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Top 50 Poems in History I - Phenomenal Woman
2008-05-06 03:12:00 PHENOMENAL WOMAN - Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. I walk into ... More About: History , Poems , Woman
Evan Williams
2008-04-29 02:48:00 Evan Williams was born in 1972 and is the founder of Obvious Corp, a San Francisco-based web product development company and co-founder of Twitter, a micro-blogging and social networking site. Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, where he worked most of 2003-04, to make project management software, but parts of the application were used ... More About: Celebrity , Evan
Michael Bloomberg
2008-04-22 11:38:00 Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of New York. Born on February 14, 1942 in Boston and raised by middle-class parents in Medford, Massachusetts, he was taught at an early age the values of hard work and civic responsibility. He attended Johns Hopkins University, where he paid his tuition by taking ... More About: Celebrity , Michael , Michael Bloomberg
Conan O?Brien
2008-04-20 06:00:00 Conan Christopher O’Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and TV writer, best known as host of NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Conan Christopher O’Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Ruth, an attorney, and Thomas Francis O’Brien, a professor of medicine and ... More About: Celebrity , Conan
David Letterman
2008-04-20 05:57:00 David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and comedian. His first major success occurred on the long-running NBC television program, Late Night with David Letterman , before moving to CBS in 1993 to his current place on the Late Show. In 1969, Letterman married Michelle Cook; the marriage ended ... More About: Celebrity , David
Jay Leno
2008-04-20 05:48:00 James Douglas Muir “Jay” Leno (April 28, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedian and television host, who succeeded Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show in 1992. Leno will remain with The Tonight Show until 2009, when Late Night host Conan O’Brien begins his scheduled succession. Leno was born in New Rochelle, New ... More About: Celebrity , Jay Leno
Stephen William Hawking
2008-04-20 03:26:00 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 ... More About: Celebrity , Stephen
Jeffrey R. Immelt
2008-04-14 05:57:00 Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE’s Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in ... More About: Celebrity , Jeffrey
Harry Frankfurt
2008-04-13 06:11:00 Frankfurt (born May 29, 1929) is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University. He previously taught at Yale University and Rockefeller University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1954 at Johns Hopkins University. His major areas of interest include moral philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and 17th century rationalism. His 1986 paper On Bullshit, ... More About: Celebrity , Frankfurt , Harry
Charlie Rose
2008-04-11 07:19:00 Emmy Award-winning Charlie Rose entered television journalism full-time in 1974, when he became the managing editor of the PBS series Bill Moyers’ International Report. He later worked with Moyers on two other series: Bill Moyers’ Journal and U.S.A.: People and Politics. From 1984 to 1990 he anchored Nightwatch, the CBS television network’s ... More About: Celebrity , Charlie Rose
Rupert Murdoch
2008-04-11 04:52:00 Rupert Murdoch is the primary shareholder and Chief Executive of The News Corporation, Ltd., one of the largest and most powerful media companies ... More About: Celebrity , Rupert Murdoch
Prof. Edmund M. Clarke - 2007 Turing Award Winner
2008-04-06 09:47:00 Edmund M. Clarke received a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 1967, an M.A. degree in mathematics from Duke University, Durham NC, in 1968, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University, Ithaca NY, in 1976. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught in the Department of Computer ... More About: Celebrity , Prof , Award , Winner
Drayton Bird
2008-04-02 03:49:00 The Chartered Institute of Marketing named Drayton Bird one of 50 living individuals who have shaped today?s marketing. Others included Philip Kotler, Tom Peters and Theodore Levitt. The late David Ogilvy said he ?knows more about direct marketing than anyone in the world.? His book, Commonsense Direct Marketing (1982) is in its fifth edition. Out in ... More About: Celebrity
Doug Engelbart
2008-04-02 01:43:00 Douglas Engelbart has always been ahead of his time, having ideas that seemed far-fetched at the time but later were taken for granted. For instance, as far back as the 1960s he was touting the use of computers for online conferencing and collaboration. Engelbart’s most famous invention is the computer mouse, also developed in the ... More About: Celebrity , Doug
Howard Schultz
2008-03-30 05:33:00 Howard Schultz is the founder of Starbucks Corporation and serves as Chairman of the board, Chief Executive Officer and President. Mr. Schultz has served as chairman of the board since inception in 1985 and in January 2008, he resumed his role as president and chief executive officer. From June 2000 to February 2005, Mr. Schultz ... More About: Celebrity , Howard
Liu Chuanzhi
2008-03-23 05:25:00 Liu Chuanzhi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu province. He was born in 1944. He is the founder of Legend Holdings Limited, and he is currently the president of the company and chairman of Legend Capital and Legend Group Limited. He graduated from Xian Military Communications Engineering Institute in 1966. He ... More About: Celebrity
