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 Tim Winton began his first novel‚ An Open Swimmer (1982)‚ at the age of 19‚ while on a Creative Writing course at Curtin University‚ Perth. It won the Australian/Vogel National Literary Award‚ and he has since made his living as a full-time writer. Born in Perth‚ Western Australia‚ in 1960‚ he is the author of several novels for adults‚ including Shallows (1986)‚ a novel set in a whaling town‚ and Cloudstreet (1991)‚ the tale of two working-class families rebuilding their lives‚
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The Man who would Create Being Martin Heidegger was born September 26th‚ 1889 in Messkirch‚ Germany and died on May 26‚ 1976 in his hometown. Martin was originally raised and educated in order to become a priest. His local church supported his schooling by scholarship in order that he may attend high school in Konstanz and further. Ironically‚ it was the pressuring support of the Catholic Church and the friends he later made during his schooling that eventually caused him to defect from the Church
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Biography of Steve jobs Early life Steven Jobs was born February 24‚ 1955‚ in San Francisco‚ California‚ and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He grew up with one sister‚ Patty. Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed cars as a hobby. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands. As a child‚ Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively‚ but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry
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putting his efforts in a favourable light and so must be read critically. Another main source is the biography written by Cortés’ private chaplain Lopez de Gómara‚ which was written in Spain several years after the conquest. Gómara never set foot in the Americas and knew only what Cortés had told him‚ and he had an affinity for knightly romantic stories which he incorporated richly in the biography. The third major source is written as a reaction to what its author calls "the lies of Gomara"‚ the
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Biography of Ogden Nash Fredric Ogden Nash was an American humorist who lived from 1902 to 1971. He was born in 1902 in Rye‚ New York‚ where he grew up with well educated parents. Microsoft Encarta 95 said that his parents names were Edmund Strudwick Nash and Mattie Nash. During his childhood years‚ Nash was educated at several private schools. At these schools‚ he enjoyed writing his own comical and dramatic free verse poems. After graduating out of grammar school‚ Nash moved on to one of
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Bibliography: "August Wilson." Gale Group. Thomson Gale. 23 Feb. 2005 "Literature Online Chapter 43 -- Biography." Student Resources. 2001. Pearson Education. 23 Feb. 2005 < http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedycompact_awl/chapter43/objectives/deluxe-content.html >. Rawson‚ Chris. "August Wilson - a timeline." Pittsburg Post-Gazette 5
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Art Buchwald is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist/humorist‚ and is born on October 25‚ 1925 in Mt. Vernon‚ New York‚ to a Jewish family. His father‚ Joseph Buchwald‚ was a curtain manufacturer and his mother‚ Helen Buchwald‚ has a mental illness and spent 35 years of her life in a mental institution‚ rarely seeing her son. Art and his three sisters‚ Alice‚ Edith‚ and Doris‚ all grew up in foster homes. At the age of seventeen‚ he dropped out of high school (Forest Hills High School‚ Queens‚ NY)
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Nikki Giovanni Biography Nikki Giovanni is one of the best known mixed poets who has reached prominence in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Nikki has wrote many poems and books 1970-early 2004‚ most of what she writes is with passion‚inspiration and with lots of feeling. Giovanni’s poetry express strong racial pride and respect for family‚ giovanni has written Creation‚ Love Poems‚ The Collected Poems Of Nikki Giovanni and The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. She was born in Knoxville‚Tennessee in
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During his imprisonment‚ Bakhtin began suffering health problems caused by chronic osteomyelitis‚ a painful inflammation of the bone marrow‚ and while his exile to the frozen isolation of Kazakhstan was no doubt severe‚ it undoubtedly saved him from a certain death in prison. During exile‚ Bakhtin was prevented from teaching and instead supported himself as a bookkeeper. In 1936‚ he was released from exile and taught for a time in Saransk until renewed purges led him to resign and move to a small
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