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95 words, approx. 0 pages 1745-1822 French abbot and inventor who is credited with the conception (1771) of an embossed letter system to educate persons with blindness. In 1783-84 Abbot Haüy founded the Institute for the Blind and began training his blind students to read...
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 Valentin Haüy (13 November 1745 - 19 March 1822) was the founder of the first school for the blind. Haüy was born into a family of weavers. His father, a full-time loomer, also held the job of ringing the Angelus bells in a local Premonstrant Abbey....



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Valentine
07/01/2002: 309 words, approx. 1 pages Lucius Shepard. Valentine. Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. 181 pp. $18.00. This valentine is a "complicated construction that has at its paper heart new memories, a painful history." It is sent by the narrator (a journalist) to "you," a woman whom he meets...
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Valentine.
10/28/2002: 511 words, approx. 2 pages (NETHERLANDS-ARGENTINA) A Cinemien (in Netherlands)/Miramax (in U.S.) release of a First Floor Features (Amsterdam)/RWA (Buenos Aires) production. (International sales: KMI, Los Angeles.) Produced by Laurens Geels, Thierry Forte. Directed, written by Alejandro Agresti. Camera (color), Jose Luis Cajaraville; editor; Alejandro Brodersohn; music,...


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