Essays Tagged: "second wife"

Benjamin Franklin

ary 17, 1706. His dad, who's name was Josiah, was a poor soap and candlemaker. His mom was Josiah's second wife. Benjamin was the youngest son and the 15th of 17 children. He attended school for two y ...

(2 pages) 76 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Swinger's not just on playgrounds anymore

ngers swing to enhance the relationship with their mate, not to destroy it,' Dave said.Dave met his second wife more than 15 years ago at a swinger's party.1moreThe couple has now turned their lifesty ... activities.'There is very little divorce in this lifestyle. Most people involved in it are on their second marriage, but the end of their first marriage was in no way caused by swinging. Most people c ...

(7 pages) 60 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Bioghraphy of Queen Elizabeth

on September 7, 1533. She died on March 24, 1603, of natural causes. Her father was Henry VII. His second wife, Anne Boleyn was Elizabeth's mother. King Henry wanted a son, but received a daughter, i ... Boleyn was Elizabeth's mother. King Henry wanted a son, but received a daughter, instead, from his second wife. Before Elizabeth's third birthday, Henry had her mother beheaded in charges of adultery ...

(3 pages) 82 0 2.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

as a man that came from a wealthy family. Franklin's mother was Sara Delano Roosevelt, his father's second wife.Franklin spent most of his youth educated by governesses. He lived in the Hyde Park fami ...

(3 pages) 80 0 4.7 Jun/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

The Seven Hats of a President. Speaks of Roosevelt

His mother was Sara Delano Roosevelt, of an old merchant-shipping family. She was James Roosevelt's second wife. Young Franklin was tutored at home until he was 14 years old. Nearly every year the fam ...

(5 pages) 43 0 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

biography on ben franklin

children; Benjamin was the 15th child and the 10th son. His mother, Abiah Folger, was his father's second wife. The Franklin family was in modest circumstances, like most New Englanders of the time. ...

(4 pages) 87 0 3.5 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

Robert Boyle

medicine. Born in Lismore, Ireland to Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and Katherine Fenton, his second wife, Boyle was the youngest son in a family of fourteen. However he was not shortchanged of ...

(4 pages) 45 0 3.8 Aug/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Carl Friedrich Gauss info.

th a very stern and unsympathetic father, the early death of his first wife, the poor health of his second wife, and terrible relations with his sons Gauss was denied of a close family life until late ... of Algebra" which states that "Every polynomial in x can be resoluted in factors from the first and second degree."ex:x" + 4x" + x -6 = (x-1).(x"+5x+6)The theorem, in it's most general form, is equiva ...

(4 pages) 96 0 4.4 Oct/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

George Washington's Biography-2 pages including paragraphs on -introduction -early life -land surveying -french and indian war -revolutionary war -later years

irginia on an estate along the Potomac River. He was the oldest son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington. When Washington was eleven, his father died and left only himself ... al Congress. The Congress created a new government devoted to overthrow unfair rule of Britain. The Second Continental Congress joined together on May 10, 1775, after the fighting of Lexington and Con ...

(4 pages) 111 0 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Vlad Tepes

a semimilitary and religious society, originally created in 1387 by the Holy Roman Emperor and his second wife, Barbara Cilli. The main goals of such a secret fraternal order of knights was mainly to ... ant, no other than Vladislav II himself, defeated him only two months later. In order to secure his second and major reign over Wallachia, Dracula had to wait until July of 1456, when he had the satis ...

(6 pages) 46 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

The life and power of Zues, King of the Gods in Greek Mythology.

d with an ax or hammer soshe could be born. Athena became the goddess of wisdom. He also fought his second wife(Ira,which was also his sister) his brother(Poseidon) and his daughter (Athena) to get hi ...

(2 pages) 91 3 3.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Elizabeth smart.

lared this. The manifesto also stated he should take upon himself multiple wives. Elizabeth was his second wife next to Wanda Barzee, and possibly the first of several. Elizabeth, along with her abduc ...

(2 pages) 98 6 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

The Inventor of Blue Jeans, Levi Strauss.

nt - the blue jean - was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria on February 26, 1829 to Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss. Hirsch, a dry goods peddler, already had five children with his f ...

(5 pages) 104 0 3.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Queen Elizabeth the 1st and her influence on English literature.

st Tudor monarch. She was born in Greenwich on 7 September 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and hid second wife, Anne Boleyn. She became a queen in November 1588, succeeding to the throne on her half ...

(2 pages) 57 0 3.7 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

This is a paper written on john napier, who he was and what he did for math!

married his first wife Elizabeth who bore him one son, but she died in less than a year's time. His second wife, Agnes Chisholm, bore him 5 sons and 5 daughters.It is easy to say that Napier made one ...

(1 pages) 59 1 3.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

"Benjamin Franklin and his life" This is divide in 3 parts a part about his Talents and a part about His inventions so to speak and a part about his life all together.

iah Franklin family. Josiah was a soap and candlemaker, who lived in Boston, Massachusetts with his second wife, Abiah Folger. Although Franklin learned to read at an early age, he only attended gramm ... seemingly inevitable, Franklin returned to America. Shortly thereafter, he was made a member of the Second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson suppo ...

(8 pages) 135 4 4.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Biography of John Winthrop, City on Hill

ren, however, ten years after they married, she died suddenly. Winthrop soon remarried however, his second wife died on their first anniversary. One year later, Winthrop married yet again, this time t ...

(2 pages) 40 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Helen Keller

also helped support his family by editing the local weekly newspaper. Kate her mother, was Arthur's second wife and had been raised in the social circles of Memphis. She was some twenty years younger ...

(7 pages) 86 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The Puritan Dilemma

Then Mary suddenly died. After six months John remarried, but on his first wedding anniversary his second wife died. One year later John married his third wife, Margaret. By all accounts, Margaret wa ... , love for your spouse, sports or recreation--as long as you don't become frivolous and lose faith. Second, they believed that man has a duty to use to the fullest extent all of the talents and abilit ...

(10 pages) 104 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Benjamin Franklin By: Tan Ly

children; Benjamin was the 15th child and the 10th son. His mother, Abiah Folger, was his father's second wife. The Franklin family was in modest circumstances, like most New Englanders of the time. ... ution--the battles of Lexington and Concord--had already been fought. He was chosen a member of the Second Continental Congress, serving on ten of its committees, and was made postmaster general, an o ...

(5 pages) 36 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History