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Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 at Paulsdale, her family farm in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Alice was a Quaker , and she attended Quaker school and church in nearby Moorestown. Alice's parents, teachers, and friends shared the belief that women and men are equal and should have the same opportunities and rights. Alice was taught that each person has a duty to make the world a better place.

After she finished college, Alice traveled to England and there she started working for women's rights in the British suffrage movement. She planned parades to attract attention to the suffrage cause . Many times she and other suffragists were arrested by the police and sent to jail.

Alice returned to America in 1910 to work for a federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would give women suffrage. Alice liked some of the ideas that she had learned in England and decided to try them in America. One tactic was organizing a large parade for women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. It was a beautiful sight! Thousands of women and men marched in the parade, carrying purple, white, and gold banners and signs. Thousands more who stood and watched the parade learned about the suffrage cause.

Alice had an unusual ability to encourage people to work very hard or to try something they had never done before for the sake of the cause. She worked so hard herself that the people who worked for her rarely complained. Alice was a very organized person who understood what was needed to get a job done and how many people would be needed to finish it.

Alice and her loyal followers formed a new political party , the National Woman's Party, with one plank - votes for women! The Woman's Party had its headquarters across the street from the White House where they hung purple, gold, and white banners out the windows so the President and any passers-by could see them.

In 1917 the National Woman's Party tried a new tactic to get attention to suffrage. They picketed in front of the White House, holding colored banners or picket signs with messages on them. They were called the "silent sentinels" because they stood like guards at the White House gates and because Alice told them to stay silent and to not argue with anyone who might criticize what they were doing. Everyone who came to visit the President at the White House saw the pickets and their messages. Many people criticized the women, because they didn't believe women should vote, but many others supported the National Woman's Party and the "silent sentinels." After six months, police began arresting the women for blocking traffic. Almost 200 women, including Alice Paul, spent the summer and fall of 1917 in jail.

The National Woman's Party's tactics convinced the President and many members of the Congress that they should support women's suffrage. The Congress passed the amendment to the Constitution and it was up to the states to ratify it. It took more than a year for 36 states to ratify the amendment , but finally, in August 1920, American women won the right to vote.

Alice Paul felt that the vote was the first step to full equality for women. She spent the rest of her life, until her death in 1977, working for a new Constitutional amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment , which would make sure that every person has the same opportunities and rights.

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Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 at Paulsdale, her family farm in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Alice was a Quaker, and she attended Quaker school and church in nearby Moorestown. Alice's parents, teachers, and friends shared the belief that women and men are equal and should have the same opportunities and rights.

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A biography for children. - by John Gruen

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John Gruen's Bio on Haring.com Pop Shop

Keith was born on May 4, 1958. He grew up in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children. He started to draw right away.

"My father made cartoons. Since I was little, I had been doing cartoons, creating characters and stories."

As Keith grew up, he continued to draw and make art. He saw modern art when he visited museums in Washington, DC.

After high school, he went to art school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a year. He started making big drawings, and when he was 19, he had his first public show.

In 1978, Keith moved to New York City to go to a different art school. He loved being in the big city. There were big museums with all kinds of art. There were many young artists working in his neighborhood. And there was a lot of energy on the street.

In New York he found his style.

"I bought a roll of oak-tag paper and cut it up and put it all over the floor and worked on this whole group of drawings. The first few were abstracts, but then these images started coming. They were humans and animals in different combinations. Then flying saucers were zapping the humans. I remember trying to figure out where this stuff came from, but I have no idea."

Then Keith started seeing empty black pieces of paper on the subways. He knew that this was the perfect place for him to draw. He started making his subway drawings every day.

"When I drew, I drew in the daytime which meant there were always people watching, from little kids to old ladies to art historians."

Keith started to become famous. All the people riding the subway saw his work, and it was also on TV and in the newspaper.
Keith also started showing his work in art galleries, where many people started to buy them.

"I wanted to sell my paintings because it would enable me to quit my job, whether as a cook or delivering house plants or whatever else I was doing-and paint full time."

In his first show in New York, he painted all the walls with his art, and then put up his paintings and his sculptures. Hundreds of people came to the opening party, and it was a big success.
Now Keith worked harder than ever, and he traveled around the world to show his work. He had shows in Europe, Japan, and all across the United States. He even painted the entire side of a church in Italy!

