Shania Twain Growing up‚ I always enjoyed listening to country music. When I was about 10 years old‚ my cousin gave me a C.D. of Shania Twain and after listening to it‚ I instantly fell in love with her and her music. Shania Twain aka Eilleen Regina Edwards was born in Windsor‚ Ontario‚ Canada on August 28‚ 1965. From a young age‚ her mother pushed her to pursue performing and even drove hours for singing lessons. She had a love for music and began playing guitar and writing songs by the age of
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Harriet Tubman‚ who’s birth name was Araminta Ross‚ was born near Bucktown in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. Unfortunately‚ Tubman was born into slavery and many of her documents were not able to be saved. When Harriet‚ Araminta at the time‚ was born‚ she was nicknamed “Minty” for her real name. Absolutely nobody knows what year Harriet was born. Harriet was a tough woman‚ surviving through the most difficult obstacles that could come upon her. Being born into slavery‚ her life began hard and did not
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Lionel Rose The boxer Lionel Rose‚ who has passed at the age of 62 after a long ailment‚ was the primary Aboriginal Australian to win a world title. He always remembered the appreciation he got when he came back to Melbourne in the wake of overcoming the Japanese champion Fighting Harada in Tokyo to win the undisputed world bantamweight title in February 1968. An unexpected 250‚000 individuals covered the entry lanes to respect their new 19-year-old champion. Raised in Jacksons track‚ Lionel experienced
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Erin Teague was born in 1982 in Detroit‚ Michigan. Her family lived in a neighborhood in Southfield‚ which is a suburb of Detroit‚ that had families that had money and those that were poor. She went to a public school in Southfield where many of the kids received either free lunches or discounted lunches. She excelled in her schooling and took as many honors and AP classes that were available to her. Even after taking these advanced classes she felt under prepared entering college. Growing up outside
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The Middle Ages Geoffrey Chaucer‚ believed to be born in London in the year of 1343‚ wrote the first ever script of literature in the English language. This literature was a collection of tales called “The Canterbury Tales”‚ told by pilgrims on their way and back to Canterbury. He was born a “commoner”‚ however as his father John Chaucer was a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the King’s Chief butler‚ he grew up with links to the royal household. Historians assume that Geoffrey Chaucer therefore
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One of the lesser known composers represented in the album‚ French composer‚ conductor‚ educator and organist Henri Büsser was born in Toulouse in 1872. Showing signs of musical proclivity from a young age‚ and with encouragement from his organist father‚ Büsser began his musical studies at the Ecole Niedermeyer in 1885 where he studied with Alexandre George [French organist‚ composer‚ and harmony teacher]. In 1889‚ Büsser entered The Paris Conservatoire‚ studying organ with Franck and Widor‚ as
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Andrew Jackson was the most loved yet most hated president in history. Jackson was the seventh President of the United States and one of the most controversial presidents our country has ever experienced. In fact‚ Thomas Jefferson once wrote‚ “I feel very much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson president. He is one of the most unfit men I know of for the place…He is a dangerous man.” This is how a backwoods boy became the face of the people when the American people needed it most while
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Though technically defined as an archaeologist‚ Mary chose to follow a route of interesting research relating to physical anthropology. She is known mostly for the excavation of a two million-year-old fossilized human skull in 1959. She has also worked to help the world understand that the evolution of humans follows a principle rather than a theory. The name Leakey is synonymous in most people’s minds with the successive dramatic discoveries of fossilized hominid bones and stone artifacts that
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Christopher Crosby Farley was born February 15‚ 1964 in Madison‚ Wisconsin. Chris attended Marquette University and got a degree in theatre and communications. In the late eighties Farley performed at the Second City theatre and was discovered by Lorne Michaels‚ the producer of Saturday Night Live. Farley started on SNL in 1990. His comedic enthusiasm made him a favorite widely known as Matt Foley the motivational speaker. He got offered a job acting in Wayne ’s World and that ’s when he left SNL
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William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28‚ 1955)[4] is an American business magnate‚ investor‚ philanthropist‚ and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft‚ the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people[5] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009‚ excluding 2008‚ when he was ranked third.[6] During his career at Microsoft‚ Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect‚ and remains
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