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- 3861: Louis Pasteur 2
- ... was forced on him in 1885 when the mother of 9-year-old Joseph Meister begged Pasteur to save her son. The boy had been bitten 14 times by a rabid dog. Pasteur treated the child. The wounds healed and no trace of rabies appeared. Thus Joseph became the first person saved by Pasteur's treatment. Pasteur had won many honors for his previous discoveries; now the world united to do ...
- 3862: Lizzie Borden 2
- ... asked Lizzie "if she had any idea who could have killed her father and mother." Lizzie responded with, "She's not my mother, Sir. She is my stepmother. My mother died when I was a child." "I did not regard her as my mother, though she came there when I was young. I decline to say whether my relations between her and myself we those of mother and daughter or not ...
- 3863: Lewis Latimer
- ... 400 for his release. Although free, George was still extremely poor, working as a barber, paper-hanger and in other odd jobs to support his wife, three sons, and one daughter. Lewis Latimer, the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In ...
- 3864: Leo Tolstoi
- ... family was new to Russia. The grand duke of Moscow, at the time, gave the name Tolstoy to the family. The word tolstoy , in russian, literally means fat. His parents died when he was a child, and relatives were left to bring him up. Tolstoy started his studies of law and oriental languages at Kaza University. Dissatisfied with the standard of education he returned in the middle of his studies back ...
- 3865: Lenonard Bernstein
- ... of Boston, on Sunday, August 25, 1918. Bernstein was named Louis at birth, after his mother s grandfather, but at the age of sixteen he had it formally changed to Leonard, or Lenny. As a child, Bernstein was sick very often with asthma and hay fever. Perhaps due to these and many other medical conditions, Bernstein preferred to be alone. He didn t care to spend much time with his family ...
- 3866: Law And Politics
- ... Civil Liberties Union. Home Page. http://www.aclu.org/index.html. 10 Feb 2000. Guidubaldi, John D.Ed., L.P., L.P.C.C. Minority Report and Policy Recommendations of the United States Commission On Child and Family Welfare. July 1996. http://users.erols.com/afc/minority1.htm. 10 Feb 2000. Felkins, Leon. Property and Liberty: You can't give up one without losing the other. January 2, 1999. . 10 Feb ...
- 3867: Kurt Cobain
- ... Nirvana, along with a few other Seattle bands, molded the music of the 90's, alternative. Where did it all start for Kurt? Kurt Donald Cobain was born February 20, 1967. He was a happy child living with his mother and father in Aberdeen, Washington. But the happiness, soon interrupted in 1975 when Kurt's parents got divorced. Kurt was ashamed. He longed for the typical "Brady Bunch" family, but instead ...
- 3868: King Henry Viiii
- ... separation from Rome he persecuted with equal severity the Catholics who adhered to the government of Rome and the Protestants who rejected its doctrines. Henry was married six times. Anne Boleyn bore the king one child, who became Elizabeth I. Henry soon tired of Anne and had her put to death. A few days later he married a third wife, Jane Seymour. She died in a little more than a year ...
- 3869: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- Kate Chopin: Adversity and Criticism Tragedy, death, adversity and criticism can one or a combination of these circumstances influence the path you take? Enduring the death of loved ones, facing critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, Kate Chopin is considered among the most important women in the nineteenth-century American fiction. (Scarsella) Katherine (Chopin) O'Flaherty was born of Irish-French descendants. There is some ...
- 3870: Karl Marx 2
- ... sees that the majority of society, more specifically, the proletariat, are existing in sub-human conditions. Marx also sees that the bourgeoisie have a disproportionate amount of property and power, and because of that, they abuse it. He writes of how the current situation with the bourgeoisie and proletariat developed. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" (Marx, p.55). There has always been struggles ...
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