Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.

His parents were Joseph Chatfield Alcott and Anna Alcott ( née Bronson ).

Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.

The school taught only reading, writing, and spelling and he left this school at the age of 10. At age 13, his uncle, Reverend Tillotson Bronson, invited Alcott into his home in Cheshire, Connecticut to be educated and prepared for college.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.

Bronson Alcott later reflected on his childhood at Spindle Hill: " It kept me pure ...

It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.

That summer, Bronson Alcott let Henry David Thoreau borrow his ax to prepare his home at Walden Pond.

There, next door to Peabody's book store on West Street, Bronson Alcott hosted a series based on the " Conversations " model by Margaret Fuller called " A Course on the Conversations on Man — his History, Resources, and Expectations ".

* The journals of Bronson Alcott

* Amos Bronson Alcott Network

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

* Guide to Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott at Houghton Library, Harvard University

* Guide to Amos Bronson Alcott papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University

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At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

Emerson took a paternal and at times patronizing interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and introducing him to a circle of local writers and thinkers, including Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian Hawthorne, who was a boy at the time.

Exterior shots, such as the crew from Earth's first steps on Mongo, were filmed at Bronson Canyon.

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The highest point in town is the summit of Bronson Hill, at above sea level.

In 1890, James Bronson established the first store and at the same time the post office was established with the name " Hatton ".

The underground prison was shot in real caves left by mining at Griffith Park, in the Bronson Canyon, previously used as the Batcave and in the 1930s Flash Gordon serial.

The norovirus was originally named the " Norwalk agent " after Norwalk, Ohio, in the United States, where an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis occurred among children at Bronson Elementary School in November 1968.

During 1834 – 1835, she worked as assistant teacher to Amos Bronson Alcott at his experimental Temple School in Boston.

Bronson was imprisoned for seven years in 1974, aged twenty-two, for an armed robbery at a Post Office in Little Sutton, a suburb of Ellesmere Port, during which he stole £ 26. 18.

The governor at Wandsworth wished to move Bronson on, and as only the C Unit ( Psycho Wing ) at Parkhurst was willing to accept him, Bronson found himself back at the Isle of Wight.

The other men include hotheaded, inexperienced Chico ( Horst Buchholz ); Chris's friend Harry Luck ( Brad Dexter ) who believes Chris is seeking treasure ; the drifter Vin ( Steve McQueen ), who has gone broke after a round of gambling ; Bernardo O ' Reilly ( Charles Bronson ), a gunfighter of Irish-Mexican heritage ; cowpuncher Britt ( James Coburn ); and an on-the-run gunman Lee ( Robert Vaughn ), who is in the midst of a crisis of confidence.

This path was taken by some Transcendentalist educators, such as Amos Bronson Alcott.

Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding native bandits led by Calvera, portrayed by Eli Wallach.

Other films include The 25th Hour ( 1967 ), with Virna Lisi ; The Magus ( 1968 ), with Michael Caine and Candice Bergen, and based on the novel by John Fowles ; La Bataille de San Sebastian ( Guns for San Sebastian ) with Charles Bronson ; and The Shoes of the Fisherman, where he played a Catholic Archbishop in a Soviet Ukrainian prison who becomes Pope.

Maureen lives through, and gives her ( sometimes contradictory ) viewpoints on many events in other Heinlein stories, most notably the 1917 visit from the future by " Ted Bronson " ( in actuality Lazarus Long ), told from Long's point of view in Time Enough for Love, D. D. Harriman's space program from The Man Who Sold the Moon and the rolling roads from The Roads Must Roll.

Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood became famous by starring in Spaghetti Westerns, although they were also to provide a showcase for other noted actors such as Jason Robards, James Coburn, Klaus Kinski and Henry Fonda.

The. 475 Wildey Magnum gun, later made famous in the 1985 Charles Bronson movie Death Wish 3, was developed by Wildey J. Moore in Brookfield in the early 1970s ( the factory has since moved to Warren, Connecticut ).

Bronson Beta is settled by survivors of the catastrophe in the sequel After Worlds Collide.

In 2011, DCide will release " Well Done " a collaboration album by Action Bronson and Statik Selektah.

The role of Oliver was played by numerous child actors during the run of four years, including Gregory Bradley, James Daley, Andrew James Michel, Jon Lee and Tom Fletcher, while the Artful Dodger was played by Adam Searles, Paul Bailey and Bronson Webb.

Living in a mansion, waited on by servants, and flaunting her wealth with fashion, she's the undisputed queen of Bronson Alcott High School.

The village was platted in 1837 by Herman Bronson.

The Happy Jack Mine, located in White Canyon, San Juan County, was founded by Monticello natives Fletch Bronson and Joe Cooper.

Smiths Grove was first settled by the Robey, Epperson, Bronson, McCarroll, and Smith families.

Hatton finally began to grow after 1901 and was platted on April 30, 1901 by James Bronson.

One explanation for the criticisms and actions taken by roughly 8 % of all Lifespring graduates comes from clinical psychologist and Lifespring graduate Bronson Levin.

Privately funded and created in partnership with Borgess and Bronson hospitals seeded by a $ 100 million anonymous cash donation-the largest cash gift ever given to a college or university in Michigan.

Norma is bedridden with a high fever, and is accompanied by Mrs. Bronson and a doctor.