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Greek philosopher Hippocrates.
... contemporaries or near contemporaries who mention him are Plato, Aristotle, and Menon, a pupil of Aristotle. The influence of Hippocrates and of the Hippocratic writings has, however, been very real. It has incontestably helped in freeing medicine from superstition and speculative hypotheses ...
this is a biography on Andrija Mohorovicic
... secondary school in Rijeka and studied mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague in 1875. After graduating, he first taught in grammar school in Zagreb (1879-1880) and then secondary school in Osijek. On 1 November 1882 he began to teach at the Nautical School in Bakar ...
"Gandhi: Voice of a New Age Revolution"
... shy child and hated to be a part of a crowd of other boys. At the age of 13 Gandhi married and experienced a period of active rebellion against his parents, religion, and society. He recovered from this phase and passed the entrance examination to Samaldas College in Bhavnagar ...
Wystan Hugh Auden
... New School for Social Research (also 1946-47) 1941-42 Faculty member of University of Michigan 1942-45 Faculty member of Swarthmore College 1943-45 Faculty member of Bryn Mawr College 1945 Guggenheim fellowships award received; Award of Merit Medal, American Academy of Arts and ...
"William Randolph Hearst" (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951)
... School in Concord, New Hampshire. From 1982 to 1985, William attended Harvard University, where he served as business manager of the student comic magazine. In 1885, he was expelled from school for playing a practical joke on his professors. His father then gave him the San Francisco Examiner ...
Andy Warhol: the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker
... New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with hopes of becoming an art teacher in the public schools ...
Mark Twain.
... child. This book is said to be one of the great masterpieces of American literature. In the later years of his life, Twain began to speak out more on public issues and write less. Because of his great accomplishments, the University of ...
An analysis of the book Frida Kahlo: A Biography.
... help from the Graduate School of the City University of New York, as well as a grant from the Art History Program Dissertation Fund. Hayden Herrera, an art historian, intrigued by the complex and contradictive life of Frida Kahlo, felt the desire to record and perfect an autobiography ...
An analysis on jack london
... age of ten he constantly read, and borrowed books from the Oakland Public Library. Jack left school at the age of 14 and began work as a seaman, rode in freight trains, and adopted socialistic views. In 1894 he was arrested in Niagara Falls and ...
Henry Ford.
... nineteenth century. From early on there we're signs that Henry was going to be something more than a farmer. He looked with interest upon the machinery that his father and himself used for their farming, and looked with disdain at the rigorous chores of ...