Anwar Sadat research paper‚ biography *H World History Anwar Sadat‚ he was a part of a lot of political situations and in all such a short time of presidency. Anwar Sadat grew up hating British‚ and has been in jail because of his actions against them. Anwar‚ despite him being thrown in jail‚ he ended up becoming the President of Egypt. How he came to his presidency all starts when and where he was born. Anwar Sadat was born on December 25th‚ 1918 in Mit Abul Kom‚ which is about 40 miles
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BIOGRAPHY Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín‚ or Nick Joaquín was born in Paco District Paco‚ Manila. He dropped out of high school and did odd jobs on Manila’s waterfront and elsewhere. He taught himself by reading widely at the National Library of the Philippines and the library of his father‚ Leocadio Joaquín‚ who had been a lawyer and a colonel in the Philippine Revolution. This developed further his interest in writing. His mother was named Salome Marquez Joaquin. Joaquín was first published in the
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Biography Profile: Voltaire François-Marie Arouet‚ better known by the name of Voltaire‚ was a French Enlightenment writer who believed that everyone had the freedom of speech‚ religion‚ and expression. Voltaire’s accomplishments were include writings‚ especially Oedipus‚ a very famous play he wrote. He also fought for everything he believed in‚ no matter how many times he was arrested‚ and exiled. Voltaire had two older siblings‚ and his mother died when he was seven. His father wanted him to
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Biography - John Graunt John Graunt was born April 24th1620 and died April 18th 1674 of jaundice. He was the oldest of seven or eight children. His father Henry was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire and his mother was named Mary. In February 1641 he married Mary Scott‚ they had one son and three daughters. He was educated in English‚ then he learned his father ’s profession at age 16.He taught himself Latin and French by studying in the morning before work. He did well in
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Biography of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in 1564‚ supposedly on 22 or 23 April‚ in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father‚ John‚ who was a prosperous glover there‚ preparing and selling soft leather‚ became alderman and later high bailiff. Shakespeare was educated at Stratford Grammar School. When he was eighteen‚ he married Anne Hathaway - eight years older than he and already‚ she was pregnant. Six months later their daughter Susanna was born. They had twins‚ a boy Hamnet and
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David McCullough once said‚ “Every book is a new journey.” This statement holds so much truthfulness for McCullough because he believes that to write a good book you must read what your subject read and go where you subject has been. By doing this McCullough is able to get to know his subject on a personal level. By reaching this level he was able to achieve greatness. Not only has McCullough won the heart of Americans‚ he has won two Pulitzer Prizes on his works‚ Truman and John Adams. He has also
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LESSING’S BIOGRAPHY Doris Lessing‚ a British writer‚ was born in 1919 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her father‚ who had lost a leg during his service in World War I‚ moved his family to Persia (now Iran)‚ in order to take up a job as a clerk. Doris was born there. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm. Her mother‚ obsessed with raising a proper daughter‚ enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home‚ then she sent
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Biography of Michio Kaku Michio Kaku (born January 24‚ 1947) is an American theoretical physicist. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque‚ N.M.‚ he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller‚ who took Kaku as a protégé‚ awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku received a B.S. degree summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 where he placed first in his physics class. He went on to attend the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California‚ Berkeley and
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Biography born 28 June 1971 South African/Canadian/American business magnate‚ engineer‚ and inventor. He is currently the CEO & CTO of SpaceX and CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla Motors. Musk was born in Pretoria‚ South Africa to a Canadian mother and a South African father. Elon taught himself computer programming and at age 12 sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500. TIMELINE 1983 At the age of 12‚ designs a videogame called Blast Star and sells it to a computer
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Biography of Fernando Botero Fernando Botero was born in Medellin‚ Colombia in 1932. He was the son of a Colombian traveling salesman. At the age of twelve‚ Fernando Botero would receive training as a matador along with his usual school education. When he was sixteen‚ he attended his first exhibition along with other painter at Antioquia in Medellin. In 1951‚ at the age of nineteen‚ Fernando Botero moved to Bogota‚ Colombia’s capital. He shortly received his first solo exhibition at the Leo
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