María Luisa Bombal (bohm-BAHL) is one of the best-known Chilean fiction writers. She was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, on June 8, Her father died when she was nine years old, and at the age.

Revered the world over for his nonviolent philosophy of passive resistance, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was known to his many followers as Mahatma, or “the great-souled one.”.

In a small, white-washed house in Porbandar, on the coast of Kathiawad in western India, Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2, His parents were Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai. He was small and dark, and looked no different from the millions of other children born in India. Yet this was no ordinary child.

The Cultural Revolution was his g upon new evidence from Party documents, personal interviews, books, and journals, MacFarquhar details the growing rift between Mao and his colleagues as they attempted to cope with domestic privation and an increasingly hostile international environment -- until the Chairman finally decided to.

Nikolai K. Koltsov () is one of the key figures in Russian biology. He essentially founded Russian physico-chemical biology and established a major scientific school in this field. Kolzov was born into a wealthy family; his father was an accountant in a fur factory.

Biography Research Interests Social development, Processes of socialization, Development of conscience, Parent-child interaction, Child temperament and its role in social development, Developmental psychopathology.

Briefly explain what Gandhi experienced in South Africa, in terms of discrimination, and how he felt about it. Gandhi was appalled by the discrimination he experienced as an Indian immigrant in.

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Muriel Petioni, M. D., was dubbed the "matron of Harlem health." Petioni's response? "Yup They call me a legend." She was an energetic, mischievous pioneer and a self-proclaimed "meddler." In , at age 88, she was still spending almost every day at Harlem Hospital Center, advocating for unhappy patients, and even watching for maintenance.

Born in Mexico City in , of Bulgarian Sephardic descent, Myriam Moscona is a poet and journalist. Moscona is the author of nine books, including Vísperas (Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, ), El que nada (ERA, México, ) and De par en par (Bonobos, México, ), which explores poetry beyond its traditional construction. Her book De frente with de perfil (DDF, México,

The five-foot tall soldier's true identity was that of a simple young farm girl from central New York state named Sarah Rosetta Wakeman. Her letters, the only such correspondence known to.