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- 3621: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... of the Scottish and went to Scotland, where he was crowned. In 1651 he marched into England but was defeated by Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Worcester. Charles then escaped to France, where he lived in relative poverty In 1660 Gen. George engineered Charles' return to the throne. In America The colonies of North Carolina, NewJersey, South Carolina and Pennsylvania were being founded suring Isaac Newton’s lifetime. North Carolina ...
- 3622: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... may have inflicted Isaac when his three new siblings arrived. Never the less, two years later at the age of twelve he was sent to Grantham to attend grammar school. While attending grammar school Isaac lived with the apothecary Mr. Clark (Westfall 12). Mr. Clark had three stepchildren from the first marriage of his wife, Miss Storer, who were also living in his house. In school and at home Isaac was ...
- 3623: Sigmund Freud
- ... his second wife. Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years older than himself. His family moved to Vienna when he was four years old, and though he often claimed he hated the city, he lived there until it was occupied by Germany in 1938. Freud's family background was Jewish, though his father was a freethinker and Freud himself an avowed atheist. Freud was a good student, and very ambitious ...
- 3624: Shoeless Joe Jackson
- ... any world series player ever. However, after he was convicted of participating in the "Black Sox" scandal baseball officials revoked his controversial, but record breaking thirteenth hit. "And , indisputably one of the greatest ballplayers whoever lived set a World Series record by making twelve hits" (Gies and Shoemaker 59). "Perhaps it just isn’t easy for a good ballplayer to play badly" (Gies and Shoemaker 59). Before the first ball was ...
- 3625: Sheyann Webb
- ... on Hambrooks Bay, facing the rising sun. The house had a front porch and a second story balcony which were used for blinds. The walls were stuffed with dried seaweed for insulation. Annie and Frank lived there for two years before moving. Later on, Annie developed pernicious anemia, for which there was no cure. Before she died on November 3, 1926, she had all her medals and trophies melted down and ...
- 3626: Rosa Parks
- ... worked as a seamstress and as a housekeeper. Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter, and her mother, Leona (Edward's) McCauley was a teacher. Rosa P. had one younger brother named, Sylvester. Her family lived in Tuskegee. When Rosa was two years-old her parents split up and she, her mother, and her brother moved to her grandparents farm in Nearby Pine Level, Alabama. Her grandparents were one of the ...
- 3627: Robert E. Lee
- ... Pulaski on Cockspur Island, Georgia. In 1831 the army transferred Lee to Fort Monroe, Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her family home in Arlington on a hill overlooking Washington D. C.. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Custis Lee. Later ...
- 3628: Rene Descartes
- lived from 1596 to 1650. He was a French mathematician, philosopher, and anatomist. He contributed to modern ideas, mainly those associated with science, rational thought, and the scientific method. He was born in La Haye, a ...
- 3629: Rasputin
- ... s wife, now made yearly voyages to the city to visit her daughters and husband. It would be difficult to imagine a less likely assassin than Prince Felix Youssoupov. Rich, handsome and decadent, he had lived a life of unequalled privilege and luxury. In 1908, on the death of his only brother he became sole heir to the great family fortune, said to be even larger than that of the Romanovs ...
- 3630: Raoul Wallenberg
- ... Swedish pavilion making three dollars a day at the Chicago world's fair. The next summer he and a college buddy drove to Mexico to stay a few weeks with his aunt and uncle who lived on the outskirts of Mexico city (Bierman 21, 22). Raoul received the assignment of secretary of legislation in the Budapest mission to head the rescue effort for the Jews (Anger 49,50). So Raoul set ...
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