Jesus (Messiah)
(between 8 and 4 BC and 29 AD), a leading figure of Christianity, born in Bethlehem, Judea. Since the sixth century is considered that the Christian era begins the year of his birth, but now an error is estimated four to eight years. For Christians, Jesus was the Son of God incarnate and conceived by Mary, the wife of Joseph, a carpenter from Nazareth. The name Jesus is derived from the Hebrew word Joshua, which is full Yehoshuah ('Yahweh is salvation') and the title of Christ, from the Greek word christos, in turn a translation of the Hebrew Messiah ("anointed one ') , or Messiah. The early Christians considered Christ used promised deliverer of Israel, later, joined the Church to appoint its name as the redeemer of all mankind.
The main sources of information about his life in the Gospels, written in the second half of the century to facilitate the spread of Christianity throughout the ancient world. The epistles of Paul and the book of Acts also provide interesting data. The lack of additional material from other sources and the theological nature of biblical stories biblical exegetes caused some nineteenth century doubted his historical existence. Others, differently interpreted the available sources, wrote biographies naturalists of Jesus. Today, scholars consider authentic existence, for they are based on the work of Christian writers and in several Roman and Jewish historians.
life and teachings of Jesus were often disputed and different interpretations in the history of Christianity. In the early days of the Church, for example, was necessary to regularize the beliefs about Jesus Christ and his role, to facilitate the conversion and respond to Christians who adopted views unacceptable to the leaders of the Christian Church. Defining the nature of Jesus became the object of a discipline called Christology. *****
William Henry Gates III (1955 -), American businessman, founder of Microsoft Corporation, a leader in the software market for computers or computers in the United States, which he founded in 1975 with fellow student Paul Allen. The success of Gates, the company became one of the most influential figures in the computer industry and, eventually, the world's richest man.
Born in Seattle (Washington) and attended public school until sixth grade. He attended the seventh in the Lakeside School in his hometown, a center where he met Allen. Gates began working with computers and programming languages in 1968, when he was in eighth grade. That same year, the Lakeside School acquired a teletype that was connected to a central computer through telephone lines.
In 1975, while studying at Harvard, Gates teamed up with Allen to develop a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, the first personal computer. This software licensed to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS, the manufacturer of the Altair 8800) and founded Microsoft (originally Micro-soft) in order to develop versions of BASIC for other companies in the sector. Gates decided to leave Harvard in the third year of college to pursue Microsoft completely. In 1999 his personal fortune exceeded 80,000 million dollars, making him the richest man in the world. That same year donated more than 2,400 million dollars to charity.
Gates has also made personal investments in other companies engaged in high technology. In 1989 he founded Corbis Corporation, currently owns the largest collection of digital images of the world. *****
Maria Eva Duarte (1919-1952), political and actress from Argentina, the second wife of Juan Domingo Peron. Born in Los Toldos (Buenos Aires), started his career 15 years of age. Met Perón in 1944, when she was a famous actress of soap operas, and married him in 1945. Eva sought support for her husband during the presidential campaign, thereby achieving a great personal popularity. After the presidential inauguration of Juan Domingo Peron (1946), began to play an active role in government, becoming its link with unions, creating the Fundación Eva Perón Social Aid and organizing the women's branch of the Peronist party. In 1949, 'Evita' (as it is affectionately called) was already the second most influential figure in Argentina and the most beloved by the working classes, which he called the "shirtless ones." Although he never hold any official position in practice was responsible for the ministries of Health and Labour. Adored by his followers, mostly belonging to the working classes, was in turn hated by their rivals, the traditional elite, who were particularly offended when he cut government subsidies to the Charity Society. He reached the vice presidency in 1951, supported by the General Labour Confederation (CGT), but the army forced her to withdraw her candidacy. He died in Buenos Aires in 1952. The transfer of his body to Italy and later to Madrid (Spain) following his abduction by the military, he grew his mythical figure in the Argentine people. In 1975, Isabelita Martínez de Perón, third wife of Juan Domingo and then president of Argentina, he moved Evita's remains back to their country, but this fact was widely criticized by the Peronist union to consider a political maneuver. *****
Pope John Paul II (1920 - 2Abril 2005). Pope (1978-2005), the first non-Italian since 1523. Strong and effective guidance of his pontificate, doctrinal statements and their travels around the world (record) have highlighted the importance of the papacy, both within and outside the Catholic Church.
