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NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte, who was also known as the “Little Corsican” (and later known as Emperor of France, and the prime mover of the Napolionic Wars), was born on August 15, in 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. From 1784 to 1785, Napoleon attended the Ecole Militire in Paris, where he received his military ...
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Steven HawkingSteven Hawking
Steven Hawking is mostly known for his work in physics, however, his work has affected biology and other areas of science as well. Steven Hawking is also famous for having ALS. If you a picture of him you will see him in a wheel chair due to his disease. ...
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Saint Francis de SalesSt. Francis de Sales was born in the Savoy region of France on August 21, 1567. Born into a noble family, he was educated in the humanities at the Jesuit college of Clermont at the University of Paris. Once he graduated, his father had a position secured for him at the Senate of Chambery. Because ...
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Condoleezza RiceWhen choosing an influential woman in United States societal history a strong few come to mind. Out of the strong few there is one that I take pride in conversing about. Condoleezza Rice is her name. She is world renowned, known as a National Security Advisor during the Bush presidential ...
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Albert GhiorsoOne of the last remaining veterans of the Manhattan project, Albert Ghiorso, passed away on 24 December 2010, at the age of 95.
Ghiorso was an astonishingly productive scientist whose successes go back to an earlier day, when science was done differently. Ghiorso began working in nuclear science ...
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The Demon Within Jane FondaThe Demon Within Jane Fonda
Actors and actresses normally start off small in the acting world, and work their way to the top. They show the best of themselves, and have an amazing life built off of their success. Many people can’t make it up the ladder of success because of their personality. ...
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Roald DahlRoald Dahl had a fascination about children and childhood. He was a very open and amusing father who always made time to show his love for his children.
He shared a passion with children, to have fun and enjoy all the possibilities of life.
Children felt comfortable with him and he made sure ...
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EisenhowerEisenhower was a master at the art of leadership, proving this throughout his several high-ranked positions in the US Army during World War II. Eisenhower’s roles during World War II include Chief of Staff to Commander General Walter, Brigadier General, Major General, Commander of all U.S. forces ...
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Leo TolstoyTolstoy
Leo Tolstoy is regarded as perhaps one of the greatest writers and novelists of the 20th century. Of European-Russian decent, Tolstoy influenced and inspired many contemporary and future leaders. He is most well known for his two literary masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina, ...
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Adolf Hitler BiographyHitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. He never did get good grades in school and eventually just dropped out with the dreams of becoming an artist. In the last three years of his teenaged life he didn't work or do any schooling. He did start to show interest in politics and ...
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William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564. They don’t know the exact date that he was born on but they think that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. William was the third out of eight children of John Shakespeare and Mary ...
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Adolf HitlerWar is one of the most tragic things in our world today. It is even sadder that usually it comes around at least once in our lifetime. In the 20th century alone we have already had two huge wars. These wars were call the World Wars simply because they involved most of the big countries of the ...
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Robert MilikanRobert Andrews Millikan was born on March 22, 1868 in Morrison, Illinois. His father was a minister and his mother was the dean of women at Olivet College in Michigan. He had two brothers and three sisters. Millikan lived during World War I. His family worked on a farm with a small salary. In ...
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Joseph Stalin BiographyJoseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori in Russia on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a weakness for alcohol, who left Gori when Stalin was young. Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, raised him until he was old enough to attend the Tiflis ...
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Ray Bradbury: Influence to Rise Above The NormRay Bradbury: Influence to Rise Above The Norm
Ray Bradbury was definitely someone who could take his various experiences, whether they be a daily activity or something that affected his life, and put them to pen and paper like a natural. He was someone without any proper college education ...
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Vo Nguyen GiapEnvironment is an important issues. In Viet Nam’s modern history, besides Ho Chi Minh, there are many famous revolutionaries. One of them is General Vo Nguyen Giap, also known as Van Sau affecting strongly to Vietnamese’s revolutions.
Vo Nguyen Giap was born in 1899 in the central land of Viet ...
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Thomas JeffersonThomas was born in Shadwell Virginia, on April 13, 1743. Thomas died on July 4, 1826 in Monticello. It was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas was elected to the House of Burgesses at the age of 25. Thomas went to William and Mary colleges. He was a Lawyer. He was also ...
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Walt Disney and The Great DepressionWalt Disney: The Great Depression
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. ...
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Robert BoyleRobert Boyle
Robert Boyle is considered both the founder of modern chemistry. He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also an avid theologian, a philanthropist, an essayist, and a beginner in medicine. Born in Lismore, Ireland to Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, ...
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John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish ...
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Herbert George WellsJinal Patel
English IV
Mr. Perez
April 4, 2011
Research Paper
I, Herbert George Wells was born on 21 of September 1866 in Kent, England. I was mostly called by the name “Bertie” in my family, and I was the fourth and last child of my parents. My parents were both domestic servants, they ...
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Arthur Miller BiographyArthur Miller Biography
Personal Background
Arthur Miller was born in Harlem on October 17, 1915, the son of Polish immigrants, Isidore and Augusta Miller. Miller's father had established a successful clothing store upon coming to America, so the family enjoyed wealth; however, this ...
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Osama bin LadenEarly life and education
Main article: Childhood, education and personal life of Osama bin Laden
See also: Bin Laden family
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( /o?'s??m? b?n mo?'h??m?d b?n ?'w??d b?n 'l??d?n/) was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,[13] a son of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, ...
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Jeremy BenthamA leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law and one of the founders of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham was born in Houndsditch, London on February 15, 1748. He was the son and grandson of attorneys, and his early family life was colored by a mix of pious superstition (on his mother’s ...
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Camus Bio-BiblCAMUS BIO-BIBL
Biographie
Albert Camus est né en 1913, à Mondovi, en Algérie. Son père, simple ouvrier agricole, meurt en 1914, lors de la Bataille de la Marne. C’est à Alger, dans le quartier populaire de Belcourt, qu’Albert Camus passe son enfance et son adolescence, sous le double signe, ...
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