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As a thirteen-year-old, he read a Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents he wanted to attend ; his parents thought it was unreasonable and did not encourage his hopes.
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In September 2005, a thirteen-year-old Cobain gave her first interview to Teen Vogue where she discussed her personal style and mentioned her parents.
The couple are the parents of Wally, a thirteen-year-old in the eighth grade, and seven-year-old (" almost eight ") second-grader Theodore, nicknamed " The Beaver ".
Wally is the thirteen-year-old son of archetypal 50s suburban parents, Ward and June Cleaver and the older brother of the seven-year-old (" almost eight ") title character, Theodore " Beaver " Cleaver.
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She said at the time that she had met Van Gogh 100 years before, in 1888, as a thirteen-year-old girl in her uncle's fabric shop, where he wanted to buy some canvas, later describing him as " dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable ", and " very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick ".
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Mayhew in his book, London Labour and the London Poor ; Extra Volume 1851 provides a detailed description of this category, and in a later edition of the same work includes the " Narrative of a Mudlark ", an interview with a thirteen-year-old boy.
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The treaty was sealed by the betrothal of Catherine's thirteen-year-old daughter Elisabeth to Philip II of Spain.
His mother, Fredegund, was regent until her death in 597, at which time the thirteen-year-old Chlothar began to rule for himself.
Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, the thirteen-year-old grandson of Gordian I, was nominated as Caesar to appease the population of capital, which was still loyal to the Gordian family.
In 1424, when Cecily was nine years old, she was betrothed by her father to his thirteen-year-old ward, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York.
A new program, Junior Hi, wherein twelve-and thirteen-year-old girls explore new interests as a group and as individuals was created in 1962.
It was by his advice that thirteen-year-old Charles IX was declared of age at Rouen in August 1563, a measure which in actuality increased the power of the queen-mother Catherine de ' Medici as she battled the machinations of the Guise family.
The age instituted was older than that of Bar Mitzvah because some of these topics were considered too complex for thirteen-year-old minds to grasp.
The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed seven of the eight convictions, and granted thirteen-year-old Eugene Williams a new trial because he was a juvenile.
The Alabama Supreme Court granted thirteen-year-old Eugene Williams a new trial because he was a juvenile, saving him from immediate threat of the electric chair.
To legitimise this plot, Julia and her mother spread the rumour that the thirteen-year-old boy was Caracalla's illegitimate son.
He is remembered in particular for his extensive reporting on the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1913 for the slaying of a thirteen-year-old girl.
The trail of the hollow nickel ended when a thirteen-year-old newsboy was collecting for his weekly deliveries.
Born in Yorkshire, England, Fletcher was inspired by the London punk rock movement and started a fanzine as a thirteen-year-old schoolboy which he named Jamming !.
The initial transmission was a three-speed manual, described by one critic as an obsolete feature when compared to the four-speed manual of the thirteen-year-old Citroën 2CV.
In 1919, he was appointed tutor of thirteen-year-old Puyi who still lived inside the Forbidden City in Beijing as a non-sovereign monarch.
The as-yet-unnamed band was sometimes joined by thirteen-year-old schoolboy Johnny Cunningham ( fiddle, viola, mandola, vocals ), who began more extensive touring with the band in 1972.
At that time Benny was a thirteen-year-old seventh-grader of Russian-Aleut and Swedish descent, studying at the Territorial School at Seward and a resident of the Jesse Lee Mission Home.
* Diana " Di " Lynch: The prettiest girl in class, thirteen-year-old Diana Lynch has black hair and violet eyes ( possibly due to the popularity of Elizabeth Taylor as a young actress at the time Diana's character was created.
The boy's death was seized on as a propaganda opportunity by Robespierre, who praised him at the Convention's tribune saying that " only the French have thirteen-year-old heroes ".
In 1836, while in Charleston, thirteen-year-old Mary Boykin Miller met her future husband, James Chesnut, Jr. ( 1815 – 85 ), who was eight years her senior.
The project was put on hold and Troell went to the United States to direct Hurricane, an assignment he was offered after the previous director Roman Polanski had suddenly left the country to avoid sentencing for unlawful sexual intercourse with a thirteen-year-old in Los Angeles.