Karol Wojtyla was born on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice (Poland) and studied Poetry and Drama at the University of Krakow. During World War II he worked in a stone quarry and a chemical factory while studying theology. Ordained on November 1, 1946, two years later a doctorate in philosophy from the Angelicum in Rome and Institute of Theology from the Catholic University of Lublin (his thesis was titled The act of faith in the doctrine of St. John of the Cross and focused on the English mystic). It was university chaplain and professor of ethics at Kraków and Lublin until, in 1958, was appointed auxiliary bishop of Krakow. Philosophical orientation, heavily influenced by Max Scheler, integrated methods and ideas of phenomenology in Thomistic philosophy. In 1960, under the pseudonym Andrzej Jawi, he published a play, jewelry.
consecrated bishop in 1958 and in 1964 was appointed archbishop of Krakow and the June 26, 1967 Cardinal. Participated very actively in the Second Vatican Council and represented the Church of his country in five international episcopal synods held between 1967 and 1977.
On October 16, 1978, Karol Wojtyla was elected to succeed to the papacy of John Paul I, died on 2 September that year. On May 13, 1981, when he entered the plaza of San Pedro del Vaticano, was the victim of an attack from which he recovered.
Proclamation 2000 as the year of Jubilee was surrounded by some of the vital facts of his pontificate
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Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), actor, composer, producer and director of English, achieved fame international silent films and is considered one of the greatest creators in the history of cinema. His full name was Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin.
Born in London in a family of entertainers, and began performing as a child in musicals and pantomimes. In 1910 he went to America on tour with the company for which he worked, and settled there permanently two years later. Chaplin appeared for the first time on film in 1913 in the Keystone films of Mack Sennett. In auto racing for children (or suffocating Carreras, 1914) did for the first time Chaplin Tramp character, with baggy pants, enormous shoes, bowler hat and bamboo cane, He played this role in more than 60 films, including The Tramp (or Charlie Chaplin tramp, in 1915). This year the company partnered with Essanay, Mutual and then with the First National, to his own studio in Hollywood in 1918.
His most important films as actor, director and producer were silent: The Kid (1921), The Pilgrim (1924), the chimera Gold (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936), each successive box-office records despite done already during the era of talkies. To these followed The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), appears for the last time the character of Charlie Chaplin, Limelight (1952) and A King in New York (1957). Apart directed, offhandedly, A Woman of Paris (1923) and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), where for a small role. He also composed the music for most of his films. *****
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born physicist U.S. awarded a Nobel, famous as the author of the general theories of relativity and its assumptions about the particle nature of light. It is probably best known scientist of the twentieth century.
was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879 and spent his youth in Munich, where his family owned a small electrical machine shop. From a very young showed a unique curiosity for nature and a remarkable ability to understand complex mathematical concepts. At twelve years and knew the geometry of Euclid.
At the age of 15, when his family moved to Milan, Italy, because of successive failures in business, Einstein left the school. He spent a year with his parents in Milan and traveled to Switzerland, where he finished high school and joined the National Polytechnic Institute of Zurich.
Einstein worked for two years by tutoring and substitute teacher. In 1902 he landed a steady job as an examiner in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern.
Einstein's efforts in support of social causes were often perceived as unrealistic. His proposals were born out of carefully crafted arguments. Like their theories, were the result of an amazing intuition based on careful and astute reviews and observation. Despite his work on behalf of causes political and social science always came first in your life, then, as he often said, only the discovery of the nature of the universe has a lasting effect. Among his works are Relativity: The Special and Restricted Theory (1916), About Zionism (1931); The builders of the Universe (1932), Why War? (1933), with Sigmund Freud, The World as I See It (1934), The Evolution of Physics (1938) with the Polish physicist Leopold Infeld, and in my last year (1950). The collection of articles by Einstein first published in 1987 in several volumes. *****
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910 - 1997), was born on August 27, 1910. His parents, Nikolle and Dranafille Bojaxhiu.
ethnic Albanian Catholic nun born in Skopje, Albania, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. "By profession I belong to the whole sixteenth century. He studied in Dublin and in Darjeeling before accepting the votes in 1937. She was director of a Catholic school in Calcutta, where the presence of sick and dying in the streets of the city led to ask permission to leave his post at the convent, but the archbishop was not allowed to leave the cloister and asked for a year expected. In 1947, India Independence Day, when he spent the years of waiting, the Archbishop decided to send the letter to Rome, but if they gave him permission to leave, it would only leave their habits, but she refused because it had been 17 years nun habits. In 1948, Archbishop already had the answer to your letter, and was allowed to leave the cloister for a trial period of one year as a nun and remaining in the order, began helping victims of leprosy and has since devoted himself to caring for the sick.
She intervened between the warring factions in Beirut in 1982 and achieved a cease-fire to rescue nearly 40 mentally ill children. In 1988, she went to visit the graves of the mother and sister Shkodra. In 1990, Pope John Paul II urged him to carry out their tasks with less rigor because of his increasingly poor health. His last visit was in 1993 when in April 1925, she attended the inauguration ceremony of the great cathedral in Shkodra. He did not leave the activity to which he had devoted his life to the moment of his death on September 5, 1997 in Calcutta .*****
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