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- 6741: The Life and Work of Robert Browning
- ... with an extensive library. His mother was kindly, religious minded woman, who loved music and her brilliant son. He lived at his parents house almost until the time of his marriage. He attended a boarding school near Camberwell and spent a little bit of his time traveling to places like Russia and Italy. But he preferred to have his education at home, where he was tutored in foreign languages, boxing, music ...
- 6742: Biography of Rasputin
- ... only got himself killed, but changed the history of Russia and the world forever. Rasputin was born Grigory Yefimovich Novykh in 1872, to a Siberian family, in the town of Pokrovskoye. Even though Grigory attended school, he remained illiterate throughout his whole life. His licentious reputation also earned him the nickname Rasputin, which is Russian for debauched one. At the age of 18, he apparently underwent a religious conversion and eventually ...
- 6743: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... Death is perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door rarely left ...
- 6744: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... work in the naval dockyard at Chatman. It was here that Charles Dickens' earliest and clearest memories were formed (Mankowitz 9-14). Charles' education included being taught at home by his mother, attending a Dame School at Chatman for a short time, and Wellington Academy in London. He was further educated by reading widely in the British Museum (Huffam). In late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so ...
- 6745: Charles Dickens: Biography
- ... 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. 3 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 ...
- 6746: Biography of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
- ... married Mary Suarez, a woman of his own station, and at thirty-one found himself a widower with one surviving child, the other two having died previously. From that time he began a life of prayer and mortification, although separated from the world around him. On the death of his third child his thoughts turned to a life in some religious order. Previous associations had brought him into contact with the ...
- 6747: The Life of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... couple. There exists many anecdotes referring to his extraordinary feats of mental computation. It is said that as an old man, Gauss said jokingly that he could count before he could talk. Gauss began elementary school at the age of seven, and his potential was noticed immediately. He so impressed his teacher Buttner, and his assistant, Martin Bartels, that they both convinced Gauss's father that his son should be permitted ...
- 6748: John Wilkes Booth
- ... miles south of the Mason- Dixon line. Elder brother Edwin supervised his younger brother's upbringing. Later Edwin and older sister Asia would write about their eccentric brother's behavior. When finishing a year of school at a picnic he told his sister Asia he went to a fortune teller a couple weeks before and the fortune teller told him " Your life will be a short one and a victorious one ...
- 6749: The Life of Mohandas Gandhi
- ... the disputing leaders made a pledge to end the fighting, and Gandhi broke his fast. (Ibid) On January 13, 1948, 12 days after the end of his last fast on his way to his evening prayer meeting, Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who was against his teachings of tolerance (Gandhi The End of An Empire). At first shot, the foot that was in motion, when he was hit, came ...
- 6750: Michael Jordan 3
- ... his league. By the age of fifteen, he wasn't the star in baseball as he once was. He was still very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career, he dropped baseball to pursue another interest. Soon Michael adopted the game of basketball. When Michael reached the ninth grade, he tried out for the basketball team. Coach Lynch, Michael's coach, cut Michael ...
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