She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

Born in Kaysersberg, Schweitzer spent his childhood in the village of Gunsbach, Alsace (), where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, taught him how to play music.

Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare.

He spent his childhood and adolescence at the family property at Poleymieux-au-Mont-d ' Or near Lyon.

He spent his early childhood like other Arab children of the time among the Bedouins who called themselves Ahl-i-Ba ' eer-the people of the camel, and developed a particular fondness for camels.

Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner was born in Paris to an Austrian Jewish father and a half-Turkish half-Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa.

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Arnulf spent his childhood on the Mosaburch or Mosapurc, which is widely believed to be Moosburg in Carinthia, only a few miles away from one of the Imperial residences, the Carolingian Kaiserpfalz at Karnburg, which before as Krnski grad had been the residence of the Carantanian princes.

Nin was raised a Roman Catholic and spent her childhood and early life in Europe.

Watterson, who drew his first cartoon at age eight, spent much time in childhood alone, drawing and cartooning.

In 1938, he finished the World War I monument in Târgu-Jiu where he had spent much of his childhood.

Guest spent parts of his childhood in his father's native United Kingdom.

Since his early childhood he spent his free time by drawing on any material he could find.

His family's second home was in a completely different geological and ecological area: he spent much of his childhood at Bartley Lodge in the New Forest, England.

She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life based in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy, and wrote entirely in her adoptive tongue of Middle French.

This stretch of interstate runs through Fortson, GA where Atkins spent much of his childhood.

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.

The son of a career naval officer, Donaldson spent his early childhood in different seaport cities in the eastern United States and in Germany.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut.

His childhood was spent in Swansea, with summer trips to Carmarthenshire to visit Fernhill, a dairy farm owned by his maternal aunt, Ann Jones, the memory of which is used for the 1945 lyrical poem " Fern Hill ".

His childhood was spent in Prostějov, where he attended the elementary school.

The Duchy of Aquitaine was the largest and richest province of France ; Poitou ( where Eleanor spent most of her childhood ) and Aquitaine together were almost one-third the size of modern France.

Two years later, Carmine became the first flautist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the family moved to New York City, finding a home in Woodside, Queens, where Francis spent the remainder of his childhood.

He spent his childhood in Fuendetodos, where his family lived in a house bearing the family crest of his mother.

Thomas spent the last nine or ten days of his third tour in New York mostly in the company of Reitell, with whom he had an affair.

Mayhew spent over ten years in Paris returning to England in the 1850s whereby he was involved in several literary adventures, mostly the writing of plays.

She spent the first few years mostly in the hospital, but was eventually able to be nursed from home.

Because of the scarcity, high radioactivity and high toxicity, there are currently no uses for protactinium outside of scientific research, and for this purpose, protactinium is mostly extracted from spent nuclear fuel.

Khomeini spent more than 14 years in exile, mostly in the holy Shia city of Najaf, Iraq.

Melford Stevenson sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment ( later reduced to 10 ), mostly spent in maximum security jails.

Vangelis spent the next two years mostly studio-bound, writing and producing for other Greek artists.

The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium-234, neptunium-237, plutonium-238 and americium-241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as californium ( Cf ).

He spent nearly 18 months working mostly at Camp Nelson, where he helped provide facilities for the freedmen and their families, as well as teaching and preaching.

In the very early episodes, it was mentioned that Rosco spent the first 20 years of his career as a mostly honest lawman, but after the county voted away his pension Rosco joined Hogg in an effort to fund his retirement in his last couple of years as Sheriff.

The period between 1910 and 1926 was mostly spent at University College London and Imperial College London, where he taught and wrote on physics, the philosophy of science, and the theory and practice of education.

After those attempts on his life, Commodus spent much of his time outside Rome, mostly on the family estates at Lanuvium.

Following the Parliament of Religions, Vivekananda spent nearly two years lecturing in various parts of eastern and central United States, mostly in Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and New York.

As a boy, he mostly worked in the family tavern, helped with basic agricultural work, and spent time playing outdoors in the countryside.

After a long political career, mostly spent as Attorney-General, he was appointed a Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

Following his retirement from boxing, Carpentier spent a number of years a vaudeville song-and-dance man, mostly in England and the US.

In 1754, Philidor returned to France, after nine years of absence spent mostly in Holland and England.

The castle history is mostly related to the Hunyadi family, being the place where John Hunyadi spent his childhood.

The mostly young, single, male population spent their hard-earned cash on Allen Street, the major commercial center, open 24 hours a day.

Abbey's first novel, Jonathan Troy ( 1954 ), is set entirely in a thinly disguised Indiana, and his novel The Fool's Progress ( 1988 ), which he called his " fat masterpiece ", is an autobiographical account of his growing up in this area and his imagined attempt to return home after a lifetime spent mostly in the desert Southwest.

The city spent the next few centuries mostly under Arab rule, although power alternated several times between Moors and Christians.

She spent the final 11 years of her life mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few — including family and employees — to enter the apartment.

The fleet spent the next week in the northern islands, mostly anchored in Cuyler Harbor, a bay on the northeastern coast of San Miguel Island.

In 1180, Yoritomo was defeated at Ishibashiyama, his first major battle ; but his early years as an insurgent chief were mostly spent in consolidating his power over the warrior aristocrats in the Kantō area, most of whom accepted his authority peaceably.