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  • Hannibal Barca

    Hannibal Barca

    Hannibal Barca was born in 247 B.C. in the city of Carthage, which was located in modern Tunis, or the northern tip of Africa. His father, Hamilcar Barca, was a great Carthaginian general of the army who fought in the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage, which the latter lost. At a very young age, Hamilcar made Hannibal promise "eternal hatred towards Rome" (Lendering, 1). At around age nine, Hannibal accompanied his father on

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    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Bill Gates Biography

    Bill Gates Biography

    Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer software, programming

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Benito Mussolini Biography

    Benito Mussolini Biography

    Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883 outside the village of Dovia di Predappio in the Northeastern Italian province of Forli. He had one sister and one brother. They always fought and argued over little petty things with each other. His sister name was Edvige and his brother's name was Armaldo. His mother Rosa Malteni was a well respect and appreciated schoolteacher. His father Allesandro Mussolini was both a blacksmith and a committee socialist.

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Beethoven Biography

    Beethoven Biography

    Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770 to Johann van Beethoven and his wife, Maria Magdalena. He took his first music lessons from his father, who was tenor in the choir of the archbishop-elector of Cologne. His father was an unstable, yet ambitious man whose excessive drinking, rough temper and anxiety surprisingly did not diminish Beethoven's love for music. He studied and performed with great success, despite becoming the breadwinner of his household by

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Attila the Hun Biography

    Attila the Hun Biography

    Attila the Hun is known as one of the most ferocious leaders of ancient times. He was given the nickname "Scourge God" because of his ferocity. During the twentieth century, "Hun" was one of the worst name you could call a person, due to Attila. The Huns were a barbaric and savage group of people, and Attila, their leader, was no exception. He was the stereotypical sacker of cities and killer of babies. The Huns

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Archimedes Biography

    Archimedes Biography

    Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat and bathe because of his always wanted to solve problems. He found areas and volumes of

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Andrew Carnegie Biography

    Andrew Carnegie Biography

    A man of Scotland, a distinguished citizen of the United States, and a philanthropist devoted to the betterment of the world around him, Andrew Carnegie became famous at the turn of the twentieth century and became a real life rags to riches story. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie entered the world in poverty. The son of a hand weaver, Carnegie received his only formal education during the short time between

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Al Capone Biography

    Al Capone Biography

    Al Capone is America's best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city. Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Baptized "Alphonsus Capone," he grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs,"

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Tupac Amaru Shakur Biography

    Tupac Amaru Shakur Biography

    Tupac Amaru Shakur Biographical Info DOB: June 16, 1971 - Brooklyn, NY DOD: September 13, 1996 - Las Vegas, NV Height: 5'10 Weight: 168 Mother: Afeni Shakur Father: William Garland Step Father: Jeral Wayne Williams AKA Mutula Shakur Half Sister: Sekyiwa Shakur Half Brother: Maurice Harding (Mopreme of Thug Life) Godfather: Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt Music Groups: One Nation Emcees, Two From The Crew, Strictly Dope, Digital Underground, Thug Life, Outlaw Immortalz/Outlawz Aliases: MC New York,

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    Submitted: December 1, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Charles Darwin Biography

    Charles Darwin Biography

    Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the son of Robert Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah, and the grandson of the scientist Erasmus Darwin. His mother died when he was eight years old, and he was brought up by his sister. He was taught the classics at Shrewsbury, then sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, which he hated. Like many modern students Darwin only excelled in subjects that intrigued him. Although his

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    Submitted: December 1, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Christopher Columbus Biography

    Christopher Columbus Biography

    Christopher Columbus was the oldest son of Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa. Christopher was born between August and October 1451, in Genoa, Italy. Christopher also had two younger brothers, Bartholomew and Diego. Christopher received little formal education and was a largely self-taught man, later learning to read Latin and Write Castilian. Columbus began on the sea early making his first voyage, to the Aegean Island of Chios, in 14. One year later he survived a

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    Submitted: December 1, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Albert Fish Biography

    Albert Fish Biography

    Albert Fish Dear Mrs. Budd. In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1-3 per pound. So great was the suffering among the

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    Submitted: December 20, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Antonio Vivaldi Biography

    Antonio Vivaldi Biography

    Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy, on March 4, 1678. His first music teacher was his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi. The elder Vivaldi was a well-respected violinist, employed at the church of St. Mark's. helped him in trying a career in music and made him enter the Cappella di San Marco orchestra, where he was an appreciated violinist. Antonio was trained for a clerical (religious service) as well as a musical life.

