After a year at Sanderson Academy, Mary decided that her handwriting was not good enough to be read clearly.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

In eighteen twenty-one, Mary Lyon went to another private school where she was taught by Reverend Joseph Emerson.

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By the nineteen sixties, Les Paul and Mary Ford's series of hits came to an end and they later ended their marriage.

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Mary Cassatt had found a way to return to her beloved Europe and be paid to work.

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Mary Dawson, in her Internet Writing Journal, writes that this season influenced songwriters to write some of the greatest songs of all time.

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Mary Cassatt said this about Edgar Degas' invitation to join the Impressionists: "I accepted with joy.

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Her influence lasted as the many students from Mary Lyon's schools went out to teach others.

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Mary Lyon got a committee of advisers to help her in planning and building the school.

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At the age of four, Mary began walking to the nearest school several kilometers away.

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But Duccio chose to show the very human and emotional interaction between Mary and Jesus.

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Mary said it was while teaching at Buckland that she first thought of founding a private school open to daughters of farmers and skilled workers.

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A friend who went to school with Mary wrote of her "gaining knowledge by handfuls."

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So what might those be? Political scientist John McGlennon at the College of William and Mary in Virginia says it is too soon to know.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Mary was left to care for her older brother who worked on the family farm.

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I'm Steve Ember. Today,Mary Tillotson and I welcome you to a group of islands that extends into the Atlantic Ocean from the southern state of Florida.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Mary Cassatt won many top awards, but she refused to accept most of them.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

When Mary was seven years old, her family moved to Europe for several years.

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When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons of several animals that no longer existed on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

This is Mary Tillotson. And this is Steve Ember. to tiny Howland Island Join us again next week for another EXPLORATIONS program on the VOICE OF AMERICA.

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When Mary was thirteen, her mother remarried and moved to another town.

VOA: special.2010.06.27