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 Matthew Love  Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 
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Edward III of England (1312) Edward III, crowned at age 14, was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. After defeating the Scots, Edward laid claim to the French crown, provoking the conflict that would be known as the Hundred Years' War. Edward's long reign saw vital developments in legislature and governmentâ€â€in particular the evolution of the English parliamentâ€â€as well as the ravages of the Black Death   LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 829947 ·  |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Claude Monet (1840) Monet was a French painter who helped found the Impressionist movement in the late 19th century. His works include renowned en plein air, or outdoor, paintings, which capture natural landscapes with accents of sunlight and vibrant colors. He is also known for painting the same subject repeatedly, at different times of day and in different seasons, to show how changing light affects form LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 830689 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Sir Oswald Mosley (1896) Mosley was a British politician and the founder of the British Union of Fascists, which gathered steam in the 1930s on an anti-communist and protectionist platform. After the outbreak of World War II, Mosley's plan for a negotiated peace was at first well received. However, the tide turned after the invasion of Norway, and Mosley was interned along with other prominent British fascists. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 831367 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Soichiro Honda (1906) In the wake of WWII, Japanese citizens were faced with significant economic shortages. Realizing the commercial potential of a cheap and efficient mode of transportation, Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Co. and began selling small capacity motorcycles. By the 1970s, Honda was the largest motorcycle producer in the world. His company's clean-burning CVCC engine spurred an automotive revolution, and his cars won a large share of the US market LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 831493 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Indira Gandhi (1917) India's first and only female prime minister, Indira Gandhi held the position from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984. As leader, she instituted a number of economic reforms and fought a successful war against Pakistan. However, she was later embroiled in political controversy and a fierce ethnic conflict, which led to her assassination in 1984. Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, succeeded her as prime minister, but was himself assassinated by Tamil militants LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 832189 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Samuel Cunard (1787) Cunard was a Canadian-born British magnate and a giant of Atlantic shipping. When the British government invited bids in 1838 for carrying mail between England and Boston, Cunard's carefully considered plans won him the contract. Within two years, Cunard and several business partners had placed four ships in operation, establishing the first regular steamship service between the continents and marking the beginning of the noted Cunard Line LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 832846 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Billy the Kid (1859) Billy the Kid, whose real name was Henry McCarty, was an infamous outlaw and murderer who roamed the American West from his teenage years until his death at the age of 21. The young fugitive successfully escaped from prison several times before being killed by his friend Pat Garrett, a local sheriff. Although rooted in history, the story of Billy the Kid has developed into a popular legend. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 833642 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849) Burnett, an English-American playwright and author, is best known for her children's stories, particularly The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She began writing at the age of 18 in order to support her four young siblings after her mother's death. Her stories were initially printed in magazines, and her first novel was published in 1877. After her son's death in 1890, she embraced spiritualism. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 833876 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Andrew Carnegie (1835) Famed philanthropist and self-made man Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and businessman. He amassed a huge fortune in iron and steel during the American Industrial Revolution and later sold his firm to J.P. Morgan's U.S. Steel Corporation. He donated over $350 millionâ€â€the equivalent of more than $4 billion todayâ€â€to various charitable organizations before his death LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 834330 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Norbert Wiener (1894) Wiener was an American mathematician and educator who made significant contributions to a number of areas of mathematics, including harmonic analysis and Fourier transforms. He is best known, however, for his theory of cybernetics, the comparative study of control and communication in humans and machines. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 834461 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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James Agee (1909) Agee was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic who worked for Fortune, Time, and The Nation. His first major book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a commentary on the life of tenant farmers in the South in the 1930s, is ranked among the greatest literary works of the 20th century by the New York School of Journalism and the New York Public Library LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 834892 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Jacques Chirac (1932) Chirac served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He has played a critical role in the development of the European Union, of which France is a leading member. He has also been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq. At home, Chirac has faced criticism for his alleged involvement in various unlawful schemes LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 835410 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Fritz Lang (1890) Lang was a giant of the German Expressionist movement. Before fleeing Nazi Germany, he made two extraordinary films, Metropolis and M, that helped define the film noir and science fiction genres and continue to influence modern filmmaking. In the 1950s, Lang returned to Germany to make Indian Epic, now considered a masterpiece by many film scholars LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 837236 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Eli Whitney (1765) Whitney was the American inventor of the cotton gin, a mechanical device that separates cotton fiber from its seeds. His invention, which had immense economic and social ramifications, brought great wealth to many others, but little to Whitney himself. In 1798, he built a firearms factory, and his products were some of the first to have standardized, interchangeable parts. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 838120 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Mary Todd Lincoln (1818) Mary Todd Lincoln was a tragic figure of the American Civil War period. As First Lady, she was criticized for her use of taxpayers' money in refurbishing the White House and was even accused of being a Confederate spy. She struggled with depression after her husband's assassination and the deaths of three of her children, and she was committed to an insane asylum for three months in 1875 LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 839617 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Oscar Niemeyer (1907) Considered one of the most important figures in modern architecture, the Brazilian Niemeyer was a pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete. His buildings feature smooth curves that are distinct from those of his more utilitarian contemporaries. Niemeyer's remarkable work in the creation of Brazil's new capital, BrasÃÂlia, included his design for the President's Palace and the cathedral. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 840372 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Samuel Mudd (1833) Mudd, a physician and Confederate sympathizer, set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, just hours after Booth fled the crime scene at Ford's Theater. In 1865, Mudd was charged with conspiracy to murder the President, stood trial, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was pardoned by President Johnson in 1869 and returned to his home in Maryland LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 842474 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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Johannes Kepler (1571) Described by Carl Sagan as "the first astrophysicist and the last scientific astrologer," Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, Kepler derived the three famous laws of planetary motion, which established that the planets travel around the Sun in elliptical rather than circular orbits. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 845625 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892) Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a respected medieval scholar and university professor. The enduring influence of his works, which recount the fictional history of Middle Earth, has earned him recognition as "the father of modern fantasy literature." Recently, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series was adapted for film, and it soon became the world's highest grossing motion picture trilogy LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 849111 · |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich  Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 
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Professor Stephen Hawking´s birthday---->January 8th An extract of his personal webpage... Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war, Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St. Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At the age of eleven, Stephen went to St. Albans School and then on to University College, Oxford; his father's old college. Stephen wanted to study Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he pursued Physics instead. After three years and not very much work, he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science. See more visiting his web. Oh! I nearly forgot! Happy birthday!   
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