15 Things You Didn’t Know About...
Famous Leaders 1.
W hen Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2001, she became the only American First Lady to hold national office.
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W hile still in high school, Mark Zuckerberg created an early version of the music software Pandora, which he called Synapse.
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W hen Cleopatra’s father died and she became queen, it is likely that she married her younger brother, a practice that was customary at the time.
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B illy Graham has been rated by the Gallop organization as “One of the Ten Most Admired Men in the World” 51 times.
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Q ueen Victoria was queen of Great Britain for 63 years—longer than any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history.
10. C hristopher Columbus’s first voyage into the
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S itting Bull had a vision of defeating U.S. soldiers, and in 1876, his dream came true: He and his people defeated General Custer’s army in a skirmish, now known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He later joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (earning $50 a week) and converted to Catholicism.
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R osa Parks, famous for not giving up her seat on a bus during the Civil Rights Movement, had a very short trial that started a movement known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Following a 30-minute hearing, Rosa was found guilty of violating a local ordinance and was fined $10, as well as a $4 court fee. J ohn F. Kennedy really liked books in high school. He frequently read for enjoyment, but rarely read the books his teachers assigned. He was ill often during his childhood, suffering severe colds, the flu, scarlet fever, and other undiagnosed diseases that forced him to miss months of school at a time and occasionally brought him close to death. B ono joined the band U2 when he was still in high school.
Source: www.biography.com
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Atlantic Ocean in 1476 nearly cost him his life. The fleet he was sailing was attacked by French privateers off the coast of Portugal. His ship was burned, which meant that Columbus had to swim to the Portuguese shore and make his way to Lisbon, Portugal. That’s where he eventually settled and married Felipa Perestrello.
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S hawn Johnson began gymnastics when she was three, has won four Olympic gold medals, and won season eight of Dancing with the Stars.
12. Michael Jordan has a bachelor’s degree in geography.
13. E ven though she is no longer making new
episodes, Oprah Winfrey’s talk show is still seen on nearly 212 U.S. stations and in more than 100 countries worldwide. She also has donated more than $51 million to charities.
14. P rince William supports many charities, including Centrepoint, an organization for homeless youth, and the Tusk Trust, which is dedicated to preserving African wildlife.
15. S teve Jobs was born in San Francisco to two
University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. The products his company Apple created (iPod, iPhone, iPad, and more) are seen as shaping the direction of modern technology.