... Stratford Grammar School, and did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge. The next record we have of him is his marriage to Anne Hathaway in 1582. The next year she bore a daughter for him, Susanna, followed by the twins Judith and Hamnet two years later. Seven years later Shakespeare was recognized as an actor, poet, and playwright, when a rival playwright, Robert ... as April 23, the generally accepted date of his birth. Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, died in 1596 at the age of 11. The playwright's daughter Susanna had one child, Elizabeth, who bore no children. Judith gave birth to three boy...

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... and finger and were believed to ward off illness and plague. It was understood that an image of an animal on a male meant that he bore the spirit of that animal. I was also believed that if one bore a mark that held a higher status than that he was born, he would be the bearer of "the mark of Borneo", and he would be ... struggled to capitalize on their work. Artists were very tight knit and scarcely taught anyone out side their clique for fear they would become competition. Most of the people who bore tattoos were sailors and military personnel. Than came World War II, this brought alo...

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... differently with the elite of Europe showing tattoos. The popularity of the tattoo remained with the military during World War II. Sailors and soldiers bore their allegiances to their country and their women with body art. They bore names of their units, ships and divisions proudly. Tattoo shops were located on docks and near military bases and tattooing flourished. The popularity of ... ...

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... from living out his years behind bars and dying in a prison cell was my Mother. My sister followed my father's emotional pattern, and set off on the wrong road. She bore a child to a young man named Brian Mattigan, Who still has a place in my heart, she was 18. Her son/ my nephew Thomas Michel mattigan is one of those closest to ... ...

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... comment that triggered the media witch hunts. The sun newspaper reported that Venables's father had rented a particular film, Childs Play 3 prior to the murder and the content of this film bore an uncanny resemblance to the Bulger murder. Investigation of this before the trial had found no connection between a video and the murder. The media failed to acknowledge this fact. Pressure ... ...

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... a Shakespearean gallery of characters and also campaigned against many of the social evils of this time. In 1842 he toured America and took it by storm. His six-month trip bore literary fruit: the controversial and unflattering American Notes (1842) and the slyly devastating American episode in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44). He published A Christmas Carol in December 1843, the first of ... ...

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... was constantly asking Parliament for money to fund his "little changes". In 1662, he married the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, to ensure good relations between England and Portugal. They bore no legitimate children. Charles II was very intelligent and a patron of scientific research. He even built an observatory in Greenwich Park. The period of Charles II's kingship was known as ... ...

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