Albert
Einstein
Steven
Hawkin
Wolfgang
Amedeus Mozart
Ludwig
van Beethoven
Napoleon
Bonaparte
Mother
Theresa
Archimedes
Galileo
Galilei
Sir Isaac
Newton
Carl von
Linné
Alfred
Nobel
Raoul
Wallenberg
Johan
Petter Johansson
Terry
Fox
George
Washington
Sir. John
McDonald
Jesus Christ
Harry
Houdini
Christopher
Columbus
Leonardo da
Vinci
William
Shakespeare
Mahatma
Gandhi
Pablo Picasso
Martin
Luther King
Abraham
Lincoln
Famous
traters
Adolf
Hitler
Benodict Arnold
George W. Bush
Olasmin
Binladin
Saddam Hussein
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Württemberg, Germany |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html |
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March 14,1879 |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html |
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April 18, 1955 |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html |
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e=mc2 which is the bases for his famous energy= |
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e=mc2 |
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When he was small he was late in speaking and in school many people was considering him to be dumb.
Other famous quotes:
The questions are the same but the answers are different.
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Oxford, England |
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January 8, 1942 |
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Studies black holes |
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Salzburg, Austria |
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January 27, 1756 |
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December 5, 1791 |
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Musician |
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Age 3: started to play the keyboard Age 5: started composing minuets
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Bonn, Germany |
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December 17, 1770 |
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March 26, 1827 |
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Music |
Book: 100 greatest men (p. 49) |
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As a man Ludwig van Beethoven was quarrlsome, bad-tempered and diffcult to get along with. As a composer he wrote some of the most beautiful and powerful music of his time. He soon showed a talent for music , whitch he was encouraged by his father . When he was 13 years old, he became a professinal harpsicholidest and organist. In 1795 Beethoven started to write own music. Asuccessful career seemed assured-and tragedly struck. In 1801, Beethoven began to go deaf. The conditon was worson over the next few years until, by 1817, he was completly deaf. Yet very few hints of despair that he must have felt crept into the music he wrote at this time. It was the period of his his first three symphonies and ophra Fidelio. His deafness prevented him from giving piano rectitals -his last attempt to do so was a disater-but he continued to compse symponies, conserts and sonatas as well as many smaller works. Probaly his most most famous work, completed in 1824, is his Ninth Symphony, whose last last movement features a full chorus and orchestra.
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(Known in to be French) (born on island Corsica) |
http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/napoleon.htm |
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August 15, 1769 |
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Den/7664/naplifehistory.html |
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May 15, 1821 |
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Den/7664/naplifehistory.html |
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Comander of french army |
Book: 1000 years of famous people |
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'He would trample on all buman rights and become a tyrant.' |
Brief biography 1769 - 1821
Napoleon
Bonaparte was born to a humble family on the poor island of Corsica.
By 1804, he was Emperor of France, and came to control the greater
part of Western Europe, bringing modernising reforms in the name of
the ideals of the French Revolution - "liberty, fraternity,
equality."
In 1812 his failed invasion of Russia brought disaster. Enemies united against him, and by 1814 his Empire was destroyed. He died in exile - but his ideas lived on.
A War : Albuera
In May 1811 Marshall Soult was in the process of moving troops to relieve Badajoz which was under seige. Marshall Beresford moved 35000 troops to intercept Soult's advance. Beresford took up position at the river crossings near the village of Albuera which was located along the Albuera River. He then waited for the French to attack. Soult had only 24260 men and 48 artillery pieces. He sent a strong force of infantry against the bridge and village. In addition he sent his cavalry and more infantry farther to the south to cross the fords there. The French force of 4000 Cavalry and 19 infantry battalions scattered the weaker Spanish troops holding this area of the battlefield. The French were threatening to roll up the Allied line. Beresford ordered General Blake to form a defensive right flank, but he maneuvered only four battalions against two French divisions. The Spanish forces gallantly held off the French columns giving time for General Stewart's 2nd division to reinforce. Colbourne's brigade suffered 60% casualties against the French when charged in the flank by Polish Lancers. The Spanish line still held. The French attacked again in a huge column with close artillery support. The Spanish Houghton's brigade lost 80% of their force. Sir Henry Hardinge and General Lowry Cole brought up an additional 4000 men on their own initiative and helped repulse the French attack. A charge by the Fusilier Brigade routed the French. After the French were cleared out of Albuera, the battle was over. In just four hours the French had lost 8000 men, while the Allies lost 6000.
