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Steve Jobs – creative genius

Steve Jobs – creative genius

Steve Jobs – creative genius

Steve Jobs has become a legend in the world of computers and gadgets and changed the way we all use technology.
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
In 1961, the family moved to Mountain View, California. This area was becoming a center of electronics, and soon people started to call it “Silicon Valley”. (Silicon is used to make all sorts of electronic parts.)
As a high school student, he boldly asked William Hewlett, co-founder and president of the Hewlett-Packard computer firm, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was impressed enough to give Jobs the parts and offer him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard.
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Victoria Louise Lott – Pixie Lott

Victoria Louise Lott - Pixie Lott

Victoria Louise Lott – Pixie Lott

Pixie Lott (her real name is Victoria Louise Lott) is a British singer-songwriter, dancer and actress.
She was born on January 12, 1991 in Bromley, south-east London. When Victoria was 13 years old her family moved to Brentwood, Essex.
When the little girl was born, her mother called her Victoria. But very soon she nicknamed her Pixie. ‘My mum nicknamed me Pixie as I was like a little fairy. My sister and brother who were one and two years old always called me Pixie and thought that was my name!”
At a very early age Victoria got interested in music. Her parents always had music playing loud around the house. At the age of 14 the girl began writing and recording demos.
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Alexander Pushkin – great Russian poet

Alexander Pushkin – great Russian poet

Alexander Pushkin – great Russian poet

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was the great Russian poet and prose writer. He not only brought Russian poetry to its highest excellence but also had a decisive influence on Russian literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. His work has been set to opera by Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Peter Tchaikovsky.
His work is distinguished by brilliance of language, compactness, terseness, and objectivity.
Pushkin was born on May 26, 1799 into a family of the middle nobility. On his father’s side he was a descendant of one of the oldest lines of Russian nobility, and on his mother’s side he was related to an Abyssinian, Abram Petrovich Hannibal, who had been kidnaped in Africa, brought to Constantinople, and sent as a gift to Russian Tsar Peter the Great. Pushkin was the least favored child, perhaps in part because of his African features and awkward manner. Only his grandmother and his nanny Arina Rodionova nurtured him emotionally; the latter told him folk tales and entertained him with gossip, and served later as the model for Tatiana’s nanny in Eugene Onegin.
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John Lennon – great English musician

John Lennon – great English musician

John Lennon – great English musician

John Lennon had unique talent, success, love and, above all, universal approval. He was one of the most iconic people on the planet in the 1960s and 1970s. John Winston Lennon (October 9, 1940, Liverpool – December 8, 1980, New York) was an English musician, poet, and songwriter. Lennon was a founder of The Beatles, the most important and influential group in the history of rock ‘n’ roll music.
There is a very special place in New York’s Central Park called Strawberry Fields – after the title of the Beatles song ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’.
When John Lennon was alive, it was his favourite place in Central Park. It’s close to the Dakota building where he had lived with his wife Yoko Ono and where he was murdered by a crazy fan, Mark Chapman on the 8th of December, 1980.
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King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

King Edward VIII gave up the throne because he was in love.
He was King of England for only one year, 1936. After his abdication Edward VIII (1894-1972) was Duke of Windsor.
The eldest son of George, Duke of York, and his wife, Princess Mary of Tech, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David was born on June 23, 1894, at Richmond Park, Surrey.
In order to prepare Prince Edward for his future responsibilities, his parents decided to have him trained for the Royal Navy. In 1907 he was sent to Osborne and from 1909 to 1911 attended the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
In 1911 he was invested as Prince of Wales in an impressive ceremony at Caernarvon Castle, Wales. In 1912 he was sent to Oxford to complete his education.
The eldest son of George V, Prince Edward (known to his family as David) was very popular with the British people.
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Winston Churchill – British prime minister

Winston Churchill - British prime minister

Winston Churchill – British prime minister

Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. He was one of the greatest public speakers of his time and Nobel laureate for literature.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, in Oxfordshire, England. He was the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory Democrat who achieved early success as a rebel in his party. His mother was Jenny Jerome, the beautiful and talented daughter of Leonard Jerome, a New York businessman.
He studied at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
In 1895 Churchill entered the British Army. In 1899 he joined the Conservatives, a British political party. His political career began as a member of the House of Commons in 1900.
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Ian Fleming – father of James Bond

Ian Fleming – father of James Bond

Ian Fleming – father of James Bond

Ian Fleming (his full name – Ian Lancaster Fleming) was an English writer, author of novels about the superspy James Bond. He created one of the major male icons of the second half of the twentieth century. By the time of his death Fleming had sold thirty million books.
Fleming was born on May 28, 1908 in London into a family of a major and member of the British parliament. He was a younger brother of author Peter Fleming.
After graduating from Eton College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and an unsuccessful attempt to get a job in the British Foreign Office Fleming became a journalist at Reuters News Agency.
In 1933, Fleming was sent on a business trip to Moscow and in the same year he left journalism.
In May 1939, on the eve of World War II, he joined the Navy and served in the UK intelligence. Very soon, he became the right-hand man to one of Britain’s top spymasters, Admiral John Godfrey.
One of Fleming’s best ideas was the creation of the 30 Assault Unit (known as ‘30 AU’). This unit went into action on the front lines and captured the enemy’s important documents and secret code books.
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