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At the age of eleven, he joined his father on a ship as an apprentice ; his seagoing career would be marked by headstrong disobedience.
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At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.
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At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.
At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.
At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.
While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.
At the age of 30, in 1905, Schweitzer answered the call of " The Society of the Evangelist Missions of Paris " which was looking for a medical doctor.
At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.
At the age of 16 he apprenticed as a stonemason and by the age of 20 he had reached journeyman status in this field.
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.
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.
At age 17, Alcott passed the exam for a teaching certificate but had trouble finding work as a teacher.
At age 12 he was whiter than ivory, had hair lighter than gold, and could lift 10 bear skins at once.
At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.
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At the age of fourteen he entered the Camaldolese Order in the Monastery of St. Mary of the Angels in Florence, and rapidly became a leading theologian and Hellenist.
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At the end of the conflicts, National unity government was formed by Fouad Siniora on July 11, 2008 and Hezbollah has one minister and controls eleven of thirty seats in the cabinet.
At age eleven he went to sea with his father.
At age eleven he joined a breakdance crew called the Furious Funkers, and taught himself to work a cheap belt-driven turntable.
At age eleven she gave a name to her publishing company: " Urchin Publishing Co ." Later her stories were written in notebooks.
At the village of Isola Serafini in the comune of Monticelli d ' Ongina, Piacenza Province, downstream from Piacenza, a long, high gate dam featuring eleven openings gated by vertical lift gates, crosses the Po.
At eleven years of age, he became a student at the university in Leipzig, Saxony.
At the age of eleven, she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.
At this time, the university had 156 male students, 21 female students, and only eleven academic staff, who were all male.
At the Munich Olympic Games, Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes.
At the age of eleven, he was sent to school in Oulu and boarded with relatives in the possession of a lending library, where he nurtured his fantasy with the reading of novels.
* February 16 – At Haulbowline Base in Ireland, two explosions on board HM Submarine A5, due to petrol fumes after refueling, kill six of the eleven crew.
At Athens " in Plato's time ," notes Kenneth Dorter " there was a discrepancy in the list of the twelve chief gods, as to whether Hestia or Dionysus was included with the other eleven.
At the age of eleven, Anderson landed the role of Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series, Little House on the Prairie.
At age eleven, however, he joined the Pentecostals in the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel ( the Pentecostal followers of Aimee Semple McPherson ).
At the April 2006 elections, Apulia gave about 51. 54 % of its votes to Silvio Berlusconi, and at the April 2008 election Apulians gave about 47 % of their votes to the People of Freedom-led coalition, eleven points more than to the Democratic Party-led coalition.
At the start of the series, all three authors were contributing ; the first twenty papers are broken down as eleven by Hamilton, five by Madison and four by Jay.
At ten or eleven years, used surfaces of the teeth begin to bear a square mark surrounded by a white line, and this is pronounced on all the teeth by the twelfth year ; between the twelfth and the fourteenth year this mark takes a round form.
At the age of eleven, Prosper sent his son Jean to school thirty-five miles up the Loire to the University of Orléans.
At the time Onondaga County was originally organized, it was divided into eleven towns: Homer, Pompey, Manlius, Lysander, Marcellus, Ulysses, Milton, Scipio, Ovid, Aurelius and Romulus.
At the afternoon session, the eleven resolutions were read again, and each one was voted on individually.
In the Gospel of Mark 16: 14, after the resurrection, Jesus " was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat " At the meal, Jesus " said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
At age eleven, Degas ( in adulthood he abandoned the more pretentious spelling of the family name ) began his schooling with enrollment in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, graduating in 1853 with a baccalauréat in literature.
At his death in 1675 his second wife Marie Jeanne of Savoy acted as Regent for their eleven year old son.
At the age of eleven he was already asked to play for ensembles, and later — during his diplomatic travels — his lute playing was in demand ; he was asked to play at the Danish Court and for James I of England, although they were not known for their musical abilities.
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