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- 6471: Really In The Works Of John Grisham
- ... career out, he realized baseball was not for him. He then shifted his gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University (http://www.random house.com/features/grisham/about.html). He then attended law school at the University of Mississippi. He graduated in 1981, the same year in which he married Renee Jones, who then became Renee Grisham. John Grisham then began to practice law in Southaven, Mississippi for nearly ...
- 6472: Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
- ... conventional sense. I was a physicist and theorist. My inventions were not tangible things, but ideas I put on paper and may later on have led to inventions. I was not a good student in school. I did not pay attention to teachers because I found their lectures and teachings boring. Often I would skip class to go study physics on my own. By the age of twelve I had taught ...
- 6473: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... on Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 at Chateau de Miromesnil in France. He was a descendent of a very old French family. As a boy, Maupassant went to school at Yvetot in Normandy, and then attended Lycee at Rouen. During his childhood and youth in Normandy, he picked up a great deal of experiences that he later put to use in many of his ...
- 6474: Revelation By Flannery Oconnor
- ... at Mrs. Turpin. We are led to believe that this girl is just mean and ugly. That changes, however. Mary GraceΉs mother tells Mrs. Turpin that Mary Grace goes to Wellesly College, a prestigious school way up north. ThatΉs where the readerΉs view of Mary Grace changes. We see that Mary Grace is actually an educated young lady who is absolutely disgusted, and rightly so, by the amount ...
- 6475: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own ...
- 6476: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own ...
- 6477: Abigail Adams
- ... or making sure that his sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the help of her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship. Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson. Abigail ...
- 6478: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... dropped the Thomas in 1879) attended (1873-74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879-80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The Johns Hopkins University for graduate study in political science. His widely acclaimed book, Congressional Government (1885), was published a year before he received the doctoral ...
- 6479: William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare Born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England. His father John Shakespeare and his mother Mary Arden. W.S. was able to attend grammer school and learned Greek and Latin classics (this is comparable to college education today). At age 14 his father lost the family fortune and remained poor until his death At 18 he married Anne Hathaway in ...
- 6480: Vincent Van Gogh 2
- ... a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theological student, and a preacher among the miners at Wasmes in Belgium. When he was twelve to sixteen years old, he went to a boarding school, and the next year he started working at The Hague for his uncle who was an art dealer. While working, he realized that he was more interested in literature and religion than a business. Then ...
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