Hitting a Creative Jackpot As consumers we tend to view Lotteries and games of chance as relatively recent phenomena. However, lotteries as such date back to biblical times, Caesar in ancient Rome and the Hun Dynasty in China circa 100 B.C. In China, the game we know as Keno was developed and during the Hun Dynasty, funds raised from lotteries were used for defence, most notably the building of the Great Wall of China. The first recorded use of the ‘lottery’ concept in Europe occurred in 1446 when the widow of the Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck held a raffle to dispose of unsold paintings. In 1465, lotteries were held in Belgium to build chapels, almshouses (housing for the poor), canals and port facilities.
John Pierpont Morgan was born into a distinguished New England family on April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut. One of his maternal relatives, James Pierpont (1659-1714), was a founder of Yale University; his paternal grandfather was a founder of the AETNA Insurance Company; and his father, Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-90), ran a successful Hartford dry-goods company before becoming a partner in a London-based merchant BANKING firm. After graduating from high school in Boston in 1854, Pierpont, as he was known, studied in Europe, where he learned French and German,
Anne had two known siblings that survived, Mary and George, she is thought to have had two others who died young. Their birth dates and birth order are unknown but it is known that all three Boleyn Siblings were close in age. In 1514, when Henry VIII married his youngest sister to the king of France, Anne accompanied the princess to France as a lady-in-waiting. There, Anne was educated, and in early 1522 she finally returned home. It is unknown when Anne first caught the eye of the king, but her sister Mary had been his mistress a few years before.
Malcolm read books in the jail’s library so frequently that the librarian would let him take a few extra books back to his cell. With Malcolm’s vocabulary growing so rapidly, he was able to get involved with debates in the prison debate teams. Malcolm’s passion for learning was so intense that even after lights out he was able to find a way to read. Malcolm had memorized when the guards would do their rounds. When the guards came by he would pretend to be asleep, but then would continue to read after the guard had
Good morning everyone, I’m going to be reading a passage from Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Born on October 23,1961 in Potsdam, in Northern New York State. She read all the time; awful at math, but then lots of creative people were. She graduated form Georgetown University in 1984 with a B.S.L.L in Languages and Linguistics. For years, Laurie loved to write, but considered it more than a hobby, and became a freelance reporter, she also began to write all types of books, and accomplished to pile up a lot of rejection letters.
The education was meant for the men. She did not attend school; however, she did receive her knowledge from eight tutors and her father that always strived to teach her new things. Bradstreet loved to read and through reading she gained knowledge to help her succeed in the world. Her father, Thomas Dudley was the steward of the Earl of Lincoln estate. This is where she had access to a wonderful library that was full of many authors that she became well known too.
Queen Anne Stuart She was born on February 6, 1665 to the Duke and Duchess of York, she was the second daughter out of three children. Her name is Anne Stuart. Her uncle, King Charles II, married and obviously wanting to have a big family, after several illegitimate children. But he had no blood children of his own. As Anne began maturing, she developed numerous health issues, but unlike some children from that time, she survived to her adulthood.
Heroism – Point Blanc For the past few English lessons, I have chosen and read the book Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz, the second book of the Alex Rider series. When Alex was at school, he would just be like all the other students; going to lessons, doing stacks of homework that his teachers had given. But Alex was actually a secret agent that works for the M16. This wasn’t his job until his uncle – Ian Rider – had been murdered a few weeks ago and M16 had forced Alex to take his uncle’s place as a secret agent. In Point Blanc, Alex was summoned on a mission to find connections between the school - Point Blanc, and two deaths that had happened earlier with clues and suspicions that drove towards the school.
She was constantly trying to figure out who the killer was and was close to unmasking him a couple of times. Her mood was caused after she saw the first dead body hanging in the stairwell, and as they always say... Curiosity killed the cat. 4. I found this book in the school library; I was drawn in by the picture on the front and the text at the bottom right hand corner of the corner that read “Ten teens.
Louis Farrakhan, born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in The Bronx, New York and grew up in Roxbury, a neighborhood in Boston Massachusetts. He is currently married to Khadijah, since September 12, 1953 they have 9 children and 23 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren . His mother, Sarah Manning, a domestic worker had emigrated from St. Kitts in the 1920’s, his father Percival Clarke is a Jamaican, cab driver from New York City, his father was not involved in his upbringing. Louis has one brother Alvan. His mother taught them early the value of work, responsibility, and intellectual skills.