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Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
Sarah Biffin was born on 25 October 1784 in East Quantoxhead, Somerset [1] to her father Henry Biffin, a shoemaker, and his wife Sarah.She was born with no arms and undeveloped legs – a result of the congenital condition phocomelia, [2] and would grow to a height of 37 inches.
Following the bus boycott, Hackett remained a community leader and a mentor to many in Bristol and continued to work with young people in the community. [11] Also in 1962, Roy Hackett along with Owen Henry and Clifford Drummond established the Commonwealth Coordinated Committee (CCC), with the aims of improving quality of life for people in St ...
Magic Grandad is an educational programme which originally aired on the BBC Two Schools section Watch during 1995. [clarification needed] The show saw Magic Grandad, played by Geoffrey Bayldon, take his young grandchildren, played by Kristy Bruce and James Moreno, back in time to see historical events and people such as the Great Fire of London or Florence Nightingale.
This is a list of notable autodidacts.The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. Some notables listed did receive formal educations, including some college, although not in the field(s) for which they became prominent.
The story behind Robert Raikes' Sunday school. Robert was a pioneer of the Sunday school movement, although he did not start the first Sunday School.Some already existed such as that founded by Hannah Ball in High Wycombe, or the one founded in 1751 in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham which is the first documented known case.
Illustration of Mary Jones (1897) [1] The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society.Mary Jones (16 December 1784 – 28 December 1864) was a Welsh girl who, at the age of fifteen, walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one. [2]
A bust is also recorded as being placed on the table before Krylov's seat at the anniversary banquet held in his honour in 1838. [5] The most notable statue of him was placed in the Summer Garden (1854–55) ten years after his death.