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This month I blog about a June baby known
as Helen Keller. She was born on
27 June 1880, and died on 01 June 1968.
She was able to live an inspirationally enlightening life as a blind and
deaf woman.
When I was a little girl, I first heard
about her when I read her story as a comic book. I was astonished to find
out that Helen Keller was a true story.
I thought she was a fictional comic book character.
To have a glimpse to how interesting this differently-abled lady is, I have included a list of fun facts and her quotable
quotes. I found these from http://www.braillebug.org/hkfacts.asp
Fun Facts
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- Helen Keller loved hot dogs!
- Helen Keller wrote to eight Presidents
of the United States, and received letters from all of them—from Theodore
Roosevelt in 1903 to Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.
- Helen Adams Keller was born on June
27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in Northwest Alabama, USA.
- Helen was an excellent typist. She
could use a standard typewriter as well as a braille writer. In fact, she was a
better typist than her companions Anne Sullivan Macy and Polly Thomson.
- Helen loved animals, especially dogs.
She owned a variety of dogs throughout her life. The first Akita dog in the
United States was sent to Helen from Japan in 1938.
- Helen visited 39 countries around the
world during her lifetime.
- Helen Keller was the first deaf and
blind person to earn a college degree. She graduated from Radcliffe College,
with honors, in 1904.
- Helen was friends with many famous
people, including Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, the writer
Mark Twain, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Helen won an Oscar for the documentary
about her life, "Helen Keller in Her Story."
Quotable Quotes
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"We are never really happy
until we try to brighten the lives of others."
Helen Keller
"The best
and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but
just felt in the heart."
Helen Keller,
1891
"Life is
either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller,
1941
"The chief
handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people
towards them."
Helen Keller,
1925
"I believe
humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely
necessary."
Helen Keller,
1916
"What a
strange life I lead—a kind of Cinderella-life—half-glitter in crystal shoes,
half mice and cinders!"
Helen Keller,
1933
"If I, deaf,
blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of
your five senses!"
Helen Keller,
1928
"The most
beautiful world is always entered through imagination."
Helen Keller,
1908
"Faith is a
mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful
world."
Helen Keller
Thank you for filling the darkness of disability with your light of hope, Miss Helen Keller. Well done!
:-( -> :-| -> :-)
DL
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DL
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Winnie the Pooh
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