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- 6691: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... subcontinent split into two countries (India and Pakistan) and brought Hindu- Muslim riots. Again Gandhi turned to nonviolence, fasting until Delhi rioters pledged peace to him. On Jan. 30, 1948, while on his way to prayer in Delhi, Gandhi was killed by a Hindu who had been maddened by the Mahatma's efforts to reconcile Hindus and Muslims. An epic motion picture based on his life won several Academy awards in ...
- 6692: George Bizek
- ... encouraged him in music. His father was confident that his son would become a great musician. His father was actually too supportive of his musical education. He had been known to hide young Georges' other school books so he would not be distracted from his musical studies. He received his first music lesson from his mother when he was just four years old. She was teaching him to read music at ...
- 6693: Robert Schumann
- ... youngest of five children, Robert Schumann was brought up in comfortable, middle-class respectability. As a child, he apparently exhibited no remarkable abilities. At the age of six, Robert was sent to the local preparatory school, run by Archdeacon Dohner. He had in fact already begun his education, with the young tutor who gave lessons in exchange for board and lodging at the Schumann home. At the age of seven Robert ...
- 6694: Michael Collins
- ... learn patriotic ballads and poetry. West Cork was the heartland of Fenianism, the Irish nationalist movement founded in the 19th century. Jermiah O'Donovan Rossa, one of its founders, had been a teacher in a school in Rosscarberry, three miles away from the Collins household. Michael's own teacher, Denis Lyons, was a member of the Fenian organisation, the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood) and was to prove an inspirational figure. The ...
- 6695: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Escape
- ... while visiting him on one of his trips to ask him to come back home and negotiate with his math teacher to give him the four points he needed to pass math and graduate high school. This scene gives the reader a chance to fully understand the tension between Willy and Biff, and why things can never be the same. Throughout the play, the present has been full of misfortune for ...
- 6696: A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game
- ... off of the farm for the first time. It is through these conversations that Smiley explores this notion. Pete told of his adventure hitchhiking across the country in 1967. He was just out of high school and on his way to San Francisco when a family who offered him a place to stay shaved his head and beard (82). This story has no significance to the novel itself, but is interesting ...
- 6697: Kurt Cobain: Biography
- ... power chords you can start writing your own songs." Kurt's mother remarried in May of 1984 to Pat O'Connor and one year later in May of 1985 Kurt would drop out of high school at the age of 17. During this period of his life Kurt got caught up with the drug community of Aberdeen and started heroin, an addiction he would never defeat. Many blame his death on ...
- 6698: Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star
- ... Shirley Temple, she became Hollywood's youngest star. On April 23, 1928 Shirley Temple was born. One day, when Shirley was three and a half years old, about two hundred children gathered at her dance school to audition for a movie. Shirley raced out onto the brightly lit stage and got the part in the movie series Baby Burlesks. For the next two years, Shirley sang her songs and danced in ...
- 6699: Karl Gauss: Biography
- ... he stood out remarkably from the rest of the students, and his teachers persuaded his father to train him for a profession rather than learn trade. His skills were noticed while he was in high school, and at age 14 he was sent to the Duke of Brunswick to demonstrate. The Duke was so impressed by this boy, that he offered him a grant that lasted from then until the Duke ...
- 6700: Blaise Pascal
- ... both of whom played key roles in Pascal's life. When Blaise was seven he moved from Clermont with his father and sisters to Paris. It was at this time that his father began to school his son. Though being strong intellectually, Blaise had a pathetic physique. Things went quite well at first for Blaise concerning his schooling. His father was amazed at the ease his son was able to absorb ...
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