The eighth of eleven children, Maria enjoyed the benefits of belonging to a prosperous family in a small town.

* 1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel.

Military occupation of the islands ended recently after an incident in which Serbian military opened fire and arrested the mayor of Vukovar Vladimir Štengel with 19 other Croatian civilians and 8 children who were going to visit Zvezdan Kisić the mayor of the Serbian town Bačka Palanka.

In 1902 Nico Broekhuysen, a Dutch school teacher from Amsterdam, was sent to Nääs, a town in Sweden, to follow an educational course about teaching gymnastics to children.

In 1931 the children of Sacred Heart School were given the opportunity to name their town.

A vote was taken, with the children electing to name the town after Rockne, who had died in a plane crash earlier that year.

A fellowship of Twelve Apostles carries a wooden statue of Christ around the town, while children go door to door offering the palms ( box ) for coins.

King responded later that day, saying, " That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt ... I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don ’ t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career — military or otherwise.

" ... Between 23 – 26 October, Sudanese government troops attacked villages near the southern town of Aweil, killing 93 men and enslaving 85 women and children.

Then, on 2 November, the Sudanese military attacked villages near the town of Nyamlell, carrying off another 113 women and children.

She was born Victoria California Claflin, the seventh of ten children ( six who survived to maturity ), in the rural frontier town of Homer, Licking County, Ohio.

* June 26 – According to legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the German town of Hamelin and leads 130 children to their deaths, as told in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and many others.

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

There is also a school for children with special needs in the town, Ysgol Pendalar, which serves all of Arfon.

Paul-Michel Foucault was born on 15 October 1926 in the small town of Poitiers, west-central France, as the second of three children to a prosperous and socially conservative upper-middle-class family.

Zacharias Basileios was the only son and eldest of four children of Basilius Zacharoff of Istanbul, born in the Turkish town of Muğla.

His story is based on three assumptions: a masterpiece of a blacksmith who wished to access the mastery of his art, a pillory for troubled children or the sign of a tavern, " The tavern in the town square " which is found in the basement of Town hall.

Eisenhower stated " From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.

One of the show's best-known features is Keillor's News from Lake Wobegon, a weekly storytelling monologue, claiming to be a report from Keillor's fictitious hometown of Lake Wobegon, " the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve ... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Jean Valjean enters the town of Montreuil-sur-Mer in late 1815 and saves the two children of the town's police chief from a fire.

The action is divided into two timelines-the nascent rivalry between the two divers as children, and ( as adults ) their final competition at the world free-diving championships at the Sicilian town of Taormina.

The children of the town, on the other hand, are drawn to him.

Taking the narrative literally and judging from the estimated population of Bethlehem, the Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1910 ) more soberly suggested that these numbers were inflated, and that probably only between six and twenty children were killed in the town, with a dozen or so more in the surrounding areas.

The specific incident which the Israeli government used to justify the assault on Qibya occurred on October 12, 1953, when a Jewish woman, Suzanne Kinyas, and her two children were killed by a grenade thrown into their house in the Israeli town of Yehud, some inside of the Green Line.

The film commences in 1890 in the small town of Kings Row, focusing on five children.

Fortunately, there is a nursery school which he has been able to attend, with a group of normal children.

It would authorize the Texas Education Agency to establish county-wide day schools for the deaf in counties of 300,000 or more population, require deaf children between 6 and 13 years of age to attend the day schools, permitting older ones to attend the residential Texas School for the Deaf here.

In loyalty oaths, it was, " I will not value my life or that of my children less highly than I do the safety of the Emperor and his sisters ," or, if in consular motions: " Good fortune attend to the Emperor and his sisters.

Some children attend boarding school, mostly only those in secondary school.

To encourage literacy, the Cayman Islands government requires all legal resident children between the ages of four and 16 years old to attend school.

The house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend and the surrounding landscape offered many suitable motifs for Monet's work.

The marriage, however, caused a stir within St. Thomas ’ small Jewish community, either because Rachel was outside the faith or because she was previously married to Frederick's uncle, and in subsequent years his four children were forced to attend the all-black primary school.

The children of members are encouraged to attend Christadelphian Sunday Schools and youth groups.

The term preschool refers to a school for children who are not old enough to attend kindergarten.

For instance, New Zealand's landmark reform in 1989, during which schools were granted substantial autonomy, funding was devolved to schools, and parents were given a free choice of which school their children would attend, led to moderate improvements in most schools.

A voucher system for children three to six years-old who attend a non-profit kindergarten was implemented in Hong Kong in 2007.

After the age of eleven, children must attend secondary school in Lerwick and stay in a hostel there in term time.

Because children attend school longer now and have become much more familiar with the testing of school-related material, one might expect the greatest gains to occur on such school content-related tests as vocabulary, arithmetic or general information.

Many studies find that children who do not attend school score lower on the tests than their regularly attending peers.

More than half ( 53. 5 percent ) of children aged 5 – 17 do not attend school.

For instance, children that attend downgraded schools can greatly benefit from homeschooling ways of learning, using the immediacy and low cost of the Internet.

" They also refused to serve in the military or attend Lutheran schools, choosing instead to teach their children at home.

Macdonald's formal schooling ended at 15, a common school-leaving age at a time when only children from the most prosperous families were able to attend university.

Women and children may be called to kokwet meetings to give evidence but otherwise do not attend.

Education is compulsory from ages 6 to 15 and free for all children to attend.

Under the Japanese administration, all Palauan children were required to attend school, and by the 1930s, nearly all Palauan children were literate in Japanese, with the exception of children in outlier islands, specifically the Southwest Islands.

On this day, children attend church with branches from olive and palm trees.