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Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.
Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.
Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.
She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.
`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.
About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.
Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.
Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.
And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.
I was born angry.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

was and Charlestown
She was born in Hamilton County, Nebraska on Sept. 8, 1903 and died on March 9, 2002 in Charlestown, South Carolina.
Charlestown Police Station, which served as the Headquarters for police officers in Nevis, was destroyed by fire in December 1991.
The Museum of Nevis History, Charlestown, housed in the restored Georgian building where Alexander Hamilton was born.
The sandwich was created to entice the large numbers of navy servicemen stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse ( 1761 – 1826 )— who was also a geographer — and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese ( 1766 – 1828 ).
The capital was moved south to the town of Charlestown, and the island's successful sugar trade quickly bounced back.
Charlestown was established in 1808, named after one of its surveyors, Charles Beggs, upon, of which was designated for a town square.
Charlestown was the home of the first Indiana state governor, Jonathan Jennings.
Charlestown was also the home of Days of the New's frontman, Travis Meeks, while the band originated from here.
From 1811-1878 Charlestown was the county seat of Clark County, but as Jeffersonville had surpassed it economically, the county seat reverted back to Jeffersonville in 1878.
In 1940 the population of Charlestown was 900, but it swelled to 13, 400 due to the building and operation of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant ( INAAP ).
In 1812 Charlestown was named the county seat, but the county seat returned to Jeffersonville in 1878, where it remains.
Although most of the fledgling town's population was Presbyterian, initially the nearest church was located in Charlestown, Indiana, 25 miles to the west.
Known as T2 R5 NWP, or Township 2, Range 4, North of the Waldo Patent, it was incorporated on February 16, 1811 as New Charlestown, to distinguish it from Charlestown when Massachusetts included the province of Maine.
An inspector was appointed to ensure that only flour of superior quality was sold and shipped from Charlestown.
During this time ( 1782-1787 ) Charlestown was also the county seat for Cecil County.
The first involved a blockading, British warship in the Charlestown Harbor that was captured and burned.
Charlestown experienced a gradual decline from 1780 through 1820, which was caused by decreased trade and shipping with the British Empire.
Many distinguished Charlestown residents tore down their houses and moved to Baltimore in disgust when the Town ’ s status as county seat was stripped away in favor of a town at the head of the Elk River-Elkton.
Hamilton House ( CE-107 ; circa 1755 ): The house was one of the oldest in Charlestown and was constructed by John Kankey.

was and Massachusetts
For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.
Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, described him as `` a man whose spirit was stark drunk with blasphemies and insolence, a corrupter of the truth, a disturber of the peace wherever he comes ''.
Upon intelligence that the formidable agitator was to favor them with his presence, the benighted inhabitants of Pawtuxet, alas, gave their allegiance to Massachusetts and asked that colony to expel the newcomers.
It was not within the jurisdiction of anybody or anything, including Providence and Massachusetts.
One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.
Gorton evidently still had plenty to learn about Massachusetts, but he was learning fast.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.
Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.
and when school closed, she was unable to travel to Massachusetts.
One month ago, on the 20th of October, was the opening of the gunning season in Massachusetts.
Garrison, Massachusetts born of Nova Scotian parentage, was by temperament and conviction a reformer.
Wendell Phillips ( 1811-1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher.
The family home was in an area known as Spindle Hill, and his father, Joseph Alcox, traced his ancestry to colonial-era settlers in eastern Massachusetts.
Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Teacher training was interrupted during World War II between 1941 and 1943, when Alexander accompanied children and teachers of the Little School to Stow, Massachusetts to join his brother.
The ship landed in 1630 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established at what is now Boston, Massachusetts.
* Captain Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts.
* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.
The Cobble Hill Tunnel was part of the first rail link between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts.
Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.
This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.
The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

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