He eventually returned to Stratford, and died around the time of his 52nd birthday, in 1616. Various critics or anti-Stratfordians would on the otherhand beg the question: “How could a mere grammar schoolboy from rural Warwickshire have known enough about courts and kings to write Hamlet and Lear”? “Where did he get his vast vocabulary and knowledge of the war to have written Henry V?” Doubts around Shakespeare’s work began two and a half centuries after his death, with different claims by an American woman named Delia Bacon. She claimed that the plays were really written by sir Francis Bacon, a lawyer and philosopher. Eventually Delia’s family reported that she had been removed to an asylum after trying to dig up Shakespeare’s grave, in order to search for evidence proving her unsupported claims.
Chuck was quoted in an interview saying “I think a lot of my shyness and non-athleticism came because I didn’t have a father to instill those in me,” he says. Chuck has been married twice, first to Dianne Holecheck in 1958 and had two children son Mike in 1963, and son Eric in 1965. They Divorced in 1988 after 30 years of marriage Chuck also had a daughter out of wedlock in 1964 named Dina that he was unaware of until she was 16 years old.. In 1998 he married a former model Gena O’Kelly who was 23 years younger than Norris, the same age as his oldest son. In 2001
Little is known about his childhood and his education but he joined the Spanish army when he was about 23. During the Battle of Lepanto, Miguel was injured for life. As he was traveling home after his service in the army in 1575, he was captured by Barbary pirates and enslaved with fellow Christians in the Algiers. His attempted escapes failed and it was not until 1580 that his mother was able to pay his ransom. Miguel got married to Catalina de Palacios and began writing plays and poetry in 1584.
The first was presumably a victim of infant mortality. His certificate of baptism bears a date in mid-March of 1453, but Florentine documents, like those of many parts of Europe, followed a calendar that began with the feast of the Annunciation on March 25th. So, by todays reckoning, this Amerigo was born in 1454.”(Fernandez-Armesto, 2007, pgs 13-14) He was one of three sons born into one of the more prominent families of the time. The Vespucci family was well off and well connected, but they were not considered wealthy, and the family invested heavily in their eldest son’s education, so Amerigo’s education was not given the highest priority. He was tutored by his uncle Girogio Antonio, who was one of the most respected tutors in all of Florence.
His father, an attorney, died two months before he was born (BIO). Not being able to provide for her son Jonathan’s mother went back to England leaving her son to be raised by her late husband’s brother (BIO). Also, an attorney Swift’s uncle was a member of the respected attorney and judges group Gray’s Inn. In 1673 he was enrolled in Kilkenny Grammar School, one of the best schools in Ireland at that time (BIO). Transitioning from poverty to a rigorous private school was challenging.
Halloween Writing Prompt [eslprof.com/handouts/Comp/HalloweenStoryPrompt.doc] A Night on Brickmore Hill John Petty was a college student at Brickmore College, in upstate New York. The college had mostly rich students, but John was admitted on a scholarship, and his parents had very little money. He desperately needed a new computer, but he didn’t have any money, so he looked at the Help Wanted ads in the local Brickmore Gazette. One ad was intriguing: I need a house sitter for one night. I have a large empty house on top of Brickmore Hill, which I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to sell since 1995.
His greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary accommodations. His life, like the whole country, was devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755, and his last 15 years were a time of almost constant unrest. Although initially he was little-known to other writers, his work came to be hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese literary culture. Of his poetic writing, nearly fifteen hundred poems have been preserved over the ages. He has been called the "Poet-Historian" and the "Poet-Sage" by Chinese critics.
Early Life Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 which was also the same day as feast day of St. John the Evangelist. Sebald Kepler his grandfather had been mayor of the town but, when Johannes was born the family fortune was in a steep incline. Kepler had two brothers and one sister. His father who was Heinrich Kepler was a mercenary who left Johannes when he was only five years old. He was said that he died in the Eighty Years’ War in the Netherlands.
Marc Jacobs is best known for his eponymous label Marc Jacobs, his diffusion line Marc by Marc Jacobs and his 16-years tenure at Louis Vuitton as creative director. Early years Born April 9, 1963, in New York City, Jacobs' home life was turned upside-down at the age of 7, when his father, an agent at the William Morris agency, died from ulcerative colitis—a condition that Marc also suffered from. According to Jacobs, his mother was “mentally ill” and “didn’t really take care of her kids”(Levy). She responded poorly to his father's death, embarking on a life of power dating and failed marriages that caused serious upheaval in the family. With each remarriage, Jacobs and his siblings would be forced to relocate to a new home, bouncing from New Jersey to Long Island and then the Bronx.
John Keats was born near London in 1795 and orphaned by the age of 14; his father died as the result of an accident and his mother died of tuberculosis (Bush). Although he had four siblings, all but his sister died before him and as a result of the ‘family illness’, consumption (Bush). While he struggled through finance issues his whole life, he never knew that he had funds left to him and his siblings that could have eased most of struggles in life. Despite the hardships, he went to school and earned his license to practice medicine, although he abandoned the field to devote himself to literature by 1814 (Reisman). What success Keat’s enjoyed was limited and one could say his ‘productive’ years came between the years 1817-1821 (Keats.com).