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- 6551: John Dalton 3
- ... was a very big deal considering there were only 215 English men that could even read. He was always interested in mathematics and in science. When John reached the age of twelve he opened a school of his own. This was a problem with the Daltons because he was often threatened and beat up. Around 1790 he finished an eleven volume classified botanical collection. He became a well known person in ...
- 6552: 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 ...
- 6553: 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 ...
- 6554: 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 ...
- 6555: 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 ...
- 6556: John Dryden
- ... question to whether or not he was raised in a strict Puritan environment. His father was a country gentleman of moderate fortune. He was given the opportunity by his father to be educated at Westminster School and at the University of Cambridge. Around 1657 he went to London as a clerk to the chamberlain to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The death of Cromwell in 1659 inspired Dryden to write his ...
- 6557: Ralph Ellison’s Life
- ... Ellison’s first love, and it remained a lifetime passion. Ellison would write essays on the works of Mahalia Jackson, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, and other black musicians. Ellison graduated in 1931 from Douglass High School. Before he got a scholarship to Tuskegee Institute, after graduation for two years he worked as an elevator operator in an unsuccessful attempt to save money for college. Ellison discovered for the first time the ...
- 6558: 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 ...
- 6559: 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 ...
- 6560: Jimi Hendrix
- ... the music which affected his music so greatly later: “‘everyone from Buddy Holly to Muddy Waters and through Chuck Berry way back to Eddie Cochrane’” (Wilmer 38). He played in a few bands in high school, but then dropped out before his senior year. After working as a laborer for a few months, Jimi decided that he was not destined for that line of work, so in 1959, he enlisted into ...
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