... eighteenth birthday. Today my father has died, it is the 22nd April 1509. Occupation Of Parents: My mother was Lady Elizabeth of York, Henry VII’s wife. My father was Henry VII, King of England until his death in 1509. What I Look Like: They say I was a precious child, alert and observant. At 17 I inherited the throne that had been destined for my brother Arthur, I also inherited his widow Catherine. I am almost 200 centimetres tall with pink and white cheeks. My hair is auburn and I have the beginnings of a red beard. I tower over others, which helps with authority. I am clean-shaven, and my hair is combed shor ...

... that he tripped and fell. He did not want to tell he was being beat up. Chris and his mother were very poor. Mice, and cockroaches infested their house. To make ends meet his mother was babysitting other kids in the neighborhood. She would read to him and help with his homework and make sure his hand-me-down clothes were clean. chris's stuttering problem tortured him in school. In class one day he had to read an essay he wrote in front of the class. When he started to stutter he heard the kids starting to laugh he stopped half way through and sat down at his seat with anger inside him. When he got home th ...

... which organized boycotts and sit-ins across the country. King gained national attention by using the press and television to denounce segregation. Under King's leadership blacks started acts of civil disobedience against discriminatory laws. King followed the methods of Mohandas Ghandi and Henry David Thoreau. King and his followers held sit-ins at lunch counters and rode on segregated buses. Others in the country boycotted discriminatory companies and their products, that practiced legal segregation and discrimination. The largest ever non-violent protest in Washington August 23, 1968, where 200,000 people ...

... same time as winter, Thomas only had time to construct a "half-faced camp." Made of logs and boughs, it was enclosed on only three sides with a roaring fire for the fourth. The nearest water supply was a mile away, and the family had to survive on the abundance of wild game in the area. Less than two years after the move to Indiana, Mrs. Lincoln caught a horrible frontier disease known as "milk sick.". Thomas Lincoln returned to Kentucky to find a new wife. On December 2 he married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow with three children, and took them all back to Indiana. Although there were now eight people living in ...

... city of New York, on November 23, 1859. His parents were William H. and Catherine Bonney, who came from New Orleans to New York about six months before the birth of Billy. Sometime between 1862 & 1864, Billy’s father, William H. McCarty died. No one seems to be sure of the exact date since no death certificate or obituary has been located yet. Soon after the death, his mother married a man named William Antrim in 1873. Up until the age of twelve Billy showed no signs prophesying his desperate and disastrous future ahead. He was a favorite with all classes and ages, especially the old and the young. And he ...

... became queen when she was around the ages of 17 or 18.She really was not all that pretty even though today we make her out to seem really beautiful. She was pictured on ancient coins with a long hooked nose and very masculine features, but still she was a very seductive woman. Cleopatra had an enchantingly beautiful voice and exuded charisma and also quite intelligent. She spoke nine different languages, the first Plotemy pharaoh to actually speak Egyptian, and was also a very shrewd politican. Going along with the Egyptian tradition she married her brother and co- ruler, Ptolemy XIII, who was only 12. ...

... He died, according to tradition, in Larissa, Greece; little else is known about him. His name is associated wioth the Hippocratic Oath, though he probably is not the author of the document. In fact, of the approximately 70 works ascribed to him in the Hippocratic Collection, Hippocrates may actually have written about six of them. The Hippocratic Collection probably is the remnant of the medical library of the famous Kos school of medicine. His teachings, sense of detachment, and ability to make direct, clinical observations probably influenced the other authors of these works and had much to do with freeing ...

... be one of his greatest novels. Faulkner was part of a distinguished family in Mississippi. His name was originally spelled Falkner. The "u" was added by mistake when his first novel was published and William Falkner decided to retain the spelling of "Faulkner". The most distinguished member of ’s family was his great-grandfather, Confederate Colonel William Cuthbert Falkner. The Colonel first moved to Mississippi in the early part of the 19th century from his home South Carolina. Faulkner uses Colonel Falkner as a character in his novels named Colonel John Sartoris. Colonel Falkner had a notab ...

... Throughout his education and experience with computers, as become one of the most genius computer programmers of our time. After college, Paterson landed a job as a computer technician at a Seattle area retail computer store. Because of his experience with computers, Paterson stared designing his own peripheral boards on the side. Through his job and his computer experience, Paterson was hired into a better job. "I got to know Rod Brock of Seattle Computer when he came into the store periodically. We were selling his boards. Eventually he asked me to consult for Seattle Computer." After helping the compan ...

... with a convoy bound for England. Legend has it that the fleet was attacked by pirates off the coast of Portugal, where Columbus's ship was sunk, but he swam to shore and took refuge in Lisbon. Settling there, where his brother Bartholomew Columbus was working as a cartographer, he was married in 1479 to the daughter of the governor of the island of Porto Santo. Diego Columbus, the only child of this marriage, was born in 1480. Based on information acquired during his travels, and by reading and studying charts and maps, Christopher concluded that the earth was 25 percent smaller than was previously thought, and comp ...