Prof. Larry H.P. Lang
2008-03-22 10:49:00 Chair Prof essor of Finance The Faculty of Business Administration The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prof. Lang got both his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He had been lecturer at ... More About: Celebrity , Larry
Yang Yuanqing
2008-03-19 10:55:00 Yang Yuanqing is chairman of the board of Lenovo Group Limited. Prior to assuming his current position, he was the president and chief executive officer of Lenovo. Mr. Yang joined Lenovo in 1989 and became CEO in 2001. Under his leadership, Lenovo has been China’s best-selling PC brand since 1997. In 1999, Lenovo ranked as ... More About: Celebrity , Yang
Jason Nanchun Jiang
2008-03-17 11:45:00 Jason Nanchun Jiang, our founder, has served as the chairman of our board of directors since May 2003. He has served as our chief executive officer from 2003 to March 2008. From 1994 to 2003, Mr. Jiang was the chief executive officer of Everease Advertising Corporation, which is one of the top 50 advertising agencies ... More About: Celebrity , Jason
Michael Minhong Yu
2008-03-16 08:52:00 Michael Minhong Yu is the founder of New Oriental and serves as the Chairman of the Board and as our Chief Executive Officer. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Young Entrepreneurs Association and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Education of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. Prior to founding New ... More About: Celebrity , Michael
William Lei Ding
2008-03-16 08:48:00 Mr. Ding established NetEase in 1997 and has been a major force in the development of the ... More About: Celebrity , William
All Nobel Laureates in Literature
2008-03-15 10:28:00 * 2007 - Doris Lessing * 2006 - Orhan Pamuk * 2005 - Harold Pinter * 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek * 2003 - J. M. Coetzee * 2002 - Imre Kertész * 2001 - V. S. Naipaul * 2000 - Gao Xingjian * 1999 - Günter Grass * 1998 - José Saramago * 1997 - Dario Fo * 1996 - Wislawa Szymborska * 1995 - Seamus Heaney * ... More About: Literature , Celebrity , Nobel
David Heinemeier Hansson
2008-03-15 07:07:00 David Heinemeier Hansson is a programmer and evangelist of Less Software. He’s the creator of applications like Instiki, Basecamp, and Ta-da, and works with the open source community and design extraordinaires 37signals. Since its release in late July 2004, he’s also been leading the development of Ruby on Rails, a web application framework and environment ... More About: Celebrity , David
William Blake
2008-03-13 05:50:00 William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier, and Catherine Blake. Two of his six siblings died in infancy. From early childhood, Blake spoke of having visions?at four he saw God “put his head to the window”; around age nine, while walking dathrough the countryside, he saw a tree ... More About: Celebrity , William Blake , William
Robert Burns
2008-03-13 05:45:00 Robert Burns was born at Alloway, near Ayr, Scotland, the son of a farmer. Reared on a diet of austerity and Calvinistic rectitude, Robert received no formal education. He trained as a flax dresser initially, taking over the family farm with his brother on his father’s death. Following a number of passionate love affairs, he married ... More About: Celebrity , Robert
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2008-03-13 05:41:00 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads,(1798) written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, as the youngest son of the vicar of Ottery St Mary. After his father’s death Coleridge was sent away to Christ’s Hospital School in ... More About: Celebrity , Samuel
Top 100 Books
2008-03-08 07:27:00 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and ... More About: Books
Jack Welch
2008-02-29 04:35:00 born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He joined General Electric (GE) after earning his PhD in chemical engineering (1960). Through his aggressive marketing of the company’s plastics, materials, and consumer goods and services, he earned steady promotions (vice-president 1972, senior vice-president 1977?9, vice-chairman 1979?81) before becoming GE’s youngest-ever chairman and chief executive officer (1981). Regarded as ... More About: Celebrity , Jack , Jack Welch , Welch
?op 100 movies
2008-02-29 01:24:00 * Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972) * * The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959) * * The Awful Truth (1937) * * Baby Face (1933) * * Bande à part (1964) * * Barry Lyndon (1975) * * Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) * * Blade Runner (1982) * * Bonnie and Clyde (1967) * * Brazil (1985) * * Bride of Frankenstein (1935) * * Camille (1936) * * Casablanca (1942) * * Charade (1963) * * Children of Paradise (1945) * * Chinatown (1974) * * ... More About: Movies
Tracy McGrady
More articles from this author:2008-02-26 06:39:00 Earned All-NBA Second Team at guard in his third campaign with Houston ? averaged 24.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and a career-best 6.5 assists in 71 games (71 starts) ? ranked T-10th in the NBA in scoring average and 12th in assists per game ? recorded 30 or more points in 23 games (Rockets record: 19-4), ... More About: Celebrity , Tracy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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