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Bet ya didn’t know this one. John Stafford was born in Gloucester, Great Britain back in 1750. He attended the Gloucester Cathedral School where he became a boy-singer. He went on to further his career at the Chapel Royal, London. By the 1770’s, he had gained a reputation as a composer and an org...
08/31/2018
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William Symington was born in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland back in 1764. His parents wanted him to join the ministry, but he had other ideas. His passion was to be an engineer. So, in 1785, while working at a local mining company he so impressed his boss that he was sent to the Universi...
08/30/2018
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Jan Szczepanik was born in Rudniki, Austrian Partition back in 1872. I cannot find much information on him until years later. He graduated from a teacher’s college afterwards moving to Vienna. While I could not find any information if he ever taught school what he did is amazing. I hope you’ll ap...
08/29/2018
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Robert Switzer was born in Fromberg, Montana back in 1914 to Emmet and Maud. The family moved to Berkeley, California where he attended the public school. In 1932, he received a scholarship from the Scaife Scholarship foundation. He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley study...
08/28/2018
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Louisa Ann Gardner was born in Norfolk, Virginia back in 1801. Her father was a sea captain who was lost at sea when she was 7 years old. Her mother moved to Charleston, South Carolina when her mother died (date unknown). Louisa was sent to Baltimore, Maryland where she was raised by her uncle Ep...
08/27/2018
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Edward Hutchinson was born in County Dublin, Ireland back in 1891 to Edward Sr. and Ellen. In 1908, he studied Mathematics at Trinity College in Dublin. In his third year, he came into a large in heritance and dropped out of college. In 1928, with the encouragement from Albert Einstein he started...
08/26/2018
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Norio Suzuki was born in Chiba, Japan back in 1949. He studied economics at Hosei University, however he dropped out and decided to explore the world. His adventures included Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He had heard about a Japanese soldier on the island in the Philippines who was considere...
08/25/2018
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Kyota Sugimoto was born in Okayama, Japan back in 1882. He entered the Training Institute for Communication Technology in Osaka, Japan in 1900. After graduation, he started working in the letterpress technology field, who exactly he worked for is lost to history however, that is not relevant to t...
08/24/2018
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Stuart Fergusson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland back in 1940 to Charles and Millie. The family moved to Liverpool, England where he attended Park View Primary School. He attended Liverpool College of Art. He worked as a bin man on the Liverpool Corporation’s waste collection trucks.It was while ...
08/23/2018
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Ruth Cheney was born in Brookline, Massachusetts back in 1895. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1918. In 1917, she married Thomas, the couple had four children living in Morristown, New Jersey. When she was 47 she earned her commercial pilot’s license. Later that same year she joined the U...
08/22/2018
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