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- 1891: The Dark Room
- ... I can clearly see that she was a confused woman. It was depicted through the first part of the story wherein her son was ill and she told Babu, her son, not to go to school that day. But Ramani intruded upon them and said that Babu has to go to school and that his illness is merely a headache. Savitri didn t know what to do then. She was concerned for Babu s health, but at the same time, she didn t want to argue with Ramani. In the end, Babu had gone off to school. As for Ramani, I felt like shouting at him while reading the novel because of his bullying. But he left me amused at one part when he was trying to impress Shanta Bai by ...
- 1892: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- ... Russian Revolution. He said that during his childhood he "bore this social tension - on one hand, they used to tell me everything at home, and on the other, they used to work our minds at school. And so this collision between two worlds gave birth to such social tension inside me that somehow defined the path I was to follow for the rest of my life." Aleksandr had little literary education and read few western novels, and later said he regretted it (Major 20TH Century Writers, p 2792-2793). *After grade school Aleksandr went to the University of Rostov-on-Don and graduated in 1941, majoring in mathematics and physics (Encarta 99). After he graduated, he served as a captain of artillery in World War II from ... The Encyclopedia Americana, p 210). * After he was released from a concentration camp in Ekibastuz, Kazakasthan, Aleksandr went into exile in Kok-Terek in Central Asia, where he taught mathematics and physics in a secondary school (Major 20TH Century Writers, p 2793). Since he was out of prison, he now could write without anyone knowing. He wrote a long poem, and some plays. Aleksandr also began to make notes for ...
- 1893: The Simpsons
- ... attend The Enriched Learning Center for Children. Suddenly, Homer takes liking to his son. They joke together, play ball together, and embarass Marge at an opera together. Things start to change at Bart's old school soon after his departure. Bart's friends no longer like him and refer to him as Poindexter. The kids at his new school also tease him and play tricks on him. Bart becomes miserable after finding he fits in nowhere. As the show continues, Bart tells his new teacher he has cheated on his test. Bart's world ... and true religious side of the Simpsons, the show fails and scars the effort. The Simpson family goes to church on a regular basis despite Bart and Homer's hatred of attending. A typical Sunday School Conversation: Child: "Will my dog Fluffy go to heaven?" Teacher: "No" Other Child: "What about my cat?" Teacher: "NO, heaven is only for people." Bart: "What if my leg gets gangrene and has to ...
- 1894: Babe Ruth
- ... only Ruth had the power in his arms. George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore in 1894, and grew up around his father's downtown Baltimore bar. He was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, but in 1914 left school to join a minor league baseball team, much to his father's dismay. Ruth started his minor league career with the Baltimore Orioles as a pitcher in the "Golden Age of Sport". With his talent ... Four years after he retired, marked twenty-five years since his professional pitching debut and Ruth was still a crowd pleaser. To mark the occasion Cobb and Ruth donned their uniforms at the Knox Girls' School gym. Cobb, keeping up his competitive spirit, put a note in Ruth's cleats saying "I can beat you any day in the week and twice on Sunday at the Scottish game". Tensions between ...
- 1895: Carson Mccullers The Heart Is
- ... age. She shocked her mother at age six by sitting down and playing with both hands a song she heard for the first time that afternoon in a movie theater. From then until late high school, she practiced fervently and hoped to carry her work onto a musical education at the New York Julliard School. However, at seventeen, she was told that she had pneumonia and would have many complications. Later, she found out she had rheumatic fever. She was too weak to play piano during her long recuperation, so she took to writing plays in the style of a favorite author, Eugene O'Neill. In late high school Carson faced the crushing blow of losing her mentor and piano teacher, Mary Tucker. She was so devastated by this loss that she put aside her interest in piano permanently. She hoped to develop ...
- 1896: Jailhouse Rock: The Story of Elvis Aaron Presley
- ... up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar. In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, "Memphis Recording Service-Make ...
- 1897: Stephen Bantu Biko
- ... his mother was a housemaid. Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Biko was just 17 years old when he became a political activist. He started to become active when he got expelled from Lovedale High School and his brother was arrested in a nationwide police crackdown on political activists. He ended up graduating in 1966 at a boarding school in Natal named St. Francis College. By then, his mind and character were those of a leader. He had a quick brain with huge mental force and ideas. He had the gift to cut through ... Review, which was a political journal for the black community. These movements and publications raised so much controversy that the black man is as worthy as any other person, that large numbers of people on school campuses and their community took part in protest, marches, and strikes against the government. This lead to banning of all SASO and BPC members in February 1973. The banning was when members were put ...
- 1898: Babe Ruth 3
- ... very little time with George because they worked long hours. Eventually, his parents felt that they couldn t take care of George, and on June 13, 1902, he was taken to St. Mary s Industrial School for Boys. His custody was also signed over to the Xaverian Brothers, a Catholic Order of Jesuit Missionaries who ran St. Mary s. St. Mary s was both a reformatory and orphanage, which was surrounded ... age of nineteen, the Baltimore Orioles signed Babe to his first professional baseball contract. Because Ruth s parents had signed over custody of him to St. Mary s, he was supposed to remain at the school until he was twenty-one. To go around this, Dunn, the man who signed him, became Ruth s legal guardian. Just five months after being signed by the Baltimore Orioles, Babe Ruth was sold to ... 1921, the couple adopted a baby girl, Dorothy. On January 11, 1929, at the age of 31, Helen died of suffocation in a fire. Dorothy, who was eight at the time was away at boarding school. Babe met and became interested in a young widow, Claire Hodgson. Claire had come to New York from Georgia with her young daughter Julia in 1920 and worked as a model and actress. On ...
- 1899: Margaret Thatcher
- ... what she wanted to do with her life. The British education system required young people at that age to choose between two totally separate curriculums which they would follow for the remainder of their secondary school career. One was an arts and humanities course, and the other was science. Margaret had little trouble making up her mind. Though she had always been interested in politics, the idea of a political career ... children changed Mrs. Thatcher's life somewhat, but not nearly as much as it did many women of that time. She decided not to seek elective office again until the twins were old enough for school. But, with the help of a nanny, she continued to work, and just four months after they were born, she passed her final and was called to the bar. When her children were at the age to go to school Margaret Thatcher decided to return to politics. She "decided to restrict her search for a constituency to the London area, the metropolis itself and the immediately surrounding counties. Her reasoning was simple: if she ...
- 1900: Hitler
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good grades in most of his classes. However, in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only passed in Gym and Drawing. He dropped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one of his dreams was to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show, but he never showed any originality or creative ...
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