Mark Twain was an author‚ a riverboat pilot‚ journalist‚ lecturer‚ inventor‚ and entrepreneur ("Mark Twain Biography”). His full name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. But his pen name is Mark Twain. He was born in Florida‚ Missouri on November 30‚ 1835. He died in Redding‚ Connecticut on April 21‚ 1910. He was the sixth of seven children of Jane and John Clemens. His siblings’ names were Orion‚ Henry‚ Pamela‚ Margaret‚ Benjamin‚ and Pleasant ("Mark Twain"). In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon ("Twain’s
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CarCarl Linnaeus Report Born in 1707 to a country parson in Rashult‚ southern Sweden‚ the young Linnaeus showed a keen interest in plants and flowers and by the age of eight‚ was given the nickname ‘the little botanist’. Linnaeus studied medicine‚ first at the University of Lund and then at the University of Uppsala. Medicine at this time was based on herbals so it meant he also studied plants. He shared his passion for plants with Olaf Celsius whom he met at Uppsala. Linnaeus is most widely known
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Thornton Wilder was born in Madison‚ Wisconsin on April seventieth‚ 1897. He was born into the family of Amos Parker Wilder‚ his father‚ and Isabella Niven Wilder‚ his mother. Although Thornton was born alongside a twin brother‚ this brother sadly did not survive. He lost one brother‚ but he also had one older brother and three younger sisters. The family moved and lived in China for some time due to his father’s work. His father was a US consul general in Shanghai and Hong Kong. This family not
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Forcing himself on radio shows‚ freestyle battles‚ Marshall threw himself head first into the rap game‚ where he was swallowed up most of the time. His very first album was titled "Infinite" and‚ while the album sold less than a thousand copies‚ it was the gearing up stages for the rapper who became a millionaire. It was then that his daughter‚ Hailie Jade Scott‚ was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott. Having nothing to lose at all‚ flat broke and not knowing where
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BHAGAT SINGH: AN EVERGREEN ICON OF INDIAN YOUTH DEBABRATA BISWAS‚ M.P; General Secretary‚ All India Forward Bloc The name Bhagat Singh has become a synonym of revolution. He was one of the great revolutionaries who made supreme sacrifice for the nation. Thousands of young people sacrificed their lives in the altar of India’s liberation struggle but the name Bhagat Singh has a special place in the history of our independence. No other young revolutionary of India got much empathy in the minds of
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Paulo Coelho No one thought Paulo would ever amount to anything. While attending a Jesuit school as a teenager‚ he dreamed of becoming a writer. When he revealed his career goals to his mother‚ she told him “My dear‚ your father is an engineer. He’s a logical‚ reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?" He was determined to prove to them that he could accomplish his dream‚ whether they approved or not. After he turned seventeen‚ his
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Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck is a prominent mathematician who is well known for his theories in algebraic geometry‚ homological algebra and functional analysis. He was born in the capital of Germany‚ Berlin‚ in 1928‚ one year before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Grothendieck’s parents were Sascha Shapiro and Hanka Grothendieck. Shapiro was a Russian anarchist of Jewish decent‚ prosecuted by the Czar and later by the Bolsheviks. He’d lost his left arm during an attempted prison
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Diploma in Marketing Management (Intake V) The person behind Nature’s Secrets Dr. Samantha Kumarasinghe Chairman / Managing Director of Multichemi Group of Companies Department of Marketing Management University of Sri Jayewardenepura Team Amity • Sanjeewa Hewavitharane DMM/2009/049 M D N Anuradha Harshani DMM/2009/045 • M F Mohamed Hismy DMM/2009/050 Muditha Ranjana Jayasundara DMM/2009/061 • Suraji Dissanayake DMM/2009/032 Group Assignment SALES MANAGEMENT
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Today’s managers have access to an amazing array of resources which they can use to improve their skills. But what about those managers who were leading the way forward 100 years ago? Managers in the early 1900s had very few external resources to draw upon to guide and develop their management practice. But thanks to early theorists like Henri Fayol (1841-1925)‚ managers began to get the tools they needed to lead and manage more effectively. Fayol‚ and others like him‚ are responsible for building
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George Polya (1887-1985) -Chronological order: Fibonacci‚ Simon Stevin‚ Leonhard Euler‚ Carl Gauss‚ Augustus DeMorgan‚ J.J. Sylvester‚ Charles Dodgson‚ John Venn‚ and George Polya George Polya was born and educated in Budapest Hungry. He enrolled at the University of Budapest to study law but found it to be boring. He then switched his studies to languages
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