Sophie Germain was born in Paris in 1776, the middle daughter of a rich silk-merchant. She learned mathematics by herself, studying with great passion and indomitable will in opposition to her parents. She benefited from correspondence with great scholars such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss, ...
This etext was produced by David Widger LETTERS TO HIS SON 1759-65 By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN LETTER CCXXXVII LONDON, New-year's Day, 1759 MY DEAR FRIEND: 'Molti e felici', and I have done u
I write to tell you about two of the greatest graces of my life. The first grace is a blessing that you all are familiar with—that of Our Lady of All Grace, Our Lady of Medjugorje. I am but one of the countless millions that Our Lady ...
If you can't work it out for yourself how can you work it out for your daughter.She moves to her desk to look at a sheet on which she has been writing.`My dear daughter, there comes a time in a young woman's life --'Shit! That's a dreadful start.Sits at her desk to start...
As a dentist with a nine month-old daughter, this topic is definitely of my concern. I would also like to share with you one of the myths that my baby sitter told me when my daughter's lower incisors were erupting at the age of eight months. She said that my daughter's stool would...
Never, I am afraid, for new business keeps piling up on top of the old, and that without even the old being got rid of. Every day the entangling chain of my engagements seems to lengthen by acquiring additional links. Farewell.
of Greenbelt, I do not limit my mes- rnge only to those Jiving in the original planned community (G- HI), but to those living from Springhill Lake to Glen Oaks antl from Greenbriar to Boxwood, miany of whom haven't ever seen the North End Schoo'l, let alone want to pay for it...
I just came to your article on thegrandparent naming issue. My son, Rob, has always called my father Grandbob, but none of the other cousins or family picked that up. Rob married and soon had a daughter Celena. As soon as she started talking she called me Ya Ya. Many years later ...
1 Edgeworths Text besteht aus drei Teilen, dem bereits im Titel genannten Essay, dem "Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend upon the Birth of a Daughter, with the Answer" und den "Letters of Julia and Caroline". Das Thema, das die drei Texte miteinander verbindet, wird vom gentleman...
I had such ambitious goals for learning history and recording it on this blog, but Life taught me to keep it simple. I began readingEverything You Need to Ace American History In One Big Fat Notebookout loud to my youngest son last year, and we continued it this past year. We stopped...