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- 6721: Biography of Benjamin Franklin
- ... His father was a salesman of candles and soap. Because the Franklin family was poor, Ben wasn't able to get much education. When he was ten years old, his father took him out of school and taught him the soap and candle business. However, Benjamin disliked the trade. Two years later, Ben was apprenticed to his brother who was a printer and publisher of The New England Courant. He became ...
- 6722: Marlowe Cut Short
- ... Marlowe, the author of many wonderful poems and plays, was born on February 6, 1564, the same year that the infamous William Shakespeare was born. Marlowe was raised in Canterbury, England and attended King's School in Canterbury in 1579 and 1580 after which he received a scholarship to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge and was expected to take a post in the Anglican Church. Marlowe received his bachelor of arts ...
- 6723: Biography of Robert Cormier
- ... a haven from the outer world. Cormier didn't fare well in the streets of his neighborhood, where ballplaying ability counted for more than his love of books. He attended St. Celia's Parochial Grammar School, where some of the nuns gave him a terrible time. When he was in eighth grade, he watched in horror from his classroom window as his own house caught fire and burned. His teacher refused ...
- 6724: Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
- ... her name of Teresa from Therese Martin, a French nun. Six years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa then decided to begin her teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in Calcutta, India. On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon granted Mother Teresa permission to leave ...
- 6725: Martin Luther King Jr. 9
- ... playmates was cut short by their parents. When he was 11 a white woman struck him and called him a "nigger." A bright student, he was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, without completing high school. He decided to become a minister and at 18 was ordained in his fathers church. After graduating from Morehouse in 1948, he entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. He was the ~ledictorian of his ...
- 6726: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... create so much disorder that local white officials would be forced to end segregation in order to restore normal business relations. King and his SCLC staff escalated antisegregation marches in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join. Hundreds of singing children filled the downtown streets, angering police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, who sent police officers with attack dogs and firefighters with high-pressure water hoses against the marchers. King ...
- 6727: J.P. Morgan
- ... bought a fellow collector's collection of Chinese porcelains to donate to the museum. Eventually, the Metropolitan received most of his art collection. In other affairs, Morgan also gave much money to the Harvard Medical School and hospitals (Boardman 131). J.P. Morgan was truly a captain of industry because he followed Carnegie's proposition that it was an obligation of the rich to share their wealth, but more importantly, he ...
- 6728: Helen Keller
- ... was deaf. They discovered later that she was blind when she did not blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as an idiot. She soon started going to a special school called the Boston Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for things in the world. She did not know ...
- 6729: The Baseball Life of Babe Ruth
- ... most boys started their baseball career throwing rocks at street signs. Ruth was throwing eggs and potatoes at truck drivers. The first organized baseball team that Ruth was on ,was at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. Ruth was on one of the forty teams that St. Mary's had. His team and all the other teams played from 3 to 4 games a day. Ruth main position at St ...
- 6730: Robert Andrew Millikan
- ... dock, falling in the water, and almost drowning. Here he had his first account with physics - Newtons Third Law of Motion: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Even in High School Physics courses Millikan was not so spirited, which may have had a little to do with his teachers habit of spending the summers using a divining rod to find water. After Millikan graduated from ...
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