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- 951: Florence Nightingale 2
- ... s parents allowed her to go to nursing school. She was thirty one years old, and she was finally carrying out her calling. The school that she went to to learn nursing was in Kaiserswerth, Germany. It was called the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses. She was on her way to fulfilling God s will for her. Early in the year 1853 Florence went to Paris, France. She visited hospitals and watched ...
- 952: Florence Nightingale
- ... become a working nurse, and again voiced this idea to her parents. Her parrients finally agreed and Florence was allowed to become a nurse. Florence, now thirty-one went to work at Kaserworth Hospital in Germany, and was later promoted and moved to a hospital in London. In 1854 Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia, marking the begging of the Crimean War. The allies had the upper hand in ...
- 953: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... brought back to his home town, where he stayed at Baroness Scotti's palace until his death in 1848. Robert Schumann (1810 to 1856) was one of the first Romantic musical composer. Born in Zwickau, Germany in 1810, Robert Schumann stared his musical education on the piano. The son of a bookseller he began to experiment with composition at an early age, and also cultivated a passion for poetry and literature ...
- 954: Florence Nightingale
- ... career. Nurses did not have any training and hospitals were unsanitary places where the poor went to die. Her parents finally gave in and Nightingale was allowed to go to Kaiserswerth, a nursing school in Germany. During the Victorian era (1837-1901) true womanhood was greatly valued by society. True womanhood was defined as being virtuous, pious, tender, dependent and understanding to the male authority (Aguirre, 1). Motherhood was the ultimate ...
- 955: Elie Wiesel
- ... secular studies. The first years of World War II left Sighet untouched. Although the village changed hands from different countries, the Wiesel family believed they were safe from the persecutions suffered by the Jews in Germany and Poland. The secure world of Wiesel s childhood ended abruptly with the arrival of the Nazis in Sighet in 1944. The Jewish people in the village were deported to concentration camps in Poland. The ...
- 956: Eisenhower 2
- ... revealed more dramatically than any other issue the shortcomings of Eisenhower's philosophy of governmental restraint. Civil rights were just becoming a great national concern when Eisenhower was just entering politics. The barbarism of Nazi-Germany put a tremendous amount of pressure on the world to eliminate racism in all forms. After World War Two African Americans began to insist on the freedoms that they were being asked to defend. After ...
- 957: Dorothea Lange
- Dorothea Lange was born in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her family had come from Germany to the United States as immigrants. When Dorothea was seven years old, she suffered from polio. In 1907, her father left her family. And soon, her mother became an alcoholic. Dorothea was lonely in high ...
- 958: Domitian
- ... legislation he was severe, and he incurred censure for attempting to curb vices from which he him self was not immune. His military and foreign policy was not uniformly successful. Both in Britain and in Germany advances were made by the Romans early in the reign, and the construction of the Rhine-Danube limes (fortified line) owes more to Domitian than to any other emperor. But consolidation in Scotland was halted ...
- 959: Dante Alighieri
- ... works. Convivio was written between 1304 and 1307 as a comprehensive, 15 book summary of all the knowledge of the time. Only the first four books were ever completed. In 1310, Henry VII, king of Germany and Holy Roman emperor arrived in Italy to bring the country under his rule. Dante Alighieri supported his cause and wrote to many Italian political leaders and princes urging them to support king Henry also ...
- 960: Carl Gauss
- ... created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the thirtieth of April, 1777, in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany). Gauss was born into an impoverished family, raised as the only son of a bricklayer. Despite the hard living conditions, Gauss's brilliance shone through at a young age. At the age of only two ...
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