His paintings and sculptures became very expensive. He wanted everyone to be able to buy his work, so he opened a new store called the Pop Shop to sell his art on posters, buttons, T-shirts, and games.

He also worked with children in schools to paint large murals with them, and he made paintings and sculptures for schools and hospitals in many places.
In 1988, Keith got very sick with a disease called AIDS. At that time, doctors could not help people with AIDS. Keith knew he was going to die, but he was very brave and kept working as hard as he could until the end. He also made posters to tell people about the sickness and gave money for doctors to search for a cure.

After Keith died, his work still lived. You can find it in museums, in books, on posters, on TV - and now even on the World Wide Web [www.haring.com & www.haringkids.com].
Keith wanted everyone to make art, especially children.

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A biography for children. - by John Gruen Also see: A longer bio on haringkids.com Download print-friendly file of bio. (pdf) John Gruen's Bio on Haring.com Pop Shop Keith was born on May 4, 1958. He grew up in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children. He started to draw right away.

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If we ask you to look up the encyclopedia and find out who invented the radio or X-rays, neon lights that we use so often in the parties or the microwave that we use every day in the kitchen, you will never find anything about Nikola Tesla there. But the fact is otherwise! It was Nikola Tesla who did the main homework for the development of all the aforementioned things and the technology behind them. Yes, whether you believe it or not, the truth is that even though Tesla lived about a hundred and sixty years ago, he helped in developing technology that is used by all of us every single day. Sadly, he was never given the credit he truly deserved due to some unfortunate circumstances.

Early childhood

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His mother was an inventor and his father was a priest. His parents wanted him to become a priest like his father, but he had a passion for studying Science. He studied Science at the University of Prague and then started working for the Central Telephone Exchange in Budapest.

Tesla and Edison

At the age of 28, Tesla decided to go to America in pursuit of his desire to create new inventions. Upon moving to the United States, Tesla started working with the famous American inventor, Thomas Edison. While working together, a disagreement occurred between Tesla and Edison over Edison's direct current and Tesla's alternating current. This was also known as the "war of the currents." Edison lamps were supplied with direct current which made them weak and inefficient. The direct current could not travel for long distances. On the other hand, Tesla's alternating current was able to travel long distances on distribution lines, first in one direction, and then in another in multiple waves.

Tesla Electric Light Company

The disagreements created a lot of bitterness between the two scientists and Tesla eventually left Edison to create his own company called the Tesla Electric Light Company. His work caught the attention of another American inventor, George Westinghouse. They joined hands and started working together to generate electricity for the nation. Edison and Tesla were now in direct competition for providing America with energy and power. In 1893, Tesla's AC electrical system was selected over Edison's at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was a big accomplishment for Tesla. But, as luck would have it, Westinghouse ran into financial trouble and Tesla had to walk out of the partnership by selling his patent.

Wireless Broadcasting System

A year later, in 1896, Tesla created the world's first hydroelectric power plant, which brought power to the city of Buffalo, New York. This invention brought Tesla considerable fame and recognition for a short while. During 1899 to 1900, Tesla continued to experiment with electricity and radio frequency magnetic waves in his laboratory based in Colorado. In 1900, supported by financier J.P. Morgan, Tesla started construction of a "Wireless Broadcasting System" tower on Long Island, New York. The aim of constructing this tower was to connect telephone and telegraph services, as well as broadcast images, reports, and weather information to every corner of the world. But due to certain reasons, J.P. Morgan had to cut funding and the tower had to be sold off.

Research gets stolen!

Tesla never had the gods of destiny working in his favor and there was more to come. During this period of turmoil, Tesla's research work was stolen and used as their own by his contemporary scientists. Marconi is alleged to have passed off Tesla's work on long-distance radio transmission as his own. Tesla decided to sue Marconi but it was too late. Though Tesla's patents were prior to Marconi, the national press was out rightly supporting Marconi and the judge did not know a thing about modern technology. Naturally, Tesla lost his case. Much Later, in 1943, the US Supreme court conducted a detailed investigation, reversed the old decision given by the court and granted recognition to Tesla, nullifying Marconi patents.

