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- 2421: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... serve him well, Darwin was taught the social consequences of subversive science. His father wanted him in a profession, and Darwin was back again to conventional Anglicanism, after three years of divinity at Christ's College, Cambridge. Darwin had little calling, but his collateral education continued, as he learned botany and geological strata mapping. He received his BA degree left the environment of the Church and was placed aboard a surveying ...
- 2422: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... the principal leaders of the American Civil Rights movement and an important supporter of nonviolent protests. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of 15, King went to Morehouse College in Atlanta and graduated with a bachelors degree in sociology in 1948. He was then ordained as a Baptist Minister at age 18. Then he studied at Crozier Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, in ...
- 2423: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... of his gratitude for what he has learned. As a student, Napoleon devoured books of all kinds. When he was finally admitted on a scholarship to a French military academy and later to the Military College of France, his reading enabled him to stay near the top of his class. Napoleons career was one metoric rise from poverty to power, and then almost equally swift decline. When he was defeated by ...
- 2424: Flo Hyman
- ... subluxation of the lenses are common and could also have something to do with Marfans Syndrome. After Hymans death, a lot of other athletes took precautions. Shortly after Hymans death, a young college basketball player was playing a pick-up game outside of the gym in his neighborhood. He went up for a slam-dunk. When he came down and hit the ground, he was already dead. It ...
- 2425: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt (October 27,1858-January 6, 1919) was born in New York into one of the old Dutch families, which had settled in America in the seventeenth century. At eighteen he entered Harvard College and spent four years there, dividing his time between books and sport and excelling at both. After leaving Harvard he studied in Germany for almost a year and then immediately entered politics. In 1880 he ...
- 2426: Peter the Great
- ... were at the highest point of education that they had ever been. He standardized a simpler Russian alphabet and introduced Arabic numerals. He started Russian academies for higher education. For the Boyards he made the college aged people to go out of the country for five years to study at a school in a Western European school. For the first time in Russian history there were the publishing of newspapers. He ...
- 2427: John Quincy Adams
- ... visitors. His father was a Deacon and fifth generation farmer. His parents were both fond of reading, wrote John and give him a good education. He became the first of his family to go to college when he entered Harvard in 1751. For the next six years he read intensly while he taught school and studied law in Boston. In 1762 he began a fourteen year successful law career. In 1761 ...
- 2428: Harper Lee
- ... April 28, 1926. She was the youngest of 3 children born to Amasa and Francis Finch Lee. She was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended local schools until 1944, at which time, she entered Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama. She became a Fulbright Scholar and spent a year at Oxford University. She also attended University of Alabama for four years studying law. In 1950, she quit the school and moved to ...
- 2429: Lou Gehrig
- ... Lou quickly capitalized on his baseball skills. He accepted an offer from a scout to sign a contract with the New York Yankees, for $ 1,500 in cash as a bonus. Lou dropped out of college to play in the minor leagues and gain some experience until the Yankees needed him. Gehrig was 22 when he became a big league rookie. He sat on the bench until one day in June ...
- 2430: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... ways to try and change them. This is what lead him to becoming a minister. So at the age of 15 the deacons of his church licensed him to minister. He then went to Morehouse College which was in Atlanta. He gave his first speech at the age of 18 at Ebenezer Church. Many people came to see his sermon, and he surprised everyone, giving a speech that even impressed his ...
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