Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. He lived a horrendous childhood, being abused by his father and witnessing multiple siblings die. Adolf was the fourth of six children, although three of his older siblings had passed away in infancy. His younger brother, Edmund, passed away at 11 years old due to measles, this death reportedly had a very big effect on Hitler's life.…
The Boyne USA corporation is the largest privately owned skiing corporation in America. The Boyne empire reaches from golf courses in Florida to Cyprus Mountain near Vancouver, British Columbia. Boyne is now entering its sixtieth successful season of operation. This success can only be attributed to the ingenuity and diligence of Everett Kircher, and the entire Kircher family.…
One of the many who did not make it through the Holocaust was a young man by the name of Moshe Flinkler. He was born on October 9, 1926 in the Hague, Netherlands to a moderately wealthy Jewish family. Before the Nazis took over, Moshe was an avid student with a propensity for studying languages, especially Hebrew. When the Nazis invaded, Moshe and his family fled to Belgium, where they hoped to pass as Christians. This proved to be a false hope when the Nazis stormed their apartment on April 7, 1944. That same year, Moshe would die at Auschwitz, alongside his family.…
Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731 in Maryland. He was the first African American mathematician and astronomer. Banneker was a free man who went to schoolhouses. He continued to self-educate himself after school hours through borrowed books and learn how to read from a Bible his mother gave him from London. At 20 years old, he built the first American wooden clock carved from his pocket knife that kept precise time. Then at 60 years old he teamed up with Andrew Ellicott to decide where the White House would be. In 1788, Benjamin made astronomical calculations and accurately predicted the solar eclipse the next year. He wrote letters about opposed slavery and advocated civil rights to future president Thomas Jefferson.…
Albert Speer was born in 1905; in the city of Mannheim located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Albert had been raised in the small township of Heidelberg; he was the second of three boys. His father, Albert Friedrich Speer, was a highly successful architect and his mother Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine Hommel was the daughter of a very wealthy businessman. Albert was nine years old at the time when World War One broke out, though he was too young to fight at the time as so were his brothers.…
At the age of 18 he left school and wanted to become a mathematician but his father talked him into being an architect and so studied in Institute of Technology while then 1924 he was transferred to Institute of Munich. Albert’s father was wealthy enough to give Speer an allowance of 300 marks which was Speer’s total salary in his first job, so as a Student he could live splendidly.…
Edmund Kemper was born Dec, 18 1948, in Southern California (Burbank). Edmund’s parents (E.E Kemper and Clarnell Kemper) divorced around the time he was 11. After the divorce he moved with his mother and two sisters to Montana. Edmund had a troubling relationship with his mother, especially since she was an alcoholic. At a young age Edmund had a dark mind, sometimes contemplating about murdering his mother , ripping the heads off his sister's dolls, burying his cat alive and viciously murdering the other cat with a knife. After that he moved in with his father, but ended up going back to his mother which sent him to live on a farm with his grandparents. During his adolescence he started learning about guns/firearms. On the farm he used to kill birds and small animals until his grandparents took his weapon away from him. After he got into an argument with his grandma he shoot her dead. Later that day when his Grandpa came home Ed shot his grandpa by the car. Afterwards he confessed to his mother and called the cops. Kemper was sent to California youth Authority, where they ran many test on Edmund, where they determined he was really bright(IQ wise) yet he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Edmund was Sent to Atascadero State Hospital for mental patients.…
Albert Speer was born on the 19th of March 1905. His family was very well off compared to the general population and their social status demanded an adherence to social conventions and formality. As a student and early adult, Speer was very apolitical however leaned towards the communism. Speer was first introduced to Nazism in 1930 where he was first inspired by Hitler’s oratory skills. Speer became a member of the Nazi Party on March the 1st 1931 with the membership number 474,481. From this point Speer was provided with many opportunities within the party, specifically in architecture, Hitler was especially impressed by Speer’s early work and later made him Armaments Minister. At the end of World War II, Speer along with other leading Nazi’s were put on trial by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, known as The Nuremberg Trials, where many Nazi leaders were sentenced to death or imprisoned as Speer was in Spandau for extended periods of time. Each of these were significant events in the life of Albert Speer who died in 1981.…
Actor, comedian, musician. Born on September 9, 1966, in New York City. Raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, as one of seven children, Sandler was always the class clown. However, he never aspired to be a comedian until age 17 when his brother encouraged him to perform at a Boston comedy club.…
Walter Rosenberg was born on the 11th of September 1924 in the Slovakian town of Trnava. Vrba entered the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on the 30th of June 1942. For two…
Speer was born on 19 March, 1905, in Mannheim, Germany into an upper middle class family. He was the second of three boys of Albert Senior and Lina Speer. His father invested in property and land, thus allowing their family to avoid the disastrous effects of the hyperinflation in 1923 and the depression of 1930. Speer, although lived a comfortable lifestyle, experienced a loveless childhood. His parent and siblings were cold and detached towards him. Historian Dan van der Vat believes that the coldness in his childhood background trained him for his emotional indifference and lack of empathy. After graduating as an architect in 1927 at the Technical University of Berlin, Speer began to work as Professor Tessenow’s assistant. Speer was quite an apolitical but was persuaded to attend a Nazi rally where Hitler would be talking. Speer was moved by Hitler’s speech and entranced by his charismatic personality. He became a member of the Nazi party on 1st March…
1952, Moved to Alabama and became technical director of US army intermediate range ballistic-weapon (IRBM) program.…
<br>Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwitlau, which is now part of the present day Czech Republic, to his father and mother, Hans and Louisa Schindler. They were a deeply religious family, which resulted in a strong catholic household for Oskar and his younger sister Elfriede. The Schindler family was one of the richest and most prominent in Zwitlau and elsewhere. Mostly due to the success of their family owned machinery business. Oskar Schindler wasn't necessarily born of noble birth. He was basically an ordinary guy, especially when his father lost his business, who did extraordinary deeds for people who he has never even met.…
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing the comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” Bram Stoker, Taking a look of the life of a man with a mind to create the most infamous and famous story. The vampire with a taste for blood, Dracula. His parents abraham and Charlotte Matilda Blake were involved in getting things done. Abraham stoker was a civil servant, Charlotte stoker became a social activist He has no siblings to my knowledge nor does research. Born in 1847, In clontarf, Ireland, the young bram stoker was always bedridden from illness. I can’t even imagine what that must feel like to spend most of your childhood in a your…
Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in Bronx, NY on October 14, 1939. His parents were both Jewish immigrants from Belarus. At the young age of 16, Ralph changed his last name to Lauren due to being teased by other kids at school. Ralph attended Baruch College in Manhattan, where he had studied business for two years. He then took a sales job at Brooks Brothers for a short time and then became a salesman for a tie company. His first breakthrough was in 1966 when he designed a wide, European style necktie. The company he worked for, so he left to establish his own company, which included taking rages and turning them into ties, rejected Ralph’s ideas.…