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- 1181: Princess Diana 3
- ... at Park House, Sandringham until the death of her grandfather, Earl Spencer VII. The family moved to the Spencer family seat at Althorp in Northamptonshire, in 1975. Diana first went to Riddlesworth Hall, a preparatory school in Diss, Norfolk, and then in 1974 went to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent, as a boarder. Diana Had a talent for music as an accomplished pianist, dancing and domestic science. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young ...
- 1182: Princess Diana 2
- ... Frances Roche Spencer (King 27). Diana shared her home with two older sisters, Sarah and Jane and a younger brother Charles (Kantrowitz 40). As a child, first she was expected to go through a preparatory school. She attended Riddlesworth Hall an all girls boarding school. Then in 1974 she transferred from her preparatory school to West Heath. Three years later in 1977 she left West Heath to continue schooling at Institute Alpin Videmanette in Switzerland. After finishing schooling, Diana got a job working as a part time kindergarten ...
- 1183: Marcus Garvey
- ... few Blacks on the island, Garvey often played with the children of his white neighbors. The little girl who lived next to the Garvey s home informed Marcus that she was being sent away to school in Scotland and that she was instructed by her parents never to write or try to get in touch with me, for I was a nigger. Although he was a good student, financial problems forced him to leave school at fourteen and become an apprentice. After helping organize a strike, Gravey was fired from his job. Garvey s mind was clearly on politics and the need for organization rather than on his vocation. In ... Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA), with the intention of making Africa the defender of Negroes the world over. (p.110 Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century ) Intending to open a school in Jamaica similar to the one organized by Booker T. Washington in the United States, he accepted an invitation to visit Washington s school at Tuskegee, Alabama. When he arrived in the United States, ...
- 1184: John Coltrane
- ... artists included Woody Herman, Lester Young, Johnny Hodges and Artie Shaw. At the age of 15, Coltrane began playing and studying the E-flat alto horn, the clarinet, and the saxophone at William Penn High School Orchestra, while listening to such artists as Woody Herman, Lester Young, and Thelonious Monk. It was in high school when John had his first girlfriend. John's friend Franklin was interested in one girl, but John stole her away with his music playing. Her name was Dorthea Nelson. John had many classes with her ... They were together for about a year until they broke up because she was moving away. Later in 1943, Coltrane moved to Philadelphia and studied under Mike Guerra at the Granoff Studios and the Ornstein School of Music. Mr. Granoff spoke the following of Coltrane: "Very, very, few students . . . could do improvisations as this young man did. From the very moment that he learned his instrument, he wanted to revolutionize ...
- 1185: James Francis
- ... In 1951, he was one of the first men to be admitted to the National Football Foundation s Hall of Fame. Knowing that Jim had athletic capabilities, Hiram Thorpe, his father, sent him off to school in Pennsylvania, away from his home, Prague, Oklahoma. Hiram said, I want him to go make something of himself, for he cannot do it here. 1 Thorpe began his athletic career at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian Industrial School. As story goes, Glenn Warner, the coach of the Carlisle football school, made Jim try out for the football team by the means of a test. Thorpe was instructed to carry the ball from one end zone to the other end zone while the whole first- ...
- 1186: John Steinbeck
- ... John received a copy of the book Morte d Arthur. This was the first book John ever owned. He later said it was a great influence upon his life. During his years at Salinas High School, John excelled in English. At the end of his Freshman year in High School John had determined that he wanted to become a writer. At the end of his Senior year John applied to Stanford University and was accepted as an English major. Coming of his success in high school John felt very confidante that he would succeed. To pay for his education John went to school half a year and worked the other half. John found college boring and felt that he was ...
- 1187: John Dalton 4
- ... and while his family had food, they were still poor. His father Joseph was a weaver and John recieved most of his early education from his father. At the age of 12, John opened a school in Eagelsfield where he was the master. He was often threatened by the older boys who wanted to fight him because he was smarter, but he managed to keep in control for 2 years.Due to a poor salary, John was forced to leave his school and work in the fields with his brother. In 1781 John and his brother moved to Kendall. There John, his cousin George, and his brother ran a school where they offered English,Latin,Greek,French and twenty one mathematics and science course. Their school had sixty pupils. After twelve years at Kendall John started doing lectures and answering questions for mens magazines. ...
- 1188: Isaac Asimov
- ... the anxiety of what the future had in store for them. They made their home in Brooklyn, New York where they opened a candy store (Erlanger 9). When he was nine years of age, after school he worked in his parent's candy store. It was then that began reading science fiction magazines. He had to struggle to read these magazines because his father would not permit him to read "such ... to forget his library books (Erlanger 11). However, this reading material was the only thing that his dad would let him touch on the magazine rack. Young Isaac was a brilliant student. He went through school more quickly than other students. But there was one thing holding him back which was him being a class clown. He was frequently in trouble for talking in class (Erlanger 16). The person he could ... Isaac were both seven, they parted as a result of both families moving. The Asimovs moved on Essex street near Judah's new candy store. As the years went on and he graduated Boys High School in 1935, he applied to Columbia University and took on Chemistry as a major (Erlanger 18). This prompted his father to buy him a used typewriter. Although Isaac showed a great deal of interest ...
- 1189: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... has a different painting on it. The architecture alone manifests the true heart of the High Renaissance. Each wall of the room has an arch support, and Raphael incorporated the arch into his works. The School of Athens covers one of the walls of the Stanza della Segnatura. The School of Athens exhibits ancient Greek philosophers and many scientists of the ancient times. In the center of the fresco stands Plato and Aristotle, two of the greatest minds of ancient times. The painting depicts the ... Raphael created. During this time, he produced many religious paintings, tapestry designs, palace decorations, and portraits. Furthermore, to Raphael s advantage, he had a very large workshop in which his masterpieces came to life. The School of Athens and the three companion paintings, illustrate the historical development of theology, poetry, and jurisprudence, constitute a celebration of culture equal in scope to Dante s Paradise and Limbo combined (de Santis, de ...
- 1190: Harry S. Truman
- ... a bookworm--a sissy, as he said himself later on, using the dreaded word. 3. Education When Truman was six years old, his family moved to Independence, Missouri, where he attended the Presbyterian Church Sunday school. There he met five-year-old Elizabeth Virginia ( Bess ) Wallace, with whom he was later to fall in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight, and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness. His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading. He got up each day at ... read four or five histories or biographies a week and acquired an exhaustive knowledge of great military battles and of the lives of the world s greatest leaders. In 1901, when Truman graduated from high school, his future was uncertain. College had been ruled out by his family s financial situation, and appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was eliminated by his poor eyesight. 4. Family ...
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