Death

You would be surprised to know that Tesla had over 800 different patents to his name, and despite that he was penniless. Ridicule from his own colleagues, lack of recognition by the public, drove him into a life of depression and self-imposed exile. He started jotting down his theories and research activities in his diaries and notebooks instead of getting them published anywhere. It is absolutely ironical that the man who invented the modern world died a pauper in a lonely hotel room on January 7, 1943 at the age of 86. Half a century after his death, scientists are still trying to comprehend and study his various theories. Many of them are just now being proven. It is indeed sad that we never managed to recognize and appreciate a true genius like Tesla in his lifetime. But, now that you know all about him, you can make an endeavor to give Nikola Tesla his due credit, no matter belated it is.

Famous Quotes

"I dont care that they stole my idea . . I care that they dont have any of their own."

"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists."

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes."

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter-for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way."

"All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."

11 Interesting fun facts about Nikola Tesla

1. Tesla suffered from insomnia and obsessive compulsive behavior (OCD).

2. Tesla was a genius in the true sense of the word; he could speak 8 languages and had the ability to memorize a large amount of information. You could ask him to recite any portion from anywhere from his book and he would have done it in a jiffy!

3. He was extremely fond of pigeons.

4. The International Unit of Magnetic Flux Density is called "Tesla" after him.

5. Tesla discovered X-ray radiation years before Roentgen was credited with its discovery.

6. Tesla had proposed to build a radio controlled boat to the U.S. military.

7. Though Tesla did not invent the light itself, he did find out the way to harness and distribute light over long distances.

8. He also predicted the internet by once saying: "The household's daily newspaper will one day be printed 'wirelessly' in the home during the night".

9. He claimed to have designed a death ray that could electrocute the enemy army from a distance of over 200 miles.

10. His work with electromagnetic waves resulted in the invention of the radio, radar and the MRI, a type of X-Ray that has enabled us to look inside the human body

11. During World War I, different countries were desperately looking for ways and means to detect enemy submarines under water. Tesla proposed the use of energy waves - the present day radar system technology - to detect the subs. However, the idea was rejected by all the scientists and military establishments as absurd and far-fetched. Sad, isn't it? So, what happened thereafter? Well, the world then waited many more years for radars to be re-invented.

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Biographies for Kids

A biography is a true story written about someone's life. There are many biographies for kids about famous people that students can read. These are written on a variety of reading levels to meet the needs of all types of readers. Famous people that children enjoy reading about can be people from long ago, such as George Washington or Betsy Ross, or from more recent times, such as Neil Armstrong or Ronald Reagan. Reading and learning about biographies of famous people is essential in school. Children enjoy reading about renowned people's lives, and really learn a lot of life lessons by reading them. Some children can even make life connections to the people they read about, and certainly relate to them. We have short biographies for kids to let children explore the joys of this genre. This type of genre is read during class as a read-aloud activity by the teacher, or in small reading groups facilitated by an instructor.

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Biographies for kids are non-fiction books written on the kids' levels, so they can get a glimpse into a person's life. These stories are used by teachers to support their instruction when teaching about the concept of biographies (and autobiographies), or when they are teaching about a particular person's life accomplishments. Life stories of famous people give much insight into the lives and history of a particular time, and they are not only used to teach reading, but history as well! Students take pleasure in reading biographies for kids, because they like reading other people's stories. Reading about their life's failures and successes at the same time brings a sense of reality to the lives of these people. These genre types can be found on many different people, and students will have a wide variety of biographies, and even autobiographies for kids to read.

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E-books for kids is a relatively new concept in many schools, and they have proven to be quite popular with teachers and students alike. E-books are a great way to motivate children to read. They are interactive, which allows the reader to click on words or images and get something in return, perhaps an oral reading, or pronunciation, or a picture that will move around and talk. Being interactive, this reading modality is available in many genres, such as non-fiction books, fiction books, fantasies, mysteries, and many more. These unique forms of reading material can be conveniently downloaded, and many of them can be found for free. Teachers use e-books for kids in their classroom to help emphasize reading skills, as well as content skills in specific subjects.

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