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Princess Diana
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... Shand-Kydd. She then moved to the island of Seil which is west of Scotland where they now still live.
Diana attended finishing school briefly in Switzerland. Then she returned to London where she became a nanny. Diana loved children. After her nanny work she became a kindergarten teacher. She had a reputation of a hardworking, gentle, warm hearted and patient person. In Charles's words "She was jolly, amusing, and attractive."
Diana's sister was married to Robert Fellows, who was the assistant secretary to the Queen. Charles and Diana first met through her. Diana's grandmother was best frien ...
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Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile
Number of Words: 1528 / Number of Pages: 6
... the nation’s theology, literature, and history. Careful attention was paid to his physical development too. Pharaohs were expected to excel in the military skills of chariotry and archery. Ramses was still only in his midteens when his father, with the thoughts of past disputed successions very much in mind, decided to install him as prince regement. Shortly after his father’s Seti’s I accession the boy had been given the official title of “Eldest King’s Son” and accorded the nominal rank of commander in chief of the army.
Concerns for the future of the dynasty no doubt lay behind Seti’s decision ...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... her appetite for the classics was a passionate enthusiasm for her Christian faith. She became active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church.
In 1826 Elizabeth then anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. Two years after that her mother passed away. The slow abolition of slavery in England and mismanagement of the plantations depleted the Barrett's income. In 1832 Elizabeth's father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved his family to a coastal town and rented cottages for the next three years, before settling permanently in London. While livin ...
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Van Gogh
Number of Words: 1032 / Number of Pages: 4
... did was because his Uncle was a partner. On March 30, 1852 a child was born from Anna and Theodorus , it was a little boy,they named the boy Vincent. "The baby Vincent died a few weeks after his birth."(Elizabeth, Lawrence Hanson 5) On March 30,1853, exactly a year after the first baby was born, Anna and Theodorus gave birth to another baby boy. His name was Vincent, the same name as the baby who died. Anna and Theodorus although happy with their son could never get over the death of their other son Vincent that died. "The living child was brought up under the shadow of his dead namesa ...
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Ozzy Osbourne
Number of Words: 1649 / Number of Pages: 6
... him. What happened is Ozzy had drank and smoked and done all kinds of drugs and he didn’t like the cats to begin with so he shot and stabbed every one of them. He just didn’t care if they died or not. If that’s not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesn’t care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking heavily, and decided to take a trip down to the bottom floor on the elevator. Well on the way down he must have had to go to the bathroom because he ended up taking a crap in the corner of the elevator. When it got to the bo ...
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Zeno Of Elea
Number of Words: 427 / Number of Pages: 2
... would be infinitely long if we completed half, and then half the
remainder, ad infinitum. This interval will shrink infinitely, but never quite
disappear. This type of argument may be called the antinonomy of infinite
divisibilty, and was part of the dialectic which Zeno invented.
These are only a small part of Zeno's arguments, however. He is believed
to have devised at least forty arguments, eight of which have survived until the
present. While these arguments seems simple, they have managed to raise a
number of profound philosophical and scientific questions about space, time, and
infin ...
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Billy The Kid
Number of Words: 664 / Number of Pages: 3
... and grazing rights. looked at Tunstall as a father and would do anything for him. But on February 18, 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a group of deputies who were under the authority of Sheriff William Brady who was a major Murphy and Dolan supporter. swore revenge and said he would not rest until the Murphy and Dolan group was dead. Billy had ended up killing most of the group but was still looking for Sheriff Brady. On April 1, 1878 Billy got his wish. Billy and a group of five friends positioned themselves behind an adobe wall and waited for Brady and his posse to come into town. W ...
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Santiago Ramon Y Cajal {Famous
Number of Words: 3479 / Number of Pages: 13
... in the Spanish countryside. Cajal owes his excellent work ethic to his father who impressed upon him the idea of hard work leading to success. Cajal came from a poor background and worked hard like his father, to succeed in life.
Justo Ramon Cajal, Santiago's father, started his career as only a second-class surgeon. He started his family and continued to work, harder than ever, in order to get money for higher education. Through hard work and perseverance, two qualities that Santiago would pick up later in life, Justo Cajal finally reached his goal of becoming a full surgeon when his son was six ...
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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Number of Words: 1115 / Number of Pages: 5
... soul or spirit up. She is also saying that hope or faith is the only thing that can get someone up to heaven because without hope, you have no feathers and therefore you will fall down to hell. It is like someone said, "There is no future without any hope." Hope is what keeps us going and what makes our life worth living. If there was no hope, you will be better if you died and be stuck in hell because there is no point in living.
Hope is everywhere and is always there for you even though you do not realize what it is or feel its presence. It is just like "the tune without the words." You may n ...
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Martin Luther
Number of Words: 1205 / Number of Pages: 5
... in this monastery Luther became a well known theologian and Biblical scholar. In 1512 Luther earned his doctorate in theology and became a professor of Biblical literature at Wittenberg University.
Luther took his religious vocation very serious. This led him into a severe crisis in dealing with his religion. He wondered, "is it possible to reconcile the demands of God's law with human inability to live up to the law." Luther then turned to the New Testament book of Romans for answers. He had found, "God had, in the obedience of Jesus Christ, reconciled humanity to himself." "What was required ...
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