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With German tanks racing acrossFrance, 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.
Jimmy Carter
President Carter's policy of placing human rights records at the forefront ofAmerica's relationships with other nations contributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor inIndia, thus gaining her the name "Saint of the Gutters." The devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity inCalcutta,Indiadedicated to serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters inIndiato over3,000 in517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.
In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out ofCubaby the country's citizens. TheUnited Stateswelcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide when evidence suggested that Castro was using the refugee flight to empty his prisons.
In late 1992, Bush orderedU.S.troops intoSomalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war. The peacekeeping mission would prove the most disastrous sinceLebanon, and President Clinton abruptly called it off in 1993.
Winston Churchill
In the early 1930s, Conservative M.P. Winston Churchill issued unheeded warnings of the threat of Nazi aggression from his seat on a House of Commons backbench.
Thomas Edison
We can learn from the experience of the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison that sometimes a series of apparent failures is really aprecursor tosuccess. The voluminous personal papers ofEdisonreveal that his inventions typically did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works.
George Bush
On January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a massive U.S.-led military offensive againstIraqin thePersian Gulf.
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 oneof the most famous andprolificcomposers in art history. His music, including 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, several senates and so on, forms a transition from classical to romantic composition.
In the summer of 1940, the democracies of continental Europe fell toGermanyone by one, leavingGreat Britainalone in its resistance to Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader was confident that victory againstBritainwould come soon, but Churchill prophesied otherwise, telling his countrymen that the Battle of Britain would be "their finest hour."
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Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, isremembered and respectedby people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skills.
Bill Clinton
In 1994, President Clinton authorized a military operation to overthrowHaiti's military dictators and restore its democratically elected leader. On the eve of invasion, bloodshed was prevented when former president Jimmy Carter brokered an agreement withHaiti's leaders in which they pledged to give up power.
Eleven months after the signing of the Munich Pact,Germanybroke the peace in Europe by invadingPoland. A solemn Chamberlain had no choice but to declare war, and World War II began inEurope.
Nelson Mandela
Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism andantiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight againstracial oppressioninSouth Africawon him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head ofSouth Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.
Neville Chamberlain
In 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, an agreement that gaveCzechoslovakiaaway to Nazi conquest while bringing, as Chamberlain promised, "peace in our time."
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Bill Gates
When Bill Gates made his decision todrop out fromHarvard, he did not caretoo much of the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study in the world’s No.1 University. However, with size comes power, Microsoftdominatesthe PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows. Now, Microsoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world.
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