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- 3801: Charles Darwin
- ... selection. His work was mainly based on the life and earth sciences an on modern thought in general. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on February 12, 1809. He was the fifth child of Robert Warning Darwin. After Char-les had graduated from the elite school at Shrewsbury in 1825, young Darwin went to the University of Edinburg to study medicine. In 1827 he had dropped out of ...
- 3802: Cardinal Richelieu
- ... Louis died young and left five sons, the second oldest of whom, Francois, was Richelieu's father. Francois also died young, leaving his family in dire financial straits due to some poor investments. As a child, Richelieu was sickly and unfortunately would suffer from various maladies for the rest of his life. Armand was extremely intelligent and at the age of nine was sent to College de Navarre in Paris. Originally ...
- 3803: Bruce Lee
- ... the most part Bruce would ignore it" (30). Bruces discipline can also be seen in the amount that he practiced his martial arts. He would practice everyday for hours, and even as a young child he was always practicing. "Bruce Lees devotion to kung fu was total. At home, during dinner, he pounded away on a stool with alternate hands to toughen them" (8). Although Bruce Lee is a ...
- 3804: Bill Cosby
- ... s, ATonight Show.@ That was the first of many appearances he would make there. He came out with his second album which made 1,000,000 dollars. It was called, AI Started Out As a Child@ and it was very successful. Cosby was selected to play a spy on a TV show series called AI Spy.@ The producer, Sheldon Leanord, was taking great risks in having Cosby playing this part. Racial ...
- 3805: Bill Clinton
- ... He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before his son's birth. Needing a way to support herself and her new child, Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing. Bill Clinton stayed with his mother's parents in Hope. There his grandparents, Eldrigde and Edith Cassidy, taught him strong ...
- 3806: Ben Franklin
- ... Franklin children. Both Josiah and his wife felt strongly about educating their children; they took their childrens' education very seriously. Benjamin, one of their children, always listened to the guests; he was a very bright child. Benjamin taught himself to read when he was only five years old. His parents wished that they could send Ben to school, but they were very poor. Once three very important men visited Josiah and ...
- 3807: Babe Ruth
- On February 6, 1895, Kate Schamberger Ruth gave birth to her first child. George Herman Ruth, Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the first of eight children born to Kate and George Herman Ruth. Ruth's father worked as a bartender and ultimately opened his own ...
- 3808: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... of all, he was adventurous. He was not the quiet type of person, so he enjoyed expressing himself. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on the 22nd of May 1859 in Picardy Place, Edinburgh. The second child of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley, he was thought t have been named after the legendary medieval king, Arthur, of the Round Table. Doyle was also named after his granduncle, Michael Edward Conan. He was ...
- 3809: Arthur Clarke
- ... way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke. (www.acclarke.) This truly reflects Clarke's life; he went from being a slightly above-average child to being an acclaimed and respected Science Fiction
- 3810: Ansel Adams
- February 20, 1902, a photographer was born. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Ansel Easton Adams was the only child of New England parents, Charles Hitchcock and Olive Adams. Adams' father was a businessman, whose company included an insurance agency and chemical plant. Ansel took an interest in music at an early age. He selfly ...
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