[gcompris/gcomprisbraille] activity.desktop



commit 35b3029021f71b3e0c3af56198539f21fbd4c627
Author: Srishti Sethi <srishakatux gmail com>
Date:   Sun Jun 26 22:43:52 2011 +0530

    activity.desktop

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+[1]
+year = 1809
+story = Born January 4th at Coupvary near Paris in France.
+image = louis_braille/louis.jpg
+
+[2]
+year = 1812
+story = Louis Braille injured his left eye with a stitching awl \n from  his fathers workshop.
+image = louis_braille/workshop.jpg
+
+[3]
+year = 1812
+story = At the age of three Louis became blind due to \n sympathetic ophthalmia.
+image = louis_braille/fireplace.jpg
+
+[4]
+year = 1819
+story = At the age of 10 he was sent to Paris to study \n at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth.
+image = louis_braille/rnib.jpg
+
+[5]
+year = 1820
+story = He began to impress his classmates and began to \n play piano and the organ.
+image = louis_braille/piano.jpg
+
+[6]
+year = 1821
+story = Charles Barbier, a french soldier visited his school and shared \n his invention of night writing ,a code of 12 raised dots \n that let soldiers share top secret information on battlefield.
+image = louis_braille/night_printing.jpg
+  
+[7]
+year = 1824
+story = Louis trimmed Barbier's 12 dots into 6 and \n invented Braille.
+image = louis_braille/braile.jpg
+
+[8]
+year = 1828
+story = He became a professor after graduating and secretly \n taught his method.
+image = louis_braille/teach.jpg
+
+[9]
+year = 1837
+story = He revised and extended braille to include mathematics,\n symbols, punctuations and music notations.
+image = louis_braille/chart.png
+
+[10]
+year = 1852
+story = He died of tuberculosis.He is burried in the Pantheon \n in Paris.A monument is erected to honor him.
+image = louis_braille/statue.jpg
+
+[11]
+year = After his Death
+story = Braille got accepted as a world wide standard.Louis proved \n if you have motivation you can do incredible things.
+image = louis_braille/braille_ball.jpg



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