A Biography of Alan Turing‚ with Mathematics. From the middle name one may suspect a certain class value‚although the "Math" bit is a strange coincidence. His father went to Oxford and then worked for the Indian Civil Service. His mother’s father also worked in India. He was born in 1912‚ their second son. 1926 his father retired so perhaps he had something of normal family life from then on. Went to Sherborne‚ one of older public schools. Whilst there he became a close friend of Christopher
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BIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLA TESLA 1994 Brotherhood of Life‚ Inc.‚ 110 Dartmouth‚ SE‚ Albuquerque‚ New Mexico 87106 USA "SPECTACULAR" is a mild word for describing the strange experiment with life that comprises the story of Nikola Tesla‚ and "amazing" fails to do adequate justice to the results that burst from his experiences like an exploding rocket. It is the story of the dazzling scintillations of a superman who created a new world; it is a story that condemns woman as an anchor of the flesh which
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Biography of Thomas hardy Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet who set much of his work in Wessex‚ his name for the counties of southwestern England. He initially pursued architecture‚ his father’s work‚ but after finding success in his novel Far from the Madding Crowd(1874)‚ he gave it up and wrote with abandon. His works ultimately question the Victorian status quo and asks what else would make more sense. Thomas Hardy’s life can be divided into three phases. The first phase (1840-1870)
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with Paul McAteer‚ has given her instructions to keep quiet. So although she is willing to exchange pleasantries‚ although she will countenance the odd off-the-record conversation‚ and although she admits she will be taking "offers" to write her biography after this is over‚ Martha Billes’s lips are‚ for the time being‚ officially buttoned. Her friends‚ however‚ are not so restrained. After receiving the OK from Martha‚ they will phone‚ sometimes unbidden‚ to tell you how Martha has been misrepresented
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BIOGRAPHY OF KARL MARX Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5th‚ 1818 in the city of Trier‚ Germany to a comfortable middle-class‚ Jewish family. His father‚ a lawyer and ardent supporter of Enlightenment liberalism‚ converted to Lutheranism when Marx was only a boy in order to save the family from the discrimination that Prussian Jews endured at the time. Marx enjoyed a broad‚ secular education under his father‚ and found an intellectual mentor in Freiherr Ludwig von Westphalen‚ a Prussian nobleman
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Biography of GEOFFREY CHAUCER GEOFFREY CHAUCER‚ English poet. The name Chaucer‚ a French form of the Latin calcearius‚ a shoemaker‚ is found in London and the eastern counties as early as the second half of the 13th century. Some of the London Chaucers lived in Cordwainer Street‚ in the shoemakers’ quarter; several of them‚ however‚ were vintners‚ and among others the poet’s father John‚ and probably also his grandfather Robert. Legal pleadings inform us that in December 1324 John Chaucer was
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learn how to read‚ write and compute mathematics ("Thomas Paine Biography"). Following in his father’s footsteps as a stay maker had failed‚ just like his many other jobs he held ("Thomas Paine Biography"). Paine worked as an excise
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English Topic: Sample Biography of a Great Lady___ Date: February 11‚ 2013____ Name of Teacher: Miss Lanie Pantinople Alberca__ No. of Meetings: ___1____ _ TPO: Thereafter reading and analyzing the content of a sample biography‚ the students will be able
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William James Biography (1842-1910) By Kendra Cherry Timeline of Events: Born January 11‚ 1842 in New York City. 1869 - Received M.D. from Harvard. 1875 - Began teaching psychology at Harvard. 1882 - Death of William’s father‚ Henry James Sr. 1890 - Published The Principles of Psychology. 1892 - Turned lab over to Hugo Munsterberg. 1897 - Published Will to Believe and Other Essays 1907 - Published Pragmatism and officially resigned from Harvard
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January 19th‚ 1809 in Boston (Poe Society). When Poe was born‚ he only knew his parents until he was almost the age of three (A and E Biography). Poe’s father left his family and his mother died of Tuberculosis (A and E Biography). Poe was separated from his two siblings
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