Similarly, Helen Keller stated that " Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

* 1866 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher, instructor and companion of Helen Keller ( d. 1936 )

Most people are familiar with Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf, but there has been considerable progress since the publication of her work.

He established a summer estate complete with research laboratories, working with deaf people — including Helen Keller — and continued to invent.

Helen Adams Keller ( June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968 ) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf ; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as " an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain ", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.

Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with " d-o-l-l " for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present.

In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.

Anne Sullivan stayed as a companion to Helen Keller long after she taught her.

Helen Keller portrait, 1904.

In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International ( HKI ) organization.

Helen Keller, circa 1912

She was also the subject of the documentaries Helen Keller in Her Story, narrated by Katharine Cornell, and The Story of Helen Keller, part of the Famous Americans series produced by Hearst Entertainment.

Helen Keller as depicted on the Alabama state quarter

The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is dedicated to her.

There are streets named after Helen Keller in Getafe, Spain, in Lod, Israel, in Lisbon, Portugal and in Caen, France.

A preschool for the deaf and hard of hearing in Mysore, India, was originally named after Helen Keller by its founder K. K. Srinivasan.

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

* Helen Keller Services for the Blind

* Keller, Helen with Anne Sullivan and John A. Macy ( 1903 ) The Story of My Life.

* Lash, Joseph P. ( 1980 ) Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

The hypothesis to Isocrates ' Helen mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a Helen, " though it is more a defense speech ( apologia ) than an encomium ," and concludes that he was " the man who has written about Helen " to whom Isocrates refers ( Isoc.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

Pfeiffer ( who developed scientific practices in biodynamic farming ), Paul Keene ( founder of Walnut Acres in Pennsylvania ), and Scott and Helen Nearing ( who inspired the back-to-land movement of the 1960s ).

Increasingly unstable after his wife's death, Poe attempted to court the poet Sarah Helen Whitman, who lived in Providence, Rhode Island.

The then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, were also in attendance, and Clark was accompanied by the official NZ Defence Force party, veterans of several past wars, and 10 New Zealand college students who won the New Zealand ' Prime Minister's Essay Competition ' with their work on Gallipoli.

This woman was Helen, who was, unfortunately for Paris, already married to King Menelaus of Sparta.

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating " that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

His father was Hugh Macdonald, an unsuccessful merchant, who had married Helen Shaw on 21 October 1811.

Whale gathered as many of those as he could who had been involved in one production or another of the musical, including Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger, and, as Magnolia, Irene Dunne, who believed that Whale was the wrong director for the piece.

The matchmaker, in turn, sets him up with Helen, the town floozy, who runs off with him.

Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, the third son of Dr. Charles Hay and Helen Leonard from Middleborough, Massachusetts, who had come to Salem to live with her sister.

Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, who detests Wimsey, and their devil-may-care heir, Viscount St. George ( Wimsey's nephew, who likes him ), also make appearances in the novels, as does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter.

In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.

He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in unHomeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Akhilles.

" Similarly, Helen Waddell wrote that the 10th century was that which " in the textbooks disputes with the seventh the bad eminence, the nadir of the human intellect.

He wrote " The Promised Key " the doctrine of Rastafari in Accara, Ghana and many other works which were burnt by the colonial government References :- Daily Gleaner Jamaica, The First Rasta by Helen Lee

During their four-year partnership, they wrote five comedies – Dulcy ( 1921 ), To the Ladies ( 1922 ), Merton of the Movies ( 1922 ), The Deep Tangled Wildwood ( 1923 ) and Beggar on Horseback ( 1924 ) – and also co-directed and contributed sketches to the 1922 revue The ' 49ers, collaborated on the book to the musical comedy Helen of Troy, New York ( 1923 ), and wrote both the book and lyrics for another musical comedy, Be Yourself ( 1924 ).

Craig Ferguson wrote in his book American on Purpose that he and Helen Atkinson-Wood were in a romantic relationship that lasted five years.

* In 1928, Richard Strauss wrote the German opera Die ägyptische Helena, The Egyptian Helena, which is the story of Helen and Menelaus's troubles when they are marooned on a mythical island.

* Margaret George wrote an epic adult novel, Helen of Troy, in 2006, told through Helen's first-person narrative.

* Caroline B. Cooney also wrote a young-adult novel, Goddess of Yesterday, where Helen is one of the main characters.

* Josephine Angelini wrote a young adult novel, Starcrossed about Helen of Troy.

* Henry Rider Haggard wrote a novel, The World's Desire in which Odysseus finds Helen in Egypt as a priestess and they wed.

wrote an epic poem Helen in Egypt from Helen's perspective.

Post-surrealism is a movement that arose in Southern California in 1934 when Helen Lundeberg and Lorser Feitelson wrote a manifesto explaining their desire to use art to convey the relationship between the perceptual and the conceptual.

Helen P. Foley wrote of the links between the importance of Dionysus as the central character and his effect on the play's structure, she writes: " the poet uses the ritual crisis to explore simultaneously god, man, society, and his own tragic art.

Austrian writer Bertha Diener, also known as Helen Diner, wrote Mothers and Amazons ( 1930 ), which was the first work to focus on women's cultural history.

The group's back-up singer, Helen Terry, began work on her solo album, for which George and Hay wrote the song " Love Lies Lost ".

He wrote confidentially to his friend Helen Mary Gaskell ( known as May ), " The armour is good — they have taken pains with it ... Perceval looked the one romantic thing in it ...

McNally has collaborated on several operas, including composer Jake Heggie's adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean's book, Dead Man Walking, for which McNally wrote the libretto.

wrote Trilogy out of her experiences in London during World War II and Helen in Egypt, a reworking of the Helen of Troy story from the perspective of the female protagonist, as a kind of feminist response to the masculine mind-set behind Pound's epic.

Thea Astley wrote of the novel that " I am filled with envy by someone like Helen Garner for instance.

Helen Nearing ( 1904 – 1995 ) and Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ) were well-known American back-to-the-landers who wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed " the good life ".

Poe biographer John H. Ingram wrote to Sarah Helen Whitman that someone named " Allen " said that Poe worked " in the brickyard ' late in the fall of 1834 '".

In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " By aiming specifically – and accurately – at characters in their twenties, debuting screenwriter Helen Childress and first-time director Stiller achieve something even greater: they encapsulate an era ".