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Charles Dickens 3
... 1827 he became a student at a school in London. Little did his family know that his stay at the Blacking Factory would haunt him for the rest of his life. The only 2 people he told about this horrible event in his life would be his wife, and his best friend John Foster which he will meet later in life.
He uses this period in his life in one of his books it is called Great Expectations and also uses this
in the book DavidCopperfield.
In 1829 he was a reporter for the Doctor's Commoner's Courts. In 1832 he ,was a reporter on the Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons, and he became a reporter for a newspaper ...
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Nat King Col
... move to Chicago. By the time Nat reached four years of age, his father quit his job as a grocer and moved his family to Chicago, where he became a preacher.
This decision would have had a huge impact on the family as a whole, but especially in the case of Nat. Moving to Chicago was the first step in Nat’s rise to fame, the place where the foundation of a jazz superstar would be built.
As a child, Nat dreamed to be a big band leader and soloist in the tradition of his idol, Earl "Fatha" Hines. By twelve years old, Nat was already playing the organ at church, amazing for such a young man only trained by h ...
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
... problem though, the family he was supposed to stay with had to move. So Professor Gunning (the father in the family) got him enrolled at the Athenaeum in Amsterdam, which meant Wilhelm had to part with the Gunnings. That forced Wilhelm to bunk with another student going to his college, because back then they didn’t have dormitories for students. On March 17, 1865 a fraternity called “Placet hic requiescere Musis” (May the Muses rest here) selected him as a member of their fraternity. Then on May 9 he joined a scientific society called “Natura Dux nobis et auspex” (Nature is our lead ...
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Booker T. Washington
... Black Belt of Alabama. Though Washington offered little that was innovative in industrial education, which both northern philanthropic foundations and southern leaders were already promoting, he became its chief black exemplar and spokesman. In his advocacy of Tuskegee Institute and its educational method, Washington revealed the political proficiency and accommodational philosophy that were to characterize his career in the wider arena of race leadership. He convinced southern white employers and governors that Tuskegee offered an education that would keep blacks "down on the farm" and in the trades. To prospecti ...
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Robert Schumann
... his life and music. He had tinnitus, which is ringing in the ears. He was also diagnosed with dementia praecox (Slonimsky 904). An injury to his index finger caused by a machine he invented put an end to his career as a pianist (Stanley 147). He had “auditory hallucinations which caused insomnia” and he also “suffered” from acrophobia and melancholy. He even talked of suicide (Slonimsky 903). In 1852, Schumann had a “rheumatic attack” accompanied by sleeplessness and depression (Sadie 847-848). This affected his speech and ability to move. He soon became apathetic (Sadie 848).
He became sick ...
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Malcolm X
... for Marcus Garvey, who wanted that all Afro-Americans go back to the land of their ancestors, Africa. Louise, his second wife, bore six children: Wilfred, Hilda, Philbert, Malcolm, Yvonne, and Reginald. Earl Little also had three children by a first wife: Ella, Earl, and Mary. Because of the father’s advocacy for Garvey’s movement, the whole family was terrorised by the Ku Klux Klan. To avoid any more harassment by these white racists, Little had to migrate with his family to Lansing, Michigan. It did not help. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father and laid him on a railway track, claiming he co ...
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Vincent Van Gogh
... spring of
1877, theological studies at the University of Amsterdam, and from November 1878
to July 1879, service as a lay missionary in a coal-mining district in Belgium.
In 1880, Vincent chose art as a vocation and became dependent on his brother
for cash. Indeed, for the next 10 years Theo, who had also gone to work for
Goupil, sent an allowance to Vincent, encouraged him to work, and wrote
regularly. Vincent's thinking during his short career (approximately 750
paintings, 1,600 drawings, 9 lithographs, and 1 etching) was documented in more
than 700 letters that he wrote to Theo and others.
Van Gogh's early ...
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Orson Welles
... him to be
without a doubt a genius. Bernstein showered Orson with gifts and virtually
took over the direction of his life, to such an extent that Orson called him
'Dadda'. When Orson was four, his father moved his family to Chicago, possibly
to get away from Bernstein's attentions. This plan failed when Bernstein almost
immediately followed them. Through Bernstein who was always forcing him to
perform, and through his mother musical talents, the young Orson quickly came
into contact with Chicago's musical society and walked on in the Chicago Opera's
production of 'Samson and Delilah', then in a more important role ...
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Henry VIII And Louis XIV
... earned him the title from Pope Leo III the
title ³Defender of the Faith.² His book had served as an answer to the
teachings of Martin Luther, a man whose principals Henry later put into effect
in his very own country, in the Protestant Reformation.
France, however, was a very strongly Catholic country where the Roman
church had a great deal of influence. Louis, although supposed not to be a very
fastidious devote of the religion, or any religion, took part in a minor
reorganization of the Roman Catholic Church inside France. It is apparent now
that Louis basically went along with the reforms dictated ...
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Geronimo
... taught him to kneel and pray to Usen fir strength, health, wisdom, and
protection. When the children were young they would play with each other and
sometimes with their mother and father. When they were grown up enough to do
real services they went to the field with their parents: not to play, but to
toil. They did not cultivate tobacco, but they found it in the wild. All of
Geronimo's tribe smoked, both men and woman. No boy was allowed to smoke until
he could hunt alone and kill large game such as; wolves, bear, deer, etc.
Geronimo's father died when Geronimo was at a young age. They wrapped his
father ...
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