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    Submitted: December 20, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Bill Gates Biography

    Bill Gates Biography

    Bill Gates Biography Microsoft and Bill Gates Computers are one of the most important items in today's world. They run most things humans use, including everything from life-sustaining machines used in surgery to the alarm clocks that wake the world up every morning. "Microsoft has sold its products to 180 million people all around the world. Since 1988, the company has been the number one software vendor in the world" (Ferry 24). The people who

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    Submitted: December 20, 2008 By: Jessica
  • David Suzuki's Biography

    David Suzuki's Biography

    David Suzuki's Biography David Takayoshi Suzuki was born March 24, 1936 in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. David had 3 siblings Marcia, Geraldine, and Dawn. David's grandparents immigrated to Canada in the beginning of the 20th century. During the Second World War when he was six his family suffered internment. The government sold their dry-cleaning business while family members went to labour camps. After the war his family was forced to move to the east coast

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    Submitted: December 20, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Erik Erikson Biography

    Erik Erikson Biography

    Erik Erikson How a society educates its population is one of the most pressing and enduring issues facing any civilization. Certainly, great effort is expended in the area of education to achieve the highest yield for society, This effort can cover a breadth of different approaches including controlling education as the Communists and other dictatorial governments have done to education only founded in Reason as the Enlightenment and French Revolution have done, to a free

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    Submitted: December 20, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Mikhail Gorbachev Biography

    Mikhail Gorbachev Biography

    Mikhail Gorbachev Biography • Born 1931 into a peasant family • Studied law at Moscow University in the 1950s • Worked as a local Communist Party official in his home area • By 1978 he was a member of the Central Committee of the party and was in charge of agriculture • In 1980 he joined the Politburo • He was a close friend of Andropov, who was the Soviet leader in 1983, and shared

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    Submitted: December 20, 2008 By: Jessica
  • A Short Biography of Saint Joan of Arc

    A Short Biography of Saint Joan of Arc

    A Short Biography of Saint Joan of Arc Saint Joan was born on January 6, 1412, in the village of Domremy to Jacques and Isabelle d'Arc. Joan was the youngest of their five children. While growing up among the fields and pastures of her village, she was called Jeannette but when she entered into her mission, her name was changed to Jeanne, la Pucelle, or Joan, the Maid. As a child she was taught domestic

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    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Sherwood Anderson: Biography and Writing Techniques

    Sherwood Anderson: Biography and Writing Techniques

    Anderson began writing novels and short stories in 1909 as self help therapy. Anderson was being plagued with business and financial worries. He would argue about work with his wife constantly, causing tension to mount between them. On November 12, 1912, Anderson got up and walked out of his business in the middle of the day. He had been working long hours for weeks, with no days off. Combine this with the daily stress

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Biography of Genghis Khan

    Biography of Genghis Khan

    Biography of Genghis Khan The old world had many great leaders. Alexander the Great, Hannibal and even Julius Caesar met with struggle on their rise to power. Perhaps Genghis Khan was the most significant of all these rulers. To prove that Genghis Khan was the greatest ruler, we must go back to the very beginning of his existence. We must examine such issues as; Genghis№s struggle for power/how his life as a child would affect

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Ray Bradbury Biography

    Ray Bradbury Biography

    Ray Bradbury Biography U.S. author, born in Waukegan, Ill., on Aug. 22, 1920. In his stories, Bradbury wove together the intrigue of changing technology with insightful social commentary. One of his best-known works was 'The Martian Chronicles'; a collection of interrelated stories concerning colonization of the planet Mars those attracted readers both young and old. In it, Bradbury portrayed the strengths and weaknesses of human beings as they encountered a new world. Ray Bradbury grew

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Al Capone Biography

    Al Capone Biography

    Al Capone was possibly the largest and most feared mofia boss America has ever seen. This 1920's gangster made his mark on the world through organized crime during the Prohibition era. He is solely attributed with Chicago's reputation as a lawless city. Alphonsus Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. As a child he was a member of the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors "kid gangs." Capone quit

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • Biography on Julius Caesar

    Biography on Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar A Man of Great Stature Julius Caesar was a strong leader of the Romans who changed the course of the history for the Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength, he created a strong empire and guided the empire for almost 20 years. His life was short, but had many adventures. I will tell of some of this man's remarkable life. He did many things, therefore, I will only discuss

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • Roah Dahl Biography

    Roah Dahl Biography

    Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald and Sofie (Hesselberg) Dahl. After graduating from Repton School in 1933, he went to work for the Shell Oil Company of East Africa until World War II started in 1939. He then served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot and he became a Wing Commander. In 1940 Dahl's plane was hit by a machine gun fire,

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Edward
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald - a Biography

    F. Scott Fitzgerald - a Biography

    F. Scott Fitzgerald-A Biography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul Minnesota, to Edward and Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's mother was descended from Irish immigrants who had come to the United States during the years of famine in Ireland. His father came from Maryland and could trace his family back to the colonial period and to such famous ancestors as Francis Scott Key, who F. Scott was named after. Fitzgerald

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    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Andrew

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