Carlos Peña Rómulo, QSC, CLH, NA (14

January 1898 – 15 December 1985) was

a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and
author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the
age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of
the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, a general in the US Army
and the Philippine Army, university president, President of
the UN General Assembly, was eventually named one of
the Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the
recipient of many other honors and honorary degrees. His
hometown is Camiling, Tarlac and he studied at the
Camiling Central Elementary School dur

Diplomatic career[edit]
Romulo served eight Philippine presidents, from Manuel L. Quezon to Ferdinand Marcos, as
the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines and as the country's representative to
the United States and to the United Nations. He also served as the Resident Commissioner to
the U.S. House of Representatives during the Commonwealth era. In addition, he served also
as the Secretary of Education in President Diosdado P. Macapagal's and President Ferdinand
E. Marcos's Cabinet through 1962 to 1968.[1][2]
Resident Commissioner[edit]
Romulo served as Resident Commissioner of the Philippines to the United States
Congress from 1944 to 1946. This was the title of the non-voting Delegate to the US House of
Representatives for lands taken in the Spanish–American War, and as such, he is the only
member of the US Congress to end his tenure via a legal secession from the Union.
United Nations[edit]
In his career in the United Nations, Romulo was a strong advocate of human rights, freedom
and decolonization. In 1948 in Paris, France, at the third UN General Assembly, he strongly
disagreed with a proposal made by the Soviet delegation headed by Andrei Vishinsky, who
challenged his credentials by insulting him with this quote: "You are just a little man from a little
country." In return, Romulo replied, "It is the duty of the little Davids of this world to fling the
pebbles of truth in the eyes of the blustering Goliaths and force them to behave!", leaving
Vishinsky with nothing left to do but sit down.[3]
ing his basic education.

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 Niccolò Paganini, (born October
27, 1782, Genoa, republic of Genoa
[Italy]—died May 27, 1840, Nice,
France), Italian composer and
principal violin virtuoso of the 19th
century. A popular idol, he inspired
the Romantic mystique of the
virtuoso and revolutionized violin
technique.
After initial study with his father,
Paganini studied with a local
violinist, G. Servetto, and then with
the celebrated Giacomo Costa. He
made his first appearance in 1793
and then studied with Alessandro
Rolla and Gaspare Ghiretti
at Parma. In 1797, accompanied by
his father, he toured Lombardy,
where with each concert his
reputation grew. Gaining his independence soon after, he indulged
excessively in gambling and romantic love affairs. At one point he pawned his
violin because of gambling debts; a French merchant lent him
a Guarneri violin to play a concert and, after hearing him, gave him the
instrument.
Between 1801 and 1807 he wrote the 24 Capricci for unaccompanied violin,
displaying the novel features of his technique, and the two sets of
six sonatas for violin and guitar. He reappeared in Italy as a violinist in 1805
and was appointed director of music at Piombino by Napoleon’s sister, Élisa
Bonaparte Baciocchi. He later gave recitals of his own compositions in many
towns in Italy and about 1824 formed his long attachment with the singer
Antonia Bianchi.
In 1828 Paganini experienced great success in Vienna, and his appearances
in Paris and London in 1831 were equally sensational. His tour of England
and Scotland in 1832 made him a wealthy man. In 1833 he settled in Paris,
where he commissioned Hector Berlioz to write his symphony Harold en Italie.
Paganini thought that the challenge of its viola solo was too slight, however,
and he never played it. Following the failure of the Casino Paganini, a
gambling house in which he had invested, he went to Marseille in 1839, then
to Nice.
Paganini’s romantic personality and adventures created in his own day
the legend of a Mephistophelean figure. Stories circulated that he was in
league with the devil and that he had been imprisoned for murder; his burial
in consecrated ground was delayed for five years. He was long regarded as a
miser, but a more accurate portrait would consider his desire to be free from a
train of dependent followers and their importunities for his largesse. His gift of
20,000 francs to the struggling composer Berlioz was an act of generosity
seemingly uncharacteristic; possibly Paganini, recognizing in “Beethoven’s
successor” a worthy talent, thought it was his duty to come to the composer’s
aid.
His violin technique, based on that of his works, principally the Capricci, the
violin concertos, and the sets of variations, demanded a wide use of
harmonics and pizzicato effects, new methods of fingering and even of tuning.
In performance he improvised brilliantly. He was also a flamboyant showman
who used trick effects such as severing one or two violin strings and
continuing the piece on the remaining strings. His technical innovations were
imitated by later virtuosi, notably Pablo Sarasate and Eugène Ysaÿe. His
other works include 6 violin concertos, of which the first, in D major, is
especially popular; 12 sonatas for violin and guitar; and 6 quartets for violin,
viola, cello, and guitar. The influence of his virtuosity extended to orchestral as
well as to piano music. His influence on Franz Liszt was immense. Themes
from the Capricci inspired works by Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes
Brahms, and Sergey Rachmaninoff.

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