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- 661: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... followed her through adulthood. Her many ponies also served as a learning experience through the necessity of their care in grooming, feeding, and watering. She was a very bright child as well. Her mother began teaching her to read at the age of five, the same age she had began to learn. Much like her mother, Elizabeth caught on very quickly. This may be greatly attributed to the amount of attention ...
- 662: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... come from clients his mother had found, he grew bored and decided political science would be of more interest. Graduating John Hopkins, he received his Ph.D. Wilson then ascended the corporate latter. He began teaching Brynmaur, where his fame as a great orator soon spread. Princeton soon hired him and Wilson taught there again demonstrating his superior verbal abilities. He also developed a specialty in American politics as a collegiate ...
- 663: Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles
- ... s comment, Douglass learned that literature equalled intellect, which resulted in power. Therefore, Douglass became determined to learn to read because he believed that reading was the only route to freedom. After Mrs. Auld stopped teaching Douglass to read, he began to seek the assistance of the white children in the neighborhood. Douglass would give the boys bread in exchange for reading lessons. Douglass went on to work in a ship ...
- 664: Malcolm X
- ... Afro-American Unity (OAAU). In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that all whites are evil, began advocating racial solidarity, and adopted the Arabic name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. On February 21, 1965, while addressing an OAAU rally in New York City, Malcolm was assassinated ...
- 665: John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
- ... ideas of officer training were well before his time. In another letter to Robert Morris, Jones expressed his ideas of future officer training: My plan for forming a proper corps of sea officers, is by teaching them the naval tactics in a fleet evolution. To lessen the expense as much as possible, I would compose that fleet of frigates instead of ships of the line: on board each I would have ...
- 666: Alan Dean Foster
- ... to both classical music and heavy metal. Other pastimes include basketball, hiking, body surfing, scuba diving, collecting animation on video, and weight lifting. He studied karate with Chuck Norris before Norris decided to give up teaching for acting. He has taught screen writing, literature, and film history at UCLA and Los Angeles City College as well as having lectured at universities around the country. A member of the Science Fiction Writers ...
- 667: The Life of Georgia O'Keefe
- ... By 1907, I was ready to attend school again, this time at New York Citys Art Students League. I continued to enjoy my success almost without interruption. I began a series of one-year teaching positions which I held in Amarillo, Texas in 1912-1913, as a drawing supervisor in its elementary schools; at Columbia College, South Carolina, in 1915-1916; and at west Texas Normal College in 1916-1917 ...
- 668: Malcolm Little
- ... heights Malcolm was elected minister of an Islamic temple in New York. There he met and married Betty X. they had a total of six children together, all of which were daughters. He started out teaching independence from whites trying to control blacks. "Our enemy is the white man, oh yes that devil is our enemy." Malcolm said. (Myer pg. 106) By this time the F.B.I. was paying people ...
- 669: Charles Darwin
- ... down. The theories on evolution were good for us a hundred years ago, not now. It is time to move on. This may leave teachers tristful, but then they will at least benefit students by teaching real material. Nuff said.
- 670: The Life and Times of Peter Straub
- ... with his distinguished English degrees, he felt actual writing was beyond him even though actual writing was truly his forte. Soon after receiving his degree in English, Peter married Susan Bitker, and took a job teaching English at his old school, which had only recently been renamed University School of Milwaukee. Fearing he would turn into a chalk-laden drone, he packed is bags and moved to Dublin, Ireland to work ...
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