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Serial Murderer Ed Gein
... to a farm outside Plainfield(Woods8). Plainfield being
located in Waushara County near the intersection of hwy 51 and hwy 73.
This was a very small and quiet town of about 700 in population (Milwaukee
Journal). This was a town where every body knew each other or thought they
did. Plainfield was soon to be a town that would soon rock the nation.
His father George Gein held jobs as a tanner and carpenter when he
wasn't working the farm. When he was not working he would often visit the
local bars and drink himself drunk(Hotvedt). He was often a coward to his
wife and cowered in fear of her. This led him to b ...
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Susan B Anthony
... Susan long division, she was taken out of school and taught in home school set up by her father. A woman teacher, Mary Perkins, ran the school. Perkins offered a new image of womanhood to Susan and her sisters.
She was independent, educated, and held a position that had been traditionally been reserved to young men. Susan was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf ...
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Charles Dickens
... left for good. He loved reading and was influenced by some of the early English writers like William Shakespeare. But most of his knowledge that he used as an author came from what he observed around him. He was a keen observer of life and had a great understanding of human nature, particularly of young people.
Dickens became a newspaper reporter in the late 1820’s. He covered debates in Parliament and wrote feature articles of the ever changing London scene. Dickens’ first publication was done under the pseudonym Boz in 1836. It consisted of articles he wrote for the “Monthly Magazine” an ...
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Sigmund Freud
... both his theories and his method of treatment. When he first presented his ideas in the 1890’s, other physicians reacted with hostility. Freud was constantly modifying his own ideas, and in 1923, he published a revised version of many of his earlier theories. That same year, he learned he had cancer of the mouth. In 1938, the Nazi’s gained control of Austria. Freud, who was Jewish, went to England with his wife and children to escape persecution. He died there of cancer in 1939. Freud’s most important writings include the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), ...
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Jackson, Andrew
... the noble.
In those years from our Founding Fathers to Jackson, many changes took place. The industrial revolution had come over from England, helping us to be a more independent nation. With this in effect we went on to massive campaigns to build roads, canals, bridges, and railroads. Many new inventions improved the standards of living. Eastern states eliminated voting qualifications for white men. This all led to thousands of new voters, integrating the country in politics. Before it had just been the wealthy that could vote and run for office now all white men could participate.
These new voters w ...
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Joseph Hyden
... died during infancy. His surviving siblings included two brothers, Johann Evangelist and Johann Michael, and three sisters, Anna Maria Franziska, Anna Maria, and Anna Katharina. Many references give March 31 as Haydn's birthday, but official records disprove this. It is rumored that his brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool.
At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was to remain for the next nine years. During his early years, he bec ...
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Francesco Petrarch
... His brother, Gheredo, the most stable family figure in his life, later became a monk and throughout his life stayed in contact with Francesco. Petrarch had another brother, who died at a very young age. His mother died when he was 15 years old, which was consequently when some of his earliest works have been recorded. At the age of 22, Francesco's father passed away, which caused Francesco to attain a career. Giovanni, his son, was born illegitimately in 1337. The relationship between the two was disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as:
"Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally intelligent, but he h ...
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William Wordsworth Biography
... himself in relation to that power. Wordsworth's college years were from 1787-1791 at St. John's college, Cambridge. He went on a walking tour with Robert Jones, a Cambridge student, over the French and Swiss Alps in 1790 and another such tour in 1791. In 1792, Wordsworth went to France, amidst the tumult of the French Revolution, where he met Michel Beaupuy, a French officer who is spoken of in The Prelude. In France, he also met Annette Vallon, with whom he had an illegitimate child, Caroline.
Wordsworth returned to England in 1793 and published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. During a walking tour tha ...
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Kurt Cobain
... punkish Seattle band moved mainstream overnight. Nirvana caught on fast and changed rock and roll music forever. Nirvana, along with a few other Seattle bands, molded the music of the 90's, alternative.
Where did it all start for Kurt? Kurt Donald Cobain was born February 20, 1967. He was a happy child living with his mother and father in Aberdeen, Washington. But the happiness, soon interrupted in 1975 when Kurt's parents got divorced. Kurt was ashamed. He longed for the typical "Brady Bunch" family, but instead he lived in a trailor with his mother. In result of this Cobain became extremely anti-social, he ...
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
... his brother Henry; Huck Finn, a
town boy named Tom Blankenship; and Tom Sawyer, a combination of several
boys including himself.
His father died when he was 12, and the boy was apprenticed to a
printer. An apprentice works for someone in order to learn a trade. This
was the first step toward his career as a writer. In 1857 he apprenticed
himself to a riverboat pilot. He became a licensed pilot and spent two and
a half years at his new trade. The river swarmed with traffic, and the
pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years
in 'Life on the Mississippi'.
The Civil War ended h ...
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