Beethoven grew up in Bonn, Germany in a very unhappy home. He was forced to practice the piano by his father, an abusive alcoholic who would punish him mercilessly when he made mistakes. By the time he was twelve, he was earning a living for his family by playing organ and composing.
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Considered one of the top bassists in jazz today, Essiet Essiet first received critical acclaim over a decade ago in Bobby Watson's group Horizon. Born in Nebraska to Nigerian parents, he began studying violin at age10 and switched to bass viol at
Historical biographies written for kids. Learn the life story and biography of influencial people: US Presidents, World Leaders, Inventors, Women, Artists, Civil Rights heroes.
Mungo Park (11 September – ) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around , he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers.
Shomi Kaiser was born on in Feni, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. She is a Bangladeshi Film Actress, Television Actress, Model & Film Producer who is known for her work in Bangladeshi cinema.
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, —April 17, ) was a scientist, an inventor, a writer, and a statesman. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, He learned to read at an early age.
margaret bradham thornton is the author of the novels a theory of love and charleston and the editor of tennessee williams’s notebooks, for which she received the bronze foreword magazine book of the year award in autobiography/memoir and the c. hugh holman prize for the best volume of southern literary scholarship published in , given by.
Dr. Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. In addition to her work on the evolutionary origins of human cognition, Laurie is an expert on the science of happiness and the ways in which our minds lie to us about what m.
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was a civil rights activist whose passionate depiction of her own suffering in a racist society helped focus attention on the plight of African Americans throughout.
Season 1 of Mob Wives is an American reality television series on VH1 and follows a group of Staten Island women after their family members are arrested and imprisoned for crimes that are allegedly connected to the Mafia. Drita D'Avanzo Renee Graziano Karen Gravano Carla Facciolo See Also: List of Mob Wives Episodes.