Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris. He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians.
In 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.
In 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes. …show more content…
In 1827 the first book in "Braille" writing was published.
Blind people welcomed the independence it gave them - to write as well as read; but at first some schools for the blind tried to ban Braille.
It is now used in almost every country in the world.
Louis Pasteur (1822-95) was the first person to understand the connection between microbes and disease. He developed the process of pasteurization, a method of killing the microbes in milk products by heating the liquid to a temperature high enough to kill the germs that are present, but not so high that it spoils the taste.
Pasteur's experiments showed that microbes can be passed to people and animals in the air they breathe, the food they eat and the water they drink. He believed that microbes are the cause of many serious diseases and began work to find out if it might be possible to crontrol diseases by controlling the microorganisms that caused