Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 131. Chapters: Early life and military career of John McCain, Early life and career of Marcus Aurelius, Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln, Rise of Neville Chamberlain, Early life and career of Barack Obama, Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr., Charles Darwin's education, Early life of L. Ron Hubbard, Early life of Pedro II of Brazil, Early life of Samuel Johnson, Early life of Jan Smuts, Early political career of Sarah Palin, Early life of Isaac Newton, Early life of Joseph Stalin, Early life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Early life of John Milton, Early life of Keith Miller, Early life and work of Clint Eastwood, Early life of Plato, Early life of Hugo Chavez, Early life of George Gordon Byron, Early life of Pope Pius XII, Early life of Shivaji, Early life of Rabindranath Tagore, Early life of Pope Benedict XVI, Early life of William Wordsworth, Early life of Augustus, Early life of Pope John Paul II, Early life of Jose de San Martin, Early life of Marilyn Monroe, Early life and career of Recep Tayyip Erdo an, Early life of Nestor Kirchner, Early life of George W. Bush, Child Jesus. Excerpt: Connection Timeout This article covers the life of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius from his birth on 26 April 121 to his accession on 7 March 161. Marcus' life after his accession is covered in Emperorship of Marcus Aurelius. The major sources for the life and rule of Marcus Aurelius are patchy and frequently unreliable. The biographies contained in the Historia Augusta claim to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the fourth century, but are in fact written by a single author (referred to here as "the biographer") from the later fourth century (c. 395). The later biographies and the biographies of subordinate emperors and usurpers are a tissue of lies and fiction, but the earlier biographies, derived primarily from now-lost earlie...