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- 1751: Jack Robinson
- ... big brotherly" care from Carl Anderson, a local mechanic and Reverend Karl Downs. Both men were able to point him in a more positive direction. They had him focus more on athletics. After Pasadena Junior College Jackie got a scholarship to the University of California at UCLA. Jackie's true passion was playing sports. He excelled in every sport he played. His favorites were football, track, baseball and basketball, which earned ...
- 1752: Isaac Newton
- ... 1642, at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. When he was three years old, he was put in care of his Grandmother. He then was sent to grammar school in Grantham. Then later he attended Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests; mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in ...
- 1753: Henry David Thoreau
- ... completed his first book titled, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers(1849). Here, he also filled his journals with materials for his most famous piece, Walden. After he left the hut, and after college, he became a literary apprentice by writing essays and poems and by helping edit the transcendentalist journal, The Dial. When success did not come, Thoreau remained dedicated to his program of "education" through intimacy with ...
- 1754: George Washington Carver 3
- ... a one-room schoolhouse, and as time went on he excelled as sought out for higher education. Because of his race Carver was denied on attending Highland University. In 1887 Carver got excepted to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. Carver made many outstanding contributions to the agricultural world and also on America it s self. Carver changed the face of Agriculture in the south with his crop rotation methods. Carver discovered ...
- 1755: George Wallace
- ... Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He received his degree in 1942 from the University. After receiving a medical discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he returned to Alabama. In ...
- 1756: From The Floutings Of The Cooperative Principle To Communica
- ... will only make the addresser facetious and the addressee puzzled. However, let us picture in mind one particular situation. It is in a large hall in a university dormitory. Now, just after supper, about fifteen college students are sitting or standing there enjoying the TV programs. By the seats, at a public telephone a girl is making a call at that moment. Her words are clear to other people in the ...
- 1757: Florence Nightingale
- ... care that the men received in the British Army. Nightingale therefore decided to begin a campaign to improve the quality of nursing in military hospitals. Her work resulted in the formation of the Army Medical College To spread her opinions on reform, Nightingale published two books, Notes on Hospital, and Notes on Nursing. Notes on Nursing became a widely popular book, which laid down the principals of nursing: careful observation and ...
- 1758: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Wools Thorpe, near Grant ham in Lincoln shire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Locution Professor of Mathematics in 1669. Newton was a premature child and was very small at birth. Except for a few periods of severe insomnia and a persecution mania (perhaps due to ...
- 1759: Florence Nightingale
- ... were not adopted in North America until the twentieth century. In Ontario, her model for nursing education did not take effect until 1974, when nursing education separated from the hospitals and became part of the College curriculum. Nightingale made notes continuously throughout her life. Her interest in statistics and her careful attention to detail came together to complete many writing. Her book Notes on nursing: What it is and is Not ...
- 1760: Edgar Allan Poe 6
- ... Virginia. He was an outstanding student and excelled in various languages, debating, writing, and athletics. At age sixteen he fell in love with and became engaged to a girl named Elmira Royster. While away at college, he wrote her frequently but her father intercepted the letters (Thompson). Edgar was upset when he did not receive any replies. In addition to this disappointment, life at the school was chaotic and dangerous (Benfey ...
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