Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.

Born on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.

Born c. 370 on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube in present day Romania, Alaric belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Tervingian Goths.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

Bunge & Born provided the Menem government with its first two economy ministers, and the combination of large rate increases on public services ( around 500 %), a simplified exchange rate and a massive, mandatory wage hike led to a sharp economic turnaround between July and November 1989.

Among the most notable of these was the 1944 novella " No Woman Born ", which went on to be included in over ten different science fiction anthologies, including The Best of C. L. Moore.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.

He had a small part in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot ; his part was eventually cut, but can be seen on the Special Edition DVD.

Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody / tribute song on the Randy Newman album Born Again, titled " The Story of a Rock and Roll Band ".

Robert Wise ( Born to Kill, The Set-Up ) and Anthony Mann ( T-Men, Raw Deal ) each made a series of impressive intermediates, many of them noirs, before graduating to steady work on big-budget productions.

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He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Born in Cölln on the Spree, George William was the son of John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg and Anna of Prussia.

Born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1784, he was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.

Born into a middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, he took a keen interest in Scouting in early life, something that would prove highly influential on his later work.

Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century.

Born in Berlin, Germany, on 22 June 1910, he moved with his family in 1912 to Braunsberg, East Prussia, where his father was a postal clerk.

However, Professor Max Born intervened on Fuchs ' behalf.

Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook in early life, particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919.

In Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989 ) Tom Cruise portrays disenchanted Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic who, wounded in action and wheel-chair bound, leads rallies against the war.

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The next major event, the Korean War inspired a long-running television series M * A * S * H. With the Vietnam War, the tide of balance turned and its films, notably Apocalypse Now, Good Morning, Vietnam, Go Tell the Spartans, Born on the Fourth of July, and We Were Soldiers, have tended to contain critical messages.

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At that time Ron Kovic had recently completed his autobiographical book Born on the Fourth of July which would later become an Oscar-winning motion picture of the same name directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise as Kovic.

It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth.

Born on the Fourth of July ( ISBN 1-888451-78-5 ) is the best selling autobiography of Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist.

Born on the Fourth of July was written in Santa Monica, California during the fall of 1974 in exactly one month, three weeks and two days.

* Bruce Springsteen dedicated his 1978 performance of " Darkness on the Edge of Town " live at Winterland to Kovic, saying that he read Born on the Fourth of July, and " loved the book a whole lot.

* American rock band The Killers make an allusion to Born on the Fourth of July in their song " Sam's Town " on their album of the same name.

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" At a Fourth of July benefit for Vietnam veterans in 1987, Fogerty finally ran through the list of Creedence hits — beginning with " Born on the Bayou " and ending with " Proud Mary "— to an ecstatic audience.

Baldwin was also cast in the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July starring Tom Cruise, and brothers Stephen and Daniel where he played in a minor role as a U. S Marine during the Vietnam War.

He has had roles in a wide range of films, including Platoon, Affliction, Off Limits, Streets of Fire, To Live and Die in L. A., Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Mr. Bean's Holiday, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Boondock Saints, Spider-Man, and The Aviator, and voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo.

He is best known as the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July, which was made into an Academy Award – winning movie directed by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise playing Kovic.

Tom Paxton, the folk singer / political activist, wrote the song " Born on the Fourth of July ", which is on his " New Songs from the Briarpatch " album.

In a new introduction to his book, Born on the Fourth of July, written in March 2005, Kovic stated, " I wanted people to understand.

" In early 1989, he presented Tom Cruise with his Bronze Star medal on the final day of filming Born on the Fourth of July, explaining to the actor that he was giving him the award as a gift for his " courageous portrayal of the true horrors of war.

On December 6, 2009 Kovic spoke honoring Bruce Springsteen at the 32nd annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D. C. On December 22, 2009, Kovic, Oliver Stone, and friends celebrated the 20th anniversary of the 1989 film release of Born on the Fourth of July at a dinner party in Torrance, California.

He plans to begin writing the long-awaited sequel to his book, Born on The Fourth of July, sometime in the spring of 2010.

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" Born on the Fourth of July: The Long Journey Home ", AlterNet, posted June 13, 2005.

In 1988, Stone asked Sheen to star in his new film Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989 ), but later cast Tom Cruise instead.