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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Life | | | |  Life: Encyclopedia II - Guillaume Budé - LifeHe was born in Paris. He went to the University of Orléans to study law, but for several years, being possessed of ample means, he led an idle and dissipated life. When about twenty-four years of age he was seized with a sudden passion for study, and made rapid progress, particularly in the Latin and Greek languages.
The work which gained him greatest reputation was his De Asse et Partibus (1514), a treatise on ancient coins and measures. He was held in high esteem by Francis I, who was persuaded by him, and by Jean du Bellay, ...
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| | | | | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Emperor Chokei - Life On March 29, 1368, following the death of Emperor Go-Murakami, he was enthroned in the house of the Chief Priest at the Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine in Sumiyoshi, Osaka, where the Southern Court had made its capital. However, because the Southern Court's influence was declining, the enthronement was in doubt until the Taishō era. In 1926, the enthronement was officially recognized and inserted into the Imperial Line.
Emperor Chōkei persisted to the end in insisting on fighting the Northern Dynasty, but it was already too late. In 1383 (some say 1384), he abdicated to Emperor Go-Kamey ...
See also:Emperor Chokei, Emperor Chokei - Genealogy, Emperor Chokei - Life, Emperor Chokei - Eras during his reign, Emperor Chokei - Northern Court Rivals Read more here: » Emperor Chokei: Encyclopedia II - Emperor Chokei - Life |
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| | | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Charles Darwin - Life
Charles Darwin - Early life.
Main article: Charles Darwin's education
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809, at his family home, the Mount House. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side, both from the prominent English Darwin — Wedgwood family which supported the U ...
See also:Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin - Life, Charles Darwin - Early life, Charles Darwin - Journey on the Beagle, Charles Darwin - Career in science inception of theory, Charles Darwin - Marriage and children, Charles Darwin - Development of theory, Charles Darwin - Announcement and publication of theory, Charles Darwin - Reaction, Charles Darwin - Further work until his death, Charles Darwin - Religious views, Charles Darwin - Legacy, Charles Darwin - Commemoration, Charles Darwin - Eugenics, Charles Darwin - Social Darwinism, Charles Darwin - Works, Charles Darwin - Published works, Charles Darwin - Letters Read more here: » Charles Darwin: Encyclopedia II - Charles Darwin - Life |
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Life Born in Glasgow, and suffering from a bad foot and eye problems, he was free to discover and draw sketches of a great deal of the Scottish countryside as a child. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to an architect named John Hutchison where he worked from 1884 until 1889. Also during that time he became a draughtsman with Honeyman and Keppie, a new architectural practice, where he became a partner in 1901. All along he attended evening classes in art at the Glasgow School of Art. It was at these classes that he first met Margaret MacDonald ...
See also:Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Life, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Architectural Work, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - In the UK, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Unbuilt Mackintosh, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Other work, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Retrospect Read more here: » Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Encyclopedia II - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Life |
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Charles W. Chesnutt - Life Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to former slaves Andrew Jackson and Ann Maria (Sampson) Chesnutt, originally of Fayetteville, North Carolina. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder, and his experiences as a light-skinned African American would influence his writing, which often deals with issues of racial identity.
After the Civil War, the family returned to Fayetteville, where they ran a grocery store. Charles entered school at the age of eight, and at fourteen became a student-teacher to help support his family following his mother's death. He continued to study and teach, eventually becoming assistant pri ...
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Charles Waterton - Life Waterton was born at Walton Hall, West Yorkshire near Wakefield. His Roman Catholic ancestry is alleged to include seven saints: Vladimir the Great, St Anne of Russia, the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, King Stephen of Hungary, Queen Margaret of Scotland and Mathilde of Germany together with Thomas More, Count Humbert III of Savoy and several european royal families.
In 1804 he travelled to Guyana to take charge of his uncle's estates near Georgetown. In 1812 he started to explore the hinterland of Guyana, making four journeys between then and 1824. He later described his discoveries in his ...
