...one-time events; others kick off a series of programs. A demonstration on Braille in honor of the 150th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth will be offered at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, at the library, and there will be a diabetes self-management...

...proposal introduced to Georgia General Assembly. Nation/World 1896 - Utah was admitted as the 45th state. 1809 - Louis Braille, inventor of a reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France. 1821 - the first native-born American...

...That day marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, who designed the system many blind people use to read...Braille books, including a children's book about Louis Braille and his life. There were also pamphlets and other information...

...brought in $1.1 million in revenue last year. In the early 1800s, a 15-year-old blind French student named Louis Braille developed the code of raised dots which would eventually bear his name. Shortly thereafter, the young man created...