1. Bill Gates :
Bill Gates created his first
computer program while still at high
school, co-founded Microsoft in
1977, and by 1993 was the richest
man on Earth. In 2000 Gates and
his wife formed the Bill & Melinda
Gates foundation, which is the
largest charity in the world. One of
its aim is to exempt the Third World
of polio and other deadly diseases.
2. Martin Luther King :
Martin Luther King was a Baptist
minister who campaigned against
the segregation of blacks in the
Southern states of the United
States. He was influenced by
Gandhi and believed in peaceful
protest. He won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1964. King was
assassinated in 1968, but will
always be remembered for his
dignified, passive resistance to an
unjust society.
3. Nelson Mandela :
Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to
the fight against apartheid – a
policy which kept black and white
South Africans apart and denied
black citizens the vote. He was
imprisoned in 1964 for his
aggressive opposition to South
Africa’s racist government and was
held for 26 years. In 1990, after his
release, Mandela was elected
President of the African National
Congress. In 1993 he won the
Nobel Peace Prize for his work to
end apartheid
4. Adolf Hitler :
Adolf Hitler was Germany’s leader
from 1933 – 1945, during time
which he led the world into the
most devastating war in history.
Hitler’s hatred of Jewish people and
his desire for a blue-eyed, blond-
haired master race led to the
murder of six million people during
World War II; most died in
concentration camp in Eastern
Europe.
5. Albert Einstein :
Albert Einstein was one of the
greatest of all physicists and his
name has become a symbol of
genius. When his most famous
work, the General Theory Of
Relativity was proven in 1919,
Einstein became the most
celebrated scientist in the world
and he won the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 192 1. Einstein was a
firm believer in pacifism but his
scientific theories helped his
adopted country, the USA, to
develop the atomic bomb. A week
before he died Einstein wrote to
Bertrand Russell, a British
Philosopher and leading antinuclear
campaigner, asking to put his name
to a manifesto urging all countries
to give up their nuclear weapons.
6. Mahatma Gandhi :
Gandhi began his career as a lawyer
but became a great political and
spiritual leader. He led the peaceful
civil disobedience of Indians against
British rule in India and negotiated
with the British Government until
1947, when India was granted
independence. Gandhi became the
first icon of a people’s
struggleagains oppression. His
simple lifestyle and his belief in
religious tolerance have made him
a symbol of decency and peace
ever since.
7. Karl Marx's :
Karl Marx's ideas on economic
history and sociology changed the
world. Marx was a social philosopher
who attacked the state and
predicted a future in which
everyone was equal. He explained
his theories in the Communist
Manifesto (compiled with Friedrich
Engels and published in 1848) and
Das Kapital (1867 – 94). His ideas
eventually led to the Russian
Revolution and communism. By
1950 almost half of the world‘s
people lived under communist
regimes.
8. Charles Darwin :
Naturalist Charles Darwin
established the theory of evolution.
He began forming his ideas when
he served as official naturalist on a
world voyage on HMS Beagle (1831
– 36) and spent the rest of his life
back in England developing them.
When his famous book The Origin
of Species by Means of Natural
Selections was published in 1859,
there were violent reactions against
it. Darwin challenged the Bible’s
account of creation and explained
that human being are descended
from an ape-like ancestor. Another
English naturalist, Alfred Russell
Wallace, independently developed
very similar ideas at the same time
as Darwin.
9. William Shakespeare :
William Shakespeare is generally
agreed to be the greatest play
writer in the English language. He
began as an actor and wrote atleast
154 love poems and 37 plays,
including Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo
and Juliet and Macbeth.
Shakespeare also probably
introduced more than 1,700 new
words to the English Language.
10. Christopher Columbus :
Christopher Columbus is one of
the most famous of all explorers.
He believed he could reach Asia by
sailing west across the Atlantic
Ocean and in 1492 he set sail in the
Santa Maria to prove his theory.
Instead, he landed on the
islands now known as the West
Indies. His discoveries led to the
European explorations and
settlement of the Americas.
