Bob Dylan

Robert Allen Zimmerman known as Bob Dylan was born in the city of Duluth (United States) on May 24, 1941.
The grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants to Bob Dylan 10 years of age began to write poems in his adolescence learned to play piano and guitar alone. He began his career in rock band teenager who imitated Little Richard and Buddy Holly.
When he entered the University of Minnesota in 1959, began his admiration for folk music, impressed with the musical work of the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, who was visiting New York in 1961.
In 2004, Bob Dylan was chosen by Rolling Stone as the 2nd best artist of all time, behind only the Beatles and one of its main song, "Like a Rolling Stone" was voted the best of all time .

 What influenced great names of American and British rock of the 1960s and 1970s.
Bob Dylan also paints and draws and launched a book of drawings "Drawn Blank" in 1994
Always passionate about the arts, painted pictures and made ​​his first exhibition called "The Drawn Blank Series" at the Museum Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz (Germany) between October 2007 and February 3, 2008 with 175 watercolors and gouaches.

Tarantula Dylan wrote the book in 1966, but was not published until 1971. In Brazil, the book was published in 1986 by Publisher Brasiliense (Collection of Circus Arts) translated by Paulo Henriques Britto.
Bob Dylan is still touring the world.

Madre Teresa of Calcuta

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa, was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje in Macedonia, but believes it was born on August 27, 1910 because it was the date of his baptism. Mother Teresa was a Catholic missionary, considered by many to be a missionary of the twentieth century. Mother Teresa is the daughter of Albanian parents and has two more brothers. Mother Teresa began her religious vows for 18 years in the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland where he lived for a short time.

He began his mission in India as a teacher in Sishi Bavan (House of Hope), which was founded in 1952, then joined the institution - to the home of the slain or in Kalighat.
Mother Teresa was the project of creating their own institution in 1965 and help the Holy See approved the construction of the Missionary Congregation of Charity, who from 1968 to 1989 aid to various countries established such as: Albania, Russia, Cuba, Canada, Palestine , Bangladesh, Australia, United States, Italy and China.
Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize on 17 October 1979 and the Templeton Prize in 1973.

Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997 in Calcutta India ate age 87 of a heart attack while preparing for religious sereed for the death of Daina Princess of Wales, her friend, who dies in a car crash in Paris, The continuity of his work by his sister Nirmala elected Pope as his successor on March 13, 1997.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta pregrava the following message: " No bombs or weapons we use to conquer the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. " Created the Missionaries of Charity, where all the nuns would not help her, but to all in need. All registered."

 

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa

As''I love love love. I know of no other reason to love but to love. What do you want to tell you, and I love you, if what I tell you is that I love?''Fernando Pessoa


    The above was written by one of the greatest Portuguese poets of history, which together with Luís Vaz Camões is named one of the most important writers of the poet in Portuguese culture.
    Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon - Portugal on June 13, 1888 come and he died on November 30, 1935 also in London at age 47, victim of a liver cirrhosis. His last sentence was written in English:''I know not what tomorrow Will bring ...'' (''I do not know what tomorrow will bring'').
    Fernando Pessoa learned English when he moved to South Africa for six years because of the marriage of his mother. Of the four works in his lifetime he published three of them were written in English.
    Throughout life Fernando P. worked in various areas such as: manager, editor, literary critic, political activist, translator, journalist, inventor, publicist and advertising, while that produced his literary work, he served as correspondent in many commercial enterprises.
    Fernando Pessoa published works: 35 sonnets in 1918 (English) English Poemsl-ll and English Poems lll in 1922 (English), Message in 1934 (Portuguese), the winning work by the 'Secretary of National Propaganda' in the category poem, The Interregnum in 1928 (Portuguese), a book that consists of a Defense of Military Dictatorship in Portugal.
    Fernando Pessoa followed the Gnostic Christian religion and was therefore against all organized churches in the main Catholic church. 

 On February 1, 1913 Fernando Pessoa wrote a letter to his friend Mario Beirão which will be shown in an excerpt below:

 "I am currently going through one of those crises that, when they do in agriculture is usually called" crisis of abundance. " My soul is in a state of rapid ideation so intense that I need to my attention a notebook, and yet there are many papers I have to fill some are lost, they were so many, and if others can not read then, for more than written in a hurry. The ideas that cause me lose a great torture, that torture to survive dark mind others. V. hardly imagine that the Rua do Arsenal, on movement, has been my poor head. English verse, Portuguese, arguments, themes, projects, bits of things that do not know what they are letters which I can not begin or end, lightning reviews, murmurs of metaphysical ... a whole literature, my dear Mario, who will the fog - to the mist - the mist ... [...]

Willian Henry Gates III

William Henry Gates III KBE, GCIH, (Seattle, October 28, 1955) better known as Bill Gates, is a mogul, philanthropist and American author, best known for along with Paul Allen founded Microsoft, the largest and most known software company in the world in terms of market value.

Gates was born into a middle class family in Seattle. His father, William H. Gates was an advocate of big business, and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, was a professor at Washington University and director of banks.

While studying at Harvard, young people have developed a BASIC language interpreter for one of the first personal computers to be released in the U.S. - the Altair 8800. After modest success in marketing this product, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft, one of the first companies in the world focused exclusively on the software market for personal computers or PCs

Gates has acquired over the years a reputation as a visionary (bet the software market at the time the hardware was considered much more valuable) and aggressive negotiator, coming often to be accused by competitors of Microsoft of using unfair business practices.

Gates led the ranking of the richest in the world since 1995, according to Forbes magazine. His fortune was estimated at $ 130 billion.
In 1999, Gates has surpassed the $ 100 billion, but since 2000 the nominal value of Microsoft is falling after the bursting of the Internet, and also after several multibillion-dollar donations made ​​by the Gates philanthropy.
In May 2006, Gates said in an interview that would not be the richest man in the world, and who does not like the attention it brought

In 2000, along with his wife Melinda Gates Foundation created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic organization whose main objectives are to promote research on AIDS and other diseases that affect on most of the developing countries.
In 2006, Warren Buffett, then the second richest man in the world, joined the project by announcing its plan to contribute 10 million shares of Class B Berkshire Hathaway company (approximately $ 30 billion), making the foundation doubled in size. According to a 2004 article in Forbes magazine, Gates has donated about 30 billion dollars to charity since 2000.

Time magazine described Bill Gates as one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century and also made the Time 100 list three times in a row in 2004, 2005 and 2006.