When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning.

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

He also was a promoter of the New Text school, which considered Confucius as a divine figure and a spiritual ruler of China, who foresaw and started the evolution of the world towards the Universal Peace.

On leaving school his theatrical career started immediately, with an introduction to Sir Donald Wolfit by his French master.

After a few years of school, Dürer started to learn the basics of goldsmithing and drawing from his father.

He also was a promoter of the New Text school, which considered Confucius as a divine figure and a spiritual ruler of China, who foresaw and started the evolution of the world towards the Universal Peace.

Even with its athletic and competitive development, cheerleading at the school level has retained its ties to the spirit leading traditions started back in the 1890s.

Middle school cheerleading evolved shortly after high school squads started.

Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school.

Dr. John M. Harris started the world's first dental school in Bainbridge, Ohio, and helped to establish dentistry as a health profession.

Stating that he hung out with the " band nerds " in high school, he started a ska band.

Soon after joining Pamphilus ' school, Eusebius started helping his master expand the library's collections and broaden access to its resources.

In 1611, he started a special school of mathematics, in Antwerp, which intended to perpetuate the mathematical research and study in the Jesuit society.

In 1924, Fellini started primary school in an institute run by the nuns of San Vincenzo in Rimini, attending the Carlo Tonni public school two years later.

The uniforms were panned by critics, but the public liked them and versions started appearing at the high school and little league level.

She made it a centre of culture, started a school for girls, and turned her ducal apartments into a museum containing the finest art treasures.

A few days afterwards, having been encouraged by Ray and New York underground filmmaker Amos Poe and using scholarship funds given by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to pay for his school tuition, Jarmusch started work on a film for his final project.

On leaving school, Maynard Smith joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and started studying engineering at Trinity College Cambridge.

Fleming started school at about the age of ten, attending a private school where he particularly enjoyed geometry.

During the reign of Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ), he arrived in Rome and started his own school.

Darwin was a physician and poet who had studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh ; Boulton had left school at fourteen and started work in his father's business making metal goods in Birmingham at the age of 21.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

Notable works of the school still extant are the famous archaic female statues found on the Athenian Acropolis in 1885 – 1887, the seated statues of Branchidae, the Nike of Archermus found at Delos, and the objects in ivory and electrum found by D. G.

The last nearby mines closed in the late 1960s, but a school founded in 1885 by the Michigan State Legislature to teach metallurgy and mining engineering, the Michigan College of Mines, continues today under the name of Michigan Technological University and is the primary employer in the city.

The finishing school that made Switzerland renowned for such institutions was Château Mont-Choisi, founded in 1885, which closed in 1995 or 1996.

In the fall of 1885, he enrolled at Pennington Seminary, a ministry-focused coeducational boarding school north of Trenton, where his father had been principal from 1849 to 1858.

Springfield College was founded in 1885 as an international training school for YMCA Professionals, while one of the two schools that eventually became Concordia University — started from night courses offered at the Montreal YMCA.

The first school in the county was built there in 1884 and the county's first newspaper was published there in 1885.

The bell on the historical marker was used in the local school from 1885 to 1953.

Charles Wetherell became active in civic affairs and built the first church and school in 1885 on the corner of Michigan ( now 6th Street ) and Daytona Avenue.

The Broussard Cove School was the first school built on land donated by Joseph Clark in 1885 and moved to Maurice in July 1899 to land donated by Maurice Villien.

Earlier, in 1885, Rogers had built a huge and modern ( for the times ) elementary school and, in 1893, a memorial to his beloved daughter, Millicent, in the form of an Italian-Renaissance palazzo that serves as the town's free public library to this day.

By 1885, the student body had outgrown the original school and the village constructed a handsome new brick structure on the southern edge of the town.

Their two-room school was given to black students, who were using the 1885 Vernon schoolhouse built for the children of the servants to the whites in Kinloch.

In the year 1885 the school caught fire, and much refurbishing was done, with the addition of two new wings.

Mr. Stephen W. Outterbridge ( Born January 23, 1825-Died January 28, 1915 ) taught at the masonic hall from 1885 until 1896 and at his private school located beside his home on Outerbridge Street until 1900.

In 1892, Proctor had a barber shop, two blacksmiths, cigar stand, I. O. O. F hall, leather shop, news stand, a post office ( established in 1885 ), a two-room school, two stores, and a wagon shop.

By 1885 Burke had three sawmills, three cotton gins, a church, and a school.

Around 1885, a county school was named after the springs.

In 1885 Argyle built a two-story brick school, and population grew until it reached 238 in 1930.

The town incorporated in 1885, and nine years later Prof. William L. Mayo moved East Texas Normal College from Cooper to Commerce after the school burned.

* Henry E. Chambers, Louisiana historian and educator ; was a school principal in Beaumont from 1884 to 1885.

In 1885 Dayton reported a population of sixty, and in 1890 a post office, a school, and two churches served its 239 residents.

By 1885, the Liberty Bell was internationally recognized as a symbol of freedom, and as a treasured relic of Independence, and was growing still more famous as versions of Lippard's legend were reprinted in history and school books.

* 1885 Die Richterin ( The Judge )-Carolingian time, Grisons, introduces Charlemagne and his palace school

The first high school was founded in 1885 and was located where the current Memorial Hall now stands on 8th and Joplin Ave.