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It stated that the two " were put to death on July 19 after they were found guilty of sexually assaulting a thirteen-year-old boy some fourteen months earlier ," but did not address whether those charges were accurate.
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* Fredrika Armfeldt: Desiree's thirteen-year-old daughter, who may or may not be the product ( unbeknownst to Fredrik ) of the actress's and Fredrik's affair.
Nowell's letter to Cecil stating: " I clearly see that my work for the Earl of Oxford cannot be much longer required " and his departure after eight months has been interpreted as either a sign of the thirteen-year-old Oxford's intractability as a pupil, or an indication that his precocity surpassed Nowell's ability to instruct him.
Rossini tested the humble thirteen-year-old girl himself, had her admitted to the school with special treatment, and even procured her an early engagement to tour his Stabat Mater around Northern Italy, so that she could pay for her studies.
In 1487 he married his elder son Franceschetto Cybo ( d. 1519 ) to Maddalena de ' Medici ( 1473 – 1528 ), the natural daughter of Lorenzo de ' Medici, who in return obtained the cardinal's hat for his thirteen-year-old son Giovanni, later Pope Leo X.
Æthelwulf returned a year later, having taken as his second wife, the Carolingian King Charles the Bald's thirteen-year-old daughter Judith.
His Queen, Margaret of Anjou, and their thirteen-year-old son Edward of Westminster, were exiled and impoverished in France.
The plot focuses on thirteen-year-old Rynn Jacobs ( Foster ), a mysterious child whose dark secrets concerning her absent poet father are prodded by various nosy villagers in a New England town.
In January 2008, Russian scientists announced that the charred remains of a young boy and a young woman found near Ekaterinburg in August 2007 were most likely those of the thirteen-year-old Tsarevich and one of the four Romanov grand duchesses.
By the third audition, his persistence impressed executives and in 1984, thirteen-year-old Martin became a member.
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Frankie Lymon joined the Coupe De Villes, who changed their name to first the Ermines and later The Premiers.
WOR had The Witch's Tale, a horror anthology series whose " hunner-an '- thirteen-year-old " narrator invited listeners to " douse all lights.
* Porko von Popbutton ( 1969 ): A 274 pound thirteen-year-old boy whose sole passion is food is miserable when sent to boarding school until he accidentally gets on the hockey team.
Gifford Senior and his then thirteen-year-old son co-wrote a scientific travel-adventure book, entitled Giff and Stiff in the South Seas, copyright 1933, by the John C. Winston Co. of Philadelphia.
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After the end of the Civil War, the old system was not restored ; Readers refused to read and both barristers and Benchers refused to follow the internal regulations.
Although Readers were appointed, none read, and no moots were held.
This failed to work, with Readers refusing to read, and the old system of legal education completely died out.
Readers now can read content by viewing a 15-second full screen advertisement to earn a " day pass " or gain access by subscribing to Salon Premium.
Readers can read the on-line edition of Metropolis all over the world by simply registering as users at its official site, and it is totally free.
Readers of Aramaic, can read the original books, which have been published and are freely accessible in university research libraries, and in online archives.
Readers would go to read the Back Page first and then proceed to read the magazine from back to front.
Readers familiar with more advanced mathematics such as cotangent bundles, exterior derivatives and symplectic manifolds should read the related symplectomorphism article.
Readers were not obliged to buy all 18 chapters as the story was coherent when reading just one title, but far more layered when all were read.
Readers in the besieged city were urged to read the paper and pass it on.
Readers especially appreciate it for its cohesive and logical story line ; along with its brevity, these qualities make it an ideal first read for newcomers to the sagas.
Dear Readers, You have no doubt read of Loma Linda in some of our papers, but I do not know of any thing ever appearing in the MESSENGER concerning it.
Dubbed ‘ the magazine for men which women love to read ,’ the monthly magazine ’ s readers were responsible, in the early 1970 ’ s, for creating a phenomenon that has been adopted in magazines worldwide: " Readers ’ Wives ".
Other, later phenomena associated with the concept of civic virtue include McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, a series of primary school textbooks whose compiler, William Holmes McGuffey, deliberately sought out patriotic and religious sentiments to instill these values in the children who read them.
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