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.

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Born December 20, 1778, on the nearby island of Maddalena, Giuseppe Celestino Bertoleoni Poli was a shepherd and the only inhabitant of the island before Charles Albert's visit.

Born on the island of Nantucket of the Massachusetts coast, Nickerson made his first sea voyage in 1819, at the age of fourteen, on the ill-fated whaler Essex.

Born on a plantation on Tortola, an island in the British West Indies, Humphreys came to Philadelphia in 1764, where he became concerned about the struggles of free African Americans to make a living.

Born in Paris, of Breton descent, after studying at the École Normale Supérieure he was sent to the French School at Athens in 1853, he directed some excavations in Chios, and wrote an historical account of the island.

Born on the island of Santiago ,“ José Maria Neves became interested in the politics and government of Cape Verde as a teen-ager .” “ He was the leader of a nationalist youth organization during the country ’ s transition from Portuguese rule to independence and democracy in 1975 .” Part of his superior education was in the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Brazil.

Born on the island he took the name from the actual Historical Society who have since changed their name to Mull Historical and Archaeological Society.

The original name of the island in the Tahitian language might be better rendered as Pora Pora, meaning " First Born "; an early transcription found in 18th-and 19th-century accounts, is Bolabolla or Bollabolla.

Born in England, Whiteway emigrated to the island in 1843 and entered the law in 1852.

Born Joseph-Casimir, in Tananarive ( now Antananarivo ), the capital of Madagascar, just five years after the island nation had become a French colony, he was the only child of an unwed mother whose family wealth had been lost.

Born in Egmont Bay, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Arsenault's family settled on the island in 1729 when it was a French possession called Ile-Saint-Jean.

Born on the Cape island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law in Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo.

Born on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, he emigrated to the United States in 1864.

Born in the fortress of Asso at the region of Erisso ( pertinenza di Erisso ) on northern Cephalonia ( the then under Venetian rule Ionian island of Kefalonia ) by Greek Orthodox parents.

Born on the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira Islands of Portugal as Estêvão Pedro de Alencastre, and brought to Hawaii as an infant, Alencastre later returned to Europe to finish his seminary studies in Belgium.

Born in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island in the Azores, Pauleta started his career at youth level playing for local clubs in his native island, before turning professional with lower league clubs in Portugal, working his way up the ranks.

Born in Willemstad, the capital city of the island Curaçao, Martina was 20 years old upon his entrance to the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Born and raised in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hamada graduated from Moanalua High School in 1991.

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Born in Armenia, Colombia, Lehder eventually ran a cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay island, off the Florida coast in the central Bahamas.

Born in Arizcun, Navarre, he is noted for leading the 1696 – 97 expeditionary force which resulted in the fall of the last significant independent Maya stronghold, Tayasal, located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in the northern Petén Basin region of present-day Guatemala.

Born in Alexandria, Virginia and raised on the island of Kauai, Rudinoff, a self-described " half-Episcopalian, half-Jew " has lived and worked in a number of North American cities.

Born Manuel Jesus Lopes on the island of Santo Antão, he became one of the most important poets and composers of Cape Verde.