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2 unusual facts about Geisel


Geisel

Geisel Library, the distinctive main library building at the University of California, named after Dr. Seuss.

Ernesto Geisel (1907–1996), a Brazilian military general and politician.


Casque and Gauntlet

Notable members of past delegations include Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Nelson Rockefeller, David T. McLaughlin, James Nachtwey, and Robert Reich.

Craven Laycock

He is perhaps best known as the dean who suspended Theodor Geisel from editing the Dartmouth humor magazine, after which Geisel wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss.

Dave Geisel

John David Geisel (born January 18, 1955 in Windber, Pennsylvania) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played in the majors with the Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners.

Ernesto Geisel

Having the aforesaid activities been stopped, Geisel and his Chief of Staff, Minister Golbery do Couto e Silva devised a plan of gradual, slow democratization that would succeed, in spite of all attempts and threats of the opposition offered by radical sectors of the military hierarchy and some terrorist movements the leftists would still try against the government.

In Bento Gonçalves, where he was raised, there were only two families of German origin- the Geisel and the Dreher- while the majority of the population was composed of Italian immigrants.

His father was Guilherme Augusto Geisel (born Wilhelm August Geisel), a German teacher from Herborn.

Geisel witnessed and participated in the most prominent events of Brazilian history in the 20th century, such as the revolution of 1930, the Getúlio Vargas dictatorship and the 1964 military coup d'état that overthrew the leftist President João Goulart.

Geisel Library

Geisel Library made an appearance as the exterior of a research lab in Killer Tomatoes Strike Back, the third movie in the cult film series Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Hans Suess

He was disappointed by being confused, by the US Postal Service among others, with famous children's writer Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) his contemporary living in the same locality, La Jolla.

Helen Palmer

Helen Palmer Geisel (1899–1967), children's book author and wife of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Helen Palmer Geisel

She was married to fellow author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, from 1927 until her death.

P. D. Eastman

He was assigned to the Signal Corps Film Unit, which was headed by Theodor Geisel, later to become known as Dr. Seuss; here, Eastman conducted picture planning for animated sequences in orientation and training films, and he also wrote scripts and drew storyboards for the Private Snafu series for Army-Navy Screen Magazine.

Political messages of Dr. Seuss

Geisel, a cartoonist and author for children, was also a progressive and a moralist who expressed his views in his books through the use of ridicule, satire, wordplay, nonsense words, and wild drawings to take aim at bullies, hypocrites, and demagogues.


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