Jaime Omar García was born on July 8, 1986 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico as the second of three children to civil engineer Jaime García, Sr. and Gloria Rodríguez Flores. García was raised between the border of Reynosa, Mexico and McAllen, Texas. He attended Sharyland High School in Mission, Texas.…
Bolivar made plans to sail to Europe and live the rest of his life there in peace and solitude. But he later died at the age of 47 on December 17th, because of struggles with possibly tuberculosis. Simon Bolivar is now known as the George Washington of of South America, because he quite literally was just that. He is also considered one of the most important and influential politicians in Latin American history. The country of Bolivia is was named in honor of Simon…
In 1806 Benito Juarez was born on March 18th.. Benito was born in the small town of San Poblo, Guelatao. When Benito was 3 years old both of his parents died. Sadly him and is two older sisters had to move into their grandparents house, but unfortunately they died a few years later. By the time Benito’s sisters were old…
Juanes was born August 9, 1972 in Carolina del Principe, Colombia. He is the youngest child of Alicia Vasquez and Javier Aristizábal. His father called him Juanes, a contraction of his Juan Esteban which he later uses as his stage name. At age seven, Juanes learned to play the acoustic guitar from his father and older brothers, playing traditional Latin styles…
Hernando Cortes spent his early life quite ordinarily, and did not do anything quite admirable, until his conquest of the New World. Cortes was born in 1485 in Medellin Spain. He came from a lesser noble family in Spain. He never accomplished anything major as a child. However, people speculate that he studied at the University of Salamanca for a…
Joaquin Guzman Loera was born on April 4, 1957, in La Tuna de Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. He's been pinned as Chicago's number one enemy because he has connections with the Sinaloa Cartel. This cartel operates on every continent. After being captured by Mexican authorities he was placed into their most maximum security, but that can't stop El Chapo. He went into the shower area, then all of the sudden he's gone. Once the Mexican police officials found out that he was gone, they found a mile long tunnel, equipped with lights, air ventilation system, and to top it of a motorcycle on a rail. This man has quite the connections, not only does he escape from maximum security prisons but he does it on a motorcycle underground. That is absurd. Then end of the tunnel leads to an abandoned shack on a farm. Apparently El Chapo and his cartel are famous for the use…
On January 17,1899 in Brooklyn New York, Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born to Italian immigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone. Capone’s father was as a barber, and his mother was a seamstress.Gabriele and Teresina had seven sons and two daughters, of whom Alphonse was the fourth oldest.Capone’s life of crime began early as a teenager, Capone grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two kid gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors.Capone quit school in the sixth grade at age fourteen.…
Finally, one of the main reasons Joaquín Guzman is known is because of his extremely long history of drug trafficking. The Sinaloa took control of the cocaine trade extending from South America to the United States, under Guzman’s control. Sinaloa Cartel has also trafficked heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States. Eventually, the cartel’s ghastly behavior touched five continents and grew to be the biggest drug operation in the world. With a net worth of nearly $1 billion dollars and being the 10th richest man in Mexico was all because of his infamous drug…
During the collapse of the law and order during the 1920s Prohibition Era, Al Capone was America’s greatest known gangster in the United States. Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899. Growing up in rough neighborhood, Capone took part in being in two children’s gangs known as the Brooklyn Rippers and Forty Thieves. At the age of fourteen, Capone quit the sixth grade. In between his scams he worked as a clerk in a candy store, a pinboy in a bowling alley, and a cutter in a book bindery. He also took part in the notorious five point gang in Manhattan, working in Frankie Yale’s Brooklyn Dive, the Harvard Inn, and as a bartender and bouncer. ("Al Capone." Chicago High School.Web. 28 Sept. 2015.”)…
Capone was born poor in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Teresina Capone, was a very religious woman and a seamstress. His father, Gabriel Capone, was a very respectable barber. Their kids however, did not turn out like them. Al was one of 9 children, 7 sons and 2 daughters. Capone dropped out of school at 14. Even from a young age Capone built this idea of him being the hero or being in the limelight. He would build these gangs of children to help get back elderly people's possessions that the older kids stole. Once he got back their possessions he would throw a parade, painting himself the heroine. His brothers Ralph and Frank worked in the crime business with him. Ralph was in charge of the illegal and legal bottling companies. Frank died at a young age because of being in the crime business.…
Emiliano Zapata has garnered a cult of personality that shares a common trait with myths from the beginning of time in which people would create gods to worship and heroes to admire. Zapata was a revolutionary during the Mexican Revolution who stands out as one of the most admirable figures in Mexican history. From the state of Morelos near the city of Mexico, he started a practical movement for land redistribution in his home state that transforms into an ideology of rebelling against bad government and a true representation of the majority of Mexico. Zapata’s myth by this time has become ubiquitous in Mexico in which highways, streets, and a statue show his significance in Mexican history and various books were written about his life and…
Hernando de Soto was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain sometime around the year 1500. He was born to parents who lived in Extremadura, an area of great hardship and poverty. Like many young men at the time, de Soto longed to escape Extremadura and achieve military fame exploring new lands.…
Capone was born in Brooklyn in New York City to some Italian immigrants. He was considered a Five Points Gang member who became a bouncer for a strip club. In his early twenties, He decided to move to Chicago and became a body guard for a Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate who illegal supplies and sells alcohol. A conflict with the North Side Gang was Capone’s rise and fall. Torrio went in retirement because he was almost killed by some North Side gunmen, which handed control to Capone. Capone expanded the bootlegging business through violent means, but his mutually relationship with the mayor and the city…
Al Capone was born in the year 1899, in Brooklyn New York. This is where his mob life had begun. His family was poor and were also immigrants so he had nothing. School was difficult for him, so he dropped out just at the 6th grade. Life didn't become any easier for him after this. He began joining random street gangs, where it all started. One gang he joined was called “FBI”, and because of the gang Capone became a murdered.…
Hello kids, my name is Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Most of you should know a little about me because you studied about me but any way I am here to give you more information about me and my explorations. So everyone fasten your seatbelts!! We are going back to the world in the 1400’s.…