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Anna Ioannovna (Russian: Анна Иоанновна) (7 February [O.S. 28 January] 1693 – 28 October [O.S. 17 October] 1740) reigned as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Prior to her accession to the Russian throne, she was the regent of the Duchy of Courland from 1711 until 1730.
Anna was born in Moscow to Ivan V and Praskovia Saltykova. She was primarily raised by her mother, a very stern woman.[2] By her orders she was to be raised for the nunnery; she grew up confined to a royal cult of domesticity.[3] This type of confinement was known to not allow for development of personality and explains the cruel tendencies of Anna, who followed in her mother’s footsteps. Her education consisted of French, German, dancing, religious text, and folklore.[4] As she grew older, she was obstinate and had a mean streak, earning her the nickname “Ivan the Terrible.” Her family moved to St. Petersburg under the order of Tsar Peter the Great and this had a significant effect on Anna; she enjoyed the grandeur society.[5] Peter the Great also arranged her marriage.[6] With her dowry of 200,000 roubles, Anna was wed in a grand affair.[7] A parody of their wedding was performed soon after by two dwarfs jumping out of pies immediately following the ceremony.[8] Just a few short weeks after the marriage and only twenty miles out of St. Petersburg on the road to Courland, Duke Frederick died. The cause is debated between a chill and effects of alcohol.[9] more....... |
John Deere (February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Born inRutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.John Deere was born on February 7, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont. After a brief educational period, he was apprenticed in 1821 at age 17 to Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a successful Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1825.[2][3] He married in 1827[4] to Demarias Lamb and fathered nine children.[5]
more....... Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (/ˈkræb/; February 7, 1908[note 1] – April 23, 1983) was an American competitive swimmer and actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400m freestyle swimming before subsequently breaking into acting. He starred in a number of popular films in the 1930s and 1940s.[1] He also played the title role in the serialsFlash Gordon and Buck Rogers.He was born as Clarence Linden Crabbe II to Edward Clinton Simmons Crabbe, a real estate broker, and his wife, Lucy Agnes McNamara, in Oakland, California. He had one brother, Edward Clinton Simmons Crabbe II (1909–1972), known as "Buddy".Olympic medal recordCompetitor for the United StatesMen’s swimmingGold1932 Los Angeles400 m freestyleBronze1928 Amsterdam1500 m freestyleHawaii and Olympics[edit]Raised in Hawaii, Crabbe graduated from the Punahou School in Honolulu. He competed in two Olympic Games as a swimmer. In 1928 he won the bronze medal for the 1,500 meters freestyle, and in 1932 he won the gold medal for the 400 meters freestyle when he beat Jean Taris of France by a tenth of a second.[2][3] He attended the University of Southern California, where he was the school's first All-American swimmer (1931) and a 1931 NCAA freestyle titlist. He also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity before graduating from USC in 1931. In 1933 he married Adah Virginia Held, (December 16, 1912 – August 26, 2004) and gave himself one year to make it as an actor. If he didn't, he would start law school at USC. Crabbe and his wife were the parents of two daughters, Sande and Susan, and a son, Cullen. Sande died of an apparent anorexia in 1957, after a long fast when she was 20; at the time of her death, she weighed only 60 pounds.[4] more....... |
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.[1] During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.[2][3]
Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown intodebtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. more....... |
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