Ronald Reagan was born on February 6‚ 1911‚ in Tampico‚ Illinois‚ to Jack and Nelle Wilson Reagan. He was raised in a poor family in northern Illinois. He went to Eureka College in 1932. As his first job he was a sports broadcaster and later moved to Hollywood to start his career as an actor in 1937. He starred in a few major productions and was twice elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. While he worked there‚ he focused on rooting out the Communist influence. In 1962‚ he switched parties
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was conceived on February 23‚ 1868‚ in Incredible Barrington‚ Massachusetts‚ to Alfred and Mary Silvina (née Burghardt) Du Bois. Mary Silvina Burghardt’s family was a piece of the little free dark populace of Extraordinary Barrington and had since a long time ago claimed land in the state. She was plummeted from Dutch‚ African and English progenitors. William Du Bois’ maternal incredible extraordinary granddad was Tom Burghardt‚ a slave (conceived in West Africa around
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WOW! Lil Boosie (TORRENCE HATCH) was born on November 14 1982 in butane rouge Louisiana. Terrence was bestowed the nickname Boosie by his family‚ and he was raised on the south side of Baton Rouge. As Boosie‚ he has released six or seven regular studio albums while contributing to a number of mixtapes and compilations. Lil Boosie’s cousin Young Bleed introduced Boosie to Baton Rouge rapper C-Loc in the late 1990s.[2] He was mentored by Young Bleed and C-Loc and joined the group Concentration Camp
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Emily Stowe was without a doubt an inspirational‚ motivated feminist determined to make a difference in the lives of women in Canada. She was a key part of the development of our nation‚ and a true pioneer in the medical and political systems. 2 Emily Howard Jennings was born in Norwich‚ Ontario on May 1st‚ 1831 to parents that were strong believers in the importance of receiving proper education: such strong believers‚ in fact‚ they actually home schooled their daughters. 1 At only 15‚ Stowe
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Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) was the son of Abdullah. He (PBUH) belonged to Quraish tribe. He (PBUH) was born in Makkah. His (PBUH) father died before he (PBUH) was born. First he (PBUH) was nourished by his (PBUH) grandfather. But after the death of his (PBUH) grandfather‚ he (PBUH) was looked after by his (PBUH) uncle‚ Abu Talib. His (PBUH) uncle kept him with his (PBUH) merchant caravan. He (PBUH) had been working as an agent in the business of Hazrat Khadija R. A. Later on
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Ouka Leele is a Spanish photographer‚ painter‚ and poet. Born in Madrid into an artistic family‚ she learned photography at an early age‚ though she initially hoped to become a painter. In the late 1970s she joined post-Franco Madrid’s turbulent cultural scene‚ the movida madrilène; but had her first photographic show‚ Peluquería (Hair Salon)—figures bizarrely arranged with objects like turtles or electric razors ( Barcelona in 1979). In the 1980s she became famous for large‚ carefully organized
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Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917)‚ known as the Grand Old Man‚ was a Parsi intellectual‚ educator‚ cotton trader‚ and an early Indian political and social leader. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895‚ and the first Asian to be a British MP. Naoroji is also credited with the founding of the Indian National Congress‚ along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention
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Davy Crockett is a famous hunter and known for all of his hardships throughout his life. He was born on August 17‚ 1786‚ in eastern Tennessee. He then died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6‚ 1836. Davy Crockett was a very influential person because he is a great frontiersman‚ patriotic politician who worked for the Tennessee legislature‚ and soldier. In his early life he was hired out to a man named Jacob Siler‚ and was then forced to drive cattle. Crockett describes this as “… as little as
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born in 1920 on Stradbroke island (Minjerriba to the Aboriginal people)‚ which was in Queensland‚ and she was born into the Noonuccal people of the Yuggera group. She was an actress‚ writer‚ teacher‚ artist and a campaigner for the Aboriginal people. Oodgeroo shared a trait with her father that was the sense of injustice. She left school at the age of 13 and worked as a domestic servant until 1939. After that she volunteered for service in the Australian Woman’s Army Service
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Rosa Parks real name was Rosa Louise McCauley. She was born in Alabama in Tuskegee on February 14‚ 1913. Rosa Parks moved to Montgomery‚ Alabama when she was 11 and attended high school. She went to an laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She later dropped out of school when she was 16 to take care of her sick grandmother and eventually her long-term ill mother. Rosa got married to Raymond Parks when she was 19 years old. Raymond was self educated and was a continuing
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