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Wood was born in Anamosa, Iowa. From a very young age he showed a keen interest in creative pursuits - drawing and painting being favorites. When he was just 10 years old, his father died, and his mother took the family to Cedar Rapids.
After graduating from high school, Wood studied at Minneapolis art school for a year, then returned to take up a position as a schoolteacher in a small one-class school. Three years later, in 1913, he joined the Art Institute......

The upper-class professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, and his friend Colonel Pickering are walking through Covent Garden when they hear the "curbstone English" of Eliza Doolittle, a cockney selling flowers on the street. Professor Higgins boasts that...

The sovereign-state of Singapore in Southeast Asia is comprised of the island of Singapore and several smaller adjacent islands with a total area of 720 sq km (278 sq miles).
The name of Singapore is derived from the Malay name Singapura (in Sanskrit "Lion City"). People from South East Asia consider a lion a mythical creature, so it"s a great name for a spectacular city....

Barcelona is Spain"s second largest city and the capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia, a fiercely independent area of Spain, which has a distinct language, culture, and history. Situated on Spain"s southern coast its climate is quintessentially...