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- 9941: Marco Polo
- ... on their trading while Marco was performing his missions; yet seventeen years is a long time to trade without returning home to family and friends. According to Macro, because the khan held them in such high regard, he would not let them return home, but as the khan aged the Polos began to fear what would happen after his death(Hull 18). Finally an opportunity to leave presented itself when trusted ...
- 9942: Newton and Prisms
- ... became he had to start somewhere. He was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643 and raised by his grandmother because his mother had been widowed twice. He was persuaded to go to grammar school and then in the summer of 1661, he attended Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In 1665 Newton returned to Woolsthorpe and continued his study of light. Newton was intrigued by light and was ...
- 9943: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the experience remain with him all his life. Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as ...
- 9944: Paul Ehrlich
- ... Ehrlich, Paul's parents, were both from scientific backgrounds. It was not surprising that he had an attraction to the realm of science. Paul Ehrlich looked up to his cousin Karl Weigert. Paul began primary school at St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium at the age of six. He graduated at in 1872. After his graduation, he attended the University of Breslau for a semester then transferred to the University of Strassburg ...
- 9945: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... a strict, sheltered childhood. In 1934 he joined his brother at the palace compound in Phnom Pech, Cambodia capital, and spent a year in a roual monastery followed by six year in an elite Catholic School. In 1948 Sar went to study radio electricity in Paris. There he joined the French Communist Party. Self- effacing and charming, he kept company with Khieu Ponnary first Khemer women to get a Bachelor degree ...
- 9946: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... years later his mother remarried and moved to a nearby village, leaving Isaac in the care of his maternal grandmother. Upon the death of his stepfather in 1656, Newton's mother removed him from grammar school in Grantham in hopes of training him to manage her now much enlarged estate, but even then Newton's interests ran more toward books and mathematical diversions. His family decided that he should be prepared ...
- 9947: William Faulkner
- ... community. Miss Emily Grierson was a beautiful young woman who had no equal because her family was from the old South. “People in our town…believed that the Grierson’s held themselves a little too high for what they really were” (29). Miss Emily’s father drives away any suitor because of their standing in the community as the only Southern aristocratic family. “None of the young men were quite good ...
- 9948: John the Baptist
- ... God=s divine nature and awesome power (Romans 1:20 NIV). During this time in the desert John Areceived revelations which are only vouchsafed to those who can stand the strain of discipline in the school of solitude@(Meyer 58). His heart was filled with the advent of Him. At last the moment arrived for him to utter the mighty burden that had been pressed upon his heart. John was ready ...
- 9949: Hammurabi’s Code
- ... of laws for all the world to know. The people of his empire could learn these laws, and the whole civilization would be a better place. So he did construct this table of 8 foot high black stone (it now can be found in the Louve Museum in Paris. I have been there, and it was awesome.) It contained 282 laws. What these laws stated is usually represented by the statement ...
- 9950: Alphonse Capone
- ... to another Italian neighborhood in 1907. When Al was in the 6th grade, he got in trouble with his teacher, so she reproved him and he struck her for it. After this incident he quit school, never to return. He worked at many places such as a clerk in a candy store, a pinball setter in a bowling alley, then as a paper and cloth cutter. For a while Capone worked ...
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