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Selasa, 23 November 2010

Rachel Carson - marine biologist and nature writer

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Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are attributed with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson in progress her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and become a full time nature writer in the 1950s. She extensively praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her financial safety and recognition as a gifted writer. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the republished edition of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. Together, her sea trilogy explores the entire of ocean life, from the shores to the exterior to the deep sea.

Carson had become anxious about the use of synthetic pesticides, several of which had been developed through the military funding of science since Second World War. In the late 1950s, Carson turned her notice to conservation and the environmental problems cause by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring, which bring environmental concerns to an unprecedented piece of the American public. Silent Spring spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy foremost to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticide and the grassroots environmental group the book inspired led to the creation of the Environmental safety Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential award of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.

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Born Name

Rachel Louise Carson

Date Of Birth

May 27, 1907

Place Of Birth

Springdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Occupation

Marine biologist, writer

Genres

Nature writing

Subjects

Marine biology, ecology, pesticides

Notable work(s)

Silent Spring

Date Of Death

April 14, 1964

Place Of Death

Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.

Rabu, 18 Agustus 2010

Harry Saltzman

Harry Saltzman was a Canadian theatre and film producer best known for his mega risk which resulted in his co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. He lived mainly of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire. About the age of 17 he together a circus and traveled with them for some years. By the start of second World War in 1939 he was serving in the Canadian Army in France. His profession in the war may have included some intelligence work. After the war, Saltzman ended up in Paris, where he met a migrant from Romania whom he married, Jaquie. In early 1961, eager by reading the James Bond novel Goldfinger, he made a bid to land film rights to the character. Saltzman co-founded Danjaq and S.A. with Albert R. Broccoli in 1962. It was a investment company responsible for the copyright and trademarks of James Bond on screen, and the parent company of EON Productions, which they also set up as a film making company for the Bond films.

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Born

October 27, 1915

Birth Place

St. John New Brunswick, Canada

Nationality

Canadian

Occupation

Film producer

Known for

James Bond Films

Spouse(s)

Jaquie Saltzman

Cause of death

Heart Attack

Died

September 28, 1994

Kamis, 12 Agustus 2010

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was served as the 42nd President of the United States. At 46 he was only the third-youngest president. He became president at the finish of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. Clinton has been describe as the New Democrat. Some of his policies, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform, have been credited to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance, while on other issues his carriage was left of center. Clinton presided over the maintenance of an economic expansion that would later become the highest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history. The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget excess in 2000, the last full year of Clinton's presidency. Clinton left office with the maximum end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since Second World War. Clinton produced the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote and address international causes such as cure and prevention of HIV/AIDS and global warming.

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Born

August 19, 1946

Birth Place

Hope, Arkansas

Birth name

William Jefferson Blythe III

Political party

Democratic

Spouse(s)

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Occupation

Lawyer

Religion

Baptist

Selasa, 10 Agustus 2010

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five star general in the United States Army and served as 34th President of the United States. During Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with liability for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first ultimate commander of NATO. He won by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and finish two decades of the New Deal Coalition holding the White House. Eisenhower fulfilled negotiations with China to end the Korean War. He maintained force on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons and reduced the other forces to save money. Historians typically rank Eisenhower among the ten best U.S. presidents.

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Born

October 14, 1890

Birth Place

Denison, Texas, U.S.A

Birth name

David Dwight Eisenhower

Political party

Republican

Spouse(s)

Mamie Doud Eisenhower

Occupation

Soldier

Religion

Presbyterian Church

Died

March 28, 1969

Death Place

Washington, D.C., U.S.A