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Born: 7/6/1946 Birthplace: New Haven, Conn. George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Conn., the first child of future president George H. W. Bush. In 1948, the family moved to Odessa, Tex., where the senior Bush went to work in the oil business. George W. grew up mainly in Midland, Tex., and Houston, and later attended two of his father's alma maters, Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Yale. After graduating from Yale with a history degree in 1968, Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard, where he served as a part-time fighter pilot until 1973. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1975, he returned to Texas, where he established his own oil and gas business. In 1977 he met and married his wife, Laura Welch, a librarian. The couple has twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, born in 1981. Coming from a prominent political family—his grandfather Prescott Bush had been a senator from Connecticut and his father a U.S. congres...

Born: 2/22/1732 Birthplace: Westmoreland County, Va.  >>George Washington was born on Feb. 22, 1732 (Feb. 11, 1731/2, old style) in Westmoreland County, Va. While in his teens, he trained as a surveyor, and at the age of 20 he was appointed adjutant in the Va. militia. For the next three years, he fought in the wars against the French and Indians, serving as Gen. Edward Braddock's aide in the disastrous campaign against Ft. Duquesne. In 1759, he resigned from the militia, married Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow with children, and settled down as a gentleman farmer at Mount Vernon, Va. >>As a militiaman, Washington had been exposed to the arrogance of the British officers, and his experience as a planter with British commercial restrictions increased his anti-British sentiment. He opposed the Stamp Act of 1765 and after 1770 became increasingly prominent in organizing resistance. A delegate to the Continental Congress, Washington was selected as...

Short Biography profile and facts about the life of Johann Gutenberg: The following biography information provides basic facts and information about the life and history of Johann Gutenberg a famous Medieval character of the Middle Ages: Nationality: German Lifespan: c1400 - 1468 Date of Birth: He was born c1400 - his exact date of birth is unknown Family connections : He was the the son of a Goldsmith merchant called Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden. The family adopted the surname "zum Gutenberg" after the name of their neighborhood Career: German metal-worker and inventor Date of Death: Johann Gutenberg died on February 3, 1468 Character of Johann Gutenberg: Determined, tenacious and ambitious Accomplishments or why Johann Gutenberg was famous: the inventor of the art of printing with movable types Johann Gutenberg The story and biography of Johann Gutenberg which contains interesting information, facts & the history about the life of t...

Thomas Edison Born : 1847 - 1931 He was born in Milan, Ohio in America. When he was seven, his teacher lost patience with his persistent questioning and selfish behaviour and suggested that Thomas might be mentally unstable. (Today, he would probably have been labelled as having attention deficit syndrome and given Ritalin). His mother was not happy with this and started teaching him from home instead of sending him to school. He managed to read everything in his local library including some really difficult books like Isaac Newton's "Principia", which is so difficult, not many adults have ever read it. He started to lose his hearing about this time, and became almost totally deaf. He felt this helped him concentrate on his inventions, and when he was offered an operation to help him hear again later in life, he refused to have it done. Thomas Edison died On Oct. 18th, 1931 in New Jersey at age 84. On the evening of the day that he was laid to rest, people al...

Albert Einstein was born as the first child of the Jewish couple Hermann and Pauline Einstein, nee Koch, in Ulm on March 14, 1879 . When Albert’s grandmother saw him for the first time she is said to have cried continuously: "Much too thick! Much too thick!" But despite all fear the development of young Albert was a normal one. In November 1881 Albert’s sister Maria – called  Maja  – was born. A short time later the Einstein family went to Munich where Albert first attended elementary school and subsequently Luitpold grammar school. He was an "average" pupil but already very early interested in science and mathematics. He did not like lessons in grammar school as they were held with strict discipline and as he was forced to learn. When he turned 15 he left school without any degree and followed his family to Milan. To make up for the missed degree he attended school in Aarau (Switzerland) from 1895 to 1896 when he successfully took his A-levels and b...

So you think you know Albert Einstein: the absent-minded genius who gave us the theory of relativity (two of them, in fact, special theory and general theory of relativity), but did you know that Einstein was born with such a large head that his mother thought he was deformed? Or that Einstein had a secret child before he was married? Read on for more obscure facts about the life of the world’s smartest genius: 1. Einstein Was a Fat Baby with Large Head When Albert’s mother, Pauline Einstein gave birth to him, she thought that Einstein's head was so big and misshapen that he was deformed! As the back of the head seemed much too big, the family initially considered a monstrosity. The physician, however, was able to calm them down and some weeks later the shape of the head was normal. When Albert's grandmother saw him for the first time she is reported to have muttered continuously "Much too fat, much too fat!" Contrasting all apprehensions Albert grew and de...

‘These great children of Light, who manifest the light themselves, they, being worshipped, become as it were, one with us and we have become one with them.’ It is easier to have faith in the Personal God than in the impersonal. God dons the earthly cloak. He bodies forth the creation of His own time, and casts a far-flung glance into the yet unborn to bring it into existence. He reveals Himself to each individual according to his power of receptivity. To the beginner, Christ would immediately speak of the Personal God: ‘Pray to your Father in Heaven.’ To the one a little more advanced, he would say, ‘I am the vine, ye are the branches.’ But to the one who was fully advanced and his dear disciple, he would proclaim: ‘I and my Father are One.’ We find the same truth echoed in Sri Ramakrishna’swords. He disclosed to his beloved Naren (Vivekananda), ‘He who is Rama, He who is Krishna, dwells at once in this body as Ramakrishna.’ It is a sad fact ...

Swami Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as Narendra Nath Datta , was born in an affluent family in Kolkata on 12 January 1863. His father, Vishwanath Datta , was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects, and his mother, Bhuvaneshwari Devi , was endowed with deep devotion, strong character and other qualities. A precocious boy, Narendra excelled in music, gymnastics and studies. By the time he graduated from Calcutta University, he had acquired a vast knowledge of different subjects, especially Western philosophy and history. Born with a yogic temperament, he used to practise meditation even from his boyhood, and was associated with Brahmo Movement for some time. With Sri Ramakrishna At the threshold of youth Narendra had to pass through a period of spiritual crisis when he was assailed by doubts about the existence of God. It was at that time he first heard about Sri Ramakrishna from one of hi...

 BHAKTHI To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ ; always think of the attributes of God. (Notes taken down in Madras 1892-1893) Bhakti is a higher thing higher than even desiring heaven. The idea of heaven is of a place of intensified enjoyment. How can that be God? (Notes from a lecture On Bhakti Yoga) Bhakti-Yoga is the path of systematised devotion for the attainment of union with the Absolute. It is the easiest and surest path to religion or realisation. When love to God is revealed and is all, this world appears like a drop. BOOK LEARNING Even he who has seen only a spook is more spiritual than book-learned pundits. BRAHMIN The Brahmin has done great things for India ; he is doing great things for India , and he is destined to do still greater things for India in the future. (Attributed to Swamiji,  (December,1892...