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Bill Gates
When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard, he did not care too
much of the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and A
llen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a go
od opportunity to study in the
world’s
No.1 University. However, with size comes power, Microso
ft dominates the PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows. Now, Mic
rosoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man
in the world.
Thomas Edison
We can learn from the experience of the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison
that sometimes a series of apparent failures is really a precursor to success. The voluminous perso
nal papers of Edison reveal that his inventions typically did not spring to life in a flash of inspirati
on but evolved slowly from previous works.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her
life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name
e devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 19
79. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to
serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters in
India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.
Diana Spencer Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Whales, is remembered and respected by
people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for
her technical skills.
Nelson Mandela Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was
awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is
one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedic
ation to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the
presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century o
f imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political dra
ma in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapar
theid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and ma
jority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equalit
y.
Beethoven Beethoven, the German Composer, began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was
entirely deaf by 1819. However, this obstacle could not keep him from becoming one of the most f
amous and prolific composers in art history. His music, including 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos
, several senates and so on, formes a transition from classical to romantic composition. George Bu
sh
On January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a ma
ssive U.S.-led military offensive against Iraq in the Persian Gulf.
In late 1992, Bush ordered U.S. troops into Somalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war.
The peacekeeping mission would prove the most disastrous since Lebanon, and President Clinton
abruptly called it off in 1993.
Jimmy Carter
President Carter's policy of placing human rights records at the forefront of America's relationship
s with other nations contributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s.
In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out of Cuba by the co
untry's citizens. The United States welcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide whe
n evidence suggested that Castro was using the refugee flight to empty his prisons. Neville Cham
berlain
In 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, an agreem
ent that gave Czechoslovakia away to Nazi conquest while bringing, as Chamberlain promised,
eace in our time.
n Europe by invading Poland. A solemn Chamberlain had no choice but to declare war, and World
War II began in Europe. Winston Churchill
In the early 1930s, Conservative M.P. Winston Churchill issued unheeded warnings of the threat o
f Nazi aggression from his seat on a House of Commons backbench.
With German tanks racing across France, Churchill spoke to the British people for the first time as
prime minister, and pledged a struggle to the last breath against Nazi conquest and oppression.
In the summer of 1940, the democracies of continental Europe fell to Germany one by one, leavin
g Great Britain alone in its resistance to Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader was confident that victory a
gainst Britain would come soon, but Churchill prophesied otherwise, telling his countrymen that t
he Battle of Britain would be
In 1994, President Clinton authorized a military operation to overthrow Haiti's military dictators a
nd restore its democratically elected leader. On the eve of invasion, bloodshed was prevented whe
n former president Jimmy Carter brokered an agreement with Haiti's leaders in which they pledge
d to give up power. Dwight D. Eisenhower
On June 5, 1944, the supreme Allied commander ordered commencement of the D-Day invasion, t
he largest combined sea, air, and land military operation in history. Eisenhower told the 3 million
men of the Allied Expeditionary Force,
In 1956, Israel, Britain, and France invaded Egypt in protest of its nationalization of the Suez Can
al. The U.S.S.R. and the United States, both vying for greater influence in the Middle East, forced
the three nations to end their occupation of the strategic canal. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
During the Battle of Britain, the children of King George VI delivered a radio address to British ch
ildren who had been evacuated abroad. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, like their parents, weat
hered the dark days of World War II in Britain. Gerald Ford
Nine days before the fall of Saigon, President Ford spoke on the resignation of South Vietnamese
President Thieu. Soon after, the United States launched a massive helicopter evacuation of tens of
thousands of anticommunist South Vietnamese and the last few Americans remaining in the countr
y. Mohandas Gandhi
In 1931, Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, was relea
sed from prison to attend the London Round Table Conference on India as the sole representative
of the Indian National Congress. Gorbache
s leader of the U.S.S.R., Mikhail Gorbachev was a great force for peace, even at the cost of the So
viet government's downfall after 74 years in power. Adolf Hitler
A few days before his occupation of the Sudetenland, a confident Hitler addressed a Nazi rally at
Berlin's Sportpalast stadium, and reassured the crowd that if war came with Britain and France the
German Wehrmacht would be victorious. Pope John Paul II
In 1995, the pope addressed the United Nations on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Reaffirmin
g his support of the ideals and goals of the U.N., he praised the Universal Declaration of Human R
ights and called for the U.N. to become the moral center of a family of nations. Nikita Khrushche
v and Richard Nixon
In a defining moment of the Cold War, Vice President Nixon and Soviet leader Khrushchev engag
ed in an impromptu debate about the merits and disadvantages of capitalism and communism. The
exchange, which took place in Moscow in front of a replica of a suburban American kitchen, was
known as the
On September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the most destructive war in human
history officially came to an end as representatives of the Japanese government and military signe
d their country's unconditional surrender.
After clashing with President Truman over war policy, MacArthur was relieved of his command of
U.N. forces in Korea and returned to the U.S. for the first time since before World War II. Given a
hero's welcome, he addressed a joint meeting of Congress, where he declared,
die, they just fade away.
In 1973, after five years of talks, the United States and North Vietnam reached a peace agreement t
o end U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Two years later, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces and V
ietnam was unified under Communist rule. Ronald Reagan
In 1984, Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons. Six years later, President Bu
sh and Soviet leader Gorbachev would sign a historic agreement to cease production and begin des
truction of both nations' sizable reserves.
In 1987, during a visit to Berlin, the president made a dramatic plea to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorb
achev to
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The day after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Con
gress, and proclaimed December 7
ress granted his request for an official declaration of war against Japan.
Two months before his death, Roosevelt met Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin for the last time
at Yalta in the U.S.S.R. The
st Germany and Japan, and compromised on their visions of the postwar world order. Tito
In 1963, Tito, the independent- minded communist leader of Yugoslavia since 1945, visited the Uni
ted States during a tour of the Americas. Harry Truman
Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, President Truman warned Japan of further atomic atta
cks until it surrendered. When no answer came, he authorized the dropping of a second atomic bo
mb on Nagasaki. Six days later, Japan surrendered.
In 1949, Truman signed the North Atlantic Treaty with 10 European nations and Canada--establish
ing the NATO military alliance.
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