Susan Hill Biography Novelist‚ children ’s writer and playwright Susan (Elizabeth) Hill was born in Scarborough‚ England‚ on 5 February 1942. She was educated at Scarborough Convent School and at grammar school in Coventry‚ before reading English at King ’s College‚ London‚ graduating in 1963 and becoming a Fellow in 1978. Her first novel‚ The Enclosure‚ was published in 1961 when she was still a student. She worked as a freelance journalist between 1963 and 1968‚ publishing her third novel‚
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Christine Jorgensen Biography Christine Jorgensen (May 30‚ 1926 – May 3‚ 1989) was the first widely known person to have sex reassignment surgery - in this case‚ male to female. She was born George William Jorgensen‚ Jr.‚ the second child of George William Jorgensen Sr.‚ a carpenter and contractor‚ and his wife‚ the former Florence Davis Hansen. She grew up in the Bronx and later described herself as having been a "frail‚ tow-headed‚ introverted little boy who ran from fistfights and rough-and-tumble
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BIOGRAPHY OF KARL MARX Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5th‚ 1818 in the city of Trier‚ Germany to a comfortable middle-class‚ Jewish family. His father‚ a lawyer and ardent supporter of Enlightenment liberalism‚ converted to Lutheranism when Marx was only a boy in order to save the family from the discrimination that Prussian Jews endured at the time. Marx enjoyed a broad‚ secular education under his father‚ and found an intellectual mentor in Freiherr Ludwig von Westphalen‚ a Prussian nobleman
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Mendoza‚ Alianne Gayle L. BSA 1-13 BIOGRAPHY OF THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (Term: January 23‚1899-April 1‚ 1901) Emilio Aguinaldo was born on March 23‚ 1869 in Cavite Viejo (Kawit) to Carlos Aguinaldo and Trinidad Famy‚ a Chinese mestizo couple who had eight children‚ the seventh of whom was Emilio. The Aguinaldo family was quite well-to-do‚ as Carlos Aguinaldo was the communities appointed gobernadorcillo. Emilio became the Cabeza de Barangay of Binakayan‚ a
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50 Cent (born Curtis James Jackson on July 6‚ 1975[1] in Queens‚ New York) is a popular African-American rapper‚ also known as Fitty or Fifty‚ who rose to fame following the success of his 2003 debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Biography Once almost unknown outside his hometown of Southside Jamaica‚ Queens‚ 50 Cent is currently one of the most well-known and commercially successful rappers of the decade. Because the success of an artist in gangsta rap often depends on street credibility and
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JORDAN BELFORT Biography / Background Nicknamed "the Wolf of Wall Street‚" Jordan Belfort made millions in the 1990s through his investment company‚ Stratton Oakmont. His memoir is the basis for the 2013 Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street‚ starring Leonardo Dicapro. Born in Queens‚ New York‚ on July 9‚ 1962‚ Jordan Belfort had a natural talent as a salesman at an early age‚ operating a meat and seafood business in the 1980s. After that company went bust‚ Belfort began selling stocks in
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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN KEATS Born in London‚ England‚ on October 31‚ 1795‚ John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery‚ great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion on that trip brought on the first symptoms of the tuberculosis‚ which ended his life. Quotes "If Poetry comes not as naturally as Leaves to a tree it had better not
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BIOGRAPHY OF GEORG SIMON OHM Georg Simon Ohm (16 March 1787 – 6 July 1854) was a Bavarian (German) physicist and mathematician. As a high school teacher‚ Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell‚ invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation‚ Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relationship is known as Ohm’s law. Ohm
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Book review of “For the love of India” (A biography of Jamsetji Tata ‚ written by R.M.Lala) Jamsetji Tata‚ the founder of Tata sons‚ was a pioneer of Indian Industry. He is credited with giving Indian Industry a new direction by creating a vision for first steel plant & hydroelectric plant. Prior to that‚ Business community in India was basically a trading community‚ with only major exports in cotton‚ jute & tea. He was the one who changed India’s industrial & economic character. He fulfilled
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Ben Carson grew up being known as the class dummy. Now he is one of the world’s smartest nerosurgeon. Ben grew up in a small town in Detroit. When Ben was eight he found out that his dad had a whole other family. His dad moved out and took all of their money. Ben’s mom had never worked a day in her life until this. When Ben and his mom and brother were really struggling with money‚ they moved in with Ben’s aunt‚ uncle‚ and cousins in Boston. Ben lived with his cousins for two years. When Ben returned
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