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His parents went to school and were well known. His father, Francisco Rizal Mercado, worked hard as a farmer in Biñan, Laguna. Rizal looked up to him. His mother, Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos, was born in Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila. She read a lot and knew about art and many other things. Rizal said she was loving and very smart.

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George Müller () was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Ply.

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Noel Streatfeild Noel Streatfeild, b, was a daughter of the Bishop of Lewes and a great-granddaughter of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. After a rebellious childhood, she worked in a wartime munitions factory before going to RADA and becoming an actress for ten years. Her first six novels were for adults, but s.

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Då fru Bovary kom till hotellet blev hon förvånad över att ej se till diligensen. Hivert, som hade väntat på henne nära en timme, hade slutligen begivit sig av. Det var ingenting som tvingade henne att resa, men hon hade lovat att hon skulle vara hemma samma kväll.

Ernest Hemingway was work-ing as a reporter in Canada at the time. 2. Ernest Hemingway loved nicknames. After his family settled in Paris in , he called his son Mat, Goddy, and then settled on Bumby. (When Holly asked him why his father called him Bumby, he said it had a prenatal origin: "I think I kicked around a lot-from Bumpy to Bumby.") 3.

Chapters from My Autobiography are 25 pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark Twain in the North American Review between September and December Rather than following the standard form of an autobiography, they comprise a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations.

Menuhin’s first visit with Iyengar was memorable. Around , a common friend arranged for their meeting during Menuhin’s first visit to Mumbai. At the time, Menuhin was very busy and somewhat fatigued. It was supposed to be a quick five-minute session, but five minutes turned into an hour and Menuhin was completely uplifted.

overcome the obstacles of caste through mass awakening and consciousness raising. Om Prakash Valmiki, a noted Hindi Dalit writer, raises several such questions related to his caste in his award winning autobiography Joothan. Before venturing to make an in-depth study of Valmiki’s Joothan as a Dalit text.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes takes The Times and The Sunday Times on a reminiscent journey of his extraordinary life that has given him the moniker of the world's.

The value of Yogananda’s Autobiography is greatly enhanced by the fact that it is one of the few books in English about the wise men of India which has been written, not by a journalist or foreigner, but by one of their own race and training—in short, a book about yogis by a yogi. As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and.

In , Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter, Riley, to help complete her long-awaited memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie passed away. Riley, determined to fulfill her mother's wish, listened to tapes Lisa Marie had recorded, recounting vivid and emotional memories: joyful moments at Graceland, the love and loss of her father, tumultuous school years, her relationships with Danny Keough and.

Whether you’re looking to tickle the funny bone of your readers or simply want to give them a glimpse into your unique personality, these autobiography title ideas are sure to do the trick. Here are some funny autobiography title ideas to get your creative juices flowing: A Life Less Ordinary: Tales of a Quirky Misfit.

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Irish poet Louis MacNeice () is often associated with the Thirties Poets, along with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender. Yet unlike Auden, who left us ‘Stop All the Clocks’, MacNeice can be more difficult to pin down to one or two ‘best poems’ or ‘best-known poems’. ‘Prayer.

1. Gustavus Vassa, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the n by Himself (London, ). The edition used here is Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (New York: Penguin Books, Vincent Carretta, ed., Citation ), and referred to as Vassa, The Interesting Narrative, when citing the text itself, and otherwise to.

Life narrative: definitions and distinctions -- Autobiographical subjects -- Autobiographical acts -- Life narrative in historical perspective -- In the wake of the memoir boom -- The visual-verbal-virtual contexts of life narrative -- A history of autobiography criticism, part I: theorizing autobiography -- A history of autobiography.

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This is a rather curious memoir. It started life in about when Weschler proposed writing a bio of Oliver Sacks. The neurologist agreed (at the time, despite being some 10 years after Awakenings he was still relatively unknown) and Weschler began following him around, taking copious notes, interviewing some of his closest friends and in the process becoming a close friend himself.

Born on January 12, in Marshall, Texas, Farmer grew up in a highly segregated and racist society. His father, James L. Farmer, Sr., was a minister and professor of theology at the historically Black institution, Wiley College. His mother, Pearl Houston, was a former educator who graduated from Bethune-Cookman Institute in Florida. [2].

Australia's worst solo serial killer, Ivan Milat (aka The Backpack Murderer), is now serving life for the murders of seven hitchhiking backpackers between and Did he murder for entertainment?.