Search results for "Tutor" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • world as the king who appointed Anna Leonowens as tutor and governess for his children. Thailand Gateway [http://www.thailandgateway.com/about_thailand/rama3 ...
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  • accorded this title during his lifetime. He was the tutor and a close ally of the 5th Dalai Lama, "The Great Fifth," as he is known, pronounced ...
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  • King of Samos. He is said to have acted as tutor to Polycrates; that he enjoyed the king's confidence we learn on the authority of Herodotus ...
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  • Japanese shogunate, and in 1870 became a private tutor to the emperor. He was appointed to many government posts in education and foreign affairs, including ...
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  • allowed to attend lessons with her brother's tutor. She published her first poem, anonymously, at the age of fourteen. In 1826, she published anonymously ...
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  • negative reports from Roderick's abusive tutor. Roderick ends up finding his maternal uncle, Tom Bowling, a sailor who attempts to support Roderick ...
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  • He became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford from 1864 to 1866, but soon left for the Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow (1866 ...
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  • that must be completed and submitted to the tutor within specified time frames. Courses conclude with a final examination, which may be taken ...
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  • brought Abelard to arrange to become her tutor. From Heloise's letters ... He laid a plan to become Heloise's tutor and seduce her. He arranged ...
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  • to afford his education, so he became a tutor to other children in his ... Confucians. In 1844, Hong lost his job as tutor after he destroyed the tablets ...
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  • two years in Richmond, Virginia, working as a tutor for a wealthy family. His health suffered from this time onward in his life, and he struggled ...
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  • College, Oxford. In 1890, he became assistant tutor at Corpus Christi, and in 1894 was elected fellow of the college. While there, he published his first ...
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  • with her mother, younger sister Josephine, and a tutor. Upon her return to Chicago at the age of 19, Alicia was debuted at a grandiose Chicago ...
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  • scholars. Philometer VI had a Jewish tutor, the famous Aristobulus. During the reign of Ptolemy V, new critical editions of Homer, Hesiod and ...
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  • trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what ...
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  • brother al-Mu'tasim, who employed al-Kindī to tutor his son Ahmad. Al-Mu'tasim died in 842 and was succeeded by al-Wathiq who, in turn, was ...
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  • Countess of Warwick to whose son he had been tutor, and his political career continued to flourish. However, his political newspaper, The Freeholder, ...
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  • He left the university in 1748, becoming a private tutor in the family of a relative at Langensalza. Here unrequited love for a cousin (the "Fanny ...
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  • father was James Cassini, who first assigned a tutor to assist in Cassini's education, and later sent the young man to study theology and law under ...
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  • from Catherine II to go to Russia as a tutor for her son. In his later life, d'Alembert turned his efforts to literature and philosophy. ...
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