Bill Gates created his first
computer program while still at high
school, co-founded Microsoft in
1977, and by 1993 was the richest
man on Earth. In 2000 Gates and
his wife formed the Bill & Melinda
Gates foundation, which is the
largest charity in the world. One of
its aim is to exempt the Third World
of polio and other deadly diseases.
2. Martin Luther King :
Martin Luther King was a Baptist
minister who campaigned against
the segregation of blacks in the
Southern states of the United
States. He was influenced by
Gandhi and believed in peaceful
protest. He won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1964. King was
assassinated in 1968, but will
always be remembered for his
dignified, passive resistance to an
unjust society.
3. Nelson Mandela :
Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to
the fight against apartheid – a
policy which kept black and white
South Africans apart and denied
black citizens the vote. He was
imprisoned in 1964 for his
aggressive opposition to South
Africa’s racist government and was
held for 26 years. In 1990, after his
release, Mandela was elected
President of the African National
Congress. In 1993 he won the
Nobel Peace Prize for his work to
end apartheid
4. Adolf Hitler :
Adolf Hitler was Germany’s leader
from 1933 – 1945, during time
which he led the world into the
most devastating war in history.
Hitler’s hatred of Jewish people and
his desire for a blue-eyed, blond-
haired master race led to the
murder of six million people during
World War II; most died in
concentration camp in Eastern
Europe.
5. Albert Einstein :
Albert Einstein was one of the
greatest of all physicists and his
name has become a symbol of
genius. When his most famous
work, the General Theory Of
Relativity was proven in 1919,
Einstein became the most
celebrated scientist in the world
and he won the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 192 1. Einstein was a
firm believer in pacifism but his
scientific theories helped his
adopted country, the USA, to
develop the atomic bomb. A week
before he died Einstein wrote to
Bertrand Russell, a British
Philosopher and leading antinuclear
campaigner, asking to put his name
to a manifesto urging all countries
to give up their nuclear weapons.
6. Mahatma Gandhi :
Gandhi began his career as a lawyer
but became a great political and
spiritual leader. He led the peaceful
civil disobedience of Indians against
British rule in India and negotiated
with the British Government until
1947, when India was granted
independence. Gandhi became the
first icon of a people’s
struggleagains oppression. His
simple lifestyle and his belief in
religious tolerance have made him
a symbol of decency and peace
ever since.
7. Karl Marx's :
Karl Marx's ideas on economic
history and sociology changed the
world. Marx was a social philosopher
who attacked the state and
predicted a future in which
everyone was equal. He explained
his theories in the Communist
Manifesto (compiled with Friedrich
Engels and published in 1848) and
Das Kapital (1867 – 94). His ideas
eventually led to the Russian
Revolution and communism. By
1950 almost half of the world‘s
people lived under communist
regimes.
8. Charles Darwin :
Naturalist Charles Darwin
established the theory of evolution.
He began forming his ideas when
he served as official naturalist on a
world voyage on HMS Beagle (1831
– 36) and spent the rest of his life
back in England developing them.
When his famous book The Origin
of Species by Means of Natural
Selections was published in 1859,
there were violent reactions against
it. Darwin challenged the Bible’s
account of creation and explained
that human being are descended
from an ape-like ancestor. Another
English naturalist, Alfred Russell
Wallace, independently developed
very similar ideas at the same time
as Darwin.
9. William Shakespeare :
William Shakespeare is generally
agreed to be the greatest play
writer in the English language. He
began as an actor and wrote atleast
154 love poems and 37 plays,
including Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo
and Juliet and Macbeth.
Shakespeare also probably
introduced more than 1,700 new
words to the English Language.
10. Christopher Columbus :
Christopher Columbus is one of
the most famous of all explorers.
He believed he could reach Asia by
sailing west across the Atlantic
Ocean and in 1492 he set sail in the
Santa Maria to prove his theory.
Instead, he landed on the
islands now known as the West
Indies. His discoveries led to the
European explorations and
settlement of the Americas.
Comments
Post a Comment