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Maria Montessori - Wikipedia  Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the .... As part of her work, she visited asylums in Rome where she observed .... The first Casa dei Bambini was a success, and a second was opened on April 7 ... In the fall of 1907, Montessori began to experiment with teaching materials...
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Biography of Maria Montessori - Casa dei Bambini  The first Montessori school was named CASA DEI BAMBINI (The House of Children) and was inaugurated on Jan 06,1907. ... She made this discovery shortly after her first school opened, when a group of well-intentioned women gave the...
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Maria Montessori Biography and History | American Montessori ...  She opened the first Montessori schoolthe Casa dei Bambini, or Children's Housein Rome on January 6, 1907. ... Beginning in her early childhood years, Maria grew up in Rome, a paradise of libraries, museums, and fine schools.
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1907 Maria Montessori opens the first Casa dei Bambini (Children's ...  Jun 13, 2002 ... 1907. Maria Montessori opens the first Casa dei Bambini (Children's house) ... She developed the principle that was also to inform her general...
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First Montessori School 1907 - Montessori Eagles International  ... Montessori opens the first Casa dei Bambini (Children's house) - Since 1907 ... She developed the principle that was also to inform her general educational...
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Edith Wharton - National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian  Edith Wharton's writing career was launched one hundred years ago, with the publication of her first book, The Decoration of Houses , written with her architect ... and Dutch colonists who had made fortunes in shipping, banking, and real estate. ... In Paris she also enjoyed the company of visiting Americans, such as Henry...
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The Road to Butterfly Starts Here! | Articles | News | OakPark.com  Apr 13, 2007 ... We're here to talk about putting on the opera Madama Butterfly right here in Oak Park. ... Did you know for example, that when Madama Butterfly opened in 1904 at La Scala Opera House in Milan ... In the middle of the first act, the hissing began. ... The audience greeted this entrance with hoots of "il piccolo...
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Montessori Biography | Healthy Beginnings Montessori  Aug 31, 2014 ... Inspired by the work of Itard and Seguin, she shifted her focus to the ... and opened her first children's home, Casa dei Bambini in Italy in 1907.
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History of Montessori / Dr. Maria Montessori - Rochester City School ...  She became a great champion for children, and began to change the world of ... (1922) Appointed a government inspector of schools in her native Italy, but...
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati - The British Library  Mary's unconventional life up to the summer of 1816 (when she was still only 18), ... The vital spark that gave the novel life however was Lord Byron's suggestion one ... volume History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, ... recalls the ghost story competition at Villa Diodati in the Preface to her 1831...
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Birth of a School - Home  For more about the Mammolina Children's Home click here to check our school FAQs ... opened her first kindergarten in 1907, she called it Casa dei Bambini.
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Jane Addams - History of Social Work, details  After her studies, she visited Toynbee Hall in London and was inspired to develop a very similar initiative in Chicago in 1889. Together with her friend Ellen Starr, she started Hull House, the first settlement house in Near West Side, ... Following the model of Toynbee Hall, Addams refused to call her neighbors clients or...
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The House of Edith - The New York Review of Books  Apr 26, 2007 ... She kept a commonplace book and a donne book all her life and extracted .... she shows how her early books The Decoration of Houses (written with Ogden ... and surprising of the novels that came after The Age of Innocence. .... Once she was launched with The House of Mirth in 1905, Wharton began to...
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"Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1967): The First Foreign Woman to ...  At the age of 56, David-Neel became the first foreign woman to enter Lhasa, the forbidden capital of Tibet. ... and in 1912, she became the first European woman to meet the 13th Dalai Lama. She travelled to Sikkim and became the guest of a young prince. There she perfected her Tibetan and visited the great monasteries.
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Adam Kirsch Reviews Giorgio Bassani's "The Garden of the Finzi ...  Jan 23, 2012 ... That is the question raised by the novel's prologue, which is set in 1957. ... built a magnificent estate there, complete with a magna domus or great house. This is the garden of the title, which is not an ordinary flower or kitchen ... For the first fifteen years or so of Mussolini's reign, Italian Fascism was not at...
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New York Architecture Images- Duke House  Gracie Mansion opened as the first Museum of the City of New York in 1924, and as ... Fiorello LaGuardia made it the official Mayor's residence six years later. ... Gracie Mansion is now decorated to reflect the rich and varied history of New York City. ... Shortly after Jacob Walton, a wealthy Flatbush merchant, purchased the...
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Famous Firsts in Women's History - Women's History - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Famous Firsts in Women's History, including ... There, she became the first woman licensed to practice architecture in the state and an ... for building the Hearst Castle, a massive compound for the publisher William Randolph ... Edith Wharton is the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, 1921.
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INDIA Mother Teresa and Nirmal Hriday: the miracle of joy in the ...  Aug 25, 2010 ... This was the first house opened by the Blessed of Calcutta. ... Kolkata (AsiaNews) - A place for the destitute and dying that ... This was the first hospice founded by Mother Teresa in 1952 to welcome, treat, clean the dying abandoned on the ... All this work is undertaken by several nuns and volunteers.
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Babingtons English Tea Room, Rome - Campo Marzio - Restaurant ...  Babingtons English Tea Room, Rome: See 880 unbiased reviews of ... All reviews scones cake eggs benedict spanish steps iced tea silver teapots earl .... Not hard to imagine who sat in these rooms over the past, and their offerings ... Open Hours ... Established in 1893 by two English ladies, Babington's has maintained, for...
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Beatrice Portinari - Wikipedia  Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari was a Florentine woman who has been commonly identified ... There she takes over as guide from the Latin poet Virgil because, as a pagan, Virgil ... Folco Portinari was a rich banker, born in Portico di Romagna. ... According to Dante, he first met Beatrice when his father took him to the...
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OUR LADY of LOURDES - Passionist Nuns  On March 25 she said to the little shepherdess who was only fourteen years of age: ... The actual spot was in a grotto on the bank of the Gave River near Lourdes. ... On her first apparition, February 11, 1858, the Blessed Virgin bade the girl make ... With childlike simplicity Bernadette once sprinkled holy water on the vision,...