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Chilperic I - Life Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram recevgied Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among t ...
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| | | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Charles Wright poet - Life Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, and attended Davidson College and the University of Iowa. Wright has been widely published, winning the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for Black Zodiac. Other works include Chickamauga, Buffalo Yoga, Negative Blue, Appalachia, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, < ...
See also:Charles Wright poet, Charles Wright poet - Life, Charles Wright poet - Bibliography Read more here: » Charles Wright poet: Encyclopedia II - Charles Wright poet - Life |
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Arthur Conan Doyle - Life Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh to Richard and Mary Doyle, Irish immigrants who had moved to Scotland. He was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Stonyhurst at the age of nine, and by the time he left the school in 1875 he rejected Christianity to become an agnostic. From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working in the town of Aston (now a district of Birmingham). Following his term at University he served as a ship's doctor on a voyage to the West African coast, and then ...
See also:Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle - Life, Arthur Conan Doyle - Trivia, Arthur Conan Doyle - Selected bibliography, Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes Stories, Arthur Conan Doyle - Professor Challenger Stories, Arthur Conan Doyle - Historical novels, Arthur Conan Doyle - Other works Read more here: » Arthur Conan Doyle: Encyclopedia II - Arthur Conan Doyle - Life |
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Life Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in rural Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved to north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school. When about 28 years of age, she married Robert Wilcox. They had one child, a son, who died shortly after birth. Not long after their marriag ...
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| | | | | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Enoch Powell - Life
Enoch Powell - Early years.
Powell was born and raised in Birmingham, the son of two schoolteachers. His formidable intelligence was apparent early on. From King Edward's School, Birmingham he completed his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a double first and fell under the powerful influence of A. E. Housman. He was later appointed Professor of Greek at Sydney University aged 25. Amongst his pupils was the future Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam. His edition of Thucydides' Historia for the Oxford University Press published in 1938 remains the standard O ...
See also:Enoch Powell, Enoch Powell - Life, Enoch Powell - Early years, Enoch Powell - War years, Enoch Powell - Conservative Party, Enoch Powell - Rivers of Blood speech, Enoch Powell - An unusual Conservative?, Enoch Powell - Ulster Unionist Party, Enoch Powell - Personality, Enoch Powell - Racist demagogue or lost Prime Minister?, Enoch Powell - Bibliography, Enoch Powell - Powell's writings Read more here: » Enoch Powell: Encyclopedia II - Enoch Powell - Life |
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Eugenio Montale - Life
Eugenio Montale - Early years.
Montale was born in Genoa. His family was one of chemical products traders (his father fournished Italo Svevo's firm). A poet's nephew, Bianca Montale, in his Cronaca Famigliare ("Family chronicle") of 1986 portrays the common family characters as follows:
Anxiety, nervous fragility, shyness, concision in speaking, a tendence to see as worst as possible each event, a ...
See also:Eugenio Montale, Eugenio Montale - Life, Eugenio Montale - Early years, Eugenio Montale - Poetical works, Eugenio Montale - The Anticonformism of the new poetry, Eugenio Montale - Disarmony with the world, Eugenio Montale - Works Read more here: » Eugenio Montale: Encyclopedia II - Eugenio Montale - Life |
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| | | | | Life: Encyclopedia II - Fanny Mendelssohn - Life Fanny was born in Hamburg, the eldest child of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (son of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn), and his wife Lea, née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel Itzig. Fanny benefited from the same musical education and upbringing as her better known brother, sharing a number of his music tutors, including Zelter. Like Felix who was born in 1809, Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music. Visitors to the Mendelssohn household in the early 1820s, including Ignaz Moscheles an ...
See also:Fanny Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn - Life, Fanny Mendelssohn - Sources Read more here: » Fanny Mendelssohn: Encyclopedia II - Fanny Mendelssohn - Life |
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