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Skopje, Yugoslavia |
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1910 |
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September 5, 1997 |
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'The only living saint' (now dead) |
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Sicily,Greece |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html |
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287 B.C |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html |
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212 B.C |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html |
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Discovery of levers |
Book:1000 years of fame |
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“Give me a long enogh lever and i'll lift the earth” |
Book:1000 years of fame |
Did you know that there thousands of stone carvings of Archimedes in Greece?
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Pisa, Italy |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html |
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February 15, 1564 |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html |
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January 8 1642 |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html |
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Lincolshire, England |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html |
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January 4, 1643 |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html |
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March 31, 1727 |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html |
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Descovery of Gravity |
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Newton's well known for having an apple on his head. He also invented the Newton (100g)
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Stockholm, Sweden |
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May 23, 1707 |
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January 10, 1778 |
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Stockholm, Sweden |
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Oct 21, 1833 |
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1896 |
http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/chemach/tpg/an.html |
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'With such powerful explosives as dynamite, war will be of the past' |
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Sweden |
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August 4, 1912 |
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Unknown |
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Raoul Wallenberg belongs--or belonged--to one of the most famous families in Sweden.
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Stockholm, Sweden |
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January 21, 1840 |
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May 4, 1927 |
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Winnipeg, Canada |
Obvious |
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July 28, 1958 |
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June 28, 1981(of lung cancer) |
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Raising 250milion dollars for cancer |
Book: Terry Fox |
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Terry ran 5,373 km (3,339 mls) He started with his foot in the atlatic ocean and started his journy to the pacific.
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Westmoreland County, Virginia |
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February 22, 1732 |
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December 14, 1799 |
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Father of America |
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He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man ... |
They named a state and the capital for Washington. Washington's also on the american dollar bill. Washington has hates to see a creature in captivity.
Washington you can trust, for he will never tell a lie. When he was young his father planted a cherry tree and ask young george to take care of it. A few days later, his father gave him a axe. Washington couldn't resist to chop down evry thing that was made out of wood. Then pretty much evry thing made out of wood was chopped exept the cherry tree. George couldn't help to chop it. Then before thing twice he chopped it. Then when his father saw that the tree was chopped, he asked George do you know who cut my tree? I can not tell a lie father, I did it George said. George Washington learned a valuble lesson.
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Scottland |
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January 10, 1815 |
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June 6, 1891 |
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First Prime Minister of Canada |
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McDonald's the resturante was named after Sir John A. McDonald
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Israel |
Knoledge |
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December 21, 6 B.C |
Book:100 greatest men (p.45) |
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never |
Book:100 graetest men (p.45) |
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Bieng god |
Book:100 greatest men (p. 45) |
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Jesus is the only Roman Catholic god.
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Budapest, Hungry |
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March 24, 1827 |
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October 31, 1926 |
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Graet escape master |
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Houdini died of an azma attack in a tank in Detroit, Michigan.
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Calvi, Corsica (Spain) |
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1451 |
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May 20, 1506 |
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Descovery of Central America |
Book: 100 graetest men (p. 102) |
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Venci, Italy |
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leonardo.html |
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April 15, 1452 |
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May 2, 1519 |
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Art, desining thing that would take centries to become reality. |
Book: 100 greatest men (p.80) |
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Leonardo da Vinci was amazing, he had painted pictures graeter than you can imagine, for example the Mona Lisa, Last Supper or Adroration of the magi. Another Amaizing thing About Leonardo was he was left handed, but not only was he left handed he also always wrote. 'mirror writing' .
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Statford, England |
Book: 100 greatest men(p. 58) |
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April 28, 1564 |
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1616 |
Book: 100 greatest men (p.58) |
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A great poet |
Knoledge |
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William created great plays, and some of them are played today!
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India |
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October 2, 1869 |
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January 30, 1948 |
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Doing great things for india |
Book: 100 graetest hindus |
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Malaga, Spain |
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October 25, 1881 |
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April 8, 1973 |
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Art |
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'It takes a long time to become young' |
By the age of 15 he was already technically skilled in drawing and painting. Picasso's highly original style continuously evolved throughout his long career, expanding the definition of what art could be. In addition to painting, he would explore sculpture, ceramics and other art forms, and become one of the most influential artists of the 1900s.
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January 15, 1929 |
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/Mlk/h1index.html#MLKRABS |
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April 4, 1968 |
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/Mlk/h1index.html#MLKRABS |
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Freedom for black |
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'I have a dream' |
All sites pretty much |
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February 12, 1809 |
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April 14, 1865 |
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16th president of America 'Americas greatest pesident' |
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.
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( Known to be German) (Born in Braunau, Austria) |
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April 20, 1889 |
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April 30, 1945 |
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Killing evryone who was not German or didn't have blond hair and blue eyes. |
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