Some of the earliest beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural material (e.g. a heap of palm leaves, animal skins, or dried bracken). An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and pests.
Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was born in Glacow on 27th May 1850 but raised outside Quebec City, Canada, after his family moved there in 1854.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, was born on 25th October 1881 in Málaga, Spain. Though baptised a Catholic, Picasso would later on become an atheist. His father was a painter who specialised in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game.
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One of the properties of the Shuttlewood-Clarke Foundation is hidden away behind a small wood, looking out over the countryside of Charnwood Forest.
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was 19 months old, she contracted an illness described by doctors as “an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain”, possibly scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind.
Adelaide was born in France on December 19th, 1855. Her mother was an Englishwoman named Clara Chamberlain. Clara was married to a French mathematics teacher named Adolphe Collet de la Tremoille, but he was apparently not Adelaide’s biological father.
Margaret Joan Trudeau (née Sinclair) was born September 10th, 1948 in Vancouver. The daughter of Scottish-born James ‘Jimmy’ Sinclair, a former Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
There comes a time in a man’s life when the challenge of a 3,000 foot peak in the mountains becomes an ordeal, often an unobtainable goal; when small inconvenient streams and rocks become giant obstacles; when a slope which to the young was almost level becomes almost vertical.
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.