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- 4011: Pierre Auguste Renoir
- ... a terrible fear of drawing any attention to himself and retained this dislike throughout his career. Although Renoir had three brothers, he always felt much closer to his mother and Lisa, his sister. As a child, Renoir was constantly doodling in his schoolbooks or drawing on the floors at home. He would quickly sketch anything in sight. During this same time, young Renoir joined the choir at the church of St ...
- 4012: P. T. Barnum
- ... stands today. His father, Philo Barnum, dabbled in several trades. His father owned his own dry goods store. Barnum's mom, Irena Taylor, was a housewife. The family was moderately well off. Barnum, as a child was influenced by a strict Protestant work ethic. He fallowed a type of Christianity called Congregationalism. Congregationalism was strict about working, learning and keeping yourself busy. Fun was a scarce commodity. About the only fun ...
- 4013: Pablo Picasso
- ... His new studio is found on the rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris; it is here that Picasso would work and live, alone, throughout the Second World War. 1947 Birth of a daughter, Paloma, second child with Francoise Gilot. 1952 He paints two enormous panels, War and Peace, subsequently hung in the chapel of Vallauris. 1955-1960 Picasso buys a villa, La Californie, on the Mediterranean coast of France near Cannes ...
- 4014: MICKY MANTLE
- ... played in 12 of his 18 career years in the World Serieswith the Yankee's. When Mickey Mantle was growing up, he was small, and spindly. His nickname was "little Mick" when he was a child. Mantle went to Commerce grade school. When Mickey was little, he always thought about baseball (Falkner 21). His parents bought baseball gloves for him, but his mom made his uniforms. When he started playing he ...
- 4015: Thomas Jefferson
- ... old, but to criticize this is terribly presentistic. In colonial times, especially in the middle and southern colonies, girls were married off between the ages of 13 and 16; it was not considered defilement and abuse like it is today. In fact, his relationship with Hemings could actually be considered to be a positive thing for him on two fronts: Since she was 52 when he died, Jefferson obviously did not ...
- 4016: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- ... Northwest. Especially that the Skagit tribe that lived in Penn Cove on Whidbey Island. Penn Cove is less than five minutes away from my mother's house. I remember riding my bike there as a child. This paper has brought new insight about the way I think not only about people of Indian descent, but about reservations and Indian rights. I cannot begin to describe the number of encounters I have ...
- 4017: Ted Bundy
- ... parental guidance, he stated himself that he couldn't talk to his parents about many things. Ted Bundy had expressed feelings during an interview that, parental involvement and security is very important in a young child's life and that he never had that protection. Bundy was very shy as a youth and he was often bullied in junior high, as a result of he was subjected to humiliation often. Even ...
- 4018: Howard Hughes-A Flying Life
- ... years his paranoia left him a recluse and in twenty years he had not been seen or photographed by the public. Howard was born on Christmas Eve 1904, in Houston, Texas. He was the only child of Howard Robard Hughes Senior and Alene Gano Hughes. His mother died when he was sixteen and his father died when he was 18. Howards childhood wasnt the greatest but in the end ...
- 4019: Hitler
- ... master race, so any other race had to be wiped out. Since Adolf had a dictatorship, he could tell Germans to kill all Jews. Adolf Hitler killed and captured many Jews. Hitler, as a young child, had a very troubled childhood. His father, a petty customs official, wanted the boy to study for a government position. But as Hitler wrote later in his book, "the thought of slaving in an office ...
- 4020: Nicholas Romanov
- ... long after Alexei was it was discovered that he suffered from haemophilia, a disease which slows the blood forming clots and can lead to internal haemorrhaging and possibly death . Haemophilia is passed on to the child by the mother and Alexandras shame of this may have been one of the factors why she turned to the uncouth holy man Gregory Rasputin. Rasputin had lead Alexandra to believe that he was ...
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