US President Joe Biden Biography

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Barack Obama graduation speech: Arizona State University (ASU)

President Michael Crow introduces President of the United States, Barack Obama, as he addresses the 2009 graduating class with words of wisdom. President Obama warns about chasing titles in the midst of the financial crisis and encourages graduates to pursue passions in order to contribute to a better world. He teaches that a focus on outwards markers of success can lead to the complacency that has lead the world into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Instead, we should leave the legacy of innovation and discovery to advance research, as well as assume responsibility over the economic, social and cultural health of our world.

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Steve Job's Speech at Standford University

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

Yuri Gagarin- 108 minutes that changed the world

This news spread around the world. In the Soviet Union people flooded onto the , at that point there was anyone on the planet who didn’t know the name of the first man to fly to the  – Yuri Gagarin.

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Yuri Gagarin, 12th of April 1961

Burns' Night or Burns' supper

Burns Night is annually celebrated in Scotland on or around January 25. It commemorates the life of the bard(poet) Robert Burns, who was born on January 25, 1759. The day also celebrates Burns' contribution to Scottish culture. Burns' best known work is "Auld Lang Syne".

 What do people do?

Many people and organizations hold a Burns' supper on or

Extensive listening: Lionel Messi’s Biography

Extensive listening is when you listen to a lot of different recordings that are all about the same topic or idea. To do the extensive listening activity you first need to chose a topic that you are really interested in and that you can find a lot of listening materials about.

Body found under parking lot is King Richard III, scientists prove

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/03/world/europe/richard-iii-search-announcement

Leicester, England (CNN) -- DNA tests have confirmed that human remains found buried beneath an English car park are those of the country's King Richard III. British scientists announced Monday they are convinced "beyond reasonable doubt" that a skeleton found during an

The question of philanthropy. A. Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor family of weavers in a small town in Scotland, in 1835. After emigrating with his family to America in 1848, he started his first job at the age of only thirteen, working in a cotton mill as a 'bobbin boy', his task being to change the spools of thread on the machines. For this, he earned one dollar twenty a week.

A Mother's Promise: Barack's Biography

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• NAME: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
• OCCUPATION: Lawyer, U.S. President, U.S. Representative
• BIRTH DATE: August 04, 1961 (Age: 51)
• EDUCATION: Punahou Academy, Occidental College, Columbia University, Harvard Law School
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Honolulu, Hawaii

• AKA: Barack Obama
• ZODIAC SIGN: Leo

Biography of Barak Obama

The First Man on the Moon

The Life of Charles Dickens

Steve Jobs, Apple Visionary: 1955-2011

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Shakespeare's 'co-author' named by Oxford scholars

By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent. The Globe re-created in London: Did the original theatre have a double billing with Thomas Middleton?

All's Well That Ends Well has another author as well as William Shakespeare, according to research from Oxford University academics.

Thomas Middleton has been revealed as the most likely co-author, according to in-depth analysis of the play's vocabulary, rhyming, style and grammar.

Yuri Gagarin: 108 Minutes That Changed the World

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This news spread around the world. In the Soviet Union people flooded onto the , at that point there was  anyone on the planet who didn’t know the name of the first man to fly to the  – Yuri Gagarin.

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Life and Career of Demi Moore

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