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- 561: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- ... a child, thrift and practicality were instilled in Margaret's character. The Methodist church played an active part in the lives of the Roberts. She attended good schools as a child and spent her years studying with the intent of attending Oxford. Margaret arrived at Oxford in the autumn of 1943. During her years here, Margaret worked in a canteen for the war effort, continued her interest in music by joining ...
- 562: James Buchanan
- ... to Mercersberg PA. where his father would open a general store . James was the second of eleven in his family. James was able to go to school where he lived but when he was not studying he was helping his father in the shop. James father made James work hard and taught James that he must be ready to take care for his brothers and sister when James father died. At ...
- 563: Albert Einstein
- ... unable to get a teaching appointment at a university. Instead he got a clerical job in the patent office at Bern, Switzerland. It was not what he wanted but it would give him leisure for studying and thinking. While over there he wrote scientific papers. Einstein submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second ...
- 564: Albert Einstein and His Theories
- ... enjoy the methods of instruction there. He often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play his beloved violin. He passed his examinations and graduated in 1900 by studying the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and would not recommend him for a university position. For two years Einstein worked as a tutor and substitute teacher. In 1902 ...
- 565: George Bizek
- ... second prizes instead. Second prize was free tickets to all of the lyric theaters in Paris. This in itself would have been a nice prize but not in comparison to spending four years in Rome studying music. None the less, the prize proved to be useful as Bizet's next composition turned out to be a theater piece. Finally on his second attempt at the coveted prize he was awarded the ...
- 566: Georg Cantor
- ... professor at the University of Halle in1869. In 1874, he married and had six children. It was in that same year of 1874 that Cantor published his first paper on the theory of sets. While studying a problem in analysis, he had dug deeply into its foundations, especially sets and infinite sets. What he found baffled him. In a series of papers from 1874 to 1897, he was able to prove ...
- 567: Blaise Pascal
- ... it was directed that his education should be at first confined to the study of languages, and should not include any mathematics. Young Pascal was very curious, one day at the age of twelve while studying with his tutor, he asked about the study of geometry. After this he began to give up his play time to persue the study of geometry. After only a few weeks he had mastered many ...
- 568: Adam Smith
- ... date of his birth is unknown. However, he was baptized at Kirkcaldy on June 5, 1723, his father having died some six months previously. At the age of about fifteen, Smith proceeded to Glasgow university, studying moral philosophy under "the never-to-be-forgotten" Francis Hutcheson (as Smith called him). In 1740 he entered Balliol college, Oxford, but as William Robert Scott has said, "the Oxford of his time gave little ...
- 569: The Life of Jack London
- ... from prison he returned home and entered Oakland High School enrolling in the winter class of 1897. As Jack entered high school he had the determination to become a very educated student. Jack London started studying nineteen hours a day. Jack continued to read a lot. He began reading the philosophical works of Karl Marx, John Ruskin and Herbert Spencer. Spencer, who celebrated individualism and, adopting the ideas of scientist Charles ...
- 570: The Life of Harry Houdini
- ... forcing people to think Houdini might have drowned. At the opportune moment Houdini would make his reappearance. Houdini had great strength and agility that he used in accomplishing his stunts. Houdini also spent many hours studying, practicing and conditioning. For Houdini's underwater stunts, Houdini would practice holding his breath in the bathtub for up to four minutes. He also stayed in an underwater "c offin" for over an hour. Houdini ...
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