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- 6271: John Muir
- ... through the country. John liked to climb and explore also. He and his brother would climb the walls of the one thousand year old Dunbar Castle and play at the seashore near their home. In school John read about the birds and forests of America. He wanted to see the American wilderness. John's father wanted to go to America and so he moved his family to Wisconsin. John loved it ...
- 6272: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- ... from Prudential motives, the power of Sulla being at that time paramount, he traveled for two years under pretense of his health. At Athens he met with Pomponius Atticus, whom he had formerly known at school, and attended the lectures of Antiochus, who, under the name of an Academic, taught the dogmatic doctrines of Plato and the Stoics. Though Cicero at first showed considerable dislike, for his philosophical views, he seems ...
- 6273: Stalin
- ... aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. Young Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings. In 1888 Stalin began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the Tbilis Theological Seminary in the Georgian capital in 1894. Stalin began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer ...
- 6274: Mark Twain 2
- ... He was of ambiguous emotions. He had dreaded his father, yet at the same time respected him. The onus of taking care of the family was now on Samuel and Orion s shoulders. He attended school and for additional cash delivered newspapers and aided storekeepers. His expertise was with Joseph Ament, editor of the Missouri Courier, where he was an apprentice. In the fall of 1850, Samuel s brother Orion purchased ...
- 6275: Mark Twain 3
- ... memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression. Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a Mississippi river port, when he was four years old. There he received a public school education. After the death of his father in 1847, Clemens was apprenticed to two Hannibal printers, and in 1851 he began setting type for and contributing sketches to his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal. Subsequently ...
- 6276: Who was Adolf Hitler?
- ... in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art ...
- 6277: Michelangelo
- ... father, a Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter After about two years, Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens and shortly thereafter was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent. There he had an opportunity to converse with the younger Medicis, two of whom later became popes ...
- 6278: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... kids. His parents, Josiah and Abiah Franklin, were hard working devout Puritan/Calvinist people. Josiah Franklin made candles for a living. Since the Franklins were so poor, little Benjamin couldn't afford to go to school for longer than two years. In those two years, however, Franklin learned to read which opened the door to further education for him. Since he was only a fair writer and had very poor mathematical ...
- 6279: Catcher in the Rye: Holden Caulfield
- ... thoroughly digested, though." In taking the independent route, Holden does not look for sympathy or help from either of his parents. He feels that he can deal with his situation by waiting until the next school year in order to apply himself a little better. Another characteristic of a teenager, usually of the male gender, would be the widespread subject of sex. As everyone knows, during and after puberty, males have ...
- 6280: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... was a demanding one. Bach had to compose cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conduct the choirs, oversee the musical activities of area churches, and teach Latin in the St. Thomas choir school. Accordingly, he had to get along with the Leipzig church authorities, which proved rocky. But Bach persisted, polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds with ...
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