Young Girl Reading

Equatorial Jungle, Henri Rousseau, 1909 Portrait of an Elderly Lady, Mary Cassatt, 1887 Woman with Red Hair, Amedeo Modigliani, 1917 A Young Girl Reading, Jean Honore Fragonard, 1776... 

Figure 1.2 (a) A microscopic view of a computer chip, (b) A Renaissance painting. Young Girl Reading, by Vittore Carpaccio (1472-1526). (c) A long strand of DNA that has spilled out of the damaged cell wall of a bacterium. 

Although J.-B. Courtois failed in business, he was an honest man, and both father and son struggled hard to pay their creditors. In 1808 Bernard Courtois married Madeleine Eulalie Morand, a young girl of humble parentage who could barely read and write. 

Minoru Omuta, an editor of Chukoku Shimbun in Hiroshima, was shocked one day years ago to read of the suicide of a young woman. Her mother had been pregnant with her when exposed to the bomb. The girl had become despondent after reading reports that those exposed to the bomb radiation while in the womb were likely to have abnormalities. She took her own life. 

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