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Emerson
Number of words: 1104 - Number of pages: 5.... went out to play with the boys because he liked doing things that had to do with literature which was not really interesting to them. His early life was not a happy one. He lived in poverty, sickness, and frustration. On April 26, 1807, his brother John Clarke died. His father then died on May 12, 1811 and left his mother to take care of the children alone. One of his brothers died of a mental illness in 1834. Another one died of tuberculosis in 1836. was also not a very healthy person. He had lung disease and periods of temporary blindness until he was thirty years old. (Clenden .....
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Princess Diana
Number of words: 639 - Number of pages: 3.... maximum help to the school and her school fellows. In 1977 she left West Heath and went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school when she moved to Coleherne. There she watched after a child for an American couple, while she began her job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England school in Pimlice, London. Like most teachers she didn't have a lot of spare time on her hands, but when she got the chance for a break her and her three roommates would go skiing. A sport Diana loved very much and tried to .....
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The Life Of George Armstrong Custer
Number of words: 568 - Number of pages: 3.... when it was necessary. Custer knew what he could get away
with without being dismissed from the academy, and he enjoyed going to the
edge but not over it. The fellow cadets loved Custer for his fun-loving
and joking ways. Though Custer was frequently punished for his behavior,
he understood why he was at the Academy, and wanted to make something of
himself. At the Academy, Custer became a good writer. He felt the need
to write throughout his lifetime, and it was an integral part of his
character as was his courage, ambition, and joyful nature. He ended up
graduating last in his cl .....
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of words: 1876 - Number of pages: 7.... From there I met Anaré de Dienes. He and I took many photo trips together, and Jim was rightly jealous, so he filed for divorce. I signed for a year's contract (twenty-six months) with Ben Lyon who worked for Twentieth-century Fox Productions, on August 24, 1946. He was responsible for changing my name. While working at Fox, I met someone who was later to become my best friend, Allan Snyder, and got two bit roles. In August of 1947, Fox downsized and did not renew my contract. I went to the Actor's Laboratory and studied drama and met a long string of influential people including Lee .....
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Pablo Picasso 2
Number of words: 2855 - Number of pages: 11.... returned to Spain and co-founded the short-lived magazine "Arte Joven" (first issue March 31, 1901 - "Young Art"), in Paris. On a second trip to Paris, in the summer of 1901, he exhibited his works at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in the Rue Lafitte and became good friends with the avant-garde poet Max Jacob. It was during this visit that he discovered Vincent Van Gogh, who inspired him to create "The absinthe Drinker" (1901, William Jaffe Collection, New York City) and also the "Dwarf Dancer".
Suddenly, the 20-year-old painter, who now signed himself "Picasso", his mother's maiden nam .....
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Julius Caesar Biography
Number of words: 796 - Number of pages: 3.... ransom of 25 talents (500 kg) of silver.
When Sulla (the dictator in Rome) died, Caesar felt safe to return
to Italy where he started a career as a criminal lawyer. In 75 BC he went
to Rhodes for more education and was once again captured by pirates, who
asked the usual tariff. Caesar demanded it doubled and threatened to kill
them. After the ransom was paid, he defeated the bandits and had them
crucified.
After continuing his studies, they were quickly interrupted when
Mithridates of Pontus attacked Asia Minor in 74 BC. Caesar raised a small
army and defended some towns giving tim .....
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Nostradamus's Prophecies
Number of words: 1030 - Number of pages: 4.... degree for medicine, and He started to help the fight against the 'Black Death' that was feared throughout the Renaissance period. It was then that he began to treat victims of the plague in communities of southern France. “Nostradamus used inventive methods of treatment, and his success in curing extremely ill patients earned him a reputation as a specially gifted healer” (Encarta ‘97 CD-ROM). After traveling for almost four years helping the sufferers of the Plague, he returned to Avignon and won fame.
In 1532, he got his Doctorate and became a Professor at the Montpellier Un .....
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Auguste Rodin
Number of words: 879 - Number of pages: 4.... the Ecole des Beaux-Arts the eighteen-year-old Rodin worked as a craftsman and jewelry maker as well as at other odd jobs. His beloved sister died in 1862, which shook Rodin greatly, and he entered the Fathers of the Saint-Sacrament. It was there that he created his second sculpture, a bust of father Piere-Julien Eynard, his first bust being that of his own father. After two years Rodin realized that religion was not his vocation and left to continue working as a craftsman in Paris and set up a small studio in which to sculpt. In 1864 he submitted his plaster mask of L’Homme au nez Casse .....
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Charles Dickens 3
Number of words: 998 - Number of pages: 4.... 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. In 1834 he adopted his famous pseudonym " Boz." Soon his father was put in jail for another count of debt and he came to his aid time. During his lifetime Charles' family would always be on his back for money.
In 1836 the first series of the "Sketches of Boz" was released , also during this year he was hired to be a short writer to go along with his humorous sport .....
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Emily Dickinson
Number of words: 1398 - Number of pages: 6.... Emily's best friend, Susan Gilbert. Lavinia was Emily's younger sister. She didn't marry anyone so she stayed in the family house. The three siblings shared a very close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ) for only a year. [ 7. http://www.g .....
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