Gary Paulsen has written approximately two hundred of books during his career, including, perhaps most famously, the survival classic Hatchet, about a thirteen-year-old boy who survives a.
The collection of manuscript papers of Leibniz at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek – Niedersächische Landesbibliothek was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in [] Cultural references. Leibniz still receives popular attention. The Google Doodle for 1 July celebrated Leibniz's nd birthday.
O. Henry (born September 11, , Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, , New York, New York) was an American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City.
Niyi Osundare, (born in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria) is a prolific poet, dramatist and literary critic. Niyi Osundare attended the St. Luke’s Primary School and Amoye Secondary School, both in Ikere-Ekiti, before moving on to the Christ School, Ado-Ekiti, which has produced many of the country’s finest intellectuals.
Emilio Aguinaldo was a revolutionary political and military figure from the Philippines. He is officially regarded as the first and the youngest president of the Philippines and first president of a constitutional republic in Asia.
Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April He was born in a town in Austria-Hungary. His birthplace is modern-day Austria. His father Alois Hitler and mother Klara Pölzl moved to Germany when Adolf Hitler was 3 years old.
Emily Carr grew up in the patriarchal, devout colonial society of Victoria, embodied by her authoritarian father. In her childhood, she admired him until a “traumatic sexual accident” occurred. Her conflicted relationship with her father continued in her rebellion against the conservative role of women.
Matthias Schleiden was a German botanist born in Hamburg in His main contribution to science was the development with Theodor Schwann of the cell theory, which stated that cells are the basis of all living things.
Rudyard Kipling was born on the 30th of December in Bombay, India. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, was a sculpture and pottery designer and a professor at Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art. He was an Anglo-Indian who had a British origin but was born in India. In , Rudyard Kipling was sent to England for education.
William Randolph Hearst used his wealth and privilege to build a massive media empire. A founder of "yellow journalism," he was praised for his success and vilified by his.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (b. ) Franklin and Eleanor’s third child—Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.—suffered from a heart condition and died in at the age of seven months.
Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater who dominated women’s figure skating in the late s and early s. Although her career was briefly interrupted by health problems, she went on to become the first woman to win seven European championship titles.
This is the Coatesville, New Zealand mansion of Kim Dotcom (Kim Schmitz or Kim Tim Jim Vestor), the founder and "chief innovation officer" of MegaUpload. He is a computer hacker turned online file-sharing tycoon at the centre of an FBI-led crackdown on online piracy that has spread to New Zealand.