Mary “Molly” Ludwig Hays McCauley “Pitcher” Molly Pitcher was a patriot who carried pitchers of water back and forth from a stream to some soldiers and also helped with cannon duty. when she died she was honored with an overprint on a United States postage stamp. Molly Pitcher was born Mary Ludwig on October 13, 1754, near Trenton, New Jersey. She was the daughter of a German dairyman, John George Ludwig. She later moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania to work as a domestic servant.…
The Greatest Helper in Hide and Seek: Miep Gies Personal Life Miep Gies (her real name was Hermine Santruschitz) was born in February 15, 1909. She was the second daughter of working class parents. In her early age, she caught many illnesses, and had to flee her homeland Vienna, Austria, and lived with the Nieuwenbergs in the Netherlands.…
Hallux valgus is commonly known as a bunion. This is where the big toe begin to deviants from its axis and point toward the pinky toe. This causes a bony protrusion to stick out from the side of foot, on the joint of the hallux, or large toe. This is usually in women, women who wear pointy toed shoes, tight-fitting shoes, or high-heeled shoes. These types of shoes can cause deviations to occur on the joint.…
Bronislaw Honig was a 7 year-old Jewish boy who was born Tuesday, October 8, 1935. He was one of the 1.5 million Jewish kids who were executed during the holocaust. Bronislaw’s parents were David (59) and Rose (57) Honig. Rose worked as a dressmaker and David worked in a hardware store. Bronislaw’s grandmother often stayed home to take care of him while his parents worked.…
1.What altered ideas about society and government in France are reflected in this excerpt from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen? P 612 text Many of the statements in this declaration deal with changes in the law. For one, statement number five states the need for improved laws in dealing all crimes, and the need to take precautions so that the law isn’t abbused wrongfully. Secondly, statement number 7 states that “No man may be indicted, arrested or detained, accept in cases determined by the law and according to the forms which it has prescribed.” Thirdly, number nine is very important because it states that all men shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty, without this statement many more people would have been punished for…
ABOUT Famous fifteenth-century French explorer who founded New France and Quebec City in July 1608. BEFORE FAME He began learning how to navigate, create nautical maps, charts and reports at an early age. TRIVIA…
Born near Rodez, France in the year 1787, a newborn girl named Marie Guillemette Emilie de Rodat born into the family. When she was 18 months old, she lived with her grandmother near Villefranche-de-Rouergue. At age 18, she became a geography teacher. Couple years later, she quickly decided to join three different orders. She first joins the Ladies of Nevers, then the Picpus Sisters, and lastly the Sisters of Mercy, however, she sensed that nothing was right for her.…
I took the watch, and Jim he laid down and snored away; and by and by the storm let up for good and all; and the first cabin-light that showed I rousted him out, and we slid the raft into hiding quarters for the day. The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game. Then they got tired of it, and allowed they would "lay out a campaign," as they called it.…
On October 14th, 1425 Johannes Ockeghem was born in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium. He wrote a famous piece called “Harmonice Musices odhecaton”, which he wrote while mourning the death of his friend, Gilles Binchois. He also wrote “O Rosa Bella”, which became a very popular piece in the 15th century. He was not only a composer, but also a singer and a choir master. He was famous for his low voice, with which he would sing bass.…
Philippe Pétain, in full Henri-Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain was born on April 24, 1856, in Cauchy-à-la-Tour. The french general who was a national hero for his victory at the Battle of Verdun in World War I but was discredited as chief of state of the French government at Vichy in World War II. Born into a family of farmers in northern France, Pétain, after attending the local village school and a religious secondary school, was admitted to Saint-Cyr, France’s principal military academy. As a young second lieutenant in an Alpine regiment, sharing the rough outdoor life of his men, he came to understand the ordinary soldier. The extraordinary popularity he was later to enjoy with the rank and file in World War I is believed to have had…
She seemed very intelligent because she brought up a great point that Christ was born from a woman and men had nothing to do with him. 5. People may remember it because this set off a domino effect allowing black woman to gain rights. The Great Dictator 1.…
Gouges’ declaration asserted that a lack and neglect for the rights of woman was the sole cause of public misfortune. Directed at Queen Marie Antoinette amidst political scrutiny to implore reformations on the equality of rights of men and women, it also expounds to Gouges’ fellow ‘citizenesses’ that they possess natural rights that are unalienable, insuppressible and endowed by the Creator in both genders, evident in its Article (4) and (5) . In this analysis, I argue that although Gouges’ declaration seems to harp on men being bullies and women as victims , such were merely her illustrations to validate existing inequalities at the time of its drafting. Ultimately, her declaration’s aim was to awaken the people from such existing inequalities,…
Olympe de Gouge was a French revolutionary writer in the 18th century. Gouge was well educated and relocated to Paris after the death of her husband with the hopes of becoming a playwright and political pamphleteer (Frankforter, 491). Although she also wrote about the abolition of slavery, she is most famous for her document Declaration of the rights of Women (Frankforter, 491). It was her persistence to influence revolutionary change for woman’s rights that resulted in her execution by the guillotine.…
Magda Goebbels was born in 1901 in Berlin, Germany. At the age of 17, while returning to school on a train, Magda met Günther Quandt, a rich German industrialist twice her age. She and Quandt married in 1921, and her first child, Harald, was born the same year. Magda and Quandt divorced in 1929. Soon after the divorce, she attended a Nazi party meeting where she met one of the speakers, Joseph Goebbels, then known as the Gauleiter of Berlin.…
Ivan Gomes was born on the 25th of December, 1939 in Fazenda das Lajes, a ranch close to the town of Campina Grande, state of Paraíba – Brazil. Ivan Gomes’ father was a cowboy at the ranch, and it was expected of Ivan that he followed his dad’s footsteps; however, in 1954 Gomes met a martial arts coach nicknamed “Tatá” who introduced him and his two young brothers, Jose and Jaildo, to fighting. Coach “Tatá” taught boxing in Rio de Janeiro, prior to his arrival in the Northeast of Brazil. As he coached Ivan, “Tatá” saw great potential in the young Ivan Gomes, and added weight training, boxing and a few notions of Jiu-Jitsu to the young kids training regime.…