all movies made from novels were “rubbish”. I was reminded of that piece today when I had a quick look at cosmic variance and found a post about the forthcoming film Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. The post is mainly about the fact that Angels and Demons is based in the world of particle physics so some educational materials have been generated to cash in on it, so to speak. Nothing wrong with that as an idea. Every little helps. The problem for me is that the film is directed by Ron Howard and stars Tom Hanks. This is the same combination that took Brown’s enjoyably preposterous page-turner and made it into one of the worst pieces of cobbled-together garbage that I’ve ever seen in a cinema. The